I Read All 155 Issues of the Marvel, G.I. Joe Comics! Reading comics from issue 1 till the end #1
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Marvels G.I. Joe comics and what I thought of them. Don't Forget to vote on which one I do next Transformers comic, or G.I. Joe show.
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I just love that Cobra Commander is an angry former used car salesman
To me this is the one true G.I. Joe continuity. The cartoon is fun and all but it was just an action cartoon. The G.I. Joe Comics under Larry Hama is a Soap Opera. It has the character beats off of each other. The family dynamic between Joes. The will they won't they with Snake Eyes and Scarlett. The inner struggles of our characters on both sides. The love story between Destro and The Baroness. The romance between Flint and Lady Jaye (I know that was in the cartoon too). All of this is as Soapy as Days of Our Lives.
i as a eurolad had HUGE difference to get the whole GI JOE lore at all and it toom me a book and i must say - uuuhhh, uhh, no good comic book writing, i still love my toys, over 40 years old but the whole lore? gosh. to me gi joe was my actionn man in action in the garden, no shitty marvel sellout:)
The frame of Zarana pushing Baroness almost off a helicopter, and Snakeeyes real face are indelible kid memories that grabbed my imagination when I was a kid. How did you access these full issues? They are so hardto access.
Agreed. Cartoon was fun, but a commercial. The comics were/are canon. #301 just came out last week. Can't wait to get back into it.
Ironically enough, I was likely reading these comics during a long summer vacation, age 9/10, while my sister had Days Our Lives playing in the background. I was probably almost as interested in Bo, Patch and the drama on that show as I was by Snake-Eyes and Scarlett. Except Days didn't have ninjas and massive underground desert bases.
Man, being an 80s kid was dope.
Another good comic with Larry Hama involved is "the Nam"
GI Joe was the best Marvel comic ever. My favorite. And this is the funnest, best breakdown of the series ever. So glad I watched this - subscribed lol
Thank you so much man!
My favorite GIJoe run of all time in comics Marvel did an amazing job with the franchise. GIJoe is my obsession and so glad to see someone went through the Marvel series on RUclips it's a real delight introducing people to one of the most enjoyable comics of my youth.
I chuckled a bit when you said that Cobra Commander is just like he is in the cartoon. There's one major difference: the comicbook version isn't an incompetent nitwit.
This is honestly great. I love seeing someone else experience something from my childhood.
My first issue was GI Joe #25 from 1984 and I remember Snake Eyes visiting Gung Ho in the hospital after Storm Shadow had whipped his ass. I remember Gung Ho noticing that Snake Eyes had the same tattoo as Storm Shadow. Then Snake Eyes silently leaves. Great issue and great video!
That was a good one. I really like the character devlopment the comic has
For a really long time all Marvel Comics said "Stan Lee Presents" in front of the title page of each book. This happened all the way until like the early 2000's. Even long after Stan had stopped being involved with the comics in the late 70's. So since this entire run was created by Marvel in theory GIJOE happens within the 616 Marvel Universe.
I mean they do have a mutant among the GIJOE team. Ace is such a good pilot because he has subconscious precognition. XD
My brothers and I started collecting these G.I. Joe comics here in Australia around 1990, and sometime last year I finally completed the collection. I sat down to read the entire run, in order, earlier this year, but called it quits at about 135. The ninja storylines had become tediously dominant, with many great characters almost completely neglected. The comics (and especially the toy line) took a serious turn for the worse after 1991/92, so it's no surprise that both were canned in '94. There are some good issues towards the end, and the final issues are quite valuable now because of their low-print status. The toy line was clearly the highlight of the ARAH universe, surely one of the best of all time. Yo Joe!
This was epic. I think you should do more GI Joe next so it’s fresh in memory. TF will be a huge new undertaking and you already have the basic indoc down.
That is a good point! 😀
Reading it straight through, you realize how haphazard and disjointed the overall story is. Hama never had an overall plan. He has said many times it was just a toy commercial. Still a great series if you stick to the Snake Eyes backstory. Good job on this.
Thank you so much and yeah 100 percent agree
This made me want a collection of comic covers, the G.I. Joe comic covers were excellent.
