GI Joe 1

[knight_moves]

A nuclear scientist critical of the military for commissioning her to build a doomsday weapon is kidnapped by Cobra to, you guessed it, build a doomsday weapon. The Joes are tasked with rescuing her.



The way Cobra Commander sits in this picture is literally the most thug-gangster ass-shit like holy hell it's so badass







One rescue later...



I've long been of the opinion that, paradoxically, comics were a bit more mature when they were more for kids; my go-to example is Kingpin installing a figurehead mayor in Frank Miller's Daredevil versus today when he becomes mayor himself despite the umpteen times he's been exposed as an obvious supervillain.

This is a decent example of what I'm talking about: it's an adaptation of a toy commercial, but you still have the Joes suggesting that maybe they should merk this scientist for the greater good and her criticizing the military in a way the narrative treats as valid, instead of her being a J. Jonah Jameson. That's more nuance than you get in most political thrillers these days.

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[dan_ingram]

To be fair, Trump only became a super villain AFTER he became president.