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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 6, 2021 7:25:39 GMT -5
Any views on Croc Master? Visually cool (like most G.I. Joe characters), but always seemed a tad impractical, having to lug that crocodile around…
His job was to act as a guard to Cobra HQ IIRC, so he would not have to drag them around a lot. (My biologist background feels the need to mention that every time we see Croc Master he has gators around, not crocs) I do think that Crocs and gators would make poor guard animals, but he's not that weird to me.
Re: the earlier mentioned characters:
Raptor was always weird.
I like the Alley Vipers (the costumes are basically urban warfare/SWAT), except they would need a different colour scheme. (A quick google gives them a bit more toned down look with black/red instead of orange/blue, but still not very practical. I'd expect some Grey/Black/White colour scheme) Crystal Ball: Didn't know him, he was never released over here.* He definitely looks like the kind of character I'd have no interest in as a kid. Big Boa: Didn't like him as a toy, but he made sense as the unarmed combat instructor for Cobra. I liked him in the Chuckles mini I mentioned before. Relatively recently found out that he was included because they wanted to use him as an enemy to Rocky Balboa, but the Rocky toy fell through.
* = it was always kinda odd which characters would be released as toys over here and which one didn't (just including the carded figures, not the vehicles as I hardly remember those):
- The first series over here was the 1985 series (but they did include some of the earlier regular Cobra figures: the Cobra Trooper, Destro, Storm Shadow, Ripper and Buzzer probably to keep the two factions a bit balanced. No Baroness, Major Bludd or Firefly though.) - 1986: pretty much all the figures, except for Low-Light. - 1987: No Chuckles and Sneak-Peak on the Joe side. The Battle Force 2000 characters would be released a year later. No Crystal Ball on the Cobra side. - 1988: All of the regular figures and Battle Force 2000 characters. Tiger Force: We didn't get the recolours of Dusty, Flint and Bazooka. We *did* get recolours of Outback and Psyche-Out which apparently weren't released in the US?) - 1989 (This was the last series I got as a kid): Again pretty much all the figures, but only 3 of the Slaughter's Marauders: No recolours of Barbecue, Footloose or Sgt. Slaughter for us. Also no Python Patrol over here.
I do know that the 1990 series was published over here, but can't tell which ones came out and which ones didn't.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2021 7:29:15 GMT -5
Your insightful and informative post reminds me of how there were some European-exclusive M.A.S.K. sets, some of which looked pretty cool, if contrived.
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Dec 7, 2021 18:16:09 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Dec 7, 2021 18:16:09 GMT -5
Just saw from ClownfishTV on Youtube there is a highly confirmed RUMOR that Image has gotten the Hasbro contract. That could be good news for us fans.
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Dec 7, 2021 18:59:53 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2021 18:59:53 GMT -5
Just saw from ClownfishTV on Youtube there is a highly confirmed RUMOR that Image has gotten the Hasbro contract. That could be good news for us fans. Provided Erik Larsen isn’t drawing it (I really don’t like his art), I’m fine with that. Is Larsen, who could also work on his social skills online, still at Image?
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 8, 2021 5:26:34 GMT -5
Just saw from ClownfishTV on Youtube there is a highly confirmed RUMOR that Image has gotten the Hasbro contract. That could be good news for us fans. Provided Erik Larsen isn’t drawing it (I really don’t like his art), I’m fine with that. Is Larsen, who could also work on his social skills online, still at Image?
Yeah, Larsen still has his own studio and is still publishing several titles. I'm not a fan, but I see his name several times in Previews each month.
But I think Larsen will be more focused on his own stuff than on a licensed comic.
Kinda weird for Image to take a licensed comic BTW. Probably one of the studios that has it rather than Image itself.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2021 7:31:09 GMT -5
Provided Erik Larsen isn’t drawing it (I really don’t like his art), I’m fine with that. Is Larsen, who could also work on his social skills online, still at Image? Yeah, Larsen still has his own studio and is still publishing several titles. I'm not a fan, but I see his name several times in Previews each month. But I think Larsen will be more focused on his own stuff than on a licensed comic. Kinda weird for Image to take a licensed comic BTW. Probably one of the studios that has it rather than Image itself.
