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Dear Lord, people. Look at the lengths I got to make you laugh. I’m a disturbed man… disturbed, disturbed man. Not as disturbed as Pemmy here, who seems to be enjoying this insanity. Seriously, I have nothing else to say. Well, other than I feel sorry for Chris for having to color it, and it’s like The Girl Who Loved Powerglide gone very very wrong… and in reverse. REVERSE KISS PLAYERS! Ugh…
Hopefully the children aren’t watching… THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! They taste good with chocolate sauce. *slaps self*
Don’t forget everyone, I’ll be at DWEX on Saturday! Check it out if you’re in the area!
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Today’s comic is another awesome winner from my pal, Remi Perron of Fortissima’s Treasure Hunters fame. The level of awsomeness Remi achieved with today’s comic boggles my mind.
As for me, peeps. I’m currently typing to you from San Fransisco. Just got in here today, and I got to say I’m loving it so far. A cold 50 degrees is a pleasant change of pace from Texas’s 104 degrees. I haven’t been too many places yet, but my hotel has a 24 hour Indian restaurant right next to it. This is almost as awesome as the time I went to SDCC and my hotel had an awesome sushi restaurant next to it.
Anyway, don’t be surprised if you see pictures of a certain blue transformer showing of some of the sites of San Fran in the near future. I’ll report more on Thursday.
It’s true, people. Hasbro really is doing a Transformers Hall of Fame, and after automatically selecting Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, and Starscream into it (hey they got my second and third favorite Transformers in there), they’ve decided to let the fans vote on who the fifth and final entry is for this year. What are the nominees to select from, you ask? Soundwave (who will probably win despite being an insanely boring and overrated character), Grimlock (my all time favorite Transformers), Jazz (RIP Scatman Crothers), Shockwave (my fifth favorite Transformer), and Dinobot (the wild card of the group, who can fully support Beast Wars on his own, since he was both a Maximal and a Predacon in the series). Who did I vote for? Need you ask?
Anyways in case you guys wish to help Grimmy out, you can vote for him here. Don’t let Soundwave win guys, let Grimmy win. Him Grimlock king!
Oh, and as for Sky Lynx, he’s my fourth to favorite Transformer, but not many people share my love for him. Not even Chris who stated, “what the hell was Sky Lynx!? That thing creeped me out as a kid, mainly because he looked like a horror movie monster turned robot and everytime I’d see him I wanted to hurl something at the screen. I’m sorry, I was NEVER a Sky Lynx fan…I don’t care if that guy that did Killer Croc on Batman was his voice (Thanks Ryan!) actor, I just couldn’t look at him. He was a crime against Cybertron anatomy, existence and anything else that I can’t think of right now, and his toy made absolutely no sense to me. You know what else…he also reminded me of Starlight from Rainbow Brite, the Most Magnificent Horse in the Uuuuuuniverse! Cocky bastard!” Funny, I think he mentioned a lot of the stuff I liked about him in there…
In short Sky Lynx is pretty underrated, not as much because people don’t like him (though a lot of them don’t), but also because many people don’t remember him since he ONLY appeared in the third season of the series. Sadly season 3 is looked down upon by a lot of fans since it’s pretty different from the previous years… and a lot of their favorite characters were dead (mine however came back as zombies and ghost, yay?). I personally liked season 3 a lot since it had to do with a lot broader scope than just stopping Megs from getting such and such energy source, instead involving space travel and getting a better look of the inner workings of Cybertron… but none of this has to do with Sky Lynx does it?
