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05-28-2009, 03:19 PM | #5941 |
Hog Driver
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You're right about my original post. It was an error on my part. I was using Roman numerals, and I left off the last "I". Duke was in charge when Cobra destroyed the PIT in Utah. It was pretty crazy.
Look, I'm not trying to have a fight. We're all friends here. I'm just saying that if we look at the Hama interviews about Duke, we can see he didn't care for the character. When we also take into account the crazy failures that happened to the Joes under Duke's supervision, it reinforces what Hama admitted to in the interviews. Hama didn't like Duke. In as much, Duke, as a character, is pretty much a non-entity or a schmuck in the comics. Does anyone really disagree with that? And given the level of gross incompetence Hama pinned on Duke, I do think that the character, as Hama wrote him, should have been relieved of duty. That might have even been a really interesting storyline: how to fire a member of the Joe Team. Duke in the comic was a Schmuck. Hama didn't do a great job with that character for whatever reason. That's really all I'm saying. |
05-28-2009, 03:20 PM | #5942 |
I Ride with Claymore!!!
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I live in the Greater Vancouver Area, just a couple of hours from the US border. Joe supplies are okay I guess (although I don't really have any basis for comparison... never went to the States to shop for Joes). The local Toys-R-Us is relatively well-stocked, as well as the local comic book stores. Wal-Marts are hit and miss and I think the annoying trend of re-packing figures has spread to a couple of Wal-Marts in the area (I once saw five Cobra 5-packs all on one shelf, with the vac-chromed Vipers replaced with regular matte-faceplate Vipers, probably by some dickwad with an Army builder obsession and not enough money to go with it).
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05-28-2009, 03:21 PM | #5943 |
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Pit III is when the BATS invade #131 Duke is in Charge but It's not completely destroyed. Cobra Turns around and goes back to Cobra Island before they finish. I sort of liked that issue.
Pit II is #53 Duke's not there. Hawk is. I wish they would make those Generals that were there. Hollingsworth, Ryan, and Admiral Dyson. Pit I is what 18 or so. Duke is not onthe roster. I've heard the argument before with what a screw up Duke was. It's true that Larry did not care for the Duke Character, but he used him. I can't say Larry always tried to make him the fall guy. But Duke was in a lot of issues, so him being the commander this falls on his lap no matter what. When all the Joes are massacred I don't think Larry wrote that thinking I want to make Duke a scape goat. He just wanted to kill some Joes in a somewhat believable way. This is one of the only times the Joes surrender. The Rock also gets attacked in DDP by Gen Rey. Doesn't look good for the new PIT. |
05-28-2009, 03:21 PM | #5944 |
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05-28-2009, 03:21 PM | #5945 |
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Yup (unless I have some kind of medical issue with the knee). I've been before, it's one of the better comic cons I've been to, and I've hit quite a few on the East Coast.
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05-28-2009, 03:22 PM | #5946 |
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Agreed - I love those guys.
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05-28-2009, 03:24 PM | #5947 |
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I went to SDCC a couple of times back in the early '90s. Nothing since.
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05-28-2009, 03:25 PM | #5948 |
EQ-Viper
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The one with the Baroness, Zartan, Cobra Commander, chrome-faced Viper, and Storm-Shadow. I thought you guys had them in Wal-Marts south of the border as well?
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05-28-2009, 03:26 PM | #5949 |
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Funny you should mention that. I did some character designs and breakdowns for a comic book a while back (unfortunately, I think the comic book in question never made it to publishing, or is at least still lookign to get published). I'd like to think that my figure-drawing and storytelling skills are more than up to the task of illustrating a comic book, but from past experience, I know that the deadlines for a serial product like a comic book series would just kill me (particularly if it was a non-paying "hobby gig"... getting paid to do something like that would be another matter entirely).
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05-28-2009, 03:31 PM | #5950 |
EQ-Viper
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I bet your friend lives in Nanaimo or amybe Duncan (everybody I know who says they live "north of Victoria" actually live in Nanaimo or Duncan). I hear it's okay during the summers, but I've only ever been there during the winter months, and it's always been wet and cold every time I've been there (think a colder Tacoma with much more rain).
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