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13 unusual facts about Simon Furman


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Regular guests at the convention have included Transformers comic writer Simon Furman, artists Andrew Wildman, Lee Sullivan, Geoff Senior, Simon Williams, and colourist Jason Cardy.

Beast Wars II

While its position in the Transformers continuity has previously been unknown, the IDW Publishing comic book mini-series Beast Wars: The Gathering and comments from Transformers writer Simon Furman have shown it is part of the Beast Wars continuity.

Beast Wars: The Gathering

According to Transformers writer Simon Furman, the mini-series is set during the events of the season three episode, "Changing of the Guard".

Dreadwind

Of the two, Dreadwind was a particular favorite character of series writer Simon Furman, and served a long stint as the character who answered reader’s queries on the letters page of the U.K.’s exclusive Transformers title.

Jhiaxus

Originally created for Marvel's Generation 2 comic series, the character was named in reaction to the unrealistic sales expectations the publisher put on writer Simon Furman, and is a pun on the phrase "gee, axe us", anticipating the short life of the series.

Omega Supreme

Although the Dreamwave Energon comic would discontinue after Dreamwave's bankruptcy, the writer of the comic, writer Simon Furman has let it be known that one of the stories if it had continued would be a 4-issue arc introducing Energon Omega Supreme.

Power Rangers S.P.D.

The strip was the first Power Rangers strip to be written by Transformers writer Simon Furman, collaborating for the first time on the PR strip with equally popular TF artist Andrew Wildman, who had previously done artwork for other Power Rangers strips under Jetix Magazines' previous banner of Fox Kids' Wicked.

Terminator 2: Infinity

Terminator 2: Infinity is comic book series by Simon Furman and Nigel Raynor, published by Dynamite Entertainment.

The Transformers: Infiltration

Written by long-time Transformers writer Simon Furman, it is a new origin for the Generation 1 Transformers.

Infiltration heralded the start of IDW's new continuity based on the Generation One characters, allowing Simon Furman to finally write his version of the Transformers without any continuity baggage whatsoever.

The Transformers: Revelation

Revelation was written by Simon Furman, who has written most of IDW's Transformers series.

Transformers Comic UK

The first strip to be published in the magazine was 'Burnout' written by Simon Furman.

These included brand new strips written by Simon Furman (his work continued into volume 2) and some re prints such as the Beast Wars series (also by Furman) and the Movie Prequel.