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I picked up the GI Joe: Field Guide, which is a collection of animation model sheets from the 80's show similar to The Transformers: The Ark book.

Cold Slither!


I don't remember this happening.


I also don't remember these Transformers-looking robots appearing. I'll have look up this episode.


The synthoid episodes with Shipwreck were terrifying, even when I watched them a few years ago. The animation model sheets of this episode is even more scary...

This is a review I just did of the Renegades 4 pack that was released on Amazon a few months ago. Enjoy

It's day 2 of Renegades week and here comes Scarlett

Here's day 3 and four of Renegades week

Ripcord




Cobra Trooper

Concluding Renegades week here's Tunnel Rat

At Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo, I saw a guy wear an Alley Viper costume. I've seen several Cobra Vipers, officers, Destros, Baronesses, and Cobra Commanders but this is the first I've seen of an Alley Viper.

Supreme Convoy wrote:At Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo, I saw a guy wear an Alley Viper costume. I've seen several Cobra Vipers, officers, Destros, Baronesses, and Cobra Commanders but this is the first I've seen of an Alley Viper.

Much love for the Alley Vipers

This looks fun

Note the lack of Snake-Eyes.

Supreme Convoy wrote:This looks fun

Note the lack of Snake-Eyes.

I have a man at NYCC I'll see what I can do

Just like the Transformers IDW Collection hardcovers, they're collecting the GI Joe run in this format.

Looks like Cobra will not be a part of this line of hardcovers. At least initially.

GI JOE IDW COLLECTION HC VOL 01
(W) Larry Hama, Chuck Dixon (A) Tom Feister & Various (CA) Nick Runge
It’s a new era with new challenges, and to face these challenges the United States military has forged a new group of the best of the best, G.I. JOE. Starting with G.I. JOE: ORIGINS read from the beginning the whole story of how G.I. JOE came to be and their realization of a shadowy group that keeps popping up wherever trouble is.

$49.99

This guy owns the original art for the entire issue of GI Joe #21.

Outstanding.

MUST RESIST.

Jonboy Meyers has been doing the IDW Marvel reprint covers after they used the Campbell covers. I really dig his stuff. I saw him at Long Beach Comic Con yesterday and got this awesome Storm Shadow sketch!

As a kid, I’ve always loved “The Viper is Coming.” It’s the one where someone calls Barbeque’s home and announces “This is the Viper” which sounds ominous and threatening. GI Joe preemptively attacks Cobra around the world but doesn’t find “The Viper.” It turns out to be a misunderstanding, The Viper is really the Window Wiper.





I thought it was hilarious as a kid and still thought it was pretty clever when I rewatched it in the recent boxset.



Today, I noticed one of my students reading Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I remember these books as a kid as well. The student was reading a short story called “The Viper” in the book. When I glanced over, imagine my surprise that it’s essentially the same story as the GI Joe episode!

It’s a very brief one page story. The line “This is the Viper” and the punchline is the same. I don’t remember reading “The Viper” when I was younger. Then again, I don’t remember about these scary anthologies other than their gruesome pictures.



The copyright in the book is from 1981 while the GI Joe episode broadcasted in 1985. I’m not accusing the GI Joe writer David Bennett Carren of swiping to cause a ruckus. Plus I'm sure most of the cartoons I loved as a kid were inspired by something else. I just think it’s fascinating that two things I enjoyed as a kid had something in common!

God, the Viper? I LOVED thaty episode!

I got the 'Kim Arashikage' figure from BBTS yesterday. I rather like her.

Interesting, There has to be a connection somehow to the short story and cartoon.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Interesting, There has to be a connection somehow to the short story and cartoon.

I posted this on another board. Apparently it's an old joke. Going back further, the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark source section the story is attributed to a Philadelphia teenager in 1980, and gives mention to another version in book published in the '70s.

I know this wasn't GI Joe's finest moment but I couldn't resist buying these. I really dug those episodes as a kid.

Supreme Convoy wrote:I know this wasn't GI Joe's finest moment but I couldn't resist buying these. I really dug those episodes as a kid.

That reminds me I have to get these.

Damn you, Hasbro! They must know I can't resist mystery bags. Especially super deformed characters.





And the figures that were inside? Ghost Ninja Henchmen and Steel Brigade.



I've always wanted to sign up for the Steel Brigade figure as a kid but never did. I thought the Ghost Ninja figure was peculiar because I've never heard of the character. A quick Google search later and I learned it was a GI Joe unproduced figure. In fact, I didn't realize Hasbro showed several unproduced figures last summer such as a line of ninjas and a line of zombie figures. Pretty interesting.

Any idea on cheat codes for those guys?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Any idea on cheat codes for those guys?

Like markings on the packaging to tell you which ones you are getting before opening the package?

I looked at the bag. No obvious sign yet.

Supreme Convoy wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Any idea on cheat codes for those guys?

Like markings on the packaging to tell you which ones you are getting before opening the package?

I looked at the bag. No obvious sign yet.

Damn, they're learning from Japan

I watched Operation Dragonfire. I haven't seen that since I was a kid. I was surprised how well that mini-series was produced. The animation quality is pretty good. And I was also shocked that it used a lot of the Sunbow music cues.

Then I watched the first episode of DIC Season 1... the animation quality takes a big dip. Yes, it's more slapstick compared to the Sunbow series but I'm enjoying it.

(And yes, I'm aware the original GI Joe series has it's silly moments like Red Rocket Burgers and Cold Slither )

Ah, there are different Micro Force packaging with more figures inside. This looks randomly packed but at least you can see which ones you're getting. This has Zombie Cobra Commander!