"Recipe for Disaster"
COMICS REVIEW
Forget Charlene giving Skids a soap-down, forget Sludge
gazing longingly at Joy Meadows and forget Cindy's
smouldering infatuation with Ultra Magnus because
"Recipe for Disaster" brings the reader honest-to-gosh
1:1 scale Transformer/Non-Transformer romance!
"Recipe for Disaster" introduces the Femaxians: full-bosomed woman-warriors who are (handily) the size of an average Transformer. And, boy, do they want it bad. But normal men are not enough, they require their mates to be of sound mind and physical peak; mates like Autobot Pretenders.
I've long suspected Bob Budiansky's desire to write a Transformers romance, and since there are no male or female Transformers in his stories, an interspecies dalliance would be the only way to go. But not human/robot as that would not only be simply wrong but also result in a very nasty trip to casualty. For you see there's only one word that can be associated with robots and romance: pneumatic. However, the magnetism between giant woman-thing and Autobot-inside-human-looking-shell was seemingly too attractive to ignore.
"Recipe for Disaster" is a direct follow-on from "Guess Who the Mecannibals", with more of the same humour, absurdity and double-act shennanigans from Landmine and Cloudburst. But with the Femaxian sub-plot you are guaranteed an extra layer of nausiating discomfort. Don't worry though, there are no scenes where anyone bumps whatever it is Pretenders keep in their pants. And, as you can see from the above picture, this particular Femaxian is more likely to take head than give it.
All the ingredients mixed into this ghastly tale truly make for a recip—oh, don't make me say it!
"Recipe for Disaster" (22 pp) was originally
published by Marvel Comics in Transformers #53 (June
1989)
Bob Budiansky • Writer | José Delbo • Penciler | Dave Hunt • Inker
Jade Moede • Letterer | Nel Yomtov • Colourist
Don Daley • Editor | Tom DeFalco • Master Chef
"Recipe for Disaster" introduces the Femaxians: full-bosomed woman-warriors who are (handily) the size of an average Transformer. And, boy, do they want it bad. But normal men are not enough, they require their mates to be of sound mind and physical peak; mates like Autobot Pretenders.
I've long suspected Bob Budiansky's desire to write a Transformers romance, and since there are no male or female Transformers in his stories, an interspecies dalliance would be the only way to go. But not human/robot as that would not only be simply wrong but also result in a very nasty trip to casualty. For you see there's only one word that can be associated with robots and romance: pneumatic. However, the magnetism between giant woman-thing and Autobot-inside-human-looking-shell was seemingly too attractive to ignore.
"Recipe for Disaster" is a direct follow-on from "Guess Who the Mecannibals", with more of the same humour, absurdity and double-act shennanigans from Landmine and Cloudburst. But with the Femaxian sub-plot you are guaranteed an extra layer of nausiating discomfort. Don't worry though, there are no scenes where anyone bumps whatever it is Pretenders keep in their pants. And, as you can see from the above picture, this particular Femaxian is more likely to take head than give it.
All the ingredients mixed into this ghastly tale truly make for a recip—oh, don't make me say it!
VERDICT:
Bob Budiansky • Writer | José Delbo • Penciler | Dave Hunt • Inker
Jade Moede • Letterer | Nel Yomtov • Colourist
Don Daley • Editor | Tom DeFalco • Master Chef