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I think Larry Hama is still writing the original GI Joe series today, only through IDW and not Marvel. I've only ever heard great things about his GI Joe stuff.
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X-O posted:I think Larry Hama is still writing the original GI Joe series today, only through IDW and not Marvel. I've only ever heard great things about his GI Joe stuff. I don't suppose the Marvel GI Joe stuff from the 80s is on Marvel Unlimited? The IDW reissue trades are like 20 bucks each and there's at least 16 of them.
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A Strange Aeon posted:I don't suppose the Marvel GI Joe stuff from the 80s is on Marvel Unlimited? The IDW reissue trades are like 20 bucks each and there's at least 16 of them. I think they can't because they don't have the rights for them. Same for ROM, Transformers, and Godzilla. I do find it funny though because some of the X-Men issues from that era mention Monster Island and that Rogue had contact with ROM.
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Jul 3, 2017 00:49
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Yeah IDW owns the rights to all the GI Joe stuff now. Maybe some of it is on Comixology Unlimited? Though I doubt much if it is since that service really doesn't get you that much.
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If any of you have access to Hoopla through your public libraries, they include a few of the Classic G.I. Joe TPBs from IDW. Everything is in e-book format, and your library will dictate how many checkouts you get per month. (Mine gives us four.) They have a good selection from DC, Image, Dark Horse, Archie, Valiant, and a few no-name indies, but the IDW selection is spotty. Ours has Classic G.I. Joe volumes 1, 2, and 4, but that's still a nice way to get started reading them. Like I said, the first 10-20 issues are slow and kind of generic, but they really get good when they get into the Cobra politics, the origin of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, the Joes who served together on a long-range recon patrol in Vietnam, etc. What's really interesting is that the series could have been a straight-ahead, rah-rah, gung-ho (no pun intended), "America, gently caress yeah!" jingoistic pep rally, but a lot of Hama's writing was actually critical, or at least satirical, of the military and the "might makes right" ethos of the '80s. While the cartoon was always a straight-ahead toy commercial, Hama did his best to balance introducing new characters (toys) when he had to, but continue to develop and focus on his favorites.
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Jul 3, 2017 03:01
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They're sort of the perfect thing to find at a Half Price Books or something, but I've never seen GI Joe stuff there. Or if I do, it's some trade from a few years ago, not the classic stuff. Speaking of IDW, I did find a cool deluxe hardcover compilation of the early TMNT stuff--I've never read it, but I think it's the original issues from 1984. I'm kind of excited to read it, just to see what the idea was that sprouted such a massive franchise.
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Jul 3, 2017 03:03
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Something Larry Hama related that is on MU is The 'Nam, which he edited (what with being a vet himself.) Although they only have the first 20 issues on there, they're pretty good. An interesting thing they did is that things happened in "real" time where in between issues a month would pass. This leads to stuff like the "main" character rotating out after 12 issues as a tour was one year. Since it was a CCA book they had to write around some stuff like swearing, hard drugs and sex but its still real as poo poo.
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Jul 3, 2017 03:17
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Huh, it's so seldom this happens anymore but I took a look on ebay and found someone selling a lot of the first 5 GI Joe trades for around 50 bucks. Since every other listing I saw was 1 trade for $25, I jumped on it. That's like the first 50 issues, so should give me a good idea if I want to track down the other 11 trades!
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Jul 3, 2017 03:29
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A Strange Aeon posted:Huh, it's so seldom this happens anymore but I took a look on ebay and found someone selling a lot of the first 5 GI Joe trades for around 50 bucks. Since every other listing I saw was 1 trade for $25, I jumped on it. By #50, you'll either love it or...nah, you'll probably love it. Were those IDW editions, or Marvel? Marvel released the first five Classic G.I. Joe TPBs before losing the rights to IDW, and then IDW reprinted them and continued the series.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:By #50, you'll either love it or...nah, you'll probably love it. Hmm, I can't actually tell from the picture--maybe you can? I think that link should go to the completed listing. http://www.ebay.com/itm/162567726671
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A Strange Aeon posted:Hmm, I can't actually tell from the picture--maybe you can? I think that link should go to the completed listing. Almost positive they're IDW, just from the bit of the one spine I can make out. That's nice. If you decide to track down the rest later, at least they'll all match on your bookshelf. (I get a little OCD about such things!) But that's a great deal. Congrats!
