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06-14-2015, 09:29 PM | #1 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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i was soooo glad when it said it was over at #6 only to find out its on going?! i had to force myself to read this trash. everything from the plot to the art and everything in between is poop. why is this still being published.
anyone hear reading it? can anyone tell me why they think its good? i think im just going to file it away and never read them. |
06-15-2015, 04:31 AM | #2 |
Iron Grenadier
Join Date: Feb 2007
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It's a homage to Jack Kirby and Jim Strenlenko comics of the 60's and 70's these high concept comics that were popular when your granddaddy was reading comics.
It embraces it's a wierd concept. the last four G.I.Joe/Transformer crossovers were super serious attempts at bring these two properities together...this one says screw that and makes a book where Polly is a cyborg and leads a team of the Joe's Animal partners, the October guard are Halloween themed Russian commandos. it's campy and over the top but it plays with the mythos of both in a way I couldn't have dreamed of. It's fun....at it's core it's basically a recorded Play session. it's not dark or gritty it's campy and light hearted with a love for both groups. Look I'm not saying you have to like it. but it's really an interesting break from the seriousness of the IDW verse for both of them.
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06-15-2015, 09:23 PM | #3 |
Crimson Guard
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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my granddaddy? i was born in the 70's lol jk anyway campy or not the plot just blows. i could get past the crayola artwork if the story was worth it
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06-15-2015, 09:40 PM | #4 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: New York
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Quote:
It's a homage to Jack Kirby and Jim Strenlenko comics of the 60's and 70's these high concept comics that were popular when your granddaddy was reading comics.
It's fun....at it's core it's basically a recorded Play session. it's not dark or gritty it's campy and light hearted with a love for both groups. Look I'm not saying you have to like it. but it's really an interesting break from the seriousness of the IDW verse for both of them. |
06-15-2015, 10:26 PM | #5 |
Filecard Maker
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NJ
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Well...I see the style they are shooting for...but I do kinda agree...I'm not a fan.
But IDW has really been missing the mark for me lately. I was luke warm for the 3rd 'season' where the Joes went public, but it was ok...maybe not great but a different direction. I absolutely hated The Fall of G.I. Joe...way to dry, way to drawn out. And SE: Agent of Cobra probably could have gotten to the point in one or two issues. I'm not saying I'm giving up...hell I keep going no matter what, but I have been pretty bored with what they have done recently. |
06-16-2015, 08:08 PM | #6 |
Crimson Guard
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Well...I see the style they are shooting for...but I do kinda agree...I'm not a fan.
But IDW has really been missing the mark for me lately. I was luke warm for the 3rd 'season' where the Joes went public, but it was ok...maybe not great but a different direction. I absolutely hated The Fall of G.I. Joe...way to dry, way to drawn out. And SE: Agent of Cobra probably could have gotten to the point in one or two issues. I'm not saying I'm giving up...hell I keep going no matter what, but I have been pretty bored with what they have done recently. |
06-16-2015, 09:06 PM | #7 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Houston TX
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I hated this book with a passion when I first saw it. But it grew on me. I don't love it but it's very novel and unusual.
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06-26-2015, 02:23 AM | #8 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Jul 2011
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It's fun. It harks back to the old days, when comics weren't serious and nobody cared about continuity. You can hate it and the authors won't care. They're going to continue to pop Xanax and swig Embalming Fluid and draw this until IDW tells them they can't anymore. Enjoy the trip. Or don't. Is the spoon you're holding real? Or are you plugged into the Matrix and dreaming this? It's all subjective, man.
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09-20-2015, 11:37 AM | #9 |
Cobra Interrogator
Join Date: Aug 2015
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Disagree. The art isn't inept, it's deliberate vintage homage to earlier art styles. The Transformers are drawn the way Jack Kirby drew Galactus or the Celestials. There are also some panels that evoke Frank Miller's rough style. I think there's a big difference between something being "poopy" and something being deliberately primitive.
I also agree with the idea that it is a "recorded play session." Writers have spent a great deal of time and effort trying to make GI Joe evolve from being a toy into something real. If that's what you are looking for, go read "Cobra." These characters are toys being thrown at each other by some mad child-god telling the craziest story he possibly can. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but it's not ineptitude. I'm really attracted to some of the batshit craziness going on. There are individual pages that have ideas so wild and imaginative that I want to see them expanded into their own complete stories. The biggest problem is that the author is writing an experiment in hyper-compressed storytelling. He is trying to tell the story with the fewest possible number of panels, and this causes problems in the more recent issues. Some of the books are compressed to the point where I just have no idea what is going on anymore. I'm not able to follow the progression from panel to panel. If Scioli could correct this, the book would be solid gold. |
01-07-2016, 03:31 AM | #10 |
Crimson Guard
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Boulder
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I love Scioli's art. It's great, the compositions are mind-blowing, the colors are sometimes bizarre, sometimes surreal.
The pages are artificially aged. This thing sometimes looks like someone left their comic behind the chair on the patio in 1987 and just pulled it out... it will have fingerprint smudges and the color will be outside the lines. It's a visual treat. It's weird and exciting. I LOVE my serious Joe military fix... this ain't it. This is straight popcorn fare. The creators are total fans of ARAH and it shows from time to time but that's not what they're doing, and what they're doing, I'm buying. |
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