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04-16-2011, 07:05 PM | #15821 |
Cobra Viper
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The 1985 Filecard for Bazooka says he is the G.I.Joe Missile Specialist. Before that he was a tank driver in the Third Armored Division. At the bottom of the Filecard,it says he is a desive fast thinker,which is the very opposite of what he was in the cartoon.
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04-16-2011, 07:33 PM | #15822 |
IG85 - Mortarman
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Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the cartoons as a kid, but I vastly preferred the Marvel continuity. Marvel had its share of fantasy elements, but it always felt more realistic than the cartoons. |
04-16-2011, 09:36 PM | #15823 |
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There are things in the cartoon that, in retrospect, seem even odder. For example, what was the thinking that went into the decision to make Spirit and Storm-Shadow as each other's nemesis when the Snake-Eyes/Storm-Shadow opposition seems to be built into their respective designs? Why was Hawk non-existent in the first season of the cartoon (replaced instead by "Colonel Sharpe")? |
04-16-2011, 09:43 PM | #15824 |
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I enjoyed the Sunbow cartoons immensely as a kid (and I still do), but I agree, a lot of it was pretty much standard Saturday morning pap, especially when compared to what Hama was doing in the comics when he was at his best (in my mind, between 1986 and 1989).
There are things in the cartoon that, in retrospect, seem even odder. For example, what was the thinking that went into the decision to make Spirit and Storm-Shadow as each other's nemesis when the Snake-Eyes/Storm-Shadow opposition seems to be built into their respective designs? Why was Hawk non-existent in the first season of the cartoon (replaced instead by "Colonel Sharpe")?
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04-16-2011, 09:57 PM | #15825 |
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I still enjoy them, too. They're entertaining, I just don't think they portrayed the characters very accurately. In addition to the guys you've named, take Footloose - the guy sounded stoned all the time. And what the hell kind of Scottish accent is that that Destro has? LOL
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04-16-2011, 10:20 PM | #15826 |
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Sgt Humpty, congrats again on that Leatherneck custom. Great work. As for Sunbow, what I miss the most from the old cartoons are the classic character designs. That alone makes them worth watching...primarily for nostalgia. But the storylines are hardly compelling anymore after you've grown up, yet I still love the Marvel comics because underneath there was another element that added to the comics longevity. Ultimately a writer like Hama is going to infuse his own adult themes and ideas into any work he does, which is why I think Special Missions was so great. He had a little more room to roam.
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04-16-2011, 10:47 PM | #15827 |
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Sgt Humpty, congrats again on that Leatherneck custom. Great work. As for Sunbow, what I miss the most from the old cartoons are the classic character designs. That alone makes them worth watching...primarily for nostalgia. But the storylines are hardly compelling anymore after you've grown up, yet I still love the Marvel comics because underneath there was another element that added to the comics longevity. Ultimately a writer like Hama is going to infuse his own adult themes and ideas into any work he does, which is why I think Special Missions was so great. He had a little more room to roam.
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04-17-2011, 01:43 AM | #15828 |
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I still love the old cartoon. It was great when I was a kid, and it's fantastic now just on a very different level. I laugh at it now, and it's hilarious.
It's a lot like the Dukes of Hazzard. When I was a kid, I watched it to cheer for Bo and Luke, as an adult, I watch it to laugh at Boss Hogg and Roscoe. As a child, I watch G.I. Joe to pull for the Joes, as an adult, I watch it to laugh at Cobra Commander and Destro - it is fantastic comedy... plus Wet-Suit and Letherneck are very funny. There's also a certain quality to the voices on the show. When I read the comics, I hear the voices from the cartoon. Obviously, some of the voices don't make sense. Bazooka's voice was mentioned above, Destro's cartoon voice never made any sense, and I never understood some of the accents that the Joe team members had... but there's no way to change the way they sound in my head - it's like it was programmed in there by hundreds of hours of TV when I was a child.
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04-17-2011, 05:26 AM | #15829 |
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There's also a certain quality to the voices on the show. When I read the comics, I hear the voices from the cartoon. Obviously, some of the voices don't make sense. Bazooka's voice was mentioned above, Destro's cartoon voice never made any sense, and I never understood some of the accents that the Joe team members had... but there's no way to change the way they sound in my head - it's like it was programmed in there by hundreds of hours of TV when I was a child.
There were some celebrity/actor sound-alikes, too. The guy doing Alpine, I think, was trying to channel Eddie Murphy (try watching an Alpine-heavy episode with your eyes closed... he sounds like a young Eddie Murphy back in his SNL days). |
04-17-2011, 06:33 AM | #15830 |
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Well I'm still happy to have never seen the cartoon, I've no idea what damage it would do to me to hear voices that aren't the same as the ones I used in my head while reading the comic and playing with the figures. Add to that the differences in the actual personalities portrayed and I think I'll continue to steer clear ;)
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