/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

I grew up in a remote part of the United States in the 1980s where we didn't have any independent TV stations that carried shit like the GI Joe or Transformers cartoons, just the three major broadcasters (ABC, NBC, and CBS) and any cartoons they had were on Saturday mornings.

Anyway 20 years later and I'm in the Marines and my sergeant brought in a DVD box set and put them on and him and a bunch of other guys in my shop were having their nostalgia moment and talking about buying the toys and all that other shit while this show was going on. This is the first time I've ever seen this cartoon in my life and it was the most retarded fucking thing I've ever seen.

A large part of my reaction was that I actually did read some of the Marvel comics adaptation when I was a kid and had thought the comic was a straight adaptation of the show and that I was missing something really entertaining.

Speaking of, anyone know here I can find a decent upload of Resolute?

>>940322

So the comics are decent, the 80's cartoon is meh at best. Know anything about Renegades?

I have only seen the movie where they go to some weird valley filled with biotech and Cobra Commander turns into a snake. The main bad guy has a snake's body in place of legs, if I remember right. It was really weird.

>>940343

and yet, incredibly prescient

sorry for embed. All my gi joe webms are on my currently dead tower

>>940349

Isn't that just a Smurfs parody?

>>940352

The Smurfs serve as the base layer for the parody, but I don't recall the Smurfs ever being about the choice between conformity or being outcast. Regardless of which cartoon they were parodying visually, they were satirizing the message and attitude more than any given show

So what was Cobra's political ideology? Did they even have one that was explained?

>>940366

>So what was Cobra's political ideology?

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>>940322

I thank you for your service

>>940413

>thanks for fighting for Israel

You filthy bootlicker.

Remember when they revealed Cobra was an actual fucking reptilian working for lizard people to take over the world?

Its Hasbros old flag ship property that struggles to make a comeback in recent times while shit like Transformers atleast has been a couple good strides since the 90s GI Joe has been terrible

Sigma 6 was their "Transformers Armada chance" and Renegades actually alright.

Which one was the animated movie where Cobra Commander is actually a badass and doesn't take shit? Where he announces to his men, 'There will be no more of your crap! NONE OF IT!'

>>940792

shame