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Do you prefer the Marvel comic or the Sunbow series?
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11-03-2021, 02:31 AM
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Hama for me as well.
But I consider Sunbow to be indispensable too. Hama was deeper, Sunbow was wider, making for a great pairing IMO. Some highlights of each for me:
Hama:
* Snake Eyes and the history and friendships with Tommy, Stalker, Scarlett, Wade, etc
* Arashikage values and Joe values
* great missions and locales & lore, such as Destro’s castle in the Trans-Carpathians, Cobra Island, Springfield, the Kwinn-Venom story, Benzheen and Trucial Abysmia, Sierra Gordo, Wolkekukucland, Broca Beach, the various Pits, Magda and the White Clown, the Oktober Guard, Wingfield, etc
* use of Hawk as leader
* Destro’s honor
* Cobra Commander’s various sides (vicious, verbose, Billy…) beyond capering nutbag
* great use of memorable “guest star” type characters, some of whom I mentioned above, some others being Candy and Dr Appel, several Arashikage masters, Cool Breeze, Scarface, Sean, Dawn, etc
* emphasis on character rather than glory, public appreciation
* nice attention to details like where people are in a room, terrain in a firefight, sense of spontaneity
Sunbow:
* defines personalities of wide range of characters very well
* great voice work
* special mention to work done for Flint, Lady Jaye, Shipwreck, Beach Head, and (though I’m not as into him) Slaughter, who might never have been iconic without this show
* exemplary work on CC, Destro, Baroness, Duke, Scarlett, Roadblock, and Gung Ho as well, at least equal to Hama’s great work on them
* really good animation and light effects
* some nice bickersonesque writing with CC, Destro, Baroness, Bludd, Mindbender, even Serpentor, often centering on Cobra Commander’s zany side
* theme song, movie Cobra song, hell, even the toon credit outro music…
* some memorable character moments in 86 especially, Low Light’s nightmares or Mainframe x Zarana
* making Zartan and the Dreadnoks cool
* impressive innovation in finding Saturday morning toon alternatives to the violence they couldn’t show
* gliders
* cool interpretation of the Pit
neither:
* using Firefly well
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