Actual wars and politics tends to be disjointed so not having a plan really helps the book feel real in a way.
Bob budiansky (who did tranformers) has talked about how hard it was to write a cohesive story for a toy brand because just as the story was going one way hasbro would make a bunch of demands for changes and different characters to be included.
He lacked a plan, but he still did great characterization.
This was really great! Awesome job!! Yes, I agree the comic book series is overall good with a mix of great stories, lame ones and all in between. The character development is probably the best aspect mainly if you're a fan of Snake Eyes which many are. Another thing I loved was the cover artwork in many of the issues. My favorite being issue #63.
Thank you so much. And yes I agree it explored snake eyes alot more then the show did.
This Marvel Comics of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, ran for 12 years from 1982 to 1994, across 155 issues. During its 12 year run, it ran at the same time as Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Adventurer, Star Wars, Team America, The Transformers, The Transformers: Generation 2, Heathcliff, Heathcliff's Funhouse, Muppet Babies, Care Bears, Fraggle Rock, ThunderCats, Madballs, Masters of the Universe, Sectaurs, Bullwinkle and Rocky, Silverhawks, Air Raiders, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Alf, Count Duckula, Police Academy, RoboCop, Mighty Mouse, Camp Candy, Barbie, Barbie Fashion, The Toxic Avenger, Toxic Crusaders, Double Dragon, Terminator 2, Captain Planet, NFL SuperPro, Pirates of Dark Water, the Bill & Ted's series, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Kid 'n Play, Defenders of Dynatron City, Hook, WCW: World Championship Wrestling, TekWar, Fish Police, Ren & Stimpy, The Meteor Man, Biker Mice From Mars, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, Beavis and Butt-head, Coneheads, No Escape, Rocko's Modern Life, and The Disney Afternoon comics on shelves.
Out of those the transformers is the only other ones ive read
You did a good job on this. You are also very optimistic keep it up!
When you laugh at stuff... It makes me start laughing too 🤣🤓
haha I'm glad
Perfect timing
Right before the pledge manager opens and I have to decide to get the first volume or the whole set
I haven’t read all GI Joe but I do love everything I did, good review thanks
I would have thought zartan would have been the faceless master
I read Marvel's GI Joe and Transformers run too !!! Read the continuing IDW GI Joe A Real American Hero, its good too !!!
Will do. Itll take sone time 😂 but im sure ill get around to it, im really curious the direction they take with it
I have re-read issues 1-10 several times, and issue 1 probably more times than any other comic that I own. I think issues 1-60 are all pretty good -- with kind of a slow stretch somewhere around issues 25-35 where they are no longer doing stand alone issues, but the connected story isn't really going anywhere yet.
Beyond issue 60 the best stuff is the things that get into Snake-Eyes back story, and especially the arc that gives the back story for Baroness and how she and Destro met.
Issue 155 is a super classic. Amazing way to end the series (at the time) and well worth owning for any fan.
I strongly recommend the TPB of issues 1-10, and any way you can get your hands on issue 155.
Great video - really enjoyed it. Just wanted to chime in with my take on the discussion of how 'worth it' it is to read the comics.
Rip Cord is one of my fav toys and I really like the arc that he features in as kind of the B plot for quite a few issues. Also the first dozen or 2 issues of "Special Missions" have a lot of cool stand alone stories, which I like because they spotlight some of the 88-89 characters that otherwise don't show up much. I like them because they remind me of the stand alone style of those first 10 or 11 issues.
@@willarms5510 I keep hearing about the special missions being good. I will for sure have to read those too. I just finished transformers so I should have a video on that soon. But ill be sure to hit up special missions soon as well. I hear it has crystal ball. Who I know nothing about, but owned a action figure of him as a kid
Nice review. It's like to read them all but some of those issues are pricey. 💸
21 was so awesome. This was my comic when I was a kid right in the heart it beginning I was like 12. The comics are so better written by Larry Hama an actual Vietnam vet so even keeping it for kids it had some grit.
EXCELLENT COVERAGE on the real story of gi joe. You should tell Hasbro what the real story of gi joe is.
For anyone interested. Image comics are going release issue's #1-50 in one graphic novel. Out October 2024.
