tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314Scans_DailyBringing the crack since December 2003Scans Daily2024-03-21T18:38:32Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10535215iamrmanNo More Nomad!2024-03-21T18:38:32Z2024-03-21T18:38:32Zpublic11Posted by: <span lj:user='iamrman' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://iamrman.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://iamrman.dreamwidth.org/'><b>iamrman</b></a></span><br /><br /><p><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10535215.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div></p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10535215" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10518603superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #28: Condor2024-03-10T12:28:16Z2024-03-10T12:28:16Zpublic4Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/22/28/jaWlks2y_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I was not considered a good enough writer to work for TV animation. I think the bias worked both ways. Comic book editors didn’t think the animation writers made very good comics writers. A few animation writers showed up and did some comics work for while, but they had the attitude of “now we’re going to show you kiddies how to really do this stuff,” which didn’t go over so hotsy-totsy. Very subjective bias going on since both groups considered what the other was doing was childish! I guess, until I really dealt with the animation people, I never really thought about the audience demographic-- Oh, we’re supposed to be doing this stuff for KIDS???" - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10518603.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10518603" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10503506superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #26: Passing of the Guard2024-02-26T23:08:02Z2024-02-26T23:08:02Zpublic10Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/c8/ef/R8enUZz9_o.png" alt="image host" /><br /><br />"I believe there is something inherently fascist about super-heroes. After all, they are better than the rest of us and putting themselves above the law to do something about it. A soldier is bound by a code of conduct, international law, and hopefully, honor." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10503506.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10503506" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10501404superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #25: Forced Play2024-02-25T00:39:36Z2024-02-25T00:39:36Zpublic7Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/ce/f9/SC7VQOge_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I sat next to Neal Adams three years at Continuity and his attitude was that no matter what it is, if it’s a commercial and it’s an advertisement for Twinkies or whatever, it’s all the same: You give it your best shot. And a lot of people… the reason toy books and licensed book never sold is that they paid so low that everybody that would even deign to do them thought they were crap and would just knock the stuff out." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10501404.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10501404" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10500482superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #23: Scoop2024-02-24T00:31:49Z2024-02-24T00:31:49Zpublic3Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/e0/8a/dx0Kv3G6_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I was considered a commercial hack by organized comic fandom for my entire Marvel run of GI Joe. I was considered not good enough to write for the GI Joe animated shows. My Wolverine run was mostly ignored by fanzines while it was running (never got invited to cons.) I was considered not good enough to teach comics at SVA. I was black-listed by both Marvel and DC. The list goes on and on. I learned very early to ignore the negativity and Charlie-Mike with my best efforts." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10500482.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10500482" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10495478superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #21: The Lower Depths2024-02-21T17:43:18Z2024-02-21T17:43:18Zpublic10Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/62/1f/4V4WAUCZ_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'When the Star Wars movie with the Ewoks came out, the suits at Hasbro decided, "Oh, plush. Furry stuff. We got to have some sort of GI Joe furry. We'll call them the Dreadnoks, and they'll be these giant teddy bears." I said, "Wait a second, you want the good guys to be shooting giant teddy bears? That's not going to fly." I think I almost quit over that, but eventually I finally convinced them to turn the Dreadnoks into Aussie bikers.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10495478.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10495478" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10494144superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #20: Snow Blind2024-02-21T00:58:49Z2024-02-21T00:58:49Zpublic4Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/ba/d7/XXK8KlTT_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I kept bringing that up at the meetings. Like why do a completely new character that replicates an MOS that we already have? Why do we need more this specialist or that specialist? Why not do a brand new version of the existing character?" - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10494144.