What the hell, some G.I. Joe!

[seriousfic]

So the Joes are in South America to do something involving a coup. This being G.I. Joe, Cobra, Destro, a fruit company cartel, and other sinister forces are at work. But in the midst of all that, our boys pay a visit to the embassy.







Happy Memorial Day everyone, and remember to check for angry gun-wielding soldiers before you do any flag-burning.



Tags: creator: larry hama, publisher: marvel comics, title: g.i. joe

Comments

[geoffsebesta]

I stand corrected then.

To me, this is really an opinion piece about flag burning, and the insurgents are straw-man stand-ins for emotional effect. I mean, the guy even spits on Roadblock, who ignores it entirely.

However, there are a lot of people here who think the fact that they are inside the embassy is overwhelming. It's certainly salient. So I can't really go beyond that -- they're inside the embassy, and clearly irregulars of low moral character.

So this isn't really about flag-burning at all, I guess.

[davidklecha]

Your self-effacement knows no bounds. ;)

They're not insurgents, to quibble a bit more with your language, merely looters. But yes, Hama did almost certainly want to make a point about flag burning, and yes, the looters were a stand-in (though straw man, again to quibble, implies that the character of a flag-burning protester is constructed artificially in order to make Roadblock's point, when in fact it's almost certain that such a character would be an indispensable part of any anti-US action, even if it is just simple looting). No, Roadblock is not right to threaten "pink mist" violence, but as I detailed above in my first comment on the post, it's understandable that he feels the way he does, and it's not necessarily from a surfeit of jingoism.