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03-06-2008, 10:14 AM | #31 |
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Freedom costs a buck o' five ($1.05) It costs the most.
PS. I didn't want to start a new thread but I have two questions: 1. How does Cobra Commander maintain the loyalty and organization of his Cobra forces? Are they too disgruntled normal folk? They seem to be more organized than some industrialized nations. They have uniforms and all these different troop variations, vehicles, scientific research, etc. etc. They also seem to have more organization then the Joes. The Joes can't even standardize their uniform (Partially tongue in cheek). and... 2. Where can I get a copy of all the comic books from Marvel? Is there a few trade paperbacks or a digital collection, anything? |
02-08-2011, 03:25 PM | #32 |
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Perhaps it is SE:Classified, but I remember (somewhere) that there was a comic issue (a recent one), where Cobra Commander met McCullen for the first time in a castle. Does anybody know what issue that is, and if so, could you post some pics?
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02-09-2011, 12:29 AM | #33 |
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[QUOTE=Onslaught Six;42076]It's the latter, I think--this whole storyline was 'huge.' Baroness and Destro are wrapped up in it, too--IIRC, Snake Eyes showed up when Baroness's brother got killed, and she thought he did it, and Destro and his father did some legal manipulation to get Snakes cleared, or...something.
Sort of. It all goes back to Vietnam. SE, SS, and Stalker were reporting for duty at MAC-V-SOG in Saigon right after the Tet Offensive when they ambushed in a drive-by done by 2 VC. SE follows them to a warehouse that was rented by the future Baroness' older brother. He thought he was giving medical supplies to the South Vietnamese government, but he'd been duped by these 2 VC. They shot him during an argument, and SE shot them afterwards. The Baroness thought SE killed her brother. A teenaged Destro and his father show up while the MPs are investigating, and Daddy Destro explains that SE couldn't have shot the Baroness's brother, since he was wearing a bulletproof vest and SE was only armed with a .45, while the VC had AK-47s. He said that the VC had shot the brother, and they probably wold have killed Destro Sr. had SE not taken them out. That's just part of what happened in the "Snake Eyes Trilogy" Marvel #94-96. |
02-09-2011, 02:02 AM | #34 |
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After a bar fight, Snake-Eyes is about to be kicked out, when Tommy Arashikage (Storm Shadow) enters to buy him a drink. Tommy points out to Snake-Eyes that he is better then this lost wandering soul that he has become since his return from Southeast Asia. Tommy offers Snake-Eyes an opportunity to come live with him in Japan, and be part of his family business, the Arashikage Ninja Clan. Snake-Eyes turns down the offer, but as Tommy leaves, he reassure Snake-Eyes, his friend, that the offer is still open, and always will be. When Snake-Eyes leaves the bar, he stands in the middle of the road as a semi-truck is barrelling down on him. He isn't going to get out of the way. A guy tackles Snake-Eyes to prevent him from being hit by the semi-truck. The guy, who is actually the man who will become Cobra Commander, then offers Snake-Eyes a ride and begins to tell him his story. Cobra Commander has just come from an interview for a job that he didn't get. He explains how he is ready to get out of the grind of working society. As they arrive in Snake-Eyes' home town, a couple of drug dealers approach them, this really angers Snake-Eyes, and he and Cobra Commander beat up the drug dealers, stealing their money. This leads them on a path of vigilantly crime. They attack an Arizona landscaper hiring illegal immigrants, a Denver slum lord, they collect money for these jobs, also they regularly steal money from thieves, all as the part of the beginning of a revolution to take back freedom and safety for the people. Cobra Commander loses sight of his goals whenever money is involved, and Snake-Eyes begins to see a transformation happening to him. This transformation bothers him but he doesn't know what to do. Cobra Commander leads Snake-Eyes into a home invasion. This home is owned by Judge Mitchell Tate. This judge is the judge who convicted Cobra Commander's brother. They confront him at gun point. Cobra Commander's brother was a war veteran who had opened a halfway house. This house was burned down by a stoned out vet. The bank came after his brother, and in the trial the jury found him innocent of starting the fire. But the judge overruled the jury's decision and the bank took everything from his brother, this drove him to drink, and was the cause of his brother dying in a drunk driving accident. Cobra Commander explains all of this to the Judge and Snake-Eyes at the same time. Snake-Eyes makes the connection that Cobra Commander's brother was the man driving the car that killed his mother, father and twin sister. Cobra Commander pulls out another gun, and hands it to Snake-Eyes encouraging him to rid the world of the sickness in which this judge is a part of. Cobra Commander has set up this entire situation, having tracked down Snake-Eyes, tracked down the judge, going on the vigilantly spree and now placing Snake-Eyes in the situation of executing a man who played a part in causing both of them so much pain. Cobra Commander wants revenge and he wants Snake-Eyes to take revenge, also. Snake-Eyes holds the gun to the judge, Cobra Commander encourages him, again, to kill the judge but he turns the gun on Cobra Commander. So they stand there each holding a gun toward each other with the judge in between them. Snake-Eyes pulls the trigger, click, it is empty. Snake-Eyes has failed Cobra Commander, the Commander then just executes the judge. Now holding the gun on Snake-Eyes, he tells him to "Get out my sight. And know this; no matter where you go, someday we will meet again and on that day we'll see if you finally understand what needs to be done. Won't we, brother." Snake-Eyes runs off. Later, Snake-Eyes visits his family's grave, where he promises to follow the right path and then heads to Japan to join Tommy. Upon his arrival, he receives a very warm welcome by the man who will become Storm Shadow. |
02-09-2011, 07:15 AM | #35 |
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Just for the record - Cobra Commander never makes a snake sound or has a lisp in the comic - on the cartoon. In the comic, he was not a buffoon - for the most part. If you read WW3 in the DDP run, you will find a far more realistic depiction of CC than we even saw in Larry's character - and learn a tad bit about the place where Cobra was born.
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02-09-2011, 03:04 PM | #36 |
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The comic and the toon have always been two separate universes to me. When I read the comic, my inner dialog never had CC speaking with a lisp (or Destro sounding like Barry White instead of a Scot for that matter), and thats the beauty of it. The comic allows you to add your own soundtrack so to speak. To me, he just came off as a just an evil sounding dude. Its perfectly fine with me that someone else has their own interpretation of him because everyone's entry into Joe is different. I find that totally acceptable.
I do like how the UK version morphed into the US version. Don't forget Shin, there is a still the movie origin of Cobra Commander now too. ;-)
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03-02-2011, 05:25 PM | #37 |
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Does anyone have any scans of the Marvel series Cobra Commander pre-disguise? I know that there are "flashbacks" via Billy in (I believe) issue 38, but I wasn't sure if there were any others.
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