Marvel G1 and G2

DirtDigger324 · Post by **DirtDigger324** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:13 am

Is the Marvel G1 and G2 in essence the same series. After issue 80 is issue 1 of G2 really a contiuation of G1 rather than a separate story altogther?

Post by **zigzagger** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:19 am

Yes, but it follows Marvel US continuity. Though it doesn't occur immediately after Marvel US #80. I suppose it could fit in with the UK stuff, with a bit of finagling. :\

edit: also take in mind the 5 issue (it was 5, wasn't it) UK G2 is a bit different to US G2.

DirtDigger324 · Post by **DirtDigger324** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:26 am

so what this means is that the series truly ends with the G2 series and not after issue 80.

dotCommunism · Post by **dotCommunism** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:49 pm

Well, G2 follows G1, but you could always just read G1 without G2 and still be fine.

Also, there are a few GI Joe issues which serves as a prequel to G2. Issues 138-142 of GI Joe (although 138 doesn't have much Transformers stuff). You can get by without reading the GI Joe issues, but it helps set up some things for G2.

Cliffjumper · Post by **Cliffjumper** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:12 pm

DirtDigger324 wrote:so what this means is that the series truly ends with the G2 series and not after issue 80.

Nop, the story truly ends (well, comes to a sort of finish... Furman doesn't do endings unless he has to, as he's pretty fecking awful at them). The series still ends with #80, as it was the last issue of the series...

Halfshell · Post by **Halfshell** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:18 pm

Every story ends where it ends.

A sequel doesn't change the self-contained nature of the original (well, unless you're George Lucas or something). The saga may be ongoing, but the story is finite.

It's like today's Thursday. That'll end. There may be unresolved elements in your life that'll carry through into Friday, but that doesn't alter the self-contained nature of today.

AndyTurnbull · Post by **AndyTurnbull** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:59 pm

In Furman's defence for G1 he was initially told Issue 75 was to be the last one and that was in effect his ending. But when they extended it for another 4 issues he had to tack on the epilogue and do another few issues.

Although Another Time and Place is a good ending for G1.

Andy

Post by **inflatable dalek** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:07 pm

I always view those last few issues as less the end of ye olde comic and more providing a lot of the groundwork for G2 so it can hit the ground running a lot easier (which wasn't the intent of course, but not having to bring Prime back or deal with the Unicron battle aftermath helped G2 a lot I think as it only left unanswered questions no one cares about such as why everyone stopped being action masters).

LKW · Post by **LKW** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:35 pm

Yes, G2 #12 is the last story in Marvel (US) Transformers continuity.