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New IDWverse GI Joe title: "Scarlett's Strike Force"
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09-09-2017, 02:53 PM
Broadside
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Join Date: Sep 2017
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Interview with Aubrey Sitterson
about Scarlett's Strike Force (formerly referred to as "G.I. Joe Unmasked".
The good:
Nelson Daniel's art is great. Probably a bit too cartoonish for "Hama and Hama-lite only" fans, but it's stylised in a fun way.
Still going for "silly and cartoonish" instead of "ARAH, but worse".
Cobra is back, meaning that the story might actually feel focused on a plot instead of vague and meandering.
Croc Master riding a dinosaur; Gung-Ho punching a truck.
The bad:
It's still Sitterson, so the current run's flaws like extreme decompression are still likely to be there.
IDW Matt Trakker is a terrible character, so having him around isn't likely to help the book be much fun.
Despite my love for silly things like Croc Master and snake-men, it doesn't sound like this run is going to have a lot to ground it, which gives me pause.
Dropping "G.I. Joe" from the title, in all likelihood, is going to hurt sales, so it probably won't get a longer run than the current series did; I predict 8 issues at most.
The ugly:
"The crown jewel of the Hasbro Universe" was bad enough, but "the best action comic ever"? Eugh.
I'm gonna give it an arc to see if Sitterson's pacing has improved over the current run. Wacky sci-fi has always been my preferred sort of Joe, and Sitterson's done more to make the titular characters appealing than most IDW writers, but vol. 5's flaws are hard to ignore.
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