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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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07-01-2013, 12:45 AM
zuludelta
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Loose Cannon
Mercer V2 probably being one of the sloppiest filecards written in terms of consistency.
Some of the later ones, I think, captured the tone and rhythm of the better Hama filecards from the early and mid-1980s, but yeah, a lot of the filecards from 1990 onwards fell into a predictable format ("Character X is the best Joe at Thing Y, he has Quirk Z") and tried too hard to "sell" every character at the cost of infusing them with distinct personalities or a sense of character narrative (a sure sign that they were written by guys more concerned with writing "good copy" than filling out the Joeverse). They weren't all that bad everything considered, but they weren't very memorable or very good, either. Certainly nothing like the succinct but imagination-stoking OG13 filecards or the best of the detail-filled filecards from the "ARAH Golden Age" of 1983 to 1987.
And then you had really baffling ones like the filecard for Mercer v2—wrong filename ("Felix P. Stratton" was changed to "Richard Cecil," the name of a Hasbro engineer), wrong birthplace, and continuity errors (it listed him as a member of Sgt. Slaughter's Marauders instead of Sgt. Slaughter's Renegades)—and Airborne v2: changing "Frank Talltree" to "Robert Six" (the name of the chairman/CEO of Continental Airlines) and making him basically a new character—I mean, what, they couldn't spring for a new paratrooper-appropriate code name and had to recycle one from a character that was still "active" in the comics at the time? It's not as if Frank Talltree had left the team/separated from the service like Grunt or had been killed off like Crankcase, Doc, Quick-Kick, Breaker, Thunder, and the others or anything... he even appeared in January 1990's
G.I. Joe
#96.
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I wonder if Hama did any of the later ones at all?
Of the 1990 filecards, the Sonic Fighters were definitely not written by Hama according to Bellomo's notes. The rest of the 1990 filecards were a mix of Hama-written filecards (some which, such as Pathfinder's and Salvo's, were so heavily edited/rewritten that they supposedly bear little resemblance to the original Hama text) and in-house filecards. Everything after that (1991 to 1994), I think, was an in-house filecard.
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