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12-06-2011, 07:19 PM | #1 |
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I cant get the link but over on usatoday.com they have an article revealing the new cc.
EDIT: New IDW Cobra Commander Is.... - GI Joe News NEW Cobra Commander New Cobra Commander Press Release - GI Joe News New Cobra Commander Press Release |
12-06-2011, 07:24 PM | #2 |
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Meet 'utterly ruthless' new Cobra Commander
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There's a new Cobra Commander in town. And he's not exactly snuggly.
After the last leader of the underground terrorist organization was assassinated, a "Cobra Civil War" broke out in IDW's trio of relaunched G.I. Joe comics in April. Seven candidates were up for the job, and many battles, sabotaging, backroom dealings and a bunch of casualties later, the new Cobra Commander is unveiled Wednesday in the pages — and on a special scratch-off variant cover — of G.I. Joe issue 8, written by Chuck Dixon with art by Will Rosado. (SPOILER ALERT: If you want to be surprised about who the head snake is, don't venture any further.) MORE: Check out an exclusive preview of G.I. Joe issue 8 The man underneath the shiny helmet is none other than the mysterious Krake. Created by Dixon, the bloodthirsty character has been seen here and there in stories, but has mainly seemed more interested in taking out as many members of the Joe team as possible than leading the entire group. Krake has one more twist up his sleeve in the final interview, though, and readers will see there's way more to him than they might have first thought. "We establish that he's utterly ruthless, which I think Cobra Commander has to be," Dixon says. Krake's rise to power will also cause a shift in the three IDW series, G.I. Joe, Dixon's Snake Eyes and Mike Costa's Cobra. Next month kicks off a new story line, "Cobra Command," that lasts nine issues over the three books and is drawn by Alex Cal, but also will bring a new status quo to the real American heroes and their newly public foes. Also in January is Cobra Annual, in which Dixon gives the origin of Krake, from the day he was born till when readers met him in the comics. "If you look at third-world countries where they're having a civil war like in Africa or southeast Asia, there are always these skinny kids who look like they're 10 years old and they're carrying AK-47s. They're soldiers," Dixon explains. "I always said, 'Well, what are they gonna be like when they grow up?' "That's where I started with Krake. He's basically one of those kids who gets all the power to, in his mind, make things right That's his whole driving force is to re-create the world in his image." Adds Costa: "I couldn't have come up with a character like that. I'm not sick enough." Costa was, however, the man who created the last Cobra Commander, whose helmet G.I. Joe undercover operative Chuckles put a bullet through and causing the organization to cramble to replace him. It seems to be a pyrrhic victory, though, Costa says. "It may have been the worst thing to do because the new guy is worse." Krake is definitely a scarier and nastier Cobra Commander than G.I. Joe fans have seen before. The original Commander from the 1980s cartoons was more bumbling than dangerous most of the time, and Larry Hama's from the Marvel comics was a former used car salesman who ran his terrorist organization out of the town of Springfield. After IDW's reboot of the franchise, Costa and Christos Gage introduced their version in the Cobra series who was more of an administrator than anything else, and a known person in the real world. In one issue, the Baroness states that Cobra had to fake a plane crash to cover up the assassination. "In my mind, his greatest crime other than presiding over a murderous cartel would be that he was decadent," Costa says of the group's former leader. "He appreciated his power as a pleasure, whereas the new Cobra Commander is driven and he's just naked willpower. "This Cobra Commander is much more dangerous because he doesn't have any friend and he doesn't want to present himself as somebody you can talk to or that wants to talk to you the way that the other Commander did. He would have a conversation before he shot you. This new one would not." The new Cobra Commander has a spiffy new outfit, too. G.I. Joe group editor John Barber says that artist Robert Atkins worked with Hasbro on the new design that includes a nods to his departed predecessor's fanged head gear, uniforms of past Commanders and Krake's own distinctive battle armor. And what of the prospective candidates who didn't get promoted, such as Major Bludd, the Baroness and Destro? The upcoming "Cobra Command" arc will see them and the rest of Cobra being put through their paces by the new leader as he aggressively begins his reign, and Krake will use agents within Cobra who don't even know they're his pawns. (The enigmatic Cobra Council will also play a role in the arc.) "He's Cobra Commander but he's playing his own game, too," Dixon says. "He doesn't really let all of them know what's going on all the time. He's like the coach and only he has the playbook. "I think he sees that as job security: If everybody doesn't know how things operate, then they can't really replace him because he's the lynchpin." Cobra will also be stepping out of the shadows and claiming their place as a world power in upcoming issues, Dixon says. And some of their actions will be seen as good for the world in some corners, gaining them global supporters. Their new mission will also change the core of Costa's Cobra series. "Ultimately, Cobra being in the shadows was easy for me because I didn't think a whole lot of geopolitical consequences through, but now that's sort of front and center in the book," he says, laughing. "I have to do a lot more reading." A massive personnel shakeup awaits Cobra in the post-"Cobra Command" landscape, where artist Antonio Fuso returns to Cobra, Javier Saltares is back on Dixon's flagship G.I. Joe series, and Atkins hops aboard Snake Eyes. Costa teases that by the end of "Cobra Command," "there will definitely be people who were part of the Cobra organization who are no longer part of it." Also, much like he's done with Serpentor, Big Boa, Croc Master and Crystal Ball, he will be taking another seemingly "ridiculous and unworkable" Cobra character from the old toy franchise and giving them a modern and realistic tweak. All this would be much worse if the G.I. Joe team was not around. Duke, Scarlett, Snake Eyes, Shipwreck and the rest will have to do their best to catch up with the new Cobra Commander and the resurgent organization, Dixon says. But the Joes are a changed group, too, and having to deal with some real-world stuff like having their budget severely cut by the government. Thankfully, samurai swords are not in short supply over in Dixon's Snake Eyes series. "For those who've been waiting for ninjas, they'll get their fill," he says. "It's going to be cool to see the Joes backed in a corner, not just by Cobra but by the clowns in Washington. These guys can't be defeated — they always come up with the answer. They're as brainy as they are tough. |
12-06-2011, 07:29 PM | #3 |
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I already see the custom potential. Viper head. Wraith Body to start
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12-06-2011, 07:33 PM | #4 |
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This should be the SDCC 2012 Exclusive!
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12-06-2011, 07:33 PM | #5 |
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Who the hell is Krake? After I'm done with this series I'm done with Dixon. I'll just stick to Hama.
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12-06-2011, 07:34 PM | #6 |
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Thank God for Hama's run. I just don't dig the IDW stuff. Too much change.
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12-06-2011, 07:38 PM | #7 |
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12-06-2011, 07:39 PM | #8 |
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so this krake guy is kryptonian??
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12-06-2011, 07:40 PM | #9 |
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Not really. Just that he's the new Cobra Commander. Since I haven't read this new series, I have no idea who he is, where he came from, and how he appeared in the comics. I don't know if he's a significant ongoing character, or like Star Trek red-suit guy #3. What did he look like before?
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12-06-2011, 07:45 PM | #10 |
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*Yawn*
So, it is supposed to be a twist that this new CC will be more dangerous and bloodthristy? Meh. Obvious "twist". I prefer the decadent guy that runs things up. It makes sense for a guy that's not suited for combat to have a whole organization to make the dirty work. I think is much more more original a guy that actually enjoys power, and mask it with a "freedom" organization, rather than just another "angry-two-wielding-masked-fighter". Krake is kinda ok as secondary character, but the superdupercommando is getting old.
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