GI Joe #1 preview

[Anduinel]

IDW is adding a new GI Joe book to the line, first issue out this coming Wednesday, 9/18.

They've got Paul Allor on writing. He's done some GI Joe stuff for IDW before, plus TMNT and fun Clue mini-series. Chris Evenhuis is on art, Brittany Peer is doing colors.

Looks like the direction they're going with is that Cobra has occupied most of the world, and GI Joe is more an insurgency than a formal unit. Some familiar characters - Duke, Stalker, Scarlett, Hawk, etc. - are still military, the head organizers of the resistance. Others - like Roadblock and Jinx - have been reimagined as civilian resistance, along with a few new characters. Interestingly enough, we've gotten no hint of the status of two of the bigger names in the franchise, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, though Allor has said he has plans for both.

There are a couple of early reviews up - one at Multiversity Comics and another at the Comics Burst!! podcast - and both are pretty positive.

I've just gotten into the ARAH comics and I've been enjoying them, plus Allor's previous work has been solid. So I'm curious to see what his take on the franchise will be.

Preview pages:

[Anduinel]

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[Personamanx]

I'll probably check it out, but I'm not exactly excited or optimistic. The preview doesn't read particularly well, and I don't recall finding Allor's previous JOE series to be all that memorable. But who knows? I don't have a lot of confidence in IDW's ability to handle anything that isn't My Little Pony or Dungeons And Dragons nowadays. Not after their Hasbro shared universe killed everything it touched.

[cranger]

I'm also checking it out even though the preview does not impress me. I just wished that with the format of previews, more care would be taken to pace the story better, someone should look at this and wonder if this is satisfactory for the first 1/4 of the book.

[Frontier]

Isn't this IDW's 4th G.I. Joe reboot? I hope this one works out.

I wonder how long before Major Bludd loses an eye...

[Personamanx]

Isn't this IDW's 4th G.I. Joe reboot? I hope this one works out.

I wonder how long before Major Bludd loses an eye...

Third I believe. It relaunched enough times to make it very confusing however. Most of them seemed to conceivably be connected to one another, but even before the shared universe attempt it was pretty fuzzy.