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Photo of a sealant gun with a tube of Tec 7 transparent loaded.

It's not quite as much fun as Missing Link Arcee, but this is still a favourite toy. Today's target is some gaps under a window sill and a leaky shower.

A pile of comics on my desk including Transformers 25.

I had an unexpected comics delivery yesterday that I only found this morning. No time to read now, but I'll be getting into Transformers as soon as I possibly can!

MEAL DEAL

Sandwich: unstabilised all-day breakfast
Drink: regional pop
Snack: the most resistible option

£4.50 with Clubcard

Photo of Classics Jetfire on my desk. At least, i think it's Classics.

Good morning!

Roadgrabber - 1988.

I thought it was going to be busy but I had no idea how busy. Shee-oooot.

The Transformer Who Came In From The Cold 39 years later, Arcee finally gets her due

New robo-talk from me, after the accomplishment of decades-old wish-fulfilment

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Already dismantled a bed.

Today is going to be busy.

YouTube video by TRDQ TRDQ: Marvel Legends: Death's Head + Rom Review!

Action figures? Well those are BIG BUSINESS!

youtu.be/LihvpQCCcTA

We look at two recent(ish) robotic(ish) role-models(ish) from Marvel Legends - Death's Head and Rom: Spaceknight!

Share this one if you can because god-damn it's hard to get someone to look at a video these days.

JLA panel with Darkseid saying "Darkseid is."

An omega block of high pressure setting up. Called omega block because it looks like the omega symbol with high in middle and low either side.

How's my work day going? Well, let's just say I'm looking forward to taking a break so I can vacuum the home office. Hopefully clean carpet will somehow fix my attention span.

Black and white sketch of G1 Galvatron's face being shredded off by a time vortex.

"LIKE SOME MODERN-DAY CANUTE"

Galvatron faces off against the Time Wars vortex, and loses! Part of my spooky/horror-themed Hallowe'en Transformers portraits!

Original available for €40 (alongside many more!) at my store! nickrocheart.bigcartel.com

The Truckle Brothers.

Missing Link Arcee and Retro Hot Rod on my desk.

Missing Link Arcee is stickered up and has been introduced to Retro Hot Rod.

8 panel comic p1: Imagine the most non-descript middle aged white fella you can. Even that isn't as vanilla as this guy. Your eyes look at him, and then immediately slide off, like he isn't even there. A title above him --all lower case-- reads "the wednesday man" P2: Same POV (we see him from the chest up), as he raises his right hand in greeting and says "hi there, folks. I'm the Wednesday Man." P3: He continues "As the name suggests, I'm a middling kinda guy..." P4: He folds his arms as he says "none of the oppresive lows of Mondays... none of the dizzying highs of Fridays" P5: An extreme --and way too detailed-- closeup of his open mouth. "Just sorta... there." P6: Another closeup of WM, looking very intense indeed. "The fulcrum point between those highs & lows" P7: We cut to a a side-on view of a desert scene, as a tumbleweed bounces through from left to right P8: Back to the chest up view of WM, as he holds a comic with a smile on his face. He leaves us with "anyways, have a nice Wednesday, all, and go buy some comics."

Outer space? - Bad Machinery Another flashback to 1962, and an opportunity to use my now seldom-employed robot-drawing toolset. Seldom-employed for a reason eh John you say. I will have none of this. I had drawn hundreds of robot...

New comic: "Outer space?" badmachinery.com/comic/2025-1...

Captain Britain 27 (7094)

Cover of The Power Fantasy #12, where Etienne plays with toys.

Happy The Power Fantasy #12 day.

It's off to a good start in my opinion. I've also read the Amazing Spider-Man tie-in which had some real nonsense in it but also had some fun moments.

The cover to Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet.

After the unpleasantness of the Fantastic Four circa 2010, I'm time tripping back a few more years to what I'm tentatively calling the Last Great Event of the Iron Age. Don't let me down, Maximum Security.

I'm kind of disturbed the digital version hasn't been changed. It was only published in 2010, and it wasn't okay then. There's no reason for not getting rid of that particular word and no shortage of other words that could be used.

There's something about Hickman's work that doesn't connect with me most of the time. Which is fine, but then issue 574 threw in some terrifying attempts at drawing children and had a three year old using a hugely offensive word twice.

I also read some of Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four run tonight (attempting to read along with the War Rocket Ajax podcast), and that I did not enjoy so much.

I enjoyed that! If I don't read any other new Marvel stuff, i should still read Al Ewing.

The cover to All-New Venom 8 featuring Venom v Doctor Octopus.

I think i may be too tired for new Marvel comics, but I'm going to read All-New Venom issue 8 anyway.

Ironfist!

#Maccadam
#Transformers

The Missing Link Arcee box.

Contents of the box laid out on a worktop.

Arcee in robot mode.

Arcee in vehicle mode.

It's early days, and I haven't quite figured out the legs yet, but the signs are good. We have our Generation One Arcee! Now we need the Targetmaster version.

The box flap of Missing Link Arcee is just visible in an opened cardboard box.

I've had Missing Link Arcee here since last Friday and I've waited long enough!