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08-08-2020, 01:46 PM
nero9000
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The writing now is objectively worse than it was in the 80s, no question. A good point of comparison is the original Springfield story. Like this one, it featured most of the team doing nothing but being part of a roll call. The difference was that story took two issues, and it took the Joe team two pages to get to their destination, not two issues. This epic story has literally already had 6 issues of the Joes going "yeah, let's do this!", and it will be an issue at most of them actually doing it.
I'm all for thinking outside the box, but when a story has the hero already having defeated the villains with 3 issues left, it has absolutely failed in the basics of storytelling. We needed 6 issues for the Joes to get off their ass and finish their field trip, but the reader already knows they needn't have bothered. In the original Springfield issues we actually had Snake-Eyes running away from Cobra, like it was trying to be a legitimate dramatic story or something. We had Joes get wounded to make the stakes seem real. Now Cobra Commander gets his knee capped, making him unable to ever walk normally again, and he treats it like a stubbed toe.
No need to even get into objective signs of incompetence like accidentally resurrected characters. Even 10-yo me hated the stories where SNAKE-EYES mowed down some level 1 Goombas in cheat mode.
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