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The Hama-verse....from the beginning. Read Along.
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10-23-2017, 12:29 AM
Sean_C
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Cover's okay, almost feels more like a Special Missions cover. Rogers' art is good enough here, better than what I've seen of MacFarlane's, which looks more like indie comic art from the time. (I don't own the special issue).
Appropriately titled issue, as this is the beginnings of fan ire with the series, as they'll get gobs of letters angry over the the ending of Cobra Commander.
In the basement of an army office building somewhere in the USA...such a vague set-up.
How is Outback passing himself off as an Arab? And why are both red-bearded Joes going on this mission? Isn't there a rule that Snow-Job and Outback cannot even be in the same room together?
This Spigou guy looks like a rat but he cool, yo. You'll be discharged from the service during the duration of this mission."
At that point they don't even have to go! "Later, Hawk, we are free! Send Snake-Eyes in and save us a few issues, will you!"
GO LAY AN EGG, RAPTOR! Billy really put birdman in his place! Then kicks Fred 7 in the face.
Borovian cab driver calls Stalker a savage for not tipping, but tipping is less common outside the USA. Still, we get two instances of casual eastern block racism. Oh, and either English is common in Borovia or all 4 Joes just happen to know the language of this fictional country.
Billy meets the new hooded Cobra Commander...JINX! She offers him the role of Major Bludd.
Billy won't betray his father, but Jinx says "That is as it should be...you don't have to anyway, I already called it and in, and the SWAT team should be surrounding Fred's garage any minute now." Well, that's what should be happening.
Page 10, the one panel of Raptor makes him look so heroic.
Cobra Commander is a moron here. He makes some remarks of writing letters of recommendation to Serpy, and the biggest mistake..takes off the armor. You can go straight with the armor, just cover up the cobra logo...be armor dad. Fred shoots him with his own gun, which was really probably Fred's gun to begin with. I was mad at this back in the day, but Fred was totally right...all the lives CC "inspired" to join Cobra and he just walks away.
We get in the finality of that panel where Cobra Commander is shot, but (SPOILERS...LOL) later dismissed as the artist doing it wrong...it was supposed to be more ambiguous. No, it was not a point blank shot that went all the way through CC!
Anybody be could be in this Cobra Commander Armor...armor that only two other members of Cobra have ever seen the Commander wear. Seems to be a flaw in that plan...but that's jumping ahead.
Snow Job and Quick-Kick are shot but Stalker has favorite character armor, he remembered to wear it after that Sierra Gordo injury.
More Borovian racism as Spigou calls Stalker "ROADBLOCK!!" in one panel. Yeesh. Oh,...he really was talking about a roadblock.
Not sure why the 4 Joes were wearing their uniforms under their commando attire...even "because they are toys" doesn't make sense. They are in the Iron Curtain.
So we sent up more Joes that need to be rescued, but at least it's not Sierra Gordo again.
Outback having his buddy's blood drip on him through a sewer grate was disturbing, but even more when he held his tongue out to catch it. (this didn't happen...)
Flint and Falcon in the same panel, isn't there a rule against that, too? Roadblock wearing his V2 togs in the main comic finally! And we may never know who is hiding behind Roadblock's word balloon. MacFarlane's version uses different Joes in that scene.
Hawk says no attempt to rescue capture Joes, but they ain't JOES! They were discharged! Also, him saying that is just saying "Snake-Eyes will do it".
NO LETTERS PAGE BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT FIRED CAPTAIN AMERICA (Should that be the next Cap movie?)
It's a decent issue and the start of a decent arc...I mean Fred VII's arc, but I guess the Borovian stuff is okay. I'm past hating on the issue for killing CC. I'm much more upset that President Reagan fired Cap!
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