When the Halls of Hysteria was still a thing, I would occasionally post ridiculous comics featuring robot toys that Morgan of Morgan on Media had found but could not identify. The joke was that the robots themselves had their memories wiped and then were forced to re-enact popular movies. Like so: And so… … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2012
From Iacon With Love
Of course, the spark for Transformers Week here was the release of the much-anticipated video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. Like I said earlier, if the trailers for this game were any indication, FoC was going to be epic. The game does not reach quite those heights, but it comes close. Taking place just after … Continue reading
Moist Goes Hollywood
Last night, I re-watched the original 1986 animated movie, aptly-titled The Transformers: The Movie. You may have seen me live-tweeting about it, in which case I apologize. This movie is the first one I ever saw in a theater, way back when I was a tender four years of age. I can’t say how I … Continue reading
Wheeljack-in-the-Box
Welcome back! Everyone loves a good mad scientist. Especially an eternally optimistic and enthusiastic one. Wheeljack, for a startlingly brief period of time, was the Autobots’ inventor, their tinkerer, their chuckling resident time-bomb. It generally wasn’t a question of IF Wheeljack’s latest contraption would blow up in their faces, but WHEN. The Autobots seemed to … Continue reading
The First Generation
Transformers Week on Rhoades to Madness begins in an unexpectedly appropriate place: The Beginning. The roots of my geekdom were sown early in life when a little show hit the airwaves in 1984 about a high-stakes battle between good and evil waged on Earth by extraterrestrial robots that could shapeshift into vehicles. Transformers (Generation One) … Continue reading
Defiant Glory
The drought continues to rage on here in the Midwest, but while the grass, plants, crops, and even some trees are either dead or dying, a few industrious flowers didn’t get the memo to pack it in for the season. This resilient Morning Glory found purchase in a tiny patch of dirt next to my … Continue reading
The Mailbag
I passed 100 posts this week, and over the 8 months I’ve been writing Rhoades to Madness, I have accumulated a lot of mail from my adoring fans. I mean, a lot of mail. Tons. So much mail. Yep. Mail. Anyway, I thought it would be an absolute hoot to answer some totally real e-mails … Continue reading