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06-11-2009, 10:56 AM
zuludelta
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Quote:
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fogger1138
Zulu, I don't know if it's been asked/answered anywhere, but when you do the "bad guys", were you planning on including the Oktober Guard? I know they didn't get figures until the 2000s, but they apparently fairly frequently in the comics from 1982-onward, and I'd LOVE to see your take on the team.
The Oktober Guard are my favourite non-Hama GI Joe characters from the original Marvel comic book series. If you didn't already know, Hama didn't "create" the Oktober Guard. Much like how GI Joe had its thematic roots in a non-GI Joe Marvel comic book idea (as a part of SHIELD named "Fury Force"), the Oktober Guard were actually taken from a short story in Bizarre Adventures #31 written by Tom DeFalco and illustrated by Herb Trimpe (who would later illustrate and co-plot
GI Joe
#6, Oktober Guard's first appearance in the "GI Joe universe"), where they were called "Pravda Patrol" (Truth Patrol). Their leader was Captain Yuri (who would later be renamed by Hama and Trimpe as Colonel Brekhov), Sachi (an early version of Daina), Mouse (a Stormavik prototype), Striker (Schrage's conceptual predecessor), and Big Bear (a Horror-Show prototype, but would later emerge in the early 1990s as a stand-alone Oktober Guard character).
Anyway, I'm intent on using the original Oktober Guard characters, even if it means no longer using them in the original Soviet/Eastern Bloc context. I'm thinking of using the non-Russian members of the original Oktober Guard (Brekhov is Ukrainian, Daina is Czech, Schrage is German, and Horror-Show is Georgian) as members of a new and modernised NATO/United Nations-aligned "Action Force" (I'm actually thinking of making Brekhov as their leader). I might even throw in Wong (the cartoon-only member of the Oktober Guard).
EDIT:
looks like Master Thespian beat me to it... should have really hit the "submit" button before going on that bathroom break
Quote:
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Master Thespian
I'm not zulu, but I can refer you to where he addressed it:
http://www.hisstank.com/forum/770649-post6192.html
Now what he's doing with the Russian members of the Guard is another question...
I'll still be using the Russian Oktober Guard members (Dragonsky, Stormavik, Lt. Gorky, Sgt. Misha, Big Bear, and maybe a "Russia-nized" version of Red Star) as a Russian strike force, I just don't know if I should still call them "Oktober Guard" (seeing as how Russia is no longer a Marxist-Leninist state, and their government would probably not approve of a team being named after the Great October Socialist Revolution). Maybe I can revive the Pravda Patrol name (although I don't like it all that much) or reference an event more relevant to the current capitalist-reformed Russian Federation. Suggestions, particularly from those of you who are versed in Russian language and/or syntax would be welcome.
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