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The Hama-verse....from the beginning. Read Along.
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10-22-2018, 10:53 PM
dwind2003
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One of the all-time G.I.Joe classics. A gut-wrenching page-turner! Brilliantly written, from Cobra's underhanded tactics to Sneak-Peek's heroic but naive and futile rescue effort which results in his death. Wait no! He's still fighting, and the other Joes make a desperate last ditch rescue attempt, only for it to be too late for Sneak-Peek. Oh yeah, and BF2000 get what's coming to them, which alone earns this a 10/10.
I still remember reading this issue for the first time. "Whaddaya mean dead!? He was still groaning a couple of pages ago! That means he's alive, you quack!" Of course we later find out Stretcher actually is a quack, and SP is still alive. One of the classic Joe issues completely ruined, and why? Gross negligence and hack-work. That's even sadder than the end of this issue.
Anyway, back to something more positive.
The Cobras in this issue are a particularly irredeemable lot. Like with the SAW Viper, this issue shows how one can breathe a lot of life into even army builders in the scope of just one issue. "I want to rack up a good score today!" That would be the first, cuz you're an army builder and have never killed anyone in your life. We later find out why, when the 90 lb mom punks out an Alley-Viper in full body armor. And watch the Frag-Viper try to nail them with his sub.
It's also worthy to note all the Cobras actually miss Sneak-Peek, so he must have died from cardiac arrest or something. Range-Viper has an interesting kill and die two panel debut here. It was enough for me to go "who is this nameless badass", though, and for Range-Viper go to the top of my figure wants.
Two panels are more than BF2000 gets, anyway, as most of them actually die off panel and don't make an actual appearance here. They get taken out by artillery fire that burns even the jet down, but luckily the guys in the moped make it! Or one of them. If seeing a glimpse of the figure wasn't enough to convince you Dee-Jay is the worst Joe of all time, his comic book debut should clinch it. Dude gets to ride as Dodger's old lady for one panel, before just dropping dead from apparently breathing some bad fumes.
We also find out Sneak-Peek is a liar. He claims he served with Dusty in the Cobra Island campaign, when Dusty was in Trucial Abysmia at the time. Karma got him.
We also find out the advantages of positive thinking. Recoil thinks the Cobras are going to mow them down, so he gets shot faster than a Dee-Jay death. Meanwhile, Stalker has a lot of experience of bullet-proof heroics, so he can just stand around and chat, and then go take out the Cobras when he feels like it. Of course, the Joes could have phoned HQ and find out help is still coming in like 5 seconds, so they wouldn't have had to go on a suicide charge and get Recoil and Ambush killed. Nah, they're not dead, we see all the bullets missing again. They just decided to play possum and let Stalker handle things.
Letters page: We find out The Pogo will be real one day!
Well, Sneak Peek may not be a liar, Maybe he was assigned to different mission by faking his own death, I think he said apologize to his GI Joe Teammates about this, But lucky we didn't see him killed off because he wear bullet-proof vast as his shield.
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