Evertime Deaths head kept saying yes, I keep thinking that this is how we got beast wars megatron saying yes

The fact that Death's Head and Beast Wars Megatron never met is nothing sort of tragic, yes? Yesss...

That intro is so amazing, I'm tempted to believe Linkara stole Phelous's entire $5000 budget to produce it!

Fun fact, Death’s Head was the inspiration for Lockdown in Transformers Animated. His ship was even called “The Death’s Head.” Although the major difference was that Lockdown didn’t actually mind being called a Bounty Hunter.

"I work in acquistions of human resources." "You're a bounty hunter!!!" "Yes, I acquire humans for resources."

When Linkara is voicing Death's Head, I'm just waiting for him to start yelling "CURSE YOU, BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!!!"

Linkara's interpretation of Death Head's voice is not what I expected but I'm so glad we got it! Yes!

Death's Head: Yes? Beast Wars Megatron: Yeesss M. Bison: Yes! Yes!

Apparently the Autobots have the same retirement plan as The Long Walk from Judge Dredd. Yikes!

I have been a watcher of Linkara's on and off for about 14 years... back in the day of Spoony and the AVGN. Got to say, at this point to still be getting almost 100k views in about an hour... nothing but serious respect for what you have built, Lewis.

People give Rodimus a lot of stick for his decisions and how much he differs from Optimus, but you have to give him credit -- buying off Death's Head with advance payment on Cyclonus and Scourge is pretty crafty, because now ol' Deathy is obligated by his code of honor to follow through. More than anything, Death's Head is proud of his reputation and Rodimus knows how to recognize and exploit that fact.

This is easily the best AT4W opening, yes?

I'm afraid 'freelance peacekeeper' isn't as interesting a title as 'ninja consultant of the Decepticons'.

Be super surprising if Death's Head made an appearance in live action, yes?

The Way Deathhead keeps saying "Yes?" keep making me think of Beast Wars Megatron

I'm still convinced that Vyse has a hidden protocol in Comicron-1 that let's him turn it into a giant robot.

Ah, yes deaths head, if they ever do another marvel transformers crossover, he needs to be the intermediary

It's sad that Deaths Head never met Ghostbusters, Transformers and Ghostbusters always seem to end up together in big comic book crossovers.

I freaking love Deaths Head's speech pattern! It's fucking cracking me up!

Swore that Deathshead would be in the Guardians movies as a bounty hunter in a small role where Quill jokingly calls him a transformer... Did not expect the enmity between Drax and the GoBots.

This is an interesting selection of stories since it shows the UK TF comics' need to combine elements from both the US comic and the 1986 Transformers Movie- in this case with Hot Rod/Rodimus. To understand why the plot of the 1986 TF Movie was worked into the UK comic series, one has to understand that the original cartoon wasn't broadcasted in the UK bar occasional VHS releases, but the Movie was being shown in theatres at the time. So it fell to the comic to promote the Movie, as in the UK it was ostensibly the "main" piece of TF media, rather than the cartoon like the rest of the world. So the UK series makes heavy use of the 2006 setting as well as characters like Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Galvatron etc in their original stories, that the US series wouldn't use until several years down the line, as their comic didn't have the same need to promote The Movie that the UK comic did. This of course does lead to several continuity hiccups later as the US series marched on, it soon became impossible to reconcile the "future" seen in the Movie and UK original stories with what was going on in the US series, which lead to the 2006 future instead being retconned into being a split/parallel timeline...but that's a whole other can of worms.

That intro is freaking SWEET.

Love the idea of Death's Head sounding like Bane from The Dark Knight Rises!

It’s okay that you didn’t do the UK issues on your retrospective. It makes the time you take to tackle the UK stuff all the better. Gives it time to be properly looked at.

So Doctor Who, Transformers, and Marvel are connected due to a bounty hunter. Oh, right Death's Head doesn't like being called that! I keep forgetting what he prefers...😅

Waspinator approves of this intro!

