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GoBots is really weird

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:49 pm



The GoBots comic books are weird :-I

Note that this was published in 2018, not the 1980s.

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Re: Post the last thing you laughed at online

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Mr. Big wrote:
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The GoBots comic books are weird :-I

Note that this was published in 2018, not the 1980s.
This is some Fletcher Hanks shit :lol:

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Re: Post the last thing you laughed at online

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:42 am

what the fuck is Gobots and what are the creators smoking
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I wonder if this should be its own thread. There's a lot of gems to be found.

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:18 pm

through my powers I can make that happen

but seriously what is GoBots
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Bigdog (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:28 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
Sun Dec 30, 2018 11:49 pm


The GoBots comic books are weird :-I

Note that this was published in 2018, not the 1980s.
this is straight up some PBF shit

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:54 pm

Perrydotto wrote:
Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:18 pm
but seriously what is GoBots
The Betamax to Transformers’ VHS.

Also, robots should not have tongues :gonkity:
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:30 pm

This is the comic book it came from, part of a 5-issue mini series. Written and Drawn by Tom Scioli.

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Angel Beat (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 1:35 pm

Mechanical Ape wrote:
Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:54 pm
The Betamax to Transformers’ VHS.

Also, robots should not have tongues :gonkity:
Kiss Players comes to mind, please no. :cry:
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:54 pm

What the heck is this

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 4:51 pm

Gobots are like the 99 cent store version of Transformers.



Yes, they could fly but still transformed into planes, etc. :ponder:

Watching a bit of it just now, the animation is brutal :unenthused:
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:18 pm

Bigdog wrote:
Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:28 pm
this is straight up some PBF shit
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:23 pm

PonyHag714 wrote:
Mon Dec 31, 2018 4:51 pm
Watching a bit of it just now, the animation is brutal :unenthused:
The actual toys weren't much better. :-I

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:43 pm

Holy shit this really is another Fletcher Hanks styled thing

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Re: GoBots is really weird

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 6:45 am

W.T. Fits wrote:
Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:23 pm
The actual toys weren't much better. :-I
They were toys that Tonka licensed from Bandai’s Machine Robo lines, and the actual construction quality wasn’t all that bad. I had way more of them than I did TransFormers because they were much, much cheaper :-I They were just very simple little toys

I don’t know if the Fletcher Hanks comparison is fair, since Tom Scioli is a huge Jack Kirby fan out to make something bizarre and weird on purpose. Like he’s happily retweeting this:



so I think it’s kinda unfair to suggest that he doesn’t realize how weird it is

I’m not sure if I like it or not, but he ain’t Fletcher Hanks drinking up a storm and then carelessly slapping out whatever fever dream came to mind so he could get another paycheck to spend on alcohol.

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 6:47 am

the Go-Bots cartoon, though, if Hanna-Barbers ever animated something like a Fletcher Hanks cartoon, that was deffo it

It’s amazingly bad

the actual “challenge of the go-bots” would be to finish watching one entire episode without saying “what” at least once

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:14 am

:icky: oh no, i’m the reply guy of go bots

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:31 pm

Oh I'm sorry if I came across like I thought the artist wasn't doing this on purpose; in that area, the comparision is indeed not fair

I meant more in terms of art and the particular brand of weirdness I felt very reminded of Fletcher Hanks and since I have a legitimate fondness for his strange work (not the man himself), I was trying to express my appreciation more than anything else :3:

You make the cartoon sound like a hilarious paintube tbh, maybe that'd be worth my time
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:12 pm

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The robots attack a giant playset and one is crushed by a trap into bloody chunks. I guess? :fluttershrug:

I have a theory that while the Transformers comic takes a toy premise and builds a (relatively) mature and nuanced story around it, Tom Scioli is inspired by how kids ACTUALLY play with toy robots, with all the callous, arbitrary violence that entails. Which if true, is f'ing brilliant.
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:24 pm

The Axe Cop of toy comics? I could get behind that
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:38 pm

the comic ends in mid-page with the kids abruptly being called upstairs for dinner
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:45 pm

Perrydotto wrote:
Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:31 pm
Oh I'm sorry if I came across like I thought the artist wasn't doing this on purpose; in that area, the comparision is indeed not fair

I meant more in terms of art and the particular brand of weirdness I felt very reminded of Fletcher Hanks and since I have a legitimate fondness for his strange work (not the man himself), I was trying to express my appreciation more than anything else :3:

You make the cartoon sound like a hilarious paintube tbh, maybe that'd be worth my time
no, I’m sorry, I’m bad at reading comprehension :sheepish:

The cartoon is definite paintube material, it’s bad even for an ‘80s toy commercial cartoon and an ‘80s H-B cartoon

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Jan 02, 2019 4:46 pm

some thread content: Scioli also worked on a Transformers vs GI Joe comic

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Thu Jan 03, 2019 3:54 am

Issue #2 of this comic is my "Oh shit, I had a lot of these" moment.

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Post by Aria Genisi (?) » Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:14 pm

Madeline wrote:
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some thread content: Scioli also worked on a Transformers vs GI Joe comic

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Yeah, the guy who's making the GoBots comic also did the Transformers vs GI Joe comic series, and it was quite possibly equally as ridiculous and amazing in a lot of ways

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Thu Jan 03, 2019 7:21 pm

Now IIRC the Go-Bots premise (at least in this comic) is that Go-Bots aren’t an ancient alien race, they’re regular Earth robots that recently got sentient. I guess some humans are still getting used to their personhood.

There was an Asimov story about robot cars along those lines (“Sally”), and the Three Laws are definitely not in effect in that one.
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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Jan 04, 2019 7:49 am

Aria Genisi wrote:
Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:14 pm
Yeah, the guy who's making the GoBots comic also did the Transformers vs GI Joe comic series, and it was quite possibly equally as ridiculous and amazing in a lot of ways

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Re: GoBots is really weird

Post by Captain Rufus (?) » Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:03 am

the Gobot toys were in many ways better than the g1 tfs especially the smaller size classed ones. And take a look at this guy: http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Combiners/Puzzler.html no parts needed and more articulation and die cast. Yeah some of the robots alone look dumb but take a look at most of the g1 combines. Even worse and they had parts to combine. http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Combin ... iners.html I have all three teams. Only 2 G1 teams complete and they were both repaint and or reissues.

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