G.I. Joe Classified Series

Chooch555 said:
The Joe titles, for sure. And by titles I mean there were 4 minis (Duke, Cobra Commander, Scarlett, and Destro). The Duke creative team then launched the single ongoing G.I. Joe title.
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Duke and CC's mini were great. If they start with those as the basis for the animated series I would be a happy camper. Especially the CC mini.

I agree that the mini really were a breath of fresh air for the brand and would be a great lead in to an expanded universe in animated form. Let's hope it isn't too long before we have more concrete info about how this will be done.
 
Spongyblue said:
If you want an interesting crossover, there was a Joe vs Transformers from IDW from 2014-2016. It's in it's own continuity, but shares a lot familiarity with the original Marvel runs of both series. The first few issues I thought where just weird and crap, and looked up the artist so I could rage against him. I couldn't understand why people where lauding this guy so much. Then I read an article with him about the crossover and it made 100000% sense.

So back in the day, Jake Kirby got picked to do the comic adaptation of the movie 2001. They gave him a different draft of the script to work with then the film script so he pretty much did his own thing in a gloriously bonkers way that only Kirby could get away with.

So these guys that did the crossover pretty much said "What if in the early 80's there was a film of GI Joe vs Transformers that we got picked to do the comic of, but didn't watch the movie and have no idea who any of the characters are besides a few pictures of the toys." It is so alien and strange and bonkers and it's great.

Slight spolier Flint and Lady Jay's future daughter Marissa and Brawn the Autobot get married
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haha thats the Tom Scioli book I'm guessing. I know so many comic fans that go crazy for his work, and I appreciate aspects of it, but they all say

"It's the Transformers/GI Joe crossover you've always dreamed of" and, no, it is not.

I much prefer the Revolution crossover by John Barber and Cullen Bum; and the GI Joe vs The Transformers (2003) (there's like, 4 of these) by Josh Blaylock & Mike S. Miller
 
altcunningham said:
This is outdated (ie more comes after) but this will get your wheels up.

  1. Void Rivals #1-6
  2. Transformers #1-6
  3. Duke
  4. Cobra commander
  5. Energon Universe special #1
  6. Void Rivals #7-10
  7. Transformers #7-9
  8. Scarlett
  9. Destro
You can just do the Joe books if you want. They are very accessible. But they're all handled so well.
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Pretty much Alt said. You don't need to read the Transformers books to know what's going on in the Joe books. You can also skip Void Rivals completely. It's a nice read (written by Robert Kirkman), but isn't essential to the main Joe story...yet at least. Kirkman also started writing Transformers with issue #26, which is a "new" storyline.


My Ghost Viper should be here today too. I'm kinda hyped.
 
The panel at MCM London starts at 6:45 am EST, will be 50 minutes, and is Hasbro in general, so unless they have a tight script, I'm not expecting much to be shown. Maybe some new name reveals? I feel like we've gotten a lot lately so I'm not too greedy.
 
Well, the 2pk has a sale date of Nov 9, which is only 2 weeks away. So yes, they'll be in stores soon. I'd be more excited for this 2pk if the figures colors weren't switched. Still irks me.
 
It's really real!

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