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Fathers' Day -Cobra Commander and Billy- finale: In peace sons bury their fathers...
Jun. 20th, 2015 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ozalineIn war fathers bury their sons...
I wanted to post both of Billy's deaths but comixology does not have the final part of DDP's World War III storyline. In it Billy is captured by Cobra, and the Commander gives him the, "join or die," option. Billy tries to assassinate his father, but instead takes out a body double, and as Billy dies from a toxin, Cobra Commander gloats how he has won over his own humanity: for he loved Billy once, and now he feels nothing.
Posted below is one page from G.I. Joe America's Elite #34 which shows the ceremony with which that Cobra Commander treats his son's body, and then how the Hama-verse version reacts to news of his son's passing in GI Joe A Real American Hero #172, and #174.
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I wanted to post both of Billy's deaths but comixology does not have the final part of DDP's World War III storyline. In it Billy is captured by Cobra, and the Commander gives him the, "join or die," option. Billy tries to assassinate his father, but instead takes out a body double, and as Billy dies from a toxin, Cobra Commander gloats how he has won over his own humanity: for he loved Billy once, and now he feels nothing.
Posted below is one page from G.I. Joe America's Elite #34 which shows the ceremony with which that Cobra Commander treats his son's body, and then how the Hama-verse version reacts to news of his son's passing in GI Joe A Real American Hero #172, and #174.
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Fathers' Day -Cobra Commander and Billy- Part 2: The Return of Cobra Commander
Jun. 18th, 2015 07:00 pmozaline
Okay, we got through some of the few tender moments in Billy and CC's relationship last time, now it's time for dark humor and tragedy.
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Fathers' Day - Cobra Commander and Billy Part 1 - The Death of Cobra Commander
Jun. 17th, 2015 11:23 pmozalineDuring an attack on GI Joe headquarters Cobra Commander and Destro wind up missing and presumed dead, however they are alive and making their way together in civilian disguises.
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"So, I seem to be getting as much hate on ARAH#214 as I got on #21 and the second Annual. This is to be expected, so I just charlie-mike." -- Larry Hama
"The end of the road for SNAKE EYES... The events of this issue will change G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero forever!" -Comixology's promotional blurb which probably should have been on the last issue.
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"The fun is in taking that iteration of those characters out of that timeframe having them interact in a darker and more modern story structure." - Larry Hama
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GI Joe Special Missons #5 -Showdown-
May. 11th, 2015 02:13 pmozaline
--I'm still going to tag this with char: Megatron, though Jetfire would have made more sense in context. Also this issue has a cover date of June '87, the last issue of G.I. Joe and the Transformers was dated April '87... I think this was Larry's subtle way of saying the Transformers only existed as toys in the G.I. Joe world even though that would later prove false .
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ozaline"There are some missions so secret, so sensitive that even the Joes who go on them are told only the bare minimum, on a strictly need-to-know basis. As far as the other Joes are concerned, these missions never existed these are the: G.I. Joe Special Missions"
--From the title page of the the short feature "Best Defense," in G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #50
The first Special Missions series was title that allowed Larry Hama to take the Joe characters out of the Joe vs Cobra military fantasy setting (though Cobra still appears in some of the stories), and put them into a slightly more realistic, and hard-edged setting. In this story the American government makes a deal with a Nazi war criminal, and sends in the Joe team to extract him, only for them to run afoul of the Mossad.
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--From the title page of the the short feature "Best Defense," in G.I. Joe A Real American Hero #50
The first Special Missions series was title that allowed Larry Hama to take the Joe characters out of the Joe vs Cobra military fantasy setting (though Cobra still appears in some of the stories), and put them into a slightly more realistic, and hard-edged setting. In this story the American government makes a deal with a Nazi war criminal, and sends in the Joe team to extract him, only for them to run afoul of the Mossad.
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GI Joe ARAH -27 & 84- Snake-eyes', Zartan's and Cobra Commander's bitter past.
May. 1st, 2015 06:19 pmozalineSo when I was posting Snake-eyes comics before I can't believe I failed to include these two issues...
In this post: Scarlet meets Snake-eyes for the first time, Storm Shadow address the accusation that he is to blame for the Hard Master's Death, the real killer's motive, and the birth of Cobra.