Love this!! It's so interesting to see the difference between the comic and the show. Haven't read many comics, but I always loved the old cartoon. :)
Not sure what I was expecting cobra commander and Destros faces to look like... but it wasn't that. 😂
I really enjoyed this! ❤️
Haha the image of cobra commanders face will never be something I get over.
@@Xero-Studios I feel like no matter what face they revealed, people were going to be disappointed. It is one of those times where the reveal can never live up to the mystery. It is the same with those 1993 Inspector Gadget toys when they revealed Doctor Claw's Face. There was just no way to live up to years of hype.
@@bradleyrenfroe2776 i mean that could be a fair point.
The hand signs were also in the 2010s Nick TMNT. I wish I had a link to the video, but the hand signs are used in conjunction with Buddhist words as a means of entering a meditative state to calm the mind and aid the healing process.
Good to know. Thank you 😄
You need to read it with the Special Missions books in chronological order. So you haven't actually read the whole thing.
Wait. They fixed Snake Eye's face? Dang...I had stopped reading right about the the time Billy was recovering from getting blown up...I switched over to Captain America and Iron Man.
Any plans of doing reviews on each or two at a time?
Ima do as much as I can. I know im comming back to the g.i.joe comic. I just finished my transformers comic video. Ill for sure review the show at some point too
Any plans on reading issues #155.5 - 218? Issue #155 was the last issue published by Marvel but IDW hired Larry Hama to continue the story in the same continuity. It ran until 2012. They did the same thing with Marvel's Transformer comics, too.
For sure. Just dont know when I will get around to it. Im trying out a ton of comics since im pretty new to the world of comics. I know I will be returning to g.i.joe soon. They have a short serries called special mission force or something like that. Its much shorter but I wanna read those. I also wanna start x-men and scott pilgrim soon.
@Rook7474......they should never have tried to "reboot" the series .. Hama went of the Woke end when he did these and the stories are terrible.. I read up to about issue 200 then just couldn't take anymore...
LOve this. thanks. I've read em all, but years ago.
Love your @ dude. Great name
I was a comic only fan. To hell with the cartons. Why? Because of the Weather Dominator mini series. The part with Snake Eyes and Shipwreck. Snake Eyes in drag, Timber in disguise and just before helping operate the mine car. To me, they turned GI Joe into a Scooby Doo show. And Polly was Scrappy Doo. Never watched the cartoon after that.
The Stories were so disjointed due to Hasbro. new vehicles and new characters had to be introduced and shown, no matter what it meant to Hama story plot lines.
The GI Joe does keep going on past 155, but with a different company.
Totally fair. I remember that. I woke up to snake eyes in drag but like bad drag he was still in his ninja fit but with a wig and I was like wtf is this 😂. Thanks for telling me what episodes it was. I will need to go back and re watch lol
The show is campy as shit. But I still really enjoy it.
I for sure enjoy the darker issues of the comic but the comic can also be campy as shit too like the cartoon.
But yeah I can totally respect that opinion, they have a different vibe for sure.
Cobra Commander considers his masked face to be his true identity. He has even been shown to wear the hood while sleeping. So he considers his unmasked face a "disguise"
Megatron was probably injured from basically blowing himself up in the classic Transformers "Gone But Not Forgotten", where Shockwave takes advantage of Megatron's paranoia that Prime will return and manipulates him into going ballistic and basically blowing himself up. I agree with you about the cartoon being superior; the comic had a lot of great issues, but the cartoon just had so much going for it. It had the right mixture of humor, action and charm. The soundtrack, the voice-acting, all of it was great. As far as "Stan Lee Presents", that was something that was put before the title of every Marvel Comic. It might even still be. It just sort of a way of referencing and paying homage to Stan Lee and a way of making it seem like there was still a connection between Stan Lee and Marvel.
funny you mention that, I am actually making my way through the transformer comics now. Thank you so much for teaching me about the stan lee presents thing. I had no idea. Thats really fucking cool!
Roadpig toy was godlike
Stan Lee presents translates to "Stanley Lieber signed a better contract with Martin Goodman, capitalizing on Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, to maintain a better company public image, and stake going forward from the '60s".
