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Alt said:
It's good stuff, but I have to be in the mood for Fiffe. Copra is like... Too slavishly devoted to Ostrander Squad in a detrimental way to me.

But his Joe project was an interesting experimentation. Reminded me a lot of those '90s book anthologies where people would revisit Batman with really left field approaches that show how broad the material can be.
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See, I think that while Copra's using Squad as a framework, or maybe more accurately a touchstone, it's jumping off that pretty consistently and exploring Fiffe's own deepest concerns: fixated workflow as both a guide to and retreat from self-reflection, adherence to process and output as deliberate self-distraction, compartmentalization of internal and external selves, accumulation of detail and complication as a form of avoidance, the joyous absurdity of cartoon brightness as a delay to the fundamental question of "What are we even doing here?" (Incidentally, I think Sierra Muerte absolutely plays with some of that, especially in Cobra Commander's grappling-with-mortality plot. There's something really interesting there that the characters who keep doing the difficult work of confronting themselves are the ones who are mandated by status quo to lose, which feels like it's deconstructing by implication the imperialism that a military property for kids has to be based on.) There's a warmth and enthusiasm to the art on the page that I think plays against that very self-conscious, probing quality of the narrative really interestingly and expands its themes through that friction, because that core existential fear keeps reenacting itself across that novelty/self-knowledge push-and-pull, which is complicated by the fact that the novel aspects are also so uniquely Fiffe's style, that they're such a tactile expression of self that you can see the brush strokes on the page. I don't know, I think there's a ton there that makes it Fiffe's own work, because to me it's not about the Squad so much as it's about how Fiffe processes his foundational comics and makes them into a lens to explore some really complicated territory. It feels deeply personal to me.
 
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secondwhiteline said:
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The green thing in that last panel is representing a tracking signal, the next page shows that Baroness has been followed there.)
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I'm glad you clarified. I thought Destro's monologue hit her right in the feels but for some reason her feels were in her right shin.
 
Guess this guy is coming sooner rather than later. Still looks pretty solid to me. Given the heads are just repaints from the cop set they look really good with the cammo.

 
JakeEkiss said:
And once again, a Joe reviewer who can't pose the figs for shit
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You don't like watching them pull the vanilla posed figure off the shelf for a size comparison and then spend 30 seconds trying to get them to stand up next to each other while they fall over in sequence?

Or putting two figures side by side but one of them clearly several inches back and then going, "Yeah so they're not the same height you can see on the camera."
 
Alt said:
You don't like watching them pull the vanilla posed figure off the shelf for a size comparison and then spend 30 seconds trying to get them to stand up next to each other while they fall over in sequence?

Or putting two figures side by side but one of them clearly several inches back and then going, "Yeah so they're not the same height you can see on the camera."
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What I really love is when they start wrenching on all the joints like a frustrated toddler because they can't seem to see where the articulation is supposed to move.
 
Oh oh, and also, really love it when you can see on camera that the platform they're putting the figures on is some sort of warped board and they complain about how "the figure won't stand". My guy when you put the figure down I can see he "ground" move a quarter of an inch. Get a fucking countertop.
 
I tried to skip it for you.

It's a GI Joe. You guys know what you're getting.

The vest is not removable. It is modular and it's very fiddly and everything keeps falling off as he handles it. That makes it a pass for me. I hated the Marine.

But yes, it's a GI Joe, the head is reuse. It does everything you would expect. The GI Joe with the stiff modular vest would do. It did not need to be 28 minutes long.
 
Alt said:
I tried to skip it for you.

It's a GI Joe. You guys know what you're getting.

The vest is not removable. It is modular and it's very fiddly and everything keeps falling off as he handles it. That makes it a pass for me. I hated the Marine.
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I'll never buy these releases at full price because they're just way too expensive - especially in the Canuckle Dollerinos. But if I do end up with him, I'll just pick a loadout I like and glue it all. I'll do that with the Action Infantry one of these days as well.
 
Yeah I saw he had issues with the pouch or whatever. But he's fat fingering it so much I'm not convinced that's not just him. Either way, not enough it'll stop me from grabbing it. This subline kinda has me by the balls.
 
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