Most likely since Image is a publisher, not a content creator. Image may have partnered with a content creating studio and will publish what they create, but Image doesn't make comics (just publish them), so I doubt they themselves hold the license. -M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2021 7:43:48 GMT -5
Gotta confess, I was unaware of what mrp just stated, so it’s interesting to learn something new.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2021 7:56:38 GMT -5
Gotta confess, I was unaware of what mrp just stated, so it’s interesting to learn something new. they operate like most book publishers do. Book publishers don't create content. They are publishers not creators. Those are two separate skill sets. Few are good at both. Personally I think a lot of DC and Marvel's problems are they try to be both but don't always hire personnel based on the skill needed for one or the other. They have people in charge of publishing who have skill sets suited for creative endeavors and vice versa so one side offer suffers for the other. I think they would both be bettor off to shed their publisher identity, focus on being content creators and let someone else who knows what they are doing in the publishing field handle that aspect of the business. Both have had people in the past who were very good at the publishing side (for example Jeannette Khan at DC and Carol Kalish at Marvel) and the companies have thrived at those times, but those times were few and far between in their history and more often you get people in publishing thinking pushing things like gimmick covers is the answer to moving more units and building your customer base or creators trying to make business decisions they have no training or base level of competency to be making, or vice versa, business folks with no inkling how to tell stories visually making creative decisions based on what they think will move units and find an audience. -M
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Dec 8, 2021 8:28:27 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Dec 8, 2021 8:28:27 GMT -5
I know I could look this up myself, but are there any collections, like an Epic or whatnot, of the original G.I. Joe series from Marvel?
That was the first comic book I collected as a series, as everything before that had just been one-offs here and there. The first issue I bought off the newsstand (and yes, it was from the local newsstand, not an LCS) was #49 (with Destro and Dr. Mindbender hauling off a mummy so they could make Serpentor). I wound up going back and getting most of the beginning of the run (I bought some of the reprint digests and second printings when I couldn’t afford the first prints), and I collected the series up through about issue #110 or so. Sadly, I wound up selling most of these years ago.
Any insight would be appreciated.
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 8, 2021 8:34:56 GMT -5
I know I could look this up myself, but are there any collections, like an Epic or whatnot, of the original G.I. Joe series from Marvel? That was the first comic book I collected as a series, as everything before that had just been one-offs here and there. The first issue I bought off the newsstand (and yes, it was from the local newsstand, not an LCS) was #49 (with Destro and Dr. Mindbender hauling off a mummy so they could make Serpentor). I wound up going back and getting most of the beginning of the run (I bought some of the reprint digests and second printings when I couldn’t afford the first prints), and I collected the series up through about issue #110 or so. Sadly, I wound up selling most of these years ago. Any insight would be appreciated.
IDW has a lot of collections of the old stuff IIRC. Just a second, I'll look it up.
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Dec 8, 2021 8:44:47 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Dec 8, 2021 8:44:47 GMT -5
Thanks! I’ll have to look into those. Loved the Trimpe artwork on the series.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 8, 2021 11:08:38 GMT -5
I know I could look this up myself, but are there any collections, like an Epic or whatnot, of the original G.I. Joe series from Marvel? That was the first comic book I collected as a series, as everything before that had just been one-offs here and there. The first issue I bought off the newsstand (and yes, it was from the local newsstand, not an LCS) was #49 (with Destro and Dr. Mindbender hauling off a mummy so they could make Serpentor). I wound up going back and getting most of the beginning of the run (I bought some of the reprint digests and second printings when I couldn’t afford the first prints), and I collected the series up through about issue #110 or so. Sadly, I wound up selling most of these years ago. Any insight would be appreciated. Wish you luck hunting.The trade reprints started back in 2009, so most are out of print. A quick look shows Ebay/Amazon/etc asking prices start around $50-100 with slightly decreasing requests after TPB #10 and up. It would behoove whoever's gets the new contract to reprint them ASAP. I was lucky for purchasing these as they came out as well as trades of the IDW/Hama continuation series. Used to have the entire Marvel run in monthly buying new off the racks, but that box was stolen back in my 2019 break in. 😭 Last year I bought an DVD-ROM to read on my laptop from Etsy via a British seller for $15. That DVD collects ALL the Marvel, Devils Due/Image runs. Did the same for Transformers from the seller.
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Dec 11, 2021 5:34:44 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Dec 11, 2021 5:34:44 GMT -5
Just saw from ClownfishTV on Youtube there is a highly confirmed RUMOR that Image has gotten the Hasbro contract. That could be good news for us fans. Update on this. CBR reports it is Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment rhat is bidding to get the Hasbro contract. Article also notes the soonest a new publisher could have books out is early 2023.
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Dec 11, 2021 11:17:36 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2021 11:17:36 GMT -5
Well, I’d heard it was John Byrne writing it and Erik Larsen drawing it. Or maybe that was just a dream…
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Dec 11, 2021 11:57:51 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Dec 11, 2021 11:57:51 GMT -5
Well, I’d heard it was John Byrne writing it and Erik Larsen drawing it. Or maybe that was just a dream… You need to watch that eating spoiled leftovers so late before bedtime!
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