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: Lines/Colors/3D
The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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09-01-2011, 12:12 AM
zuludelta
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Master Thespian
It's funny you mention your reluctance to include Cobra Island because at this point I sort of just expect you to find a way to make all that ridiculousness work. It's become my favorite part of what you do.
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Loose Cannon
Same here. Zulu will find a way.
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minstrelboy
As always, awesome work. Your attention to the small details never ceases to impress me. Looking forward to whatever you put up next.
Thanks. I don't want to take undue credit for the real-world parallels, though. In many cases, the parallels are very transparent (Hama was leaning heavily towards writing GI Joe as political/current events satire by around 1986 or so, up until 1991), it's just that most of us were kids back then, and never really made the connections when we first read the stories. Re-reading all those stories now, given what I know about the politics of the era, I can't get over how funny (in an intentionally parodic way) a lot of them were.
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Ronnie Dobbs
Ho my God!
I can't believe I've never seen this thread before. I really enjoy your work! These are so cool!
Thanks a lot. There's a lot of stuff in this thread though, and a lot of false starts and abrupt changes in direction in terms of where I wanted to go with this thing. The current direction I'm taking it is the one I've gone the furthest in though in terms of fleshing out the history, so you came into the thread at just the right time. It looks like a lot of bad fan-fic right now, but I just need to square away the background details in my head so I can get comfortable making the composite images of the characters and ensure that the period details are right.
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Loose Cannon
I never heard of the Phoenix foundation, but eeriely similar, even the island of Abaco. I wonder if Cobra would ever have two Islands? or maybe a more continental republic with island territories?
The Phoenix Foundation was one of those things that looked good on paper (no taxes! no cops! everything is privately-owned!), but in reality had all the potential makings for a cult or a political front for all sorts of illegal businesses. Reading more about him now, founder Michael Oliver really does seem like he might have served partially as the inspiration for Hama's take on Cobra Commander.
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