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10-24-2020, 01:40 PM
J James
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issue 214
Funeral for Snake-Eyes
I love the use of the coyote coming in to the PITT grounds during the ceremony. I appreciate that we start out in the middle of the situation, America flag at half staff, a handful of team members representing. 75 members standing at attention.
Rock and Roll makes me sad, but Stalker breaks my heart here. Spirit is comforting.
Then we begin the long procession of land vehicle drivers. It's a strange procession, isn't it? Does our military have vehicle parades during funerals generally? 22 drivers / occupants of ground vehicles.
The (empty) casket comes out. As far as I'm concerned, this is an empty casket. If there's a body for either Snake-Eyes or Serpentor, I am explicitly unaware of either having ever turned up. I assume Larry intended for this to be an empty casket and would be surprised to find out otherwise.
Bill, the most iconic Joe pilot, will transport the casket. But who drove the APC? 10 pilots are representing. Present are the Vector and the Sky Raven (!) which is awesome. Perhaps not in the script.
In all, 107 Joe's are visible at the funeral. More ostensibly in some of the vehicles.
This issue is touching, it's a great calm mourning issue. It's one of the better silent issues of the many silent issues in the series.
Ending with Spirit Iron-Knife, which is a fantastic choice. He's close to Snake-Eyes in spiritual focus and mental clarity, without being too personally close and emotional for the reader. This issue could have worked less well, however it shines.
I've made no secret of my strong approval of the death of Snake-Eyes since it happened. This issue demonstrates why I feel that way. The next also does so.
I was gone from the boards and this re-reading thread for apparently 13 issues worth of reading. It was because I was planning my wedding and everything else fell by the wayside. So I'm back on a weekly basis now. I haven't read 201 to 213 a second time yet, only the original times. In the coming weeks I'll read them on my own time and keep those comments to myself. However I would like to remark that it appears that the entire giant eyeball storyline takes place in only about a year's worth of stories. Much shorter timeframe than I remembered. A lot of the cooler storylines from 156 to 200 which I remembered very fondly actually took much much longer to tell and to re-read during this second reading than I expected they would. So, the eyeball was just a giant weight in the middle of this "second half of ARAH" which minimized the cooler stories in my memories, and took on more of a weight in the timeline in my head than it actually deserved. That's my 201 to 213 synopsis from memory, maybe I'll update it in a single paragraph in the future.
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