More GI Joe movies on the way

[palitoy]

The first Joe movie really perplexed me, some of the Joe characters are downright iconic and have high recognition factor. It wasn't like they tried to apply some sort of real world design to any of the characters, they just looked downright bizarre.

[jwyblejr]

If they wanted realistic,they should have followed the Marvel comic. Especially the early stuff.

[palitoy]

If they wanted realistic,they should have followed the Marvel comic. Especially the early stuff.

I was an ardent reader of that book well past playing with the toys, it seemed more mature. Eventually all the cartoon influence seeped in.

[Werewolf]

I could never get into the comics. All the craziness of the toys with none of the fun the cartoon. Took itself way too serious. It also suffered from the usual comic book cliches of killing off popular characters and then writing themselves into a corner and having to figure out how to bring them back. I lost track of how many Cobra Commanders they went through.

The comic never reached the mainstream popularity of the cartoon. Without a doubt when most people think of GI JOE they think of the cartoon with Duke yelling "Yo Joe!" followed by the iconic theme song. Not to mention the Sunbow version of Cobra Commander is one of the all time great iconic cartoon villains.

[Werewolf]

This reminds me, we've still never gotten a Sunbow GI JOE toyline. Yeah, there's been several homage hybrid figures in the 25th anniversary line and many of the figures have been very close. But we've never gotten a full line of new sculpts done to look exactly like they did in cartoon. I want the cartoon hood hair Gene Simmons Zartan, darn it!

[palitoy]

The comic never reached the mainstream popularity of the cartoon. Without a doubt when most people think of GI JOE they think of the cartoon with Duke yelling "Yo Joe!" followed by the iconic theme song. Not to mention the Sunbow version of Cobra Commander is one of the all time great iconic cartoon villains.

I disagree, that comic was a massive hit and Larry Hama is really well respected these days. It was reprinted ad nauseum and issue 2 (which had a lower print run) was my first experience of owning a "HOT" comic. The comic was the first TV advertised comic book ever, it paved the way for that series.

I know I'm slightly older so a bit biased (Duke was sort of the end of Joe for me) but I know a few 80s Joe fans locally and most hold the comic in higher regard than the cartoon. Not that they loathe it or anything, that seems to be more a MOTU thing.

[Werewolf]

I disagree, that comic was a massive hit and Larry Hama is really well respected these days.

I don't disagree with that. I probably should have worded myself a bit better. What I am trying to say is even people with just a passing pop culture knowledge of GI JOE are aware of the cartoon. The comic is just not as well known outside of GI JOE collectors.