[esg2145]

Ok, if this doesn't settle it, NOTHING will!


Straight from horse's mouth, Mr. Hama, I give you -


Exhibit A - ARAH issue # 46, page # 2, right after Zartan beats the s*%t out of Ripcord -







.....and Exhibit B - ARAH issue # 49, page # 7, as Ripcord makes his escape from Springfield -

[darthdoug]

Well that seals it! Can we lock this MoFO already so it don't keep creeping up every 3 months?!?!?

[Mandingo Rex]

Yeah he wore a hood in the comic and the toy had one.

What part of cartoon do people not get? The dispute isn't the comics. Or the toy.

We've proven what's on his head is a hood, and for all intents and purposes, should be a hood. I'm not arguing that. Nobody is. That comic strip proves nothing of the cartoon. You may as well use a comic book page of Lady Jaye to prove that the cartoon Lady Jaye wore a hat too.

But the cartoon drew it as hair. It flowed like hair, behaved like hair, and was treated like hair in the way it was animated, with strands of flowing hair. There's screengrabs upon screengrabs from joetoonarchive.com where it behaves like hair!

How can people not look at that and see it? Where's Roadblock Recall when I need him? Haha.

[darthdoug]

haha... I hear ya Mandingo!

However, maybe in the cartoon they realized Zartan's use of nano-technology that he acquired from Destro. This allowed his hood/cowell to act like hair while indeed being just an accessory.

There's your answer... BAM!!!

[JACKOFTRADZE]

He is such a Master of Disguise you cannot even tell if it's a hood or hair.

He is that good.

[darthdoug]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JACKOFTRADZE

He is such a Master of Disguise you cannot even tell if it's a hood or hair.

He is that good.

BAM!!!

Lock it up!

[blayze5150]

If your hair looked like that, you'd become a master of disguise, too.

[dustycarlisle]

Zartan= Rogaine

[esg2145]

PERSONALLY, I go with Larry Hama, as he created GI Joe ARAH and Zartan both.



Good enough for me as canon.

[dawingster]

Quote:

Originally Posted by esg2145

PERSONALLY, I go with Larry Hama, as he created GI Joe ARAH and Zartan both.

Good enough for me as canon.

That's one failing with the GI Joe franchise, as it is owned by a corporation. If Larry Hama actually owned GI Joe, like George Lucas owning Star Wars, Larry wouldn't have allowed all those contradictory cartoon storylines to exist. Cobra-La certainly wouldn't have gotten past Larry.

Since Hasbro owns GI Joe, there exists two separate Joe canons. The comic book and the 80's cartoon. With the upcoming movie The Rise Of Cobra and Resolute, well more canon to ya!

That said, I still hold Larry's Marvel run of GI Joe as canon.