Was that music from White Bat? Sounds really familiar?
It was! They have fantastic music
@Xero-Studios agreed. And I enjoyed the video. I grew up with GI Joe cartoon in the 80s and the comics in the 90s. It's nice to see the legacy lives on. I appreciate hearing your perspective.
Transformers comic next plz
Mayyyyyyyybe 😁
It is surprisingly violent. One of the few places in the marvel universe that if you die? You die.
A movie, like a Terrorist/War-Romance, with Destro & the Baroness, might be kinda sweet, or her kinda secretly dating someone from the Joes, like only once a year, 1 day being just the human beings they might be, and after that it's fighting each other again! 😅
About the comics, I think the best 2 stories, don't know the titles, but one is Snake Eyes vs Storm Shadow in a jungle, fighting for the information of a satelite that came down, then it's Snake Eyes vs a Tiger, who goes full "The Revenant" on him, and Shadow Storm, though first leaving him, now saving him, it was very humane.
And the other one is Cobra creating new landmass with Tsunami-Machines (!?), nobody took possession of it, so Cobra took it, hence Cobra Island, I guess. But before that happens the Joes fight their way in, annihilating about everything & everyone, but at the very last moment their surperios called them off, they had no political jurisdiction there.
I was shocked, and impressed, the Joes won the fight, but lost the battle, because of Red Tape, politics.
Back then totaly new concept for me, kinda smart, for a comic about Military Fantasy... 😬👍🏻
Love the comics until they crossed it with Transformers all the same with TFs it was great art.
what's the best way to read all of these, or where could I?
This might be a stupid question and also i know im 2 years "late".... but since you were kinda of new to comics and those Gi Joe comics are rare, where did you find them!?... cause im really not a comic book guy but i really like Gi Joe and i'd be interested to check a couple of them.
I want to say that I have read 1 thru 107 or 110? I love the dr venom kwinn scarface story arc...
Kwinn was honestly a neat character. I was disipointed to see him go.
But dr venom just felt easily replaceable to mindbender. I feel like we didnt need both and that they are similer.
Kwinn was very cool, I wished he'd have been more fleshed out but yeah....Venom was definitely the weasel 😂
@@jamesschulziii9098 do you know if hes in anything else, or just the comic?
Issue 21 was so good
GI Joe cartoon next plz.
..The jokes on you, mate:)
Interesting review. I love the comic series, I consider it a top ten run. Although I do think it gets pretty bad at times- especially around issue 119ish or so. The Destroy Destro arc with some of the terrible toy designs. And then Firefly being a ninja too. And yes, the cheerleader/ninja strike pose. Ugh.
Regarding Stan Lee Presents:, Stan Lee was mainly a Marvel Figurehead at this point. I don't think he really had anything to do with G.I. Joe, other being Stan Lee.
Great job on recapping the comic series.
If you listen to podcasts, check out my podcast G.I. Joe: A Real American Headcast.
If you want the tattoo, you should look at the I-Ching and look at what it means
Dude G.I. Joe is awesome! You should check out G.I. Joe the movie if you haven already.
If you are talking about the cartoon one. Yes!!!! I have seen it. The intro is so goood and pythona is a awesome character!
@@Xero-Studios Yeah I meant the cartoon Cobralalalala!
@@DREAMSINDIGITAL Omg the memorys 😁 Cobralalalalala
Kuji no in Stephen k. Hayes has a good video on it…it is sometimes called the 9 cuts
The ninja hand techniques are called mundras,
Ita good up until about issue 30 then it all goes downhill. Espwcially the artwork
Artwork gets reaaaaal weird toward the end
@@Xero-Studios yeah im reading through them all now online. Im at like issue 40. It just gets stupider in my opinion.
Seems like they had a deal with hasbro where they kept having tobintroduce all the new toys in the comics when they came out and ia diatracting.
The first arc with Dr. Venom and the toxin was great.
It was a good story.
@@secretsquirrel6718 oh yeah, the transformers comic does that too even worse. New characters come in and out nonstop
The GI Joe fanbase can be obsure, im sure, you like Cobralalalalla.
..and i live in Germany.