In many ways, I hope that the new Transformers movie is a massive success so that it convinces whatever powers-that-be that the world is ready for more robot dinosaurs and we end up with a Zoids revival.

(Above image by Kevin Hopgood from the 1980s Marvel UK Zoids strip, which featured not only early work from Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, but also an impressively obvious steal from the then-almost-contemporary Aliens by James Cameron. Seriously, it’s hilariously naked. You can read the whole series here.)