Where do the Earthforce stories fit?
Nowhere cleanly. The problem is that Furman’s idea of where they fit is rather skewed. Some events, such as the Survivors thread from #272-274, clearly follow on from earlier stories, as do the likes of #268 or several of the “Perchance to Dream” flashbacks. Initially, the stories were pitched as a companion piece to the US material he was writing [e.g. the explicit mention of the Dinobots’ resurrection in #262, when the events of the story and the rest of Earthforce can’t fit with those of the US storyline], whether it was a present day alternate reality [#267 is clearly dated as happening on April 1st 1990], in which case the point of divergence is hard to pinpoint unless it simply carries on more or less from the UK stories, ignoring the later US issues, or whether it’s set after #332. As someone who tries not to subscribe to alternate realities at every turn, I’ve always tended towards the latter, with some minor tweaking – for this to work, there’s clearly some sort of ‘bridge’ st
