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G.I. Joe #4 Review
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04-02-2009, 07:13 PM
Troynos
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And I'll say it again. Devil's Due took a great comic series and made it even greater by making it seem like a real military suspense comic, not just a toy commercial. No one cared more about GI Joe than Josh. He made GI Joe matter again. He cared about the Marvel continuity and added to it. All for the better. No one would give a $#it about bringing back GI Joe if it weren't for Josh Blaylock and Devil's Due.
You can dispute that all you want, but you're fooling yourself.
No one is disputing what Blaylock did. Yeah, without him GI Joe probably wouldn't have ever come back as a comics series.
Doesn't mean he did a good job. There was no "real military suspense" to the DDP comic. It was light and fluffy. I think DDP took the marvel stuff and made it worst. It's on par with the "G.I. Joe Featuring Snake-Eyes" stuff.
I've been around comics for a long long time, and have a ton of 'em. I remember the old trade paperback system, it meant something special if the storyline got made into trade paperback form. And those trades were a good 6-8 issues long most of the time. Real good bang for your buck.
Now, it's 4 issues, 6 at the most. Storylines are written towards being turned into a TPB.
It's not necessarily bad, for the most part. It's only when storylines are dragged out to fit the TPB format (kind of like making a TV series last another season past it's prime just to hit the 100 episode marker for syndication) that there's problems.
I can't remember when it exactly started this way, but Marvel was behind it and it occured a little before the Ultimate Line started up.
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