G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #297: All In, Part 2

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"The amazing thing is that if you're really invested in characters, you're totally willing to suspend disbelief and let some things that would be in other situations totally egregious, you'd just let it pass. There's one issue of G.I. Joe where I had all the bad guys, all the Cobra hierarchy, sinking into quicksand on the last page. When that issue came out, I remember Chris Claremont came storming into my office, and he slammed the issue down on my desk, and he said, 'Wait a minute, how can you have all the villains sinking into quicksand on the last page in this comic? How are you going to get them out of that?' And I said, 'Well, I don't know.' He said, 'You don't know?!' And I said, 'On the first page of the next issue, they're just going to be out of the quicksand.' Why do you need to know how they got out? And nobody ever questioned it. That's at the point I realized, oh, I may be on to something here." - Larry Hama

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