I originally posted this on The Tank, and I'm curious to see how you feel about the matter.
or at least put on hiatus. You know how in comics, the new movement is to start a line over with a "# 1" issue under the guise of "breathing new life into the series," "attracting new readership," and all of the possible stories have been told under that particular editorial direction? I feel that's legitimately true with G.I. JOE, Hasbro and Larry Hama have fucked around and over the course of a thirty year period has allowed JOE of be piegon hole into this one particular area. Which is ninjas, S.E., Duke, and COBRA Command as the protagonist.
Mind you, G.I. JOE is the reason I collect comic books, action figures, and related memorabilia, so the brand is near and dear to my heart, but I feel for the overall prosperity and longevity of the brand, it's time for G. I. JOE to become something else.
The thing is that "something else," can't involve ARAH because ARAH is always "x" in most people's mind. S.E. is a special ops dude with ninja training, Duke is "overrated," hated by some of the JOE fandom is always captured, and is field commander, C.C. is the head of group ruthless organization that wants to control the world, Destro supplies the weapons, Zartan is a master of disguise, the Dreadnoks like chocolate doughnuts and grape soda. These are things that are associated with ARAH and when they're not included in and/or changed in an other interpretation of G. I. JOE i.e. RoC we bitch to high heaven about the needless changes to the source material.
However, if you do something different, you have free reign to do whatever you want because it's a new telling of the story. The biggest failing of RoC was that it had too many "WTF," moments. In order for that particular version of G. I. JOE to have been acceptable to fandom, there would have had to been about two or three ARAH JOEs with some new recruits and going after an entirely new enemy you eventually tie that enemy into COBRA.
Or if Hasbro is insistent upon using ARAH, I think they need to embrace what ARAH is, (military special ops team,) and they need to give under used characters some shine. Not that he's was under used, putting Roadblock in the forefront is a step in the right direction, and I strongly support that movement. I know it's a reach, but I love to see the JOEs fight somebody other than COBRA also.
The bad thing about G. I. JOE is that Larry Hama gave the Joeverse character and depth, the good thing about G. I. JOE is Larry Hama gave the Joeverse character and depth. Now if a writer keeps focusing on the same characters and themes, things can get quite constricting real fast, however, G. I. JOE has a plethora of characters and myriad of stories to tell, I think it's time to start to delved into some of those untold stories.
In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't read or seen every JOE comic or cartoon, so some of the things I've mentioned my have started to have been already addressed.
or at least put on hiatus. You know how in comics, the new movement is to start a line over with a "# 1" issue under the guise of "breathing new life into the series," "attracting new readership," and all of the possible stories have been told under that particular editorial direction? I feel that's legitimately true with G.I. JOE, Hasbro and Larry Hama have fucked around and over the course of a thirty year period has allowed JOE of be piegon hole into this one particular area. Which is ninjas, S.E., Duke, and COBRA Command as the protagonist.
Mind you, G.I. JOE is the reason I collect comic books, action figures, and related memorabilia, so the brand is near and dear to my heart, but I feel for the overall prosperity and longevity of the brand, it's time for G. I. JOE to become something else.
The thing is that "something else," can't involve ARAH because ARAH is always "x" in most people's mind. S.E. is a special ops dude with ninja training, Duke is "overrated," hated by some of the JOE fandom is always captured, and is field commander, C.C. is the head of group ruthless organization that wants to control the world, Destro supplies the weapons, Zartan is a master of disguise, the Dreadnoks like chocolate doughnuts and grape soda. These are things that are associated with ARAH and when they're not included in and/or changed in an other interpretation of G. I. JOE i.e. RoC we bitch to high heaven about the needless changes to the source material.
However, if you do something different, you have free reign to do whatever you want because it's a new telling of the story. The biggest failing of RoC was that it had too many "WTF," moments. In order for that particular version of G. I. JOE to have been acceptable to fandom, there would have had to been about two or three ARAH JOEs with some new recruits and going after an entirely new enemy you eventually tie that enemy into COBRA.
Or if Hasbro is insistent upon using ARAH, I think they need to embrace what ARAH is, (military special ops team,) and they need to give under used characters some shine. Not that he's was under used, putting Roadblock in the forefront is a step in the right direction, and I strongly support that movement. I know it's a reach, but I love to see the JOEs fight somebody other than COBRA also.
The bad thing about G. I. JOE is that Larry Hama gave the Joeverse character and depth, the good thing about G. I. JOE is Larry Hama gave the Joeverse character and depth. Now if a writer keeps focusing on the same characters and themes, things can get quite constricting real fast, however, G. I. JOE has a plethora of characters and myriad of stories to tell, I think it's time to start to delved into some of those untold stories.
In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't read or seen every JOE comic or cartoon, so some of the things I've mentioned my have started to have been already addressed.
