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11-19-2020, 12:12 AM
J James
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issue 219
Carlos Espinosa and Hawk in Mexico City. Man, Revanche is so much bigger and more successful than Cobra is in a lot of ways. The blond secretary is just like the blond secretary from issue 207 or 208 I just read. Hawk learned how to do running jump kicks from Snake-Eyes.
This clandestine meeting of ex-Cobra agents is great. Really some missing energy from the Cobra High Command. I would have liked to see some of them stick around longer. First appearance of Big Boa. First return of Cesspool.
"Cobra Commander has got something big in the works." People keep saying this but I can almost never really remember what the Commander's devious plot at any given time really is.
The situation with the Blue Ninjas has really evolved into "all of mankind against the invasion of the robot body snatchers." In a way they must be the cumulative final villain of the Joe story, their scope is just too large to be anything other than a force which all good guys and bad guys must unite to defeat.
Here's what I want to see cleared up about the Blue Ninjas before we finally see the last of them. What is their connection to the Arashikage and why at this point in history do they still mark themselves with the I-Ching symbol? Did they invent their original tech and concepts or is it derived from an established other source in the Joe universe? Could their technology be related to the "non-biological" otherworldly tech of the giant eyeball? Why do they cling to a ninja identity at all, how many of them really do, and how many of them don't even aspire to being identified as a ninja?
Scarlett talks about Sean's qualifications and training, but it brings up the question I had when Sean first reappeared outside his old home by Fort Wadsworth: when did any of this happen? It doesn't fit our timeline at all. Scarlett didn't know that Sean had been trained by Snake-Eyes, and there was not enough time between 155 and 206 for all this to go down, unless half a decade at least passed between those issues. Here we get to hear about all the other schools and ninja training in China and it's like: when? I'm very happy to have Sean around but during the whole New-Snake-Eyes storyline I've been viewing him as a significantly lesser combatant and overall insufficient to fill the role, which makes him interesting to me. Scarlett makes him sound like he's already done all this stuff and come so far, and it makes me wonder if she's using the Arashikage Mindset on him to brainwash him into believing all this.
"Snake-Eyes, sworn brother of the Arashikage, Protector of the Seven Secrets, and Guardian of the Silent Oath," seeker of truth. Tommy is kind of converting the idea of Snake-Eyes into a position within the clan to be filled. That is really interesting.
The newsletters include my questions about Storm Shadow's official standing with the Joe team, in which Larry confirms for me that while Tommy may kick it with the Joe team, he's not officially a member of the Joe team. Of course later there is an issue in which Tommy wears green fatigues with some white elements on a mission with Stalker and Zap. My inference from that mission is that it's Tommy's first official Joe mission as a team member in the structure.
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