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The letter column for the American Marvel comic was entitled | The letter column for the American Marvel comic was entitled Transmissions. It launched in issue ?. In [[Monstercon from Mars!|issue 45]], the Transmissions space was used to list names of players in the [[Bot Roster]] and [[Spot the Shingo|Spot Shingo]] contests. | ||
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Revision as of 15:10, 2 November 2011
A common factor in Transformers comics is a section in the back pages devoted to answering fanmail. These letters are answered either by staff, or more interestingly, by various Transformers.
Marvel US
The letter column for the American Marvel comic was entitled Transmissions. It launched in issue ?. In issue 45, the Transmissions space was used to list names of players in the Bot Roster and Spot Shingo contests.
Marvel UK
Dreamwave G1
Under the title Declarations of War, Megatron responded to (and occasionally threatened) the fans.
Dreamwave Armada
While this was normally answered by a human, #18 was taken over by the dread Unicron himself!
Panini Armada
Initially, the letters were answered by Hot Shot under the title "Hot Shot's Hot Mail". This was replaced later by "Starscream's Hate Mail", which is infamous for severely misjudging how mean Starscream should be to the letter writers in its first installment.
IDW
Rather than answering reader's mail, the irregular IDW pages respond to specific posts on IDW's message board. The answers are done by the comic's editor (starting with Chris Ryall), who is drawn as a Transformer.
Titan Transformers Magazine
Transformers
Letters are sent to Star Screams, and answered by Starscream with varying degrees of venom. This started in #7 (previously it was the human-answered Mech Mail), following an open call for readers to say who they wanted to answer the mail.
As well as his venom, Starscream made a number of references for older fans in his replies. Arcee's Soulmates, a Transformers romantic personals feature, ran in the letters for a while.
Revenge of the Fallen
Following the reboot, the strip was renamed Law and Disorder, and Barricade and Ironhide answered the letters. The two routinely bickered with each other and tried to score points.
From #2 to #5, Law and Disorder was shrunk from four pages to two; since the gimmick meant the replies took twice as much space, fewer letters were printed. It has since been returned to four pages.
The page also contain's Starscream's Stars, a horrorscope. In it, Starscream once insulted you personally.
