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02-17-2010, 05:35 PM
zuludelta
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Troynos
Rudat doesn't get enough credit for Joe, like Hama is considered the Godfather.
But really, Joe has three.
Hama
Rudat
Whoever was main force behind cartoon (not as cool as the comics and filecards, but it was influential and alot of people's entry into Joe, really should be given as much credit)
I definitely agree with Hama and Rudat being the godfathers of ARAH. I think Rudat may not get as much credit because he was more focused on the visual side of things, but one should never underestimate how his toy designs consciously or subconsciously affected the way Hama wrote the backgrounds for the characters. For example, Hama crafted an interesting backstory for Destro, but you have to figure at least some of it was motivated by the need to rationalize Rudat's design decision giving Destro a metal mask.
And you could really tell when Rudat stepped down as the lead toy designer for ARAH. IMHO, after he stepped down in 1987, that's when the toy designs really started to go south, eventually culminating in plastic abominations like the
Lunartix Empire
figures.
As for the cartoon, they had many writers, so I guess the closest thing to a singular creative voice in the Sunbow cartoons was story editor and writer Flint Dille (who worked on 55 of the 95 episodes). I don't know if he had as much creative impact on the GI Joe property as Hama and Rudat, though. Also, I think writers Buzz Dixon and Ron Friedman worked on some of the more memorable episodes.
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