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10494144" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10492140superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #19: Getting There2024-02-19T17:46:44Z2024-02-19T17:46:44Zpublic3Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/c4/f1/Az160Eg9_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'You go to see a kungfu for the choreography. Again, you’re not thinking, “Oh, this is going to be a great plot.” You know you’re going to like the main character, and there’s going to be a lot of great choreography, and in the end he dies. There’s no surprise, so the pleasure is in how well the stuff is executed, you know? This is what worked in kabuki also. A lot of Asian dramaturgy is like that. People know exactly what the story is going to be, but it’s how the story is told that’s important. I try to make that work with G.I. Joe.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10492140.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10492140" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10487188superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #18: Extraction2024-02-17T00:45:34Z2024-02-17T00:45:34Zpublic0Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/a5/01/Rfu3BDY2_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I just had pictures and dialogue, at a time when most of Marvel comics was very caption heavy and very dialogue heavy, so I was really going against the grain. But eventually I won, because now lack of captions and lack of thought balloons is the status quo." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10487188.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10487188" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10486209superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #17: All In A Night's Work!2024-02-16T01:49:25Z2024-02-16T01:49:25Zpublic6Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/70/7e/y3nnbTr4_o.png" alt="image host" /><br /><br />'I always had a lot of probs with Duke as the "First Shirt". In a line infantry company, the top kick runs the outfit. He is, without a doubt the most experienced soldier in the unit. In Nam, you might have had First Shirts who had been in WW II and Korea-- and a commanding officer straight out of "Shake and Bake" or ROTC. The main prob I had was that the folks at Hasbro and the writers on the cartoon show just treated Duke as if he was interchangeable with Hawk. This is why Duke was never really developed as a character in the comic. There was also a design prob in that he looked too similar to Hawk. In my own head, I tended to think of Stalker as acting first shirt, especially in the field. There was a character in the Nam comic, Sgt Polkow, who fits the mold of what a first sergeant should really be like-- In a glorified sense. The actual first sergeant in that comic was a bribe-taking SOB, but when the chips were down, he did his job. That is hitting closer to reality.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10486209.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10486209" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10483103superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #16: Tight Circle2024-02-15T03:16:08Z2024-02-15T03:16:08Zpublic2Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/27/3a/CKFk5NXa_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'If I base the characterization on, you know, my cousin Randy, I put him into a situation in a story and then I go, “Oh, wait, he wouldn’t do that.” So I’ve got a model to look at to compare it. I see in a lot of other comics, every new writer that comes on just changes the character. There are characters out there that nobody can seem to alter in any way. It’s very hard to mess with the core of Spider-Man, or Iron Man, or Conan, or even Batman. But other characters that aren’t that strongly established, they just start to waver and get really inconsistent, and when they veer completely off course, you just don’t care anymore. I think that’s the whole secret about it, is making the characters consistent over a long period of time.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10483103.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10483103" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10480769superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #15: ...And Into the Fire!2024-02-14T08:52:43Z2024-02-14T08:52:43Zpublic3Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/e5/00/3RSN1g3V_o.png" alt="image host" /><br /><br />'The first year there were ten of them, and they were just labeled "infantry guy," "mortar guy," "commando," right? The commando was a money-saving idea because they thought, well, if we make one of the figures just black plastic and there's no paint, he's just solid black, we save 50% of the cost!' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10480769.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10480769" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10478856superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #14: In From The Cold2024-02-13T05:11:24Z2024-02-13T05:11:24Zpublic10Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/b4/f9/SwP4zBuU_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'Take, for example, the X-Men series. It took them four or five films before they finally figured out that maybe they should concentrate on Wolverine. I remember, in the eighties as an editor at Marvel, there was a licensing office next door. There was this guy who sat in there, and his entire office is filled with toys and lunch boxes, shampoo bottles, and all this licensed stuff that people had bought licenses for. And I noticed that a third of the room was Wolverine. Wolverine mugs, Wolverine Halloween costumes, Wolverines this and Wolverines that. Numerically, compared to how many of the X-Men characters were not represented - that should tell you something. I used to get hundreds of hundreds of letters a week from kids when I was writing, and there was overwhelming enthusiasm for Snake Eyes. I read every letter that came in. So I said, "Well, I'm going to give them more Snake Eyes."' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10478856.