Forever War: GI Joe 80

[knight_moves]

This is my island in the sun...







On the Cobra side of things, Dr. Mindbender and Firefly are trying to claim the island (and get in good with Cobra Commander). Both factions throw everything they can muster onto the island.





But Cobra has already landed mobile artillery.





The Maggots are able to fire into the Joes' cover.



When the Rolling Thunder finally arrives.













So we all learned a valuable lesson: if you're going in the water, make sure you're with Firefly, not Kate Winslet.

Comments

[scorntx]

And with this, G.I. Joe outlasts its little bro title Transformers. And it's not going to slow down any time soon.
(Well, okay. Kind of technically if we also count the Headmasters miniseries. But we won't!)


Meet the new toys! The All-New, All-New, All-New New Joes!
... I know it's kind of clichéd (among other things) to say the first batch of anything is always the best and everything that came later is awful and terrible and wrong and deserves to be forgotten but...
We've got a guy with a flamethrower, a guy who clearly likes face paint way too much, whatever Muskrat's deal is, and... a baseball player with a grenade launcher.
So maybe in this case any comparisons to earlier batches of Joes are not entirely unfair.
(But hey, they came out of their island adventure all alive.)

[beyondthefringe]

Muskrat's a Cajun jungle trooper! So he's like... if Gung-Ho and Recondo had a kid or something. There's a dude with some odd staying power.
As opposed to "I talk in sports cliches" Hardball and whatever the heck Hit and Run's deal is (does he drive something??? Infantry, really? Zzz.)
Charbroil... but they already have a flamethrower dude, right? How much shit needs setting on fire? Whatever happened to Blowtorch? (And for the love of god, does anyone else remember Ice Cream Soldier? Three flamethrowers, barely any action for any of them! I wonder if they sit around all day setting shit on fire just so Barbecue has something to do.)

No, no, you're right in that the later batches of characters got a little interchangeable and/or forgettable... in part due to lack of coverage in the cartoon or the comic. The mainstays were the ones which either gained traction through exposure or just by being cool toys. Or, of course, the ones Hama really liked.

So anyway, what makes more sense? Being the dude with the bright red beard and white shirt, or the guy who's painted his face in green camo to fight on a rocky hellhole of an island? Frankly, I'm voting for the guy who's just driving over anything in his path at this point.

(I LOVE the Joe uniform code. i.e. THERE IS NONE. Like, these elite soldiers just roll up in whatever they want and call it good. Fatigues, camo, sports jerseys, medieval armor, t-shirts with cool slogans, long hair, no hair, beards... you name it.)

[thezmage]

As Robot Chicken described it, “America’s most effective fighting force with its least restrictive dress code”

[super_fly]

Funny, Terry Pratchett would later write a book about a war over this exact concept, right down to the "We should have so that they don't have it" rhetoric and even gur prffngvba bs pbasyvpg pbvapvqvat jvgu gur vfynaq fvaxvat onpx orarngu gur bprna.

[knight_moves]

Well, I think it's implicit that the Joes want a base that they can launch an assault against Cobra Island from as well as deny Cobra any territory they can.