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Jul 3, 2017 04:38
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Just bought the new volume of Empowered and discovered when I went to reread the last that an ex stole it on her way out of town. Guess I'll just go into this one off memory, then. God damnit.
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Don't get anything on Comixology till there's a sale. GI Joe or IDW line-wide tends to get discounted there a few times a year.
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Jul 3, 2017 06:59
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Open Marriage Night posted:I'd also like to see a universe where Peter Parker replaces Jimmy Olsen as the Daily Planet photographer. This happened very briefly during Marvel Vs. DC. I can try to post panels tonight once I get off work.
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purple death ray posted:This happened very briefly during Marvel Vs. DC. I can try to post panels tonight once I get off work. Wasn't Ben Reilly Spider-Man at the time though? He fought Superboy (the cloned one from Death and Return of Superman) and Tim Drake Robin made out with Jubilee after tying her down.
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Jul 3, 2017 18:54
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Skwirl posted:Wasn't Ben Reilly Spider-Man at the time though? He fought Superboy (the cloned one from Death and Return of Superman) and Tim Drake Robin made out with Jubilee after tying her down. You don't have to mention that last part in every single goddamn conversation you have, Skwirl. 
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Hey I made a small game based on a recent Squirrel Girl cover if anyone would like to try it! (or try remixing it)  Play here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/167606070/
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Roth posted:I do find it funny though because some of the X-Men issues from that era mention Monster Island and that Rogue had contact with ROM. Also part of why the Hama GI Joe comics are a cut above pretty much every other media tie-in: Larry Hama more or less created Modern GI Joe. Hama had pitched a modernized SHIELD comic with Nick Fury Jr. fighting a revived Hydra, and while editorial passed, they got a request from Hasbro about a year later to work on a GI Joe comic to launch in conjunction with the toy line. Hama got the call and more or less retrofitted his pitch to the existing toys Hasbro was working on, and then proceeded to write all of the "file cards" and copy for the toy line along with writing the book. He brought the idea of having "Cobra" instead of 'random terrorists' from that pitch, and had a hand in creating everyone else. Plus because of this interaction he had a pretty good idea of what new toys they were planning on launching and how to fold them into his story, as opposed to just waking up one day and being told "yeah so uh Transformers have separate heads that are different Transformers now, and there is a lady Transformer put her in the next issue" or whatever happens with those other franchises.
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Happy Southern Canada Day, US goons!
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I've had no real opportunity to post this, so here's to happy 21st Independence Day.
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Ghostlight posted:I've had no real opportunity to post this, so here's to happy 21st Independence Day. Cap doesn't even know how to arm wrestle properly. Stallone is a true American hero
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Madkal posted:Cap doesn't even know how to arm wrestle properly. Stallone is a true American hero Stallone has nothing in Guy Gardner
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Madkal posted:Cap doesn't even know how to arm wrestle properly. Stallone is a true American hero
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lmbo my LGS was closed for the 4th and their notice sign was a Photoshop of the panel where Cap goes "Hail Hydra"
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Jul 5, 2017 09:23
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I want someone in the crowd yelling, "I feel like this is a more nuanced issue!"
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Oh my god, "party time"
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Jul 5, 2017 21:49
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Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are the loving worst, and I'm going to post about this every time someone mentions them in a thread.
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techknight posted:Hey I made a small game based on a recent Squirrel Girl cover if anyone would like to try it! (or try remixing it) Did you show this to Ryan and Erica? They would love it, for real.
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Did they do the Hickman Avengers Omni right? Also what's up everyone comics seem bad right now
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Senor Candle posted:Did they do the Hickman Avengers Omni right? Just read older, better comics.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Just read older, better comics. 
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Comics are actually very good right now.
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Actually nothing has ever been good
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