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10478856" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10477872superboyprimeG.I. Joe Yearbook #4: Trade-Offs2024-02-12T01:20:18Z2024-02-12T01:20:18Zpublic15Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/c4/18/Y5OLr2nc_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I think what’s more important than plot and narrative is the characters have a moral center of some sort. I mean even the bad guys, Destro has a moral center. There’s things that he won’t do. Even the Baroness has that. The one who doesn’t have a moral center probably is Cobra Commander. But that’s what we like about him. He’s completely over the top in that way, in the same way the Sabretooth character is way over the top in the X-Men universe. You can’t jump the shark with either of those characters." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10477872.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10477872" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10476947superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #13: Washout2024-02-11T04:22:39Z2024-02-11T04:22:39Zpublic8Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/ef/9c/rnx4n6De_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I thought it was morally bankrupt not to have death." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10476947.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10476947" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10476432superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #12: Airshow2024-02-10T00:55:00Z2024-02-10T00:55:00Zpublic8Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/bf/dc/z1Jelpep_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'I said, "Who do they fight?" Hasbro said, "Oh, we don't have anybody they fight." I said, "Well, what are the stories going to be about? Are the stories about them marching?" I said, "We need to have some bad guys." I think Shooter was there and Nel Yomtov was there. "How about some sort of fascist paranoid paramilitary group?" They said, "Yeah, like SHIELD has Hydra." And Archie Goodwin said, "Yeah, let's have them be a group like that. We'll just call it something like... Cobra." He just said that off the top of his head, and everyone just went, "Okay."' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10476432.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10476432" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10474550superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #11: Sheep's Clothing2024-02-08T08:20:03Z2024-02-08T08:20:03Zpublic5Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/43/17/fo8PP9bt_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"In all this time that I've been writing GI Joe, Hasbro never asked me to change a single word. That's why I continue. I don't care if the page rate is lousy. What I like about writing GI Joe is that it's like going home. I don't have to really think about it. I'm writing about my friends, literally." - Larry Hama, 2023<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10474550.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10474550" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10472884superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #10: Turnabout2024-02-07T08:27:13Z2024-02-07T08:27:13Zpublic4Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/2a/c3/LfbpIlmr_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'You remember that you liked the character, and you come back for the next issue because you want to hang out with the character more. So same reason you come back and watch the next episode of a TV show, or come back and watch the sequel to a movie you like. I mean, you don't go back and watch the next Harry Potter movie because you think, "Wow, the previous one had a really terrific plot." You can ask people what the heck was the plot of the Sorcerer's Stone or, you know, whatever, the Goblet of Fire, and people can't tell you. But if you ask them who these characters are, ask them to give you a psychological profile, they can. That's why a lot of stuff that's plot-driven just falls flat on its face.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10472884.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10472884" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10466997superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #9: Plausible Denial2024-02-04T04:13:50Z2024-02-04T04:13:50Zpublic3Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/3c/83/lPOfTUfP_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'Even after the book was number one in sales, I went back and I said, "Well, doesn't that prove something?" And they said, "No, no, G.I. Joe's just a fluke." The thing of it was that I couldn't get them to give me any other work, because they said it's a total fluke and it was just, you know, blah blah blah. So finally, I kept bugging them and they said, "Okay, we're about to cancel Wolverine because the sales are in the toilet," so that's how I got Wolverine and within one year it was the number two selling book. After Wolverine, I said, "Okay, didn't I prove something there?" They said, "Oh no, Wolverine is another fluke." Which is how I got on another book that was almost cancellation which was called The Avengers.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10466997.