[J James]

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We discuss 230-232 in episode 92 of the Talking Joe podcast. ww.talkingjoe.co.uk

A few little things we noticed / liked

-The team is Juggling 4 main story lines with some great momentum, cliffhangers, locations – underwater action in broca beach, bombstrike in oliastan , Claire's benzene trip and Dawn
-Red shadows are clearly meant to be English “bob;s my uncle”, “mates”, “luv”, “grub”, “gor” (gor blimey)
-Black Major reveals he is to be given control of the BATS in the new cobra infrastructure.
-Baron Iron Blood teased as a good suggestion in the letters page
-Roadblock gets his ma deuce through airport security in a diplomatic pouch again
-The nautical joes entirely miss tieing up loose ends. Just vanish in the whale, leaving behind remains of the brand new BAT design.
-Bombstrike grabbing a chicken drumstick on way out of jail cell, and then later she chucks the half eaten drumstick at Black Major.

'Favourite Line of Dialogue' –
Black major to Bombstrike – “why aren’t you the obstreperous one! We shall have to give you a proper thrashing when you’re conscious enough to appreciate it”
and
Deep Six “if we have the same calibre I can scrounge your ammo if you get killed”

Checked out the website! I'll listen to your podcast. Thank you for writing up a summary here. This is great.

[J James]

issue 231

Funny that Onihashi is being spoken of in a museum as if he was ancient in some way. Dude would still be alive if he didn't kill himself. What does that number 63 mean? Is it a refence to the hexagram? I seem to remember that the hexagram was one of a long book of numbered hexagrams with different meanings.

Dawn is kind of mean. Didn't remember that. Is it meant to be her personality or Snake-Eyes? You know... Larry could develop her into a good villain (but he won't).

Since the old trope of the ceiling vent is such a lame old worn out plot device, seeing it used as a misdirect is refreshing.

Deep Six and Cutter together in dialogue is good. Deep Six is appropriately a jerk, and Cutter just feels like an accepting older man who doesn't let it ruffle him. Why are they building robots in Broca Beach too? I guess it's Cobra's main jam right now.

The Claire mystery is blowing up on Duke, with Hawk and more Joes being sucked in to the story. It is incredibly bold of the team to resist Hawk in this way. Especially Psych-Out with his fake diagnosis in the middle of the conversation. That is nearly a warning to Hawk.

Oh no! Cousin Farik! He was my favorite subplot of this subplot. The city hopping here is very fast. Glad to see Roadblock using the diplomatic pouch trick that Snake-Eyes used to do all the time.

Uh oh. We have the US targeting hospitals with drones. That cements this firmly in the Obama administration, further confusing the timeline.

Letters page: Calling out the wrong birthplace of Stalker, and then a really good question about the parental status of Joe team members. It seems technically unlikely that all of the Joes would be unmarried and without kids at home. Maybe that's why we see some of the more obscure Joes less often.

[Mainframe77]

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[Mainframe77]

Issue #232 is live to discuss. Yo Joe!

Snake in the Grass.

[J James]

issue 232

This may be the best use of Cutter ever.

These BATS are sixth generation? I don't know if I can count them all, but if I saw the supposed generation diagram Larry is thinking of then I would probably disagree. I feel like there have been more models than that. These might be the best looking since the original BATS though (the original toy ones). I still count the blue robots in the swamp.

Looks bad for Bombstrike. It's an escape ruse I think.

Looks bad for Faoud. Also a fake-out or an escape.

The two salvagers are getting lucky. Kinda surprised they haven't found empty buildings but I guess Cobra left a lot of trinkets behind and the mafia who bought the area haven't done anything with it at all.

So Bombstrike, not a ruse. Failed headshot. Biggles-Jones has truly broke bad. Closeup of Red Shadows headshot for emphasis.

The reveal that Faoud is kind of a community figure in his neck of the woods. Some level of virtue signal writing which will continue to increase as the title ages.

Dawn meets Storm Shadow.

Letters page: an interesting question about soundtracks leads to Larry suggesting Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, and Ry Cooder. I don't know any of these musicians so I might look them up.

[SnowCat]

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Originally Posted by J James

issue 232

Letters page: an interesting question about soundtracks leads to Larry suggesting Ennio Morricone, Lalo Schifrin, and Ry Cooder. I don't know any of these musicians so I might look them up.

Schifrin is responsible for the score from the original Mission Impossible TV Show, Bullitt and Dirty Harry, so you've almost certainly heard at least some of his stuff.

Morricone did the score for a lot of Eastwood Spaghetti westerns.