Wednesday, April 14, 2004
And now, the final reviews from my purchases on Sunday:
G.I. Joe: Cobra Reborn: This "rebooting" or "reloading" of the G.I. Joe story (essentially, restarting it from scratch with a new comic book series updated for today) kicks off with the origin story of Cobra Commander. The long story short is: Go buy this comic. It's a damn fine read. While weaving a tale of one cubicle worker made mad by the system into the formation of the Cobra terrorist organization, you'll at times feel sorry for the Commander and at others hate him for the civilian deaths he causes. It's an excellent start to the G.I. Joe: Reloaded series. Cobra Commander, Baroness, Destro, Zoltan and even Major Bludd all make appearances.
G.I. Joe Reborn: With Cobra now out in the open and launching one attack after another against U.S. targets, the head honchos in the military create a secret operatives group called (duh!) G.I. Joe. Taking the best of the best, giving them codenames and modifying their records to show they no longer exist, the typical cast of Joes is here -- Duke, Lady Jaye, Scarlett, Rock And Roll, etc. While not as strong as Cobra Reborn, this title is still an excellent read with some good artwork. The ending is a cliffhanger that leads directly into...
G.I. Joe: Reloaded #1: The Joes and Cobra go head-to-head for the first time, with a couple guys infiltrating the Cobra organization while others prepare for an assault on one Cobra installation. Snake Eyes had been popping up in the Reborn books, and now he seems to have chosen a side in the brewing war between the special ops and the terrorists. As the first issue in the series, it's quite good. My main complaint is that if you don't read the Reborn books, little will make sense at first (again, that cliffhanger thing between Reborn and Reloaded).
I can't wait for the next one in the series. I think I'll add this one to my regular reading list.
G.I. Joe: Cobra Reborn: This "rebooting" or "reloading" of the G.I. Joe story (essentially, restarting it from scratch with a new comic book series updated for today) kicks off with the origin story of Cobra Commander. The long story short is: Go buy this comic. It's a damn fine read. While weaving a tale of one cubicle worker made mad by the system into the formation of the Cobra terrorist organization, you'll at times feel sorry for the Commander and at others hate him for the civilian deaths he causes. It's an excellent start to the G.I. Joe: Reloaded series. Cobra Commander, Baroness, Destro, Zoltan and even Major Bludd all make appearances.
G.I. Joe Reborn: With Cobra now out in the open and launching one attack after another against U.S. targets, the head honchos in the military create a secret operatives group called (duh!) G.I. Joe. Taking the best of the best, giving them codenames and modifying their records to show they no longer exist, the typical cast of Joes is here -- Duke, Lady Jaye, Scarlett, Rock And Roll, etc. While not as strong as Cobra Reborn, this title is still an excellent read with some good artwork. The ending is a cliffhanger that leads directly into...
G.I. Joe: Reloaded #1: The Joes and Cobra go head-to-head for the first time, with a couple guys infiltrating the Cobra organization while others prepare for an assault on one Cobra installation. Snake Eyes had been popping up in the Reborn books, and now he seems to have chosen a side in the brewing war between the special ops and the terrorists. As the first issue in the series, it's quite good. My main complaint is that if you don't read the Reborn books, little will make sense at first (again, that cliffhanger thing between Reborn and Reloaded).
I can't wait for the next one in the series. I think I'll add this one to my regular reading list.
// posted by Chris @ 9:55 AM 
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