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07-09-2018, 10:21 PM | #31 |
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For the most part, I draw the line at space travel, aliens, Cobra La, too many ninjas, Eco Warriors, etc. I have had an idea to make Cobra La part of the “real world”, but it would be very different. Zombies I can handle, make them come from some kind of virus created by accident and only Cobra has the cure. Also, I can’t deal with vehicles that could never work in the real world (I’m looking at you HAVOC!)
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07-10-2018, 12:30 AM | #32 |
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For my Joe team I go as far as slight future tech, maybe as far as SHIELD. I don’t mind futuristic gear but prefer more realistic outfits for the good guys. I like the idea of Flash’s laser as a super high tech welding torch not a blaster and Sci Fi as painting targets or disabling tech from afar. In my head Joe uses cutting edge tech but it’s not the tech that saves the day. It’s the Joes that do, pure grit.
I give Cobra a bit more slack. I’m cool with Zaratan, BATs, and Serpentor (both Marvel and Sunbow should have dragged that story ark a lot longer) but Cobra La was too far. For me Cobra is the Ralph Kramden of the two. They attempt to win, get rich quick, with less than tested, quirky future tech instead of hard work. That’s why they loose. They rely on that tech too much to win. Cobra has no heart. I toned town Crystal Ball as a Rasputin type that Baroness carries around for old world superstitions and Raptor only wears his suit for Destros Druid cult ceremonies, otherwise he rocks a suit and does MARS’ taxes when not tending to falcons at Castle Destro. After 1986 I began cherry picking figures and vehicles. Though oddly colored the IMP was fine as far as function. The POGO was down right silly.
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07-10-2018, 01:16 PM | #33 |
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07-10-2018, 01:36 PM | #34 |
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07-10-2018, 01:48 PM | #35 |
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07-10-2018, 10:47 PM | #36 |
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As a kid, I liked bats and serpentor ok. ARAH was my cannon. The cartoon was too goofy for me. I watched it, but I always thought it paled to the comic. Cobra La was out, I still to this day don't like the movie. Playwise, Predator and Aliens had some influence on me.
As an adult, good guys fighting terrorists does not hold my interest as much as it did as a kid. Maybe it is just too real world anymore. I find a desire to see genetic mutation and perhaps some supernatural or alien component to cobra. GI Joe X-files? It sounds like the recent IDW series would have been up my alley, but it was too cheesy for me. Too fatal fluffy like. There was a story arc in GI JOe Frontline way back where Duke, Airtight and some others were in an old lab somewhere in the Arctic, or Antartica with some kind of .. animal/beast on the loose. That story was right up my alley. I would love to have Hama's book stay around and continue with the amount of sci fi he always had, minus the transformers stuff. If a new GI Joe toyline were to be introduced, I would love to see a GI Joe Monster Hunter line. I would also enjoy Star Brigade redone with more aliens. Cobra being part of this all is a given. The current toy line doesn't seem to be going anywhere so...
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07-11-2018, 01:25 AM | #37 |
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I really liked that arc. It had a good "The Thing" feel to it only with Yeti's
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07-11-2018, 12:59 PM | #38 |
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Yeah I've always followed the comic, for the most part, but Transformers aren't part of my head-canon. I've always kept them separate.
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07-11-2018, 01:52 PM | #39 |
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Not sure this will quite answer the question, but...
My Joeverse is set "in the not so distant future" kind of like ROC and the X-Men movies. As a kid, I collected Joes from 1983 till around 1986-87, and kept reading the comics till around '88. So, my interest in characters kind of peters out beyond that. With that, in my Joeverse there is a Serpentor, but he's not a clone. I had this idea for Cobra years ago and then IDW came out with kind of the same idea with their Fall of GIJoe series. Cobra, for me, is a secret military society that's been in the background for centuries. Serpentor is just one of the leaders of Cobra in a long line of successors. Cobra Commander is the "successor" of Serpentor (don't want to say much because I'm planning a dio-story/photonovel later on). There is no Cobra-la in my Joeverse. I try to keep the Joe weapons as real as possible. Flash's laser rifle is about at "hi-tech" sci-fi as I want to get. I don't have an issue with Android Robots for Cobra, but that's about as sci-fi as I get. Jason |
07-11-2018, 02:39 PM | #40 |
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I've never acknowledged Cobra-La or aliens as part of my Joeverse, even as a kid. I remember absolutely hating GI Joe: The Movie and ignoring a lot of Joe stuff from that point on.
Rise of Cobra's suits are also too far out there for me. It doesn't fit with my vision of GI Joe. That being said, as a huge fan of the cartoon, and the idea that Cobra is a terrorist/paramilitary organization with basically unlimited military resources, it's hard to say that I prefer ultra-realistic special forces action. |
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