Also meet Mrs. Cobra Commander
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In this post: Scarlet meets Snake-eyes for the first time, Storm Shadow address the accusation that he is to blame for the Hard Master's Death, the real killer's motive, and the birth of Cobra.
Also meet Mrs. Cobra Commander
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GI Joe 213 -The Death of Snake-eyes-
Apr. 22nd, 2015 09:00 pmozalineSo now that we've gotten to know Snake-eyes a little better, it's time to say our farewells.
( Equivalent of Four Pages from GI Joe 213: Spoilers... Obviously )
Missing Tag: Creator: S.L. Gallant
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Missing Tag: Creator: S.L. Gallant
GI Joe 155 -Snake-eyes speaks, kind-of-
Apr. 21st, 2015 10:11 amozalineI'll leave off the Snake-eyes retrospective for the moment with the final Marvel issue of GI Joe, and the last installment of the ARAH continuity until DDP relaunched it in 2001 until IDW continued it in 2010.
Young Sean Collins, the adopted son of a former Crimson Guard (to simplify a long story), is about to turn 17 and wants his father to sign his papers allowing him to join the army. His father convinces him to write a letter to Snake-eyes, asking for an honest perspective on what it means to be a soldier. The letter arrives on the day the GI Joe base is going to be mothballed for the foreseeable future.
What follows is break from the fantasy adventure story of GI Joe, for something a little bleaker.
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After reading Snake-eyes letter Sean decides he needs to put more thought into the matter. In one universe he will become Snake-eyes ninja apprentice, in another he will join the GI Joe team as a more conventional soldier.
Young Sean Collins, the adopted son of a former Crimson Guard (to simplify a long story), is about to turn 17 and wants his father to sign his papers allowing him to join the army. His father convinces him to write a letter to Snake-eyes, asking for an honest perspective on what it means to be a soldier. The letter arrives on the day the GI Joe base is going to be mothballed for the foreseeable future.
What follows is break from the fantasy adventure story of GI Joe, for something a little bleaker.
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After reading Snake-eyes letter Sean decides he needs to put more thought into the matter. In one universe he will become Snake-eyes ninja apprentice, in another he will join the GI Joe team as a more conventional soldier.
(Snake-Eyes the prememorial) GI Joe 144: How Snake-eyes came to be mute, and disfigured
Apr. 20th, 2015 03:22 pmozalineSo when I originally started this spat of GI Joe scans it was with the intent of exploring the character of Snake-eyes, we went off the rails there with the Ninja Force/Transformers arc... That had a lot of Snake in it, but I just found myself naturally more attracted to Scarlett's story.
Let's get back on track shall we, here is the story of how Snake-eyes became mute.
Following the Battle of Millville, Scarlett, and Snake-eyes are ordered to report to the Pentagon for a debrief, they want to know exactly what happened to Dr. Biggles-Jones (Which implies that Larry didn't consider Simon Furman's Gen 2 issue to be in continuity? Or is this a simple mix-up?)
Riding together in the chopper brings back some painful memories for Hawk, Scarlett, Stalker, and Snake-eyes.
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Let's get back on track shall we, here is the story of how Snake-eyes became mute.
Following the Battle of Millville, Scarlett, and Snake-eyes are ordered to report to the Pentagon for a debrief, they want to know exactly what happened to Dr. Biggles-Jones (Which implies that Larry didn't consider Simon Furman's Gen 2 issue to be in continuity? Or is this a simple mix-up?)
Riding together in the chopper brings back some painful memories for Hawk, Scarlett, Stalker, and Snake-eyes.
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GI Joe 141-142: Such Heroic Nonsense
Apr. 18th, 2015 06:22 pmozalineWhen last we left off Megatron had touched the Ark down in a Cobra occupied town in America so that he could give Cobra Commander some of the tech contained there in as payment for his new body... but Megatron has something else that interests him, a reason he is continuing to deal with Cobra.
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Last time Scarlett had been stabbed in the chest by Snake-eyes, and the Cobra Ninjas were, correctly, suspecting her of still working for GI Joe cause Snake-eyes never misses. But since there are more Transformers fans here than Joe fans we'll have to side skirt her story for the next couple issues (though don't worry we'll get back to her), cause here's Megatron.
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