G.I. Joe Classified Series

Stormwatch's original run is still my favourite. Battalion, Hellstrike, Flashpont, Fuji, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Never really got into Planetary or the Authority, but probably moreso because I already had one foot out the door of comics by then. Millar has just become a one trick pony in my book and I can't really read anything of his anymore (not that I am reading much anyway in general).
 
I got in Battle Armor Cobra Commander and Crystal Ball today. First, I wanted to say, Cobra Commander looks WAY better in person. Seeing all the pics and reviews, the silver on his armor always looks so flat grey. But as soon as I took him out of the Amazon box, I immediately noticed a shine on the armor, and it looks way more silver in person than it does online.

I was very happily surprised.

Then, Crystal Ball. Such a cool figure with such cool accessories. I only buy characters that are from the classic ARAH line. But I may have to get that troop that goes with Crystal Ball. I mean, I'll have to get it from Ebay like I did Crystal Ball, since Wal-Mart will likely cancel my pre order IF I even get one in. But you know.
 
Snake Eyes 4 looks great. Takes me right back to that fateful KB toys visit.

Execution pisses me off. Holster is widly documented garbage. Never do this again. Savage Crucible also did this for their swords, but it's a solid, tense material. This is just some flappy unbuttoned catheter strap. Whatever, you can slide it off and the original didn't have it anyway.

But the sheathe. Mine doesn't even peg in (mold degredation?). Just sits there and then flies off even when the figure is unattended. There has to be a better sheathe solution.

He looks good. Nice updates. Probably an easy skip if you have no nostalgia for this look.
 
Oooh dang.
Night Force Quick Kick looks awesome all geared up, but he might be even more awesome stripped down. He’s got major “90s martial arts movie final fight” vibes. I fucking love it. This has moved Quick Kick waaaaaay up the list of “badass Joes who can own multiple Vipers at once in a fight”. I think he and Budo (similarly stripped down) are gonna get in a lot of street-fightin’ trouble.
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I never liked Quick Kick because I have this thing about people that don't wear shoes. Of course, they finally made a good Quick Kick and stuck it in a fuckin' two-pack that I don't want.
 
I also have a strong aversion to barefoot characters and will flat out admit Quick Kick having shoes in this version completely upgrades him to the next level for me. I was wondering how the tank looked under his vest. Wish it popped off easier without having to remove whole body parts. I'm glad it looks like Budo will be easier to have stripped down.

I had a second V4 SE on order as a gift for my brother since he'd never buy it for himself but this was totally his Snake Eyes version as a kid, but now I'm wondering if the cheap weapon storage design would put him off the figure. I suppose as long as he can stand him on his desk with swords out he'll be happy though, he's not a hardcore collector with nits to pick over everything. (Meanwhile I'm over here trying to fix a ding on an action figure's face...)
 
Chooch555 said:
Like you don't want chocolate in your peanut butter or you just hate the basic concept of a toy changing into another toy? Because if it's the latter, I feel sorry for all the joy you're missing out on.
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See I am with KD on Transformers. i have never liked Transformers ever.. like I had friends that loved them when I was a kid but I could never get into it. If the character looked good in vehicle mode it looked utterly ridiculous in robot mode. And the ones that tried to look better as robots looked funny as vehicles or animals or whatever.. Just terrible looking to my eye. And don't get me started on how Michael Bay made them so, so ,so much worse looking. I try not to share my opinion because there's no point in yucking someone else's yum. But Transformers toys is a thing I could just never ever get into.
 
JakeEkiss said:
Yeah, Stormwatch was doing some interesting things. I think if I went back a lot of it probably hasn't aged well (and I might be able to more easily identify the stuff Ellis was almost certainly paying homage to), but at the time it felt really different and new.
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I particularly liked StormWatch : Team Achilles. Had decent art most of the time from Whilce Portacio and some covers by Michael Golden. Basically a human peacekeeping force with a couple supes helping out the U.N. keep tabs on metahumans of all stripes across the globe. Was interesting to see how a group of mostly humans would go about taking down / killing a metahuman throughout the various issues, and it did not always go their way either. I wish Image would bring that back and that Todd would stop putting off a Haunt relaunch.

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Quick Kick has always been a favorite, bare foot or no.

I didn't pay much attention to the NF version but yeah, that's a good looking update. I'm not going to want that Beachhead, though, so I'm likely not going to get him.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
I particularly liked StormWatch : Team Achilles. Had decent art most of the time from Whilce Portacio and some covers by Michael Golden. Basically a human peacekeeping force with a couple supes helping out the U.N. keep tabs on metahumans of all stripes across the globe. Was interesting to see how a group of mostly humans would go about taking down / killing a metahuman throughout the various issues, and it did not always go their way either. I wish Image would bring that back and that Todd would stop putting off a Haunt relaunch.

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Wildstorm is now fully owned by DC, so there won't ever be an Image relaunch. I know in the New 52 era, Stormwatch and the Authority got folded into the main DCU (after previously having been established as a separate universe when Wildstorm moved to DC). Post Rebirth, I'm not sure the status of either, but I believe they are still part of the DCU.

Personally, I liked it when they were their own separate universe that would sometime interact with the DCU. At one point The Bleed was firmly established in the DCU as being the element responsible for the red skies seen in all the various universes during Crisis on Infinite Earths. I thought that was a pretty cool retcon, and really made the Wildstorm universe seem like a part of DC's Multiverse. Having Midnighter and Apollo running around the same universe as Batman and Superman seems incredibly redundant.
 
I also preferred when Wildstorm U was on its own. It was a well established, interesting universe unique on its own, with obvious characters paying tribute to existing archetypes. WilCATS/Wildcats was always my book, but I got pulled into Stormwatch and Authority eventually as well. They were able to do some interesting things with a limited number of characters that other imprints weren't doing. Shoehorning them into the DC universe was a mistake, because there's no way any of the WSU characters get their due against characters that have been around for 80 years.
 
I never really liked the merger, either. So much of that corner of Wildstorm was designed as a commentary on comics that stuffing those characters into the worlds they were meant to be a rumination upon was kind of... lazy, really. Defeated the purpose.

(If you liked that era of comics and didn't catch it, the Monarchy was a great short run. Doselle Young took some BIG F'ING SWINGS in that book. I wish he had longer to cook. because it was hammering at some big ideas.)

Hey hey, Pulse finally shipped the Major Bludd everyone's been talking about. Now if they'd finally ship CC and Monkeywrench... And Amazon could get a move on with shipping Flint and Cover Girl plzzzzzz
 
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