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01-08-2014, 01:08 PM | #11 |
Crimson Guard
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This is exactly what I'm talking about! Billy, Zartan and Firefly making it out of the freighter? Mindbender "rebooting" for V2? CC killed by Fred, then saved and resurrected, and no "Joe" dying 'til 100 issues in, then all killed by SAW Viper? Who would have scripted that? All those things I hated as a kid, probably a lot like GoThrones fans hate that 'red wedding' ep I hear so much about.
Well a lot of GoT fans actually like the fact that really bad stuff happens sometimes. With so many characters, I wonder if the G.I.Joe universe might benefit from more of a GoT style handling - many plots, many deaths, interesting developing characters, and without one character or small group of characters dominating everything. One of the things that G.R.R. Martin (GoT author) does do that Hama does not, is plan everything painstakingly. But it takes him five years to write a book too. So there's a downside to storytelling that way. The first book is 650 pages, and it's the shortest book of them all. I think some of the more extreme things that happened in the Joe comic happened because Hama saw the plot as serving the characters rather then the other way around. CC locking all his untrusted subordinates in a freighter (instead of just having them shot) happened so we could all see what a megalomanic psychologically screwed up person CC is. Characters return from the dead, perhaps because the stories required their presence. When a bunch of Joes all got killed by that SAW Viper (and others also died in that war), I feel like that was Hama saying "OK, my readers are older now and can handle this. Shit just got real." And it's a real shame that after that awesome and promising story arc things got really silly, with Ninja Force, the Eco Warriors, the Transformers, and that Space stuff at the end. |
01-08-2014, 01:10 PM | #12 |
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Interesting to hear that. I feel like the comic really shone between issues 40-50 or so and 120ish. What did you not like about the run from 60 to 100? You get the Cobra Island Civil War and Destro becoming more interesting and stuff. I liked that a lot. |
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