[artiepants]

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Originally Posted by Crimson Rage

My Flash rifle stays in his backpack easy and he can strike cool poses. If I have any trouble with Tripwire I'll be gluing his cable in place.

yep, mine too, him and Grand Slam are the only guys i'll allow to rock the silly Cartoon Rifles...

[zartan81187]

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Originally Posted by JR0d28

The figures were bad-azz, we finally got one of the original 83 characters and not a damn repaint. On the other hand CC is a repaint/resculpt, but they finally made a comic book accurate piece. I am an opener and I like to read the comics. I thought the Destro comic was kinda boring, the Falcon one was kinda gory, this one I was laughing so hard my sides hurt; when they blew up commanders mask. It reminded me of a favorite movie of mine CHEECH and CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE when Chong said quote "got a light man? and Cheech replied I wouldn't light that all these gas fumes; Chong's like aww man that instant KAPOW!!!" LMAO hard core especially when CC had a patch sewn on his head look like a hooded toupee.

anything ele intresting about the comic

[JR0d28]

It keeps gettin funnier everytime I read it.

[Steel Brigade]

My brother found this set for both of us today... it rocks!! Tripwire was always I fave of mine as a kid, & the "Blade CC" is pretty cool too!!

[Crimson Rage]

Tripwire just shot up my list of favourites by at least three points now I have him in my hands. Bloody brilliant (and his mine detector stays in it's hole just fine!)

[Mandingo Rex]

I just opened the 2-pack this morning (had it for weeks now, broke down finally). I got my "opener" from HTS finally, card was bent to hell. But the figures were in great shape!

The CC donated his head to my M.A.S.S. device CC (I swap the heads out on the shelf, from day to day... Just like the cartoon! haha. I still prefer the M.A.S.S. CC's helmet with the stripe, but the hooded looks very cool too). The ONLY thing I hate about the head is that it's molded in yellow (YELLOW?!?!? WHY?!?!?) and you can see the underside slightly. Why not blue, I have no idea. It makes absolutely no sense to me. I am glad to finally get a Cobra emblem on the mask though. The color isn't as dark (or doesn't seem to be) as the single-carded hooded CC. I like that sculpt, I just prefer the V1 CC color scheme better. The slightly-darker hood from the Comic pack looks fantastic on him now.

The CG body looks great blue... It looks very military. But the belt kills me. I wish that sword scabbard was removable from the rest of the belt. It's like Transformers "kibble", just gets in the way. I don't want to cut it off though. The mustard yellow on the web gear (same as the head! WHY!) looks terrible too. I wish it was more gold, closer to the single-carded hooded CC. The mold of the web gear is nice though.

While I like the figure overall, he's not "G1" enough for the rest of my 25th figures I have opened. I'm not a fan of Battle Armor CC anymore (as a kid, I thought he was awesome... The new 25th is one of the best sculpts, he just doesn't fit in with the others, if you ask me... much like IG Destro... Good sculpt, but he doesn't fit with the earlier figures if you ask me). And this one looks a lot like my "favorite" default CC as a kid... The Battle Corp CC with the talking backpack... Although now I don't like the look as much. So his headless body will currently sit in my "spare Joe" collection, loaning the emblem-ed hood to V1 CC.

Tripwire is awesome. I had him as a kid, but never really liked him much. The new one is a FANTASTIC update. Still don't care for him much as a character, but the figure looks great, and I love the more muted military color scheme. I like Flash too, but the bright orange-y red kills it for me. Tripwire feels a lot more uniform with the rest of my early Joes, which is a plus for me. So the mold works much better on Tripwire. The big armored helmet and pads make sense on him, and he's a great figure.

[VIPER 48]

Awesome review. I like both of these figures and i am more than satisfied with this comic pack...

[artiepants]

i really wish they'd gone Darker with this CC ~ i jsut got to this part of the comics last weekend (99+) and he was generally colored anywhere from Black to dark grey to really dark blue. I like this CC a lot, but darker and like Mandingo_Rex said, gold or silver web gear instead of mustard would have gone a long ways to making my personal perfect CC.

[Mandingo Rex]

If someone doesn't like the CC, pop one of the Scarred Cobra Officer's heads on on him and take off the webgear. He just needs a belt, and you've got a cool looking Cobra General or something of the like.

The red face mask looks better, it helps pick up the red stripes on the wrists. The blues and reds match perfectly.

[storymodeller]

I'd probably buy Tripwire if his helmet came off. (It doesn't, right?)