This reboot/relaunch/etc got me back into a G.I. Joe comic for the first time in a long time. The last few incarnations just didn't do it for me. Love the team, especially that they used Cover Girl.
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02-22-2013, 07:49 AM #16Poor hacked Diamond Lil.
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Read about the greatest series ever, Alpha Flight...from the beginning!
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02-22-2013, 08:22 AM #17New Member
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Just buy the Cobra book. I doubt Costa will be changing what he's doing one bit...This relaunch only reverts the G.I. Joe mythos back to cartoony charicatures, with huge guns and unrealistic uniforms. Completely uninspired. Congrats, IDW, you've lost my business.
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02-22-2013, 08:23 AM #18Member
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The public heroes concept behind "season three" is pretty dumb, but the comic fails most in its execution. Shipwreck HAS to look like the 80s cartoon because the DOD is selling GI Joe dolls? Seriously? They're supposed to be both an undercover group AND a public group. Look genius, it's 2013. I don't need to know Duke's real name, if you're going to plaster his face on live TV. Facial recognition and five minutes gets me Conrad Hauser's whole life story. One phone call later Mama and Papa Hauser have a bullet in the brain if Duke won't betray his team.
If I can think of that on the toilet an ACTUAL terrorist would have already had it done. If this universe had always been portrayed as a light comedy, this sort of crap might fly. IDW has tried to create a more realistic universe for the Joes. This nonsense should fall apart by the end of the first arc.Recommended Comics:
Star Wars: Dark Times,
Richard Stark's Parker by Darwyn Cooke,
Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye
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02-22-2013, 11:07 AM #19New Member
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Regarding the continuity/ "Do I need to know anything" topic...
After reading the preview for the second issue, it's looking a lot like this particular title can be considered it's own thing anyway. There are two pretty big contradictions to established IDW canon right away, so I suggest that this title is for the reader who does indeed want a fresh, no-baggage G.I.Joe read.
What I'm getting from interviews with Van Lente, and the various Joe forums I frequent, this title is not meant for hardcore Joe fans, but is more of a "fresh tribute" to Joe in many forms. It is for you if you want the more mainstreamed angle on the team.
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