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08-29-2023, 01:53 PM | #21 |
Washed Out
Join Date: Mar 2021
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I never stopped liking the story but I stopped buying it when the art became to hard to look at.
Which is too bad because I ended up dropping out a few months before the Snake Eyes trilogy, which I'd been waiting YEARS for. Louis Pasteur.
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09-01-2023, 12:07 PM | #22 |
Iron Grenadier
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Fun thread. I agree with most of the statements here. In my opinion:
1. Whigham/Mushynsky was the best art team on ARAH. I miss the Bronze Age terribly. 2. Destro: Search and Destroy (116-118) was the last great arc (Whigham was great, but Mushynsky?s inks were missed), 3. I would argue that the Wildman run (120-138), particularly the first half of it, was still better than most of everything from the IDW era. Everything after that, save for 155, was garbage. 4. #278, a well written standalone with fantastic art from Dan Schoening, was the best issue from IDW. 5. The art for issue 301 looks fantastic--I just hope Hama/Skybound will produce stories that can match the best of the Marvel era. Last edited by stopdead; 09-01-2023 at 12:29 PM.. |
09-02-2023, 05:21 PM | #23 |
OG 13
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I have a soft spot for the Trimpe issues. #1,3,4, 6-8 are still my favorite issues. Vosburg was tough for me to get into especially at first. I really like Russ Heath's issue (#24) but my top 3 would be Trimpe, Whigham, and Wagner. From IDW, I really liked Robert Adkins.
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09-02-2023, 05:23 PM | #24 |
Just a fan
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09-02-2023, 05:28 PM | #25 |
OG 13
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Location: West Virginia
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I LOVED Special Missions for the most part. I was very happy when I saw that he was the artist when it started.
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09-03-2023, 06:30 AM | #26 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Oct 2021
Location: Uk
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The biggest shame with the reboots and remakes is that they just weren’t different enough - apart from reloaded which had real potential and the cobra series with chuckles which I found interesting for a while.
Idw rah rapidly sucked. A real bookend story set in the nineties would have been better. The new continuation of rah just can’t be any better. Can it?
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09-03-2023, 09:52 AM | #27 |
OG 13
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My biggest problem with Chuck Dixon's stuff is that he seemed to just have random named characters and they all seemed generic. I like the idea of an elite force. The first few years of the Marvel comic felt that way. Once you have hundreds of members, I feel that you lose that elite idea. Now you just have specialists. And to be fair, the first wave was all U.S. Army, so you just assumed G.I. Joe was the best of the best of U.S. Army special forces. Once you start adding Green Berets, SEALs, and members from other branches, elite feeling gets lost.
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09-04-2023, 06:47 PM | #28 |
Helicopter Pilot
Join Date: May 2022
Location: Texas
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Yeah, I stop reading after 122. The series doesn't really pick up for me until issue #10. Issue #12 really is the issue that gets the ball rolling with all of the Hama's signature subplots (which is where he is strongest in my opinion). Wildman, Ninja force, Headman, and the eco warriors were really bad. I agree that "Destro Seek and Destroy" is the last great story of the series, and its follow up is serviceable. Really can't stand Wildman's G.i. Joe although his Transformers are pretty good. It's good to see others who like M.D. Bright. He is probably my favorite G.i. Joe artist.
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09-04-2023, 06:53 PM | #29 |
Iron Grenadier
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Location: RI
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Quote:
My biggest problem with Chuck Dixon's stuff is that he seemed to just have random named characters and they all seemed generic. I like the idea of an elite force. The first few years of the Marvel comic felt that way. Once you have hundreds of members, I feel that you lose that elite idea. Now you just have specialists. And to be fair, the first wave was all U.S. Army, so you just assumed G.I. Joe was the best of the best of U.S. Army special forces. Once you start adding Green Berets, SEALs, and members from other branches, elite feeling gets lost.
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09-05-2023, 11:35 AM | #30 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Louisiana
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Delta has members from other services. Hama and other writers have made it clear that G.I. Joe coexists with Delta in the same universe. My guess is that the Joe team is reserved for truly impossible, next-level threats. They’re who the DoD would use if there was an alien invasion or, say, a snake-themed death cult that had penetrated multiple industries in the private sector and had created and maintained a new country on a newly formed landmass in the Gulf of Mexico.
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