As someone actively working on a fun little creative project for myself taking old file card and comics lore and building an alternate timeline, I really do think your mileage may vary for how much Joes fans give a shit about legacy characters or classics or whatever. Did you come into it from the beginning?
More or less, heh.
Are you an ancient who had the dress up dolls?
Ha!
Were you a comics guy or a cartoon guy or both?
I know you aren't really asking ME, directly, these questions, but I wanna answer! I recently accepted what a cartoon fan I actually was. The comics are still my main Joe thing, right up to Ninja Force, then I stopped. Partly 'too old for this'. But yeah, I've been realizing just how much of the cartoon I remember, and enjoyed.
Did you read the stuff that came after the comic left Marvel?
Not until recently, but there IS some good stuff in there.
This is really the only place I've EVER discussed my opinions or interests in the IP with anyone else (HISSTank scares me)
Rightfully so. Zero dick jokes, and discussion of hooded CC isn't allowed AT ALL.
so I don't know how aggressive or dickish people can be about it, but even the difference between me and my two brothers (We're each exactly six years apart (48/42/36 years old now) have super different tastes. Baby bro is all about them ninjas. Middle bro loves the brightly colored shenanigans. I was able to tell Ru the exact YEAR I stopped paying attention to file cards, which is where my own heart lies with this line - those file cards are my personal joes bible. But I also won't hold preferring a different era against anyone else.
YES. And I do see the filecards as an extension of the comics as well.
And hell, I even pick up figures from those other eras cos Classified is killing it.
Absolutely! That's why some of the characters I put in the One A Day thread I know they'll make irresistible.
But I mean, this is a tale as old as time. I remember "Which one is GI Joe?" from my dad; me thinking Snake Eyes is the main character; and cartoon fans knowing Duke is the lead. It's always been a matter of perspective.
Nothing against Duke, but he can die of gonorrhea and burn in hell.
Solid team. And to the point; I think it's interesting that if you asked a different Joe fan to make up a team of 8 or 9 Joes, it would not be those exact characters.
Exactly, but there's a few I bet would be on everyone's list. At least Snake Eyes. I think even people who hesitate to admit they like him would still feel he needs to be in there.
I wonder, if Classified did a perfect version of every variation of every Joe character... would your team change? Is it based mostly on 'well, this is what's available' or did you luck out and those are legitimately the characters you would choose every time to form up the 'best Joe team?'
Those are legit my favorite characters, and a couple I could be persuaded to change out. Jinx and Storm Shadow I'm cool with but if they do better versions, I will get. Falcon, I have the Night Force version and probably will stick with it. Snake Eyes I absolutely need the V3. Scarlett,
@docsilence and I were talking about if they did a new version of her, and I could see that replacing the Retro I have. Beachhead, Stalker, and Tunnel Rat I'm really happy with though. but yeah, as far as my top 9, it's those characters. They were the ones I played with the most and am mostly happy with the figures they did.
The GeeWunners bullied a multi-billion-dollar company into changing an entire toyline because they didn't like any changes being made to their precious '80s cartoon designs.
Ah man. I actually was content to skip the line based on those initial designs. Well, I got Snake Eyes and he was my ONLY Joe for a really long time. I didn't bitch or anything though, just happy to pass.
"Hey! Hey! Fuck you! Hey! Officer fuckhead! Fuck you!"*
*Translated from Doggish.