The reason I like Sky Lynx is because he is by far one of the most original looking designs in the series. He doesn’t look like a robot, he looks like a weird dragon, dinosaur, shark moster, that turns into a space shuttle with a blue cargo carrier on it (?!). To make things weirder though, his robot mode… if you wish to call it that… can split into two parts. The shuttle becoming a weird pterodactyl thingy and the cargo bay becoming a kitty cat… thus sky = bird and lynx = kitty. What does that mean when they’re joined as one? To quote Vector Squidma “Is Sky Lynx…is he…FUCKING THE CAT?!?” But this isn’t what makes him so awesome, what makes him rock out is the fact he looks like this horrible monstrosity and yet he has an ego the size of our solar system. Yes, this weird dragony robot thing has a ego that puts Captain N’s Simon Belmont to shame. He always belts lines “It’s time for I, the magnificent Sky-Lynx to save the day, again!” or Now remember, before you do anything, think, ‘Is this what Sky Lynx would do in my position?’, and you will not go far wrong.” He’s also delightfully British. So having a bizarre ugly beasty think he’s that kind of hot shit equals fucking awesome in my book.
But wait, why’d I talk about Sky Lynx, it’s Grimlock you guys need to focus on. Go vote for him! DO IT NOW!!!
Seriously, Michael Bay REALLY seems to have an obsession with this. It’s pretty bad in Return of the Fallen, and it’s appeared in several of Bay’s OTHER masterpieces too. Seriously, WTFH Bay?
Okay, there isn’t going to be a toy review for today or Thursday, because I’m actually out of town right now. I’m taking a vacation to Colorado without any internet what so ever. I might go insane. In the mean time, I’d like to drop a request on you guys. I got a lot of personal and professional stuff that’s going to be hitting me as soon as I return home. Due to this I’m going to take a month long vacation from Femmegasm. Know what that means?
<b>GUEST COMICS</b>
That’s right, I’d like you the readers to send me your own special Femmegasm guest comics and I’ll post them while I’m vacationing from the strip. I need ten guest comics, and I’m sure there’s enough of you guys out there that can provide me with these. If I get more than ten, I’ll save the remainder of comics for Emergencies or future guest excursions, so don’t think you’ll be out of the loop. So plese send your guest comics to me at yamcha7@swordbreaker.com. Make sure to title the email Femmegasm Guest Comic, so I know what it is. Thanks everyone, I love you all. 
Today’s comic takes a lot of inspiration from video games, especially River City Ransom. I just always felt it amusing how killing people in video games would cause them to blink out of existence or turn into money and/or items. No wonder murder is on the rise in Femmegasm Land.
Today’s Transformer: ROTF toy review is going to be Sideways. Sideways was the second toy I bought in this line, the first being Starscream. I want to say I really like the design on Sideways’ robot mode… or more correctly I like it visual. The way the doors and windows hang off him gives him a really neat insect look. So much that I wish they named him something different like Kickback or one of the other G1 Insecticons. It would’ve been more fitting if you ask me.
However despite liking the look of his design, there’s a lot of things NOT to like about this figure’s robot mode. One of the worst being that for whatever reason they gave him REALLY TINY feet. This means he has a hell of a lot of problems standing and thus falls over a lot. I have found that you can move his feet and the car kibble on his calves just right to give him some extra support and thus stand better, but it’s still a bit of trouble. It’s especially annoying since according to the instructions and the stock pictures, he’s supposed to stand without said extra support. Very annoying.
Another annoyance is his backpack, pretty much most of his car kibble all fold onto his back, and it’s pretty terrible and sloppy looking. Having spare stuff fold onto the back of a Transformers isn’t anything new, but they generally do it neat enough to where it will just literally look like a backpack or a square on their back, sorta’ like it might MIGHT be meant to be there. But on Sideways it really does look like it’s just a mess of random parts. Rather sloppy.
His car mode is quite awesome. He transforms into a faux Audi R8 and looks rather nice to boot. I have no real complaints on his car mode other than it’s a pain in the ass to transform him from robot mode to car mode. It feels like you’re literally squishing him together, even worse none of the pieces seem to want to work together. It feels like everytime you peg in one piece another piece becomes unpegged. It’s really annoying. His car to robot transformation is much smoother.
In the end, I like his design, but I don’t think I’m going to play with him a lot. It doesn’t help his appeal that he’s barely in the movie and really is only there to get killed. Makes it hard to be attached to the guy, don’t ya’ think? Overall I like him, but I can’t really recommend him. If your local Wal-Mart, Target, or Toys R Us is doing a sell on him for like $9 or less, then pick him up. Otherwise you can probably live without him.
Yay! Black Jack is my favorite work by Osamu Tezuka and one of my favorite manga/anime characters ever. Reading the Black Jack manga totally inspired this strip. Unfortunately I didn’t use him any differently than I’d use any other doctor in this particular strip (he could’ve been Dr. Mario and the strip would’ve still worked just as well), but hey, it’s Black Jack, dammit! He’s awesome.
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I promised some Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen toy reviews and so I give you my first one. This is Dead End, he’s a scout class figure (second to smallest class) of a character who isn’t in the movie at all. GASP! You might ask, why would I want a small little robot that doesn’t even appear in the movie? Easy, because he looks awesome, he’s also a nice shade of red (my favorite color).
He’s a rather interesting design as far as the movie look is concerned. He’s got a really weird bird head thing going on, and to make matters weirder he has an opening mouth that reveals teeth. Weird huh. He’s very poseable (a bit plus for me) and is able to stand with no problem (something you don’t seem to get a lot of in the ROTF design as you’re soon to find out). Overall, he’s a rather spiffy looking robot. |
| What REALLY sold me on this figure was his vehicle mode. Now it’s a REAL rarity when I’m sold on a Transformer by it’s alt mode. 9 out of 10 times it’s usually the robot mode that sells me on the figure, but I totally love the car mode here. Other than the aforementioned awesomeness of being red, he’s got a great design. |  |
It’s supposedly based on a Peugeot 9009 concept car, but I love how sleek and stylized the design is. It’s got a cool retro future look to it and even a slight amount of cartooniness, which I love. I guess cartoony might be bad for this line, since they are mostly going for realistic vehicle designs, but to me it looks excellent. It’s a beautiful car, and I’d totally drive one of those… if I owned one… and could afford to own one…
The transformation for the toy is fairly simple, but has enough twists and turns to keep it interesting and fun. Overall I have to say I like Dead End, he’s one of my favorites of the line so far, and I hightly recommend him.
Hey! It’s Blue Grimlock! Also there’s some girl named Fizzy McBeer, she seems familiar.
So, anyone want to see me review some Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen toys?
PS. Femmegasm is a year old this month! HOLY CRAP!
Hey, everyone, it’s my first (of possibly many) comic referencing Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, the highest grossing badly reviewed money in existence. WOO! Personally I enjoyed the movie for the most part, there were some things that bothered me (much like the first movie), but I found it overall enjoyable. If your not afraid of spoilers and would like a somewhat more detailed explanation of my feelings on the movie, I guess you can read this.
While this strip references a specific scene from the movie, I don’t think it’s very spoiler-ish, and it makes fun of Bakugan more than TF: ROTF. For those that don’t know Bakugan is some weird Japanese imported cartoon show and toy line that kinda’ plays like a weird Yugioh version of marbles from my understanding. To be honest, I don’t really get it, but my step daughter is totally into it. Is this what’s it like when you start getting old? GET OFF MY LAWN!
Anyway, Bakugan are these little ball shaped things that transform into other things…yeah… supposedly they’re supposed to turn into robots, dragons, or monster… but really, they just look like the marble sprouts random things out of it… like I said I don’t get it, but seemly it’s all the rage with kids these days. Sigh… at least Transformers are still around so I can still relate with young’ens on that… right? RIGHT? Sigh…
Next post I can talk to you guys about the TF: ROTF toyline if you are interested in that since I’ve gotten quite a few figures since the movie came out and I wouldn’t mind taking some time to let you know what I think of them.
Also let’s give another round of applause for Chris Jones. His coloring just continues to blow me away. Also give an applause to my friend, Cary Woodham, he’s been my proofreader since the comic started. When I get some extra time a side, I plan to add both Chris and Cary to the Artists section of this webpage. Unfortunately my life has been a tad crazy lately, but I think we should be getting some calming down soon.
We’re back to reading fanmail, except this time it’s all real fan mail! If you want to send June and Shelly a letter, you can do it here. You could inspire the next Femmegasm strip, but no promises that they’ll respond to everyone.
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I’ve recently moved to a new apartment and I’m in the process of unpacking all my stuff. As I’ve mentioned before, one of my many hobbies is toy collecting, especially stuff related to Transformers and Video Games (though there are some exceptions like comic book and anime characters). I figured I’d take a little time to show some of the toys I’ve currently got unpacked. I figured this would allow you guys to see some of the stuff I like, and also keep me encouraged to keep unpacking things. So here we go:
When it comes to Transformers I mainly collect my three favorite characters, Grimlock, Starscream, and Optimus Prime. I have more Optimus Primes than any other Transformer figure, not just because he’s one of my favorite characters or that he was my childhood hero, but because Hasbro/Takara makes more figures of him than any other character. So he’s definitely a big shelf filler.
Here’s a close up of part of my Prime collection. The highlights of this section is probably Armada Voyager Prime, Classics Voyager Prime, and McDonald’s Animated Prime. Okay, that last one might not seem like a big deal to most, but I like him. I think he’s pretty neat for a McD’s toy. He has a very G1 feel to him, transformation wise.
This section of my Prime collection has a lot of great figures, so picking just three is a bit tough… but if I had to I’d say the highlights are Powermaster Optimus Prime/God Ginrai, Alternator Prime, and Voyager Class Animated Prime, but that’s a hard call with all the cool ones in this section.
While this section also has a lot of great figures, it also has my three favorite Prime figures, so it makes it easy to give a highlight on. My three favorites are Masterpiece/20th Anniversary Optimus Prime (who is also my second to favorite Transformer I own), Big Convoy, and the original G1 Optimus Prime (who’s actually holding Big Convoy’s matrix). I think another reason I like collecting Optimus Prime figures is he gets a lot of the best looking figures most of the time. I guess that’s one of the perks of being the leader of the Autobots.
Ah, Starscream, I love that sneaky bastard. Here’s all my Screamer toys and figures. I had to put him in the tallest area in my shelf because of how huge Cybertron Screamer is. Due to this I make him share his space with Unicron, because he also can’t fit anywhere else. Not counting Unicron (who is pretty bad ass in his own right), the highlights of this section is Masterpiece Screamer (my third to favorite Transformer), huge ass Cybertron Starscream, and Animated Starscream. While I own the original G1 Starscream figure, I can’t say I’m a big fan of him. He’s really stumpy, his arms are really loose, and I never really liked the overall feel of G1 Screamer despite my love for the character. I also hate that you have to take his hands off when you transform him into jet mode, makes it really easy to lose them. Oh well.
Grimlock is my favoritest Transformer of all time, unfortunately there isn’t enough Grimlock figures to gill an entire shelf area so he shares his area with his fellow Dinobots as well as Universe/Classics Dinobot from Beast Wars. One of the neat thing about Grimmy and Co. is while I keep most of my Transformers in their robot modes I always feel the need to keep the Dinobots in their dino modes (with the exception of Alternator Grimlock and War Within Grimlock since they don’t turn into dinos), because I really like the weird robotic dinosaur look a lot of the figures have. The highlights of this collection are Generation 2 Grimlock (who is actually my favorite toy), G1 Grimlock, and Alternator Grimlock. Yeah, I know, Alternator Grimlock is kind of blasphemous for turning into a car instead of a T-Rex, but he turns into a Mustang GT, which is my favorite car model. So having my favorite Transformer turn into my favorite car is a pretty high level of awesome.
Here’s my collection of statues that I own. They mostly consist of video game girl, not just because I like girls, but because 90% of these figures tend to be of the female characters, thus there’s not much choice for me half the time. Which sometimes sucks since there are male characters I like and wouldn’t mind getting figures of. Also in this set is several DC related figures, a Lupin figure, a Wacky Races figure, and a Bone figure. The highlights are Tron Bonne, Baiken, and Catwoman. Though I will give bonus points to the Felicia because my fiance got it for me when she got to go to a con in San Antonio and I didn’t and the Hawkgirl statue because finding it was one of the highlights of one of my trips to Comic-Con.