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05-28-2009, 04:38 PM | #6001 |
Cobra Soldier
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I'm glad someone else got this joke. I saw this on an episode of Baywatch one time... hilarious.
But seriously, for a real Coast Guard name how about... Lighthouse Seaside Shoreline Shield Life jacket Rescue Snorkel Flipper Salty Dog Admittedly, those last four or five could use some work ;) |
05-28-2009, 04:41 PM | #6002 |
#voteblackjack
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Life Jacket would make a great name for a Rescue Diver.
I like Shoreline and Seaside.
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05-28-2009, 04:41 PM | #6003 |
I Ride with Claymore!!!
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Hey, Loose. Don't worry about it. You can come over some time and we'll play "Cobra Navy".
(Whispers) Also, I hear Low-Light is available for this kind of work. So maybe you can hire him to assassinate Troynos and you can just take his Sting Raiders. But you didn't hear that from me.
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05-28-2009, 04:41 PM | #6004 |
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Hi Mako. Welcome to the thread.
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05-28-2009, 04:44 PM | #6005 |
I Ride with Claymore!!!
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Hey Mako, Welcome to the Tank!
It's nice to have you with us. I'm glad you stopped to check out our thread. Yeah, that's an old post. I really get a kick out of thinking up ridiculous nautical code names... sometimes I push it a little too far. Anyway, glad you're here. I hope you'll read the old posts because there's a lot of good info for every fan, and feel free to join in our discussion any time.
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05-28-2009, 04:50 PM | #6006 |
W.O.R.M.S. Commander
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I'm drawing a blank here too. I don't even remember them being in the Marvel comics. Issue 68 has the Ice-Vipers against Battle Force 2000, but the snow missions were sort of over after that. The best feature of them is in DDP Special Missions. The Cartoons have them quite a bit. Aren't they all over Cobra-La? |
05-28-2009, 04:53 PM | #6007 |
EQ-Viper
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I've nothing against superhero comics and superhero concepts, but I just don't enjoy them the way I used to, certainly not on the same level I still enjoy GI Joe. It's something I've been thinking about lately. I think it has something to do with the core motivation of the superhero becoming more difficult to empathize with as I grow older. Superheroes, by their nature, are expressions of (and I mean no disrespect of the genre or its fans by this) juvenile and adolescent themes. At their core, superheroes impose their individual will on the general population through force (or "superpowers"), enforcing what they feel to be a superior and benevolent moral and ethical code. This is something I would have no problems with when I was younger, but as I grew older and starting thinking about the appeal superheroes held for me, I began to question that approach. I also started growing uneasy with the unstated premise found in many superhero comics: that their powers somehow accorded them implicit impositional privileges not available to normal people. The only thing differentiating superheroes and supervillains is that "normal people" are okay with whatever ethical and moral controls superheroes enforce while they're opposed to the ones supervillains try to enforce. But at their core, they are both applying Nietzsche-an principles, and that's just something I can't get behind, even if it's "just a comic book." Soldiers on the other hand, even fictional ones like GI Joe, ideally don't impose their individual will on populations. They impose the collective will of a state as an implement of duly-elected government, empowered by the social contract inherent in the democratic process. That's a premise that, as a recreational adult reader, I can invest myself in. That makes the characters more relatable to me. They're not out there bullying others into falling in line with some personal moral and ethical agenda, they're simply regular people doing their jobs, enforcing policies and orders they may or may not agree with. It's that devotion to duty that appeals to me with GI Joe. Last edited by zuludelta; 05-28-2009 at 05:00 PM.. Reason: edited for spelling and clarity |
05-28-2009, 04:57 PM | #6008 |
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I'm a bigger fan of the "gritty" super-hero (kind of Marvels stuff) versus the Superman style. I've never liked Superman. I like a bit of realism and such in my Super Heroes.
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05-28-2009, 04:57 PM | #6009 |
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DDP's got a Frontline (or Special Missions) story that has all the Cobra Arctic Troopers.
But other then that, nothing comes to mind. Special Missions: Antartica G.I. Joe Comic Book Archive another possibility i was thinking of was some sort of research station that Cobra attacks to kidnap the scientists....or something. |
05-28-2009, 04:58 PM | #6010 |
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Yeah, that would work.
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