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View Poll Results: Do you prefer the Marvel comic or the Sunbow series? | |||
Marvel comic | 79 | 66.39% | |
Sunbow series | 40 | 33.61% | |
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05-17-2022, 11:50 AM | #91 |
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Agreed! This was where I was going in my post above that that the toys, comics, and cartoons played three parts to the bigger GIJoe brand/story.
Based on the file cards, and then borrowing from the comics and cartoons, kids made up their own GIJoe universes! Jason |
05-17-2022, 02:31 PM | #92 |
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The comic because it introduces these characters and gives them interesting backstories. It also has a more militaristic aesthetic than the show. The Marvel/Sunbow cartoon is still great though.
I feel the same way about Transformers preferring the Marvel comics to the Marvel/Sunbow cartoon. Still love the cartoon. |
05-17-2022, 03:12 PM | #93 |
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Both equally honestly.
Going back in time... The Marvel comic: had that comic book smell of that 80's era. Do you guys know the smell I am thinking about. It was a good smell. Also the feel of the pages paper on the finger tips. This is not an ASMR kind of thing. The comic book ads, the postbox pit, reading a younger larry (with notably more conservative stances) respond in them , no prizes etc. Of course, the stories, issues 1 through 75, were all amazing and then the quality waned afterwards IMHO. The Sunbow: Ok... On the old CRT woodgrain television...viewing them weekday, after school and after watching some other awesome show that came on before it and after it and then casually doing the homework from school, then going back to playing GI joes, the atari, the...nintendo....well the nintendo became the thing that surmounted the cartoons and toys but thats another story. |
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05-17-2022, 09:52 PM | #94 |
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I agree.
Overall, I liked the comic better for its more serious, 'realistic' approach. The cartoon was too cartoony, with dinosaurs, ghosts monsters, etc. It also turned Cobra Commander into a typical 80s buffoon bad guy. I did like the comedy duos they did, like Alpine & Bazooka or Footloose & Dusty. |
05-18-2022, 11:02 AM | #95 |
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I agree.
Overall, I liked the comic better for its more serious, 'realistic' approach. The cartoon was too cartoony, with dinosaurs, ghosts monsters, etc. It also turned Cobra Commander into a typical 80s buffoon bad guy. I did like the comedy duos they did, like Alpine & Bazooka or Footloose & Dusty. The giant robot in issue #3 opened the storytelling to "everything's possible," but the show cashed-in on fantastical episodes. The cartoon made the Joe cereal taste better, though. |
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05-18-2022, 11:57 AM | #96 |
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Some of those early Joe comics leaned heavily on the sci-fi aspect. Issues 11-19 focused more on the real-world type story telling. With the exception of issue 20 (which I'm sure was prior one-off story), the rest of the series maintained that real feel for quite some time. Jason |
05-18-2022, 09:12 PM | #97 |
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Sunbow for me. I've rewatched the cartoon multiple times. I tried reading a couple chapters of the old comic and got bored and stopped.
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10-25-2022, 11:35 PM | #98 |
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A Real American Hero in Japanese.
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10-25-2022, 11:53 PM | #99 |
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I'd choose the first 100 issues of the comic and the first 2 mini series of the cartoon. The daily cartoon wasn't as good as the mini's and one of my top characters was Cobra Commander and they made him stupid in the cartoon. The first 2 mini's still hold up.
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10-26-2022, 02:56 PM | #100 |
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I'd like to say it's equal - I have a more enjoyable time reading the comics, imagining the action at my own pace, choosing when and how to sit and enjoy a moment, etc. stuff only comics and prose can really do. But, admittedly when I read the comics I hear all their voices as the sunbow performances. Those characterizations matter so much to me, and the moment to moment character acting kind of blows away the overall picture of the cartoon for me.
The cartoon is a much more shared experience though that can't be beat. Reading comics is kind of isolated, but I've been able to share my love of Joe much more easily with the cartoon and turn my friends into casual fans, and this makes me appreciate it more and more with each viewing.
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