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The Hama-verse....from the beginning. Read Along.
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06-06-2021, 03:21 AM
J James
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I remember thinking Harada was going to be another of Zartan' disguises, so I took all of his info with a grain of salt. Yet it appeared he was an entirely new character. I expected him to be named "the Secret Master", but I don't think he's had any additional screen-time since this story. Has he?
No, not to my memory. There really isn't a lot left in the current half between 246 where we are at in this reread, and the place where the title currently rests. There is an annual, and the Silent Helix mini, then in the ARAH line there are both Secret Missions for half a year and Untold Tales for half a year, and Snake Hunt. So outside of that is only 13 other ARAH issues until we're caught up to the Sherlock story, and five of those are the Venombot story. I just took a peek ahead because I couldn't remember what else I was missing, and it looks like Some Gave All and Artificial Intelligence fills out most of the rest.
Harada could come back as a strong narrative character to use for sort of tying up the Arashikage story. I don't think Hama has any goals to end the story wrapped up neatly with a bow as long as they can keep making money from it, but I am an advocate for that outcome. I think this title deserves a badass well-constructed ending in which people die and there is an outcome to the war with Cobra, winners and losers on both side. Like a Hama version of DDP's World War III. So that in the future if anyone asks, we can say that "this is how GiJoe ends" even if there are other continuities or whatever.
My primary checklist would be seeing the final status and future plans of the Arashikage Clan, acknowledgement of whether Dawn has eliminated most of the Red Ninjas, and seriously some awareness of Tommy's position as the new Hard Master or something like that. Plus: who is his dad and what is his relationship to the old masters? Maybe we don't need that but it's a pretty big question mark to me. Obake Obaason can just step down or die and leave him the full leadership.
Tangential to that, the elimination of the Blue Ninjas completely. We are so dang close to that with all the Kansas base / Destro stuff. I want to see that resolved and finished and maybe just an acknowledgement that AI is now just part of the future world including the future of the Joe team to some degree. It's a reflection of our world as well in that respect. Plus did Tommy's dad have something to do with the Blue Ninjas, what was their initial Arashikage origin point and how does that tie in to the worldwide Arashikage Clan from before? Let's face it, they originally had some Arashikage ties of some kind but they're really separate thematically and in practice now, so it's almost two separate threads.
I don't know what kind of resolution I would want to see for Destro and the Baroness. A happy ending hopefully but maybe he has sins to atone for despite being a somewhat good whitehat. She certainly does.
Zartan requires the most at this point. I don't consider him a ninja but if he retired to become a bladesmith for the Arashikage at the end, that would be dope. If Buzzer or a different peer joined him, that would be cool too. He's been such a back-and-forth character with his constant betrayals, murders, and attempts at amends that I would like to see him finally make good, or finally just commit seppuku (noting that he's not a samurai).
Cobra Commander should either die, go to supermax, or get away. Honestly I kind of feel like the Cobra organization has been so obviously and intentionally portrayed as being broke and structurally failing throughout this part of the story that if Cobra just went bankrupt and stopped paying their troops, I could see Cobra Commander and Mindbender just kind of driving off together and continuing their abusive friendship. Or the twins kill them for betraying the Crimson Guard, that might be satisfying. Mindbender could almost be Operation Paperclipped into the Joes. Definitely don't want Dawn or Sean to kill either of them and Tommy is too far beyond vengeance also.
There are so many Joes that I don't know how you end them all except to say that they can just keep fighting the good fight. There really aren't that many who need an ending. The Joes I would touch base with for a final status check would be Stalker, Scarlett, Roadblock, I guess Duke + wife, Hawk, but actually a lot of them like Jaye and Flint haven't really been around a lot for personality development in a while.
Snake-Eyes would need a resolution which would come in the form of something with Dawn and Sean honoring him in a meaningful way.
Not knowing how long the series will go, in a way Snake Hunt exists as a gigantic flawed ending for ARAH until such a time that it's farther into the rearview mirror. But I would hate to see the series just keep going forever under different writers and never resolve, or end abruptly without resolution. Ha ha the worst thing ever would be if it ended definitively under Hama and then the ending was undone by another writer who didn't understand the source material like a decade later to revive it. Can you image that we're all sitting around in retirement homes in our 80s reading it going "this doesn't make sense, in issue 35 this other thing happened."
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