3:00 This intro has no business being as outright amazing as it is throughout.

that intro for atop the 4th wall with the transformers is awesome

The intro is awesome and pretty nice origin for Kup and Hot Rod meeting also the Autobots take care of their old soldiers beautifully🤣😭

Like I always say, you know you're getting older when you start identifying more with Kup than you do with Hot Rod, yes...?! (Also, LOVE your 'Victorian big-game hunter'-style take on Death's Head's voice - he seemed like the coolest character ever when I first read the UK Transformers comic back in the day...and all these years later I'd argue that that was still very much the case, yes...?).

In this continuity Rodimus has only been leader for a year as the events of the movie takes place in 2006 in this timeline.

These series-specific openings are SO DAMN GOOD.

I had some of these old Transformers comics, they also did Thundercats and Ghostbusters UK comics which I loved as a kid growing up.

Kup's story is part of why I love when series explore what it would really mean to fight a war for millions upon millions of years.

Fun fact: Grimlock was the leader of the atuobots in the comic books, and he was Horrible at it.

First time I heard of Death's Head was in a Marvel encylopedia, and when I looked at the "enemies" list for the character I did a double take.

IDW's Spotlight Kup is a good story. Weird to start with, but then the weirdness is explained.

I am never gonna get over Soldier TF2 as Linkara. "I AM A MAN" would make a great Soldier voicelind ngl.

Great video linkara I'm always a big fan of your transformers comic reviews

I love this new intro! I hope to see more of it when you cover other transformers material. Also, am I the only one who thought Deathhead sounded like Megatron from Beast wars?

OMFG that intro makes it look like you've got a story sequence where you get temporarily replaced by Mechakara that I desperately want to see lol (and now I want to drive a Transformer like it's a freaking Gundam)

That is exactly the voice I always heard in my head for Deaths Head.

Note: The U.K.🇬🇧 created some of the Franchise's Comic Iriginated Characters!

Seriously love that you used the intro from the Transformers Deviations review again.

That intro's awesome. I'd daresay it's better than some animated stuff made TODAY.

Yoda + Beast Wars Megatron + Zurg = Death's Head

Rodimus hiring Death'sHead to hunt down the Decepticons reminds me of an episode of Transformers Animated. Sentinel Prime was so desperate and inept at fighting the Decepticons, that he eventually hired the bounty hunter Lockdown to hunt down and bring them in, which caused problems with the other autobots, especially Prowl since Lockdown murdered his old master. Good times! :)

My compliments to whomever managed to create that intro so that you combine TF2, Transformers: Devastation, and original animation rather seamlessly.

Now Kup can read things he reads on the ground! "Deluxe Condo..."

It kind of was the problem with Rodimus Prime around this time, yeah. Optimus did his share of angsting, but would still go out and kick some ass. Rodimus, they put too much weight on the former and not enough on the latter. I love both the art and composition on the Death's Head story. Real energy but also humour in it.

The Intro XD Soldurekara XD That smile

I love that SFM intro where TF2's Soldier becomes Linkara. That's one crossover we all need In fact...WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO REVIEW THE TF2 COMICS!? ❤

Why does Deathshead talk like both Yoda and the Beast Wars Megatron. I loved “Arise, Grimlockimus Prime,” especially because that happed 2 or three times in the Marvel series: Optimus dies, let the T-Rex who talks like a caveman take over. So, the Autobots don’t have a retirement plan, but they do have pensions?

Deathshead constantly going "Yeeees?" makes me wonder if he was a progenitor for Beast Wars Megatron. On that note, I really hope you do a Beast Wars comic review at some point. Also I'm sure it's been said before but that intro is PERFECTION. Your graphics artist deserves a reward for that one.

2:27 I remember the TF Wikia being pretty funny to read. And holy crap, that intro was awesome!

Take a swig every time the word "Yes" is used in this video.

