The Transformers issue 22/Robo-Capers
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| Robo-Capers (issue 22) | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | |||||||||||||||
| Published in | The Transformers issue 22 | |||||||||||||||
| First published | 13th July, 1985 | |||||||||||||||
| By | Lew Stringer | |||||||||||||||
The King's latest robot is ready for prime time.
Synopsis
The King boasts that one of their latest robots has been equipped with the ultimate weapon. A Zipponian eagerly asks if it is a multi-directional ultrasonic elbow disorganizer, but the King is smug that it's something worse... and he gestures to the creatures fleeing in terror from a television-headed robot playing a 24 hour video of Crossroads!
Featured characters
Quotes
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Notes
- This is the first Robo-Capers strip to share a page with Soundwaves.
Artwork and technical errors
- The dialogue uses the Americanised spelling "disorganizer".
- Not an error per se, but the perspective of the final panel makes it unclear whether the TV robot is giant and menacing regular-sized people or regular-sized and menacing tiny people.
Continuity errors
Continuity notes
- The King has a rotating set of headpieces in these early strips – today's is a traffic light.
Real-life references
- Crossroads was a British soap opera broadcast on ITV between 1964 and 1988. Its shoestring budget caused it to become synonymous with low production values and get frequently ridiculed by the media – hence its lampooning here – but it nevertheless attracted an audience of 15 million viewers at its peak, second only to Coronation Street. With the simple line, "Where's me hat, Miss Diane?", Stringer vividly captures the essence of Crossroads's breakout character Benny Hawkins, a slow-witted and West Country accented handyman who wore a woolly hat throughout the year and referred to the object of his (unreturned) affections, Diane Hunter, as "Miss Diane".
