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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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01-23-2010, 06:44 PM
zuludelta
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I am enjoying reading this thread.
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The inclusion of Burkhart, especially in a reluctant capacity, is *brilliant*.
Thanks.
I'd wanted to include Burkhart since the beginning seeing as how she was a fairly important character in the early comics, but it was only much later that I started toying with the idea that she could be the resident violent force contrarian and vocal civil rights advocate, to help provide a more comprehensive set of perspectives in the team's plans directorate (which is populated mostly by military and ex-military personnel). This decision was partially inspired by the
2004 Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq
criticising the performance of the various intelligence agencies leading up to the invasion of Iraq by US Forces in 2003... just about every agency failed in one way or another in the intelligence collection, analysis, and reporting process at one point or another (done in by personal and partisan politics, "institutionalised myopia," and just plain negligence and incompetence), rubber-stamping what most objective military and political analysts now agree was a costly operation that enabled and empowered the fundamentalist cause in the region whilst diverting resources from more important military programs and operations in the Middle East and South Asia. The one intelligence agency that was mostly spared the scathing report was the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (which actually registered opposition to the invasion early on in the planning process on the grounds of it possibly acting as a terrorism enabler), and this was speculated to be due to the plurality of viewpoints found in the bureau, allowing it to analyse intelligence objectively, mostly untainted by partisan politics or the influence of special interest groups.
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Nice use of J Kidd. I still can't believe you're refusing to watch the NBA (Durant's game is coming along so quickly).
I thought J-Kidd would be perfect for an updated take on the comics' Funky character, appearance-wise. As for not watching the NBA, I catch highlights on the news occasionally and I still keep up with the box-scores and APBRmetrics and yeah, I see Durant is making great strides this season (although his defense is still a little suspect). That being said, it almost pains me to hear about him doing so well (since I'm a Sonics fan)... it's the sports equivalent of seeing your ex-wife get waaaay hotter and sexier with her new beau :P.
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I'm not particularly fond of ESP's hair, though. I like that you went with dreads, I just wish they were rendered differently. It's rare to see a woman with that kind of thick lock and usually they tend to have different streaks of color in them when they're of the brown variety.
Yeah, I'll look into changing those natty dreads of hers. I think I might have gone overboard with the thickness. Surprised nobody recognised that I used Zoe Saldana for her face (E.S.P. will be the Dominican-American on the team, and I figure Saldana is the most recognisable contemporary Dominican-American in popular culture).
EDIT
: I've updated the dreads. Also got rid of the beret... I don't think Agent Telepathy fans (if they exist) would mind, the headgear on top of the styled hair made her a bit too top-heavy and "busy" around the head area.
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The only dreads we see up here are the nasty kind. The think unwashed looking ones.
Yeah, we get that a lot here, too. I toyed with the idea of getting dreads back when I used to grow my hair long (I used to grow my hair about halfway down my back, I was a regular dirty hippie hair-farmer
) but I just couldn't go through with it. These days though, I just shave my head: cheaper, much more practical, and it camouflages my hairline's valiant but losing battle against the advancing forces of the forehead
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