You raise an interesting idea for a what if. Grimlocktiums Prime. Just design wise it sounds fun. Either way thanks for another fun episode Lewis :D

1) Love the logo this episode, but the CGI Linkara looks like he's going to be seduced to the dark side and try to conquer the universe. 2) I remember Death's Head II from the early 90s, during the time when Marvel was trying to... Actually, I don't think anyone ever figured out what they were trying to do, but Death's Head 2 is basically the only comic I remember from the hundreds of new titles Marvel seemed to release at that time.

I always imagined Death's Head with a bit of a medium-to-high pitched, scratchy voice. Kind of somewhere between Blitzwing and a Scuxxoid.

so yeah I kinda want to see a conversation between Death's Head and Beast Wars Megatron, yes? yes!

For the majority of the people who grew up reading TFUK, it was the TFUS content that was seen as vapid filler that we had to suffer through before getting back to the good (UK) stuff.

You DO NOT want to give Transformers teleportation technology. They will nuke planets from within.

I love the UK comics I grew up on them and finally got an old collection volume 3. That’s how many stories there was, 4 volumes in all. Great stuff

This could be a good topic to put in one of Linkara's end of years lists or something. Fun fact about Marvel UK, they didn't go under... sorta. By 1995, Marvel USA was almost completely bankrupt. To oversimplify it, Marvel and its competition use one big comics distributor; Diamond Comics which are the ones to actually send the comics to the stores or your letterbox. However, due to the Speculator Boom causing comic numbers to explode beyond belief, Marvel basically said "fuck you" to Diamond and decided to handle publishing themselves to cut margins. This is just a fancy way of saying "it costs less to pay someone else to distribute our comics than it does to do it ourselves so we make more money." If you've ever heard of Ron Perelman, who Linkara has mentioned before, this was the guy behind this terrible idea. When the Speculator Boom collapsed however, every single book Marvel was publishing became absolutely worthless and attempts to get back in bed with Diamond failed for that very reason. No-one was buying thier comics so why bother supporting Marvel when DC, Dark Horse and even Image were much stronger since all had started to slowly veer away from the 90's bullshit comics by this time? This really shit decision by Marvel is the main reason DC dethroned them for about a decade by the way. Legit, thier comic sales fell by 70% within *A SINGLE YEAR.* Now imagine having to pay to ship thousands of comics around the country instead of just paying another company and then you start to understand just how horrendous this is. And then there's the interest payments which are around $10 million a month because they were around $2.7 billion in debt. Most of that came from loans they used to buy smaller companies like Panini Comics (that's not a joke, that's the company's actual name) and Skybox Entertainment. If you've ever heard of the Fleer trading cards, they bought that as well in 1992 because this was another speculative market they saw high financial potential in but that collapsed around the same time as the Speculator Boom and just added about $200 million in bank debt. Another roughly $1 billion was owed to the stock-market since Panini's buyout was funded by stock-bonds. To a normal person, just think of stock-bonds as an IOU that says "pay me $100 now and I'll pay it back with some interest" albeit the actual bonds were around $200. All this put together, them filing makes sense now doesn't it? No distributor means high expenses and almost no sales, no sales means little money, high debt means a lotta interest, a lotta interest means you have no money, no money means that you can't pay your debts and if you can't pay your debts than you file for bankruptcy. To get back on topic, to try and free up some money to make it through the year, they folded Marvel UK into Panini and ever since then, all UK and European sales have been handled through Panini. This ultimately failed as Marvel filed for bankruptcy on December 27th, 1996 but ultimately survived by merging with a toy company called Toy Biz in 1998. Confusingly, they had acquired most of that company a few years earlier and, since much of the board from Toy Biz now sat on Marvel's board of directors, they could force the takeover. The ownership by Toy Biz is how they remained until the Disney buyout. Toy Biz by the way is the company that you buy the action figures and non-plush or Funko Pop Marvel toys from. They just don't label it as such.

Death's Head has quite the convoluted history to him

Totally unrelated to the episode, but the Transformers face with the iconic Linkara hat gives me amazing Dr. Doom vibes. Fantastic! I love it.

"There's not a lot of money in Revenge. " "Have you thought about Piracy?:"

Cool to see this guy's initial appearance. I became aware of the character for some of the later Marvel UK stuff but hadn't seen much of his earlier issues.

17:45 I would've gone with an Avengers reference, especially given the Captain America joke afterwards.

The tease for the next episode has me all kinds of excited, because I decided to watch all of the reviews of the "Stan Lee DC Universe" stuff on a whim recently, because I'd never seen them before. Guess I picked a good time to do so. :D

18:40 And in the movie Galvatron just killed Starscream himself.

Hay those are (or are probably baced off of) the tf devastion models of the decepticons nice to see them, it’s a good bit of nostalgia.

That intro had no right to be as #EPYK as it was and makes me want a crossover between AT4W and Transformers SO badly!

You know, when that intro started playing, I was kinda hoping we’d see Comicron One transform. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Grimlockimus Prime is a Hilarious concept!

I love Linkara's posh British speech for Death's Head, yes.

That intro was amazing

F1rst! Oh boy linkara at 3 am! Epic intro!

5:20 honestly, that explains a lot of the premise of Transformers Animated

More Transformers comics! Yes! I'm sorry -Yeeeees!

I am desperately hoping someone (not me, since I can barely support myself as it is) Patreon's this guy to do a review of the Headmasters anime. If ONLY for seeing his take on the scene where Daniel is crying about not being taken seriously as a man, only for one of the Headmasters to try and cheer him up making faces at him like he was a baby. I mean, that, the part where the Autobots get drunk on Energon and use Blaster as a karaoke machine to sing the end theme are basically the highlights of that thing.

I'll appreciate the simplicity of 'I'll pay you to fuck off'.

Your take on the Transformers theme sounds more like a metal Christmas carol... which I am all for

Awesome new intro! I love how the Transformers theme is incorporated into it!

I can't get over how over the top the intro was, though I'm disappointed that the model for Linkara was based on the Soldier and not the Sniper.

"Esperanto!" Now I'm hoping to see a crossover with the Stainless Steel Rat in here.

That's a really great cover of the Transformers theme.

6:53 glad I wasn't alone in the pipecleaner thing, though i normally made people

That intro was so badass!!!

Upvoted for that intro

"must decide who is a man"? That's easy. Linkara. He says it all the time.

"Chakoom" yet another sound fx we rarely see nowadays. We need a book of endangered sound fxs

calling it an exile is definitely a mistake, but i kinda dig the idea behind it. it’d be like if a veteran got their own ranch for their service; a plot of land away from potential triggers, time to either recuperate or set their affairs in order. just disappointing that it’s better than actual veterans get… i literally just grabbed next episode’s subject a few days ago from my local comic store, coincidence of all coincidences XD if i may risk a small spoiler, this incarnation feels kinda Jason Todd to me.

While he played only a small part in it, one of the big stories i grew up with as a child was the Time Bubble saga of the Fantastic Four (technically started in the Avengers books) by Walter Simonson, and Death's Head was in there too. I had no idea his scope was this much bigger considering licensed Marvel stuff was something i was not checking out back then. -Teo

Your discussion of how mercenaries and bounty hunters aren't the same makes me think of why my OCs are mercenaries. Potentially a great storytelling engine: though combat's usually involved, mercenaries seem like the jack of all trades of that kind of work, meaning the jobs they go on can be incredibly varied. Bounty hunter overlap, of course, but also bodyguard work, acquiring items in numerous different ways (overlapping with thieves there as well), and I imagine they'd do some...generic RPG quest work. You know, go clear out the goblins (or whatever you'd consider equivalent in a more realistic world).

The most notable Marvel UK Transformers is Target 2006.

Do you think that Deaths Head from this and Deathshead from the Wolfenstein series ever get confused with each other at supervillain conventions?

i love the voice you made for deaths head

That was an awesome opening sequence! And the voice you gave Death's Head made me love him instantly.

Is that Transformers Devastation-based models in the opening? That's awesome!