[Mainframe77]

Issue #129 is live to discuss. Yo Joe!

[Sean_C]

Dusty standing on the front doesn't seem safe.

LJ has enough and starts killing Bezpo.

Why is Rock'n Roll posing as a camera man? Reporter dude even "Something's going down, Roll! Tape on this!"

Buried gold. Ummm...okay.

Hey, Lifeline and Stretcher...remember them? One

Big Ben does a superhero jump onto Battle Wagon.

Page 13 super gaping mouth panels!

Firefly took over a passenger plane. FLYJACKED! He can fly one, too. That is JUST ANOTHER AMAZING NINJA POWER.

I forget how much use Techno-Vipers got well after their figures left stores.

Firefly mentions Hi-Tech, but he won't be part of GI JOE until 2004.

CC uses a polygraph on Firefly. What? No brainwave scanner?

There's a perfectly driveable road up to the escape hole in the volcano.

The Faceless Master lets himself be manhandled by Roadpig...it's all part of the plan. And they toss him, an explosives expert, inside with a bandolier of grenades.

CC tells Zarana and Cesspool "we are leaving", but neither of them go on the trip. So much for Zarana packing her trench knife.

Brainwashed Storm Shadow talks to himself for exposition purposes...

Torpedo dossier marks his first appearance since...I don't know when.

Letters: Jamie Butler wants a solo Snake Eyes comic but also complains of too many red ninjas. Ninja discrimination! Josh Edge gets edgy and wants the Joes to fix Northern Ireland and end Apartheid. Of course the country names will be changed to West Myreland and East Abrika or something.

It's an okay issue. CC and Firefly's reunion tells us nothing really, no Commander explaining why he condemned Firefly with the rest. No acknowledgement of any of Firefly issue long monologue origin story. It's not surprising, though. FIrefly sans CC buried him the freighter for grins on a slow day, not really how that happened. Whatever.

[ozzie92]

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Originally Posted by Sean_C

Duke and Stalker's outfits go HALL OF FAME on us. But wasn't Stalker in Borovoria or Transcarpfishia or someplace?

I see what you did there, lol!

[nero9000]

This is another milestone issue for me. It's the first one I got from the store after my subscription ended! You're asking hadn't I just started my subscription a couple of issues back, and why did I cancel the sub for my favorite comic? The answers are yes and I didn't! You see, it turns out I had only a six-month subscription, and after that they just cancelled it and didn't inform me! Haha, I guess the publishers didn't like subscribers or something. Seriously, who does that?

Anyway, I struggled through a couple of weeks of seeing this issue in the stores and not in my hands before I gave up and bought it. I replaced my subscription with Spider-Man, because I had discovered the MU during those 6 months. Joe was still #1 for me, so why I didn't I sub that one again? Guess I was afraid they'd cut me off again. I'd never subscribe to the comic again. :'(

Issue itself is a goodish one. Not as good as last issue, of course, since this is part 2. Last issue Hawk was dead as a doornail, but now he starts perking up like he's a Nintendo character who found a burger. Hawk is the Benjamin Button of getting shot.

This issue is back when Hama still remembered there's a Joe named Stretcher. Hawk doesn't really need a medic, though, dude was fine. Borovia story has a more open ending than the transcarpfishia story did, but this time there's no follow-up. I was waiting for Jaye to teleport to safety and the others to continue a couple issues later. There's no time anymore, Roadblock has to go home and pick up his new threads before next year's line hits the stores.

Cobra Commander's beef with Firefly is still making as much sense as it ever did. Dude wants to get rid of a quasi-capable operative like Firefly, yet Road Pig is his most trusted lieutenant? Maybe it makes sense, after all. Didn't Stalin purge all his best guys, too?

Cobra sends their entire air force to kill the Joes in their sleep, because the Joes have deactivated all their radar equipment. They don't need it, because they have a Native American with SUPERHUMAN powers! He can see and hear the approach of a fleet of 50 helicopters.

[nero9000]

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Originally Posted by Sean_C

I forget how much use Techno-Vipers got well after their figures left stores.

Techno-Vipers are in charge of Cobra Island security. They're more common than regular Vipers now. Who should be used for this purpose? Alley-Vipers?

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Originally Posted by Sean_C

CC tells Zarana and Cesspool "we are leaving", but neither of them go on the trip. So much for Zarana packing her trench knife.

She couldn't find it, so they left without her. Or maybe she didn't feel like walking home through the Utah desert again?

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Originally Posted by Sean_C

Torpedo dossier marks his first appearance since...I don't know when.

76! I don't count this as an actual appearance, but he'll clock one as a redshirt in a few. Far cry from nowadays, when he's a big star.

[J James]

Playing catch-up with this thread.

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Originally Posted by Flints Beret

Yeah. I mean even as a 12 year old I was like “ok Wildman didn’t know what the reveal would be in 126 so that’s his way to cover it up.” Would of been better to just let it be fireflys lower face.

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Originally Posted by Flints Beret

Which, by the way, it always bugged me that it was known in-story as “the silent castle”. How do the characters know it was introduced in the silent issue?

Hey, you're right, that is where the name came from. I always just thought it was austere and lonely so they called it silent. Never connected it to #21's title. Now we know that issue 21 actually wasn't without words at all, everybody was just being really quiet during the breakout.

[Flints Beret]

You know what, I’ll accept that reasoning! That will help my personal head canon.