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G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero - Saturday Morning Adventures Comic Book
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01-01-2022, 10:05 PM
AWOL
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I've only read the first 3 or so, but those are loads better, and it's clearly because he was forced to wrap things up by the end of the book. Hama is quote4d (and I'm paraphrasing) that "he doesn't know what the book is going to be about when he starts writing an issue". That doesn't seem like a good mindset for what is a serial format.
There's a laundry list of items that I take issue with in the Hama comics, but to name just a few:
- Too much focus on only a handful of characters over way, WAY too many issues.
- Snake Eyes is a brooding loner with a girl fawning over him (obvious self insert device) instead of the team player that he is in the cartoon.
- Uses military jargon to elevate scenes that would otherwise be confusing or just mundane to be something important-sounding.
- Largely avoids non-action scenes that would be useful for character development. The exceptions usually involve Snake Eyes, Stalker, or one of his handful of other 'favorites'.
- Has slowly been making Cobra less and less important (especially over the IDW run) despite the fact that the brand's most recognizable characters are all Cobra with the exception of Snake Eyes.
- The brainwave scanner as a crutch for lazy writing.
- The death of Billy should have been a much bigger deal than it was. There was no payoff, no universe-wide ripples of his death despite many characters being tied to him, and we got very little in the way of Cobra Commander's full feelings/actions on the matter, or how it affected him going forward. It was a one and done.
- Dawn Mareno's GOD AWFUL origin (spoiler: it's the brainwave scanner again)
I want to put out here that the only Joe comic I had as a kid was GI Joe #1 in the Yearbook #1, so that's really the only thing I have nostalgia for. It's what got me started binging these. Still love the profile art in that book.
EDIT: just wanted to point out that I mean SE is a self insert for the reader, not Hama. It turns the book into what is otherwise a story about many characters into a power fantasy.
I'm not a fan of the ninjafying and overuse of Snake Eyes.
Being a fan of the O13 (not so much Scarlett or SE) those first 10 issues are my favorite (except for that reveal in issue 10 of SE's ninja past).
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