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10466997" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10460415superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #8: Ambush2024-01-31T05:19:29Z2024-01-31T05:19:29Zpublic3Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/b1/61/cMf6ETOH_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'When I started, I had ten Joes and four Cobras, and I knew if the line continued, the next year we would be adding another ten Joes. I thought, "That's more than the Avengers." And everybody always used to grouse about the "team books" because there were so many characters to keep track of. So, I created what I called "dossiers" for each character, purely for my own convenience. These were like the Army DD201 files. It contained all the pertinent info about the characters, their background, training, skills, psychological profile, peer assessment statements, etc. There was a full page for each character. Kirk Bozigian from Hasbro was at the Marvel offices one day and saw the dossiers on my desk. He said, "We HAVE to put these on the backs of the packages!" Kirk edited them down to two short paragraphs each, and now file cards are standard on action figures.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10460415.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10460415" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10441637superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #7: The Old Switcheroo2024-01-16T06:30:17Z2024-01-16T06:30:17Zpublic6Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/1b/6e/lMQc77bD_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />'A lot of people, they’re just “Oh, it’s a female character.” Like, “I know how to do a female character.” But my female characters are based on actual people. I have a template to apply to them. That’s why I write page by page. Sometimes if you plot it out and do an outline, invariably you get to some point where you’ve got these characters in some situation and you’re just moving homunculi around on a cardboard stage, following choreography. That’s not a story. You get to a crux and people are reacting, and all of sudden you realize, “No, they wouldn’t react that way. But I’ve already made this outline.” So people get forced into pushing their characters through the motions to get to this pre-designed denouement.' - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10441637.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10441637" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10440579superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #6: Evasion2024-01-15T10:04:50Z2024-01-15T10:04:50Zpublic1Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/60/11/TG4fb601_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"I write page by page. I do not know what’s on page five until I get to page four. For the entire Marvel run of ARAH there were no coming attractions because nobody knew what was in the next issue. I find that if I can surprise myself, then the reader will be surprised as well. Half of what I read or watch is predictable because the writer knew the ending and wrote towards it. I try to avoid that." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10440579.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10440579" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10439384superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #5: Showdown!2024-01-14T06:52:06Z2024-01-14T06:52:06Zpublic4Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/ec/fc/GXFBgAbK_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"Well, there are a lot of sci-fi elements to G.I. Joe, and the costume designs and vehicles are more superhero than anything else. So, there is an automatic separation from reality. I tried to keep the conduct of the missions as realistic as possible under those circumstances. One veteran told me that I taught him how to set up an L-shaped ambush, and that impressed the hell out of his instructors at infantry AIT. I also tried to keep the relationships between the characters firmly planted in the real world." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10439384.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10439384" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10438250superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #4: No Holds Barred2024-01-13T06:56:26Z2024-01-13T06:56:26Zpublic6Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/07/cd/kyJKNrl4_o.png" alt="image host" /> <br /><br />"A military comic was the last thing I wanted to do. I got into the business because I wanted to do funny animals. I’m a “duck man” at heart. I tried getting writing work for years, and even after I was a full editor at Marvel, I couldn’t get a single Marvel editor to give me any writing work. When Hasbro came to Marvel looking to have a G.I. Joe comic done, every contract writer, and non-contract writer turned it down. I was actually the last person they asked, and I took it because I wanted to get my foot in the door. If they had offered me Barbie, I would have taken it – and I would have given it my best shot." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10438250.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10438250" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:172314:10437044superboyprimeG.I. Joe Special Missions #3: Burn-Out2024-01-12T09:49:08Z2024-01-12T09:49:08Zpublic1Posted by: <span lj:user='superboyprime' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://superboyprime.dreamwidth.org/'><b>superboyprime</b></a></span><br /><br /><img src="https://images2.imgbox.com/1f/64/sbxFFAcN_o.png" alt="image host" /><br /><br />"I’ve never actually seen any of the animation, but I can understand the gist of it. It’s a lot more jingoistic, rah-rah, American flag-waving than my G.I. Joe comics. Because they're from the point of view of the grunt. They're from the point of view of – you know, of the ground slogger. [...] And a lot of times the guy on the ground may not believe – may not believe or may not think that that leadership, or that whoever is in charge at the time is right. But, you know, he's still the CIC. It’s the parties where everything falls apart." - Larry Hama<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/10437044.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=scans_daily&ditemid=10437044" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments