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08-20-2022, 09:48 PM | #271 |
Zarana & Zandar
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They just won't because he's "not popular enough" when they're supposed to be making things popular.
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08-20-2022, 09:50 PM | #272 |
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I wasn't addressing anything past creative teams may or may not have done; I was strictly responding to why they didn't get released together.
But, as has been pointed out here multiple times, Zarana's original filecard fails to even mention Zandar by name. Also, the vast majority of the over 150 ARAH characters aren't on gijoe.com either. Zandar not being there (yet) isn't proof of any wider agenda.
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08-20-2022, 10:39 PM | #273 |
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Take solace in knowing that if they fleshed Zandar out, they would do something you would hate.
My favorite went from potentially leading joe to getting hooked on drugs and losing his girlfriend.
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08-20-2022, 10:43 PM | #274 |
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Hey now, I wouldn’t say I was hooked on drugs. Tried maybe. Hooked? Ehhh!
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08-21-2022, 12:10 AM | #275 |
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All they need to do is make Zarana & Zandar matching (shirt/scarf or something just as good), include them in each others' bios, go into their eerie, close twinship (like their secret language) and Zandar's dependence upon Zarana.
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08-21-2022, 06:50 AM | #276 |
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Looking at the cover of the 300th issue of GI Joe has Zandar and Zarana side by side, as they should be. And the bottom of Zarana's shirt definitely looks ripped and Zandar's scarf looks to be the piece of Zarana's ripped shirt.
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08-21-2022, 06:52 AM | #277 |
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I love the character bio for Zandar in Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook #3. They just need to portray it in current media tie-ins like a new comic, and give us a Zandar figure.
All they need to do is make Zarana & Zandar matching (shirt/scarf or something just as good), include them in each others' bios, go into their eerie, close twinship (like their secret language) and Zandar's dependence upon Zarana.
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08-21-2022, 08:35 AM | #278 |
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08-21-2022, 08:39 AM | #279 |
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Not everybody likes that stuff, though. I, for one, don't care for their twin speak... it looked ridiculous when I checked out the issue it was in. The shirt/scarf thing I don't care a bit about, either. I'm happy for them to be twins, but all the stuff IDW invented for them can be binned, for all I care. Zarana, as a character, was best (in my opinion) in Hama's version of the comic. Zandar, as I've said numerous times, is entirely superfluous. There is nothing unique about him. If he had never been created, there wouldn't be a single glaring hole in either the Sunbow/DiC cartoons or the Hama comics. You can't say the same thing about Zarana or Zartan.
Zarana: <<"Hello brother.">> Zandar: <<"Hello sister.">>* *Translated from their idioglossia. That's one way to do it. As for being superfluous, I don't believe Zandar is useless, and being female isn't enough to elevate Zarana to an acceptable status. Just because concepts are repeated doesn't mean the resulting character is useless or acceptable for being female alone. I'm still very impressed by that cover.
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08-21-2022, 08:54 AM | #280 |
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It's not even about her being female. Zarana moves the plot forward in both the cartoon and comics, which is more than can be said for Zandar. No, he's probably not useless in the IDW comics (or DDP, perhaps), but he definitely is in the cartoon and the Hama comics because he doesn't do anything of note. I'll admit that I'm very much a product of my time... I grew up in the 80s with the cartoon and the Marvel series, so that has influenced my way of thinking. I've never really read the DDP or IDW (non-Hama) comics, therefore that has no impact on me.
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