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07-16-2010, 01:44 PM | #1 |
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Every friday Brian Conin spotlights some legends in comic books. Today he tackled Shooter.
(edit: go to the link below to see the pictures, Conin's Legends are very well researched and has all the supporting evidence, he does a great job with them) Comic Book Legends Revealed #269 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources COMIC LEGEND: An small in-joke from the first issue of G.I. Joe #1 was put into "continuity"...twenty-four years later!!! STATUS: True Reader Ethan suggest I feature this one awhile back, and he's right, it's an interesting one. In G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #1, writer Larry Hama and artist Herb Trimpe introduce the world to the G.I. Joe squad - a specially trained action force designed to fight against a terrorist group known as Cobra. Most of the characters had really straightforward codenames, like Breaker (the communications expert), Clutch (the vehicle expert), Stalker (the infantry expert), Short Fuse (the explosives expert), etc. Well, Hama figured that Marvel Editor-in-Chief, Jim Shooter, had a last name that would fit in perfect alongside these characters, so in the first issue of G. I. Joe, when the dossiers for the various characters are displayed... And that's the last time the character "Shooter" appeared in the series. Fast-forward twenty-four years, and Hama was recruited by Devils' Due to do a mini-series called G.I. Joe Declassified, showing how each of the various members of the original G.I. Joe team were recruited. While he was doing that, Hama worked in the first (and last) appearance of Shooter, showing her in action and showing why we never saw or heard of her again... 1. She was a sort of "back-up" operative - the other members of the team did not even know she was ON the team. A sniper, she was held in reserve and secretly assisted the team, even stationed on their base under their noses... 2. She died on their first mission. Here's the ending of the main story from G. I. Joe #1... And here it is from Shooter's perspective... Pretty neat, huh? Go seek out G. I. Joe Declassified! I reviewed it here on the blog - it was really quite good. Hama did a wonderful job on the characters.
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07-16-2010, 11:05 PM | #2 |
Kool-Aid Drinker
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I love that column; I recently discovered it this summer and spent a loong time going through some of the previous columns.
I don't think the Declassified series from DDP are as appreciated as they should be. All of them except the Dreadnoks series seemed pretty solid. |
07-30-2010, 11:51 AM | #3 |
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the dreadnoks declassified was a jumbled mess. i loved ddp but i hated it when blaylock wrote the issues. no hate intended personally. he seemed like a nice guy. but i even liked the majority of the casey run except the zombie snake-eyes and the sei ten hypnosis. jerwa's was the best along with powers and o'sullivan. and seeley was the ultimate joe artist. fun!
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