![]() ![]() He would then contact Dreamwave once he'd heard they had the license. After the Botcon material (and the last episode of Beast Wars gained via con networking), he'd work for Titan Books and brought to them the idea of Transformers reprints as the conventions he was being invited to proved there was money in it. He quickly had to get back into the swing of things. His post-Marvel return to Transformers came courtesy of BotCon 1997: not only was he a guest expected to answer questions he couldn't remember the answers to, there was this thing called a "Beast Wars" they wanted him to write a short comic about. When a Generation 2 comic was wanted a few years later, Furman went back for a year but didn't expect it to last. Around 1989, he went on to be Bob Budiansky's hand-picked replacement for the US title (as Furman actually knew who all these characters were) and wrote it until it ended. (It was his idea to make Soundwave the first letters' host) Despite this, he hadn't actually wanted to be the editor of the comic after Rimmer as he'd just started editing the new Thundercats comic his bosses made it clear he was moving title. He quickly became the Transformers guy at Marvel UK, also working as assistant editor for years before becoming the editor and writing letters pages until 1989 when he went onto just writing the scripts. ![]() The Simon Furman of early 1985, when I was first asked to write for the UK Transformers comic, would have probably said "pull the other one" if you'd told me I'd still be involved with Transformers more than thirty years later Furman talking to Vice įurman almost drifted into Transformers, being asked early on to pitch some ideas when they needed new strip fast he only had an 'in' here because he'd recently left IPC and joined Marvel UK thanks to his friend Ian Rimmer. He's also a fan of West Ham United football club, which perhaps explains his bloodlust. In his spare time, Furman enjoys drinking Corona and killing off hordes of background characters. He was an editor at Titan Books, which published collections of Transformers comics among other material, and at Tokyopop he 'localised' a translation of a sci-fi gothic romance manga. He has also written and created many non- Transformers characters, including Death's Head, "Dragon's Claws", and "To the Death" with Geoff Senior, "Brute Force" with José Delbo, and "The Vigilant" with Simon Coleby. He's admitted this has left him typecast and his non- Transformers work gets overlooked, but he's stated he stopped struggling against the association years ago and gives thanks for the opportunities and steady income it's given him. As a result, he is often the first, last, and occasionally only resort in penning Transformers literature, with a deep involvement in a wide variety of product. He wrote most of the UK-original comic stories of Generation 1, as well as the latter 1/3rd of the US comic run, and has been author on innumerable Transformers tales since. but Swoop is neither vast nor predatory nor even a bird! What is he playing at?īritish comic book writer Simon Christopher Francis Furman (born Ma) is probably the most well-known of all Transformers comics scribes, and certainly the most prolific. ![]()
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