CBR: C2E2: G.I. Joe

[CBR News]

At C2E2, panelists from IDW's G.I. Joe team announced writer Larry Hama's renewed run on "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" and address the return of Serpentor and Crystal Ball's Alan Moore makeover. CBR was there.


Full article here.

[Ben Akers]

I'm quite interested to see the "new" Serpentor.

[Sean Walsh]

My memory is slipping...........has Crystal Ball shown up yet?

Also, my appreciation for Mike Costa has just risen exponentially:

"I actually honestly still have not seen that movie," the writer explained. "And the only G.I. Joe movie I recognize has got Cobra-La in it."

And I liked the new movie. But that is terrific.

[mosdef]

I'm quite interested to see the "new" Serpentor.

These are the covers to Cobra #5

[Unytis]

Has Cobra Commander even showed up in the new relaunch series? If so, what issue?

[Sean Walsh]

Has Cobra Commander even showed up in the new relaunch series? If so, what issue?

I believe he was set to appear (or has appeared already) in this 2nd COBRA miniseries.

[CYOTI]

My memory is slipping...........has Crystal Ball shown up yet?

Yes and he does look like Alan Moore.

[Lt. Clutch]

The guys at IDW sound like they really want to put the movie stuff behind them. Can't say I blame them. I guess the "new" Chuck Dixon continuity is also being done away with?

Bringing back the Marvel series complete with original numbering and Hama on scripts seems like an attempt to reach older audiences who (like me) dropped the current books and didn't care for the movie. Too bad about guys like Doc and Breaker if they're going to be dead again, though.

Serpentor looks like Kobra from DC which is kind of ironic. I wonder what Moore would think of Crystal Ball?

I will be behind the old school revival and hope it lasts "for as long as people buy it" which doesn't sound very promising.

[Deathstroke]

I hope they are not doing away with the current continuity. Just like I don't subscribe to Hasbro's edict that the Devil's Due continuity is no longer canon.

I'm looking forward to the return of Larry Hama.

And the idea of Snake Eyes wearing a Yankees shirt? Hasbro is located in Rhode Island, it is a state caught between rooting for the Red Sox and Yankees.

There's no way Hasbro would lean either way in that particular argument.

[mosdef]

The guys at IDW sound like they really want to put the movie stuff behind them. Can't say I blame them. I guess the "new" Chuck Dixon continuity is also being done away with?
Bringing back the Marvel series complete with original numbering and Hama on scripts seems like an attempt to reach older audiences who (like me) dropped the current books and didn't care for the movie. Too bad about guys like Doc and Breaker if they're going to be dead again, though.

Serpentor looks like Kobra from DC which is kind of ironic. I wonder what Moore would think of Crystal Ball?

I will be behind the old school revival and hope it lasts "for as long as people buy it" which doesn't sound very promising.

No, the rebooted continuity will still continue. IDW is going to have both the old and the new.

I've never read the old run, but I think I might check it out. From what I've read online alot of people seem to raved about Larry Hama's run on it.

[Sean Walsh]

I hope they are not doing away with the current continuity. Just like I don't subscribe to Hasbro's edict that the Devil's Due continuity is no longer canon.

IDW is reprinting their comics in new TPBs. For a series no longer in canon, that's some good treatment of them...

[grphxkindaguy]

I've never read the old run, but I think I might check it out. From what I've read online alot of people seem to raved about Larry Hama's run on it.

the Hama run was great...for the most part. The last couple of years of the book were terrible IIRC. Cliched crap w/awful 90's artwork. When Marvel cancelled it, it was seen as putting it out of its misery.

I'll give this new Hama book a shot, but I don't expect much. His Storm Shadow series from a couple of years ago was unreadable. Sometimes "you can't go home again"

[Ben Akers]

I'll give Larry Hama the benefit of the doubt, as his GI Joe: Origins work at IDW has been excellent.

I had hoped that IDW would be up to #155 in their "Classic GI Joe" reprints by the time the FCBD issue and the "new" series came out, but I guess I'll have to read them simultaneously.

[NdGame]

Is there anything we can offer Christos Gage to put him on the main title?

[CYOTI]

The best thing that came out of the Dixon continuity was the Cobra Origins book. Excellent work from both Costa and Gage.