G.I. Joe Classified Series

mrboshek said:
There's a company in the area called GI Johns. Never had the pleasure of using one, but I have seen them from time to time. Just last week I saw a couple on a flat bed truck, so they'll deliver and plop one on your worksite.

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Well that's brilliant!
 
altcunningham said:
Claw and Mayday would be top tier Classified under Lenny.

Mayday never had her figure released, so she deserves her shot.
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I never really got a chance to watch the show. I was in highschool when it came out and I think it came on at a really weird time, like 6 am or something in my area.
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If that image doesn't just ooze 90's "XTREME!!!!!!!!", I don't know what does. Her haircut, the giant shoulder pads, pouches that you aren't sure what purpose they serve? Let's do it.

I tried to explain to my oldest about the 90's "Extreme!" fad in comics. He thought the designs where a bit much and wasn't sure how anybody could like them. I told him, at least for me, was that for the most part there where a lot of stinkers ( Leifield artwork), and some standout good ones (Jim Lee's X-Men), but the biggest thing was that they where different, and sometimes you need to do a hard swing in the opposite direction design wise to not get stagnant.
 
The 90s designs in media cut a distinct silhouette and made everyone knowable at a glance, I'll give them that. Certainly for X-Men and the 20,000 Image studios team books it was refined to a diamond sharp point:

Leader
Ninja or athletic babe
Psychic or blaster babe
Big dude
Sharp dude
Elemental person, probably a babe cause she can be naked

Gambit headwear for half of them. A full mask on someone. Wolverine mask but LOL It's Energy or Something. Shoulder pads and straps for all.

And I'm always a sucker for cool shoulder pads and asymmetric design.
 
altcunningham said:
The 90s designs in media cut a distinct silhouette and made everyone knowable at a glance, I'll give them that. Certainly for X-Men and the 20,000 Image studios team books it was refined to a diamond sharp point:

Leader
Ninja or athletic babe
Psychic or blaster babe
Big dude
Sharp dude
Elemental person, probably a babe cause she can be naked

Gambit headwear for half of them. A full mask on someone. Wolverine mask but LOL It's Energy or Something. Shoulder pads and straps for all.

And I'm always a sucker for cool shoulder pads and asymmetric design.
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That list is Youngblood, Brigade, WildC.A.T.S., Cyberforce, AND Wetworks.
 
Ru1977 said:
I like how Wetworks was a little different than the others, especially the antagonists, then got more 90s as it went. Image was kinda the Valaverse of comic publishers, huh?
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Let's not go that far. We got some cool stuff out of Image at least. Spawn, Maxx, Deathblow (Jim Lee at his weirdest art), and that's just the original years. Down the line they really kicked in to gear with Invincible, Walking Dead, Ice Cream Man...
 
Heh, I admit I didn't stick with Image that far. I never read Deathblow, but concede on Spawn and Maxx. Spawn seemed like the title that carried the publisher. I actually think I preferred Stormwatch to WildC.A.T.s, though I barely read either. I think after a couple months of Image, I really pulled back on comics for several years.
 
Ru1977 said:
Heh, I admit I didn't stick with Image that far. I never read Deathblow, but concede on Spawn and Maxx. Spawn seemed like the title that carried the publisher. I actually think I preferred Stormwatch to WildC.A.T.s, though I barely read either. I think after a couple months of Image, I really pulled back on comics for several years.
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The problem with Image was them not getting the subsequent issues out on time. There are some books I forgot about totally because I never got past issue 2...because issue 3 took six months to ship.
 
altcunningham said:
Gambit headwear for half of them.
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I think this was the visual symbol of 90s costumes, even more than the pouches. Oh man, this headwear is, I think, my least-favorite design element in comics.

I turned 12 in January of 1990, so that should have been my decade for comics, but honestly I was way more into monthlies after the 90s ended. I slowly petered out of most Marvel and Image stuff, wound up pretty much just reading Batman comics and various indie horror comics until 2000 when I bumped out of college. The “xxxx-TREME”-ness of the 90s just didn’t work for me, like at all. Folks would bring me books, knowing I was a comic fan, and I’d be like “ohhh THANK YOU” and then right into a box. It wasn’t even like I was yearning for an earlier time: I just couldn’t hang with the extreme stuff, in or out of comics.
 
Anyway, so:
I got absolutely shredded on by some dude on Facebook yesterday because I tried to demonstrate that Ghost Viper has a bunch of new parts.
Am I crazy?
Like this guy was AGGRESSIVE.
I circled all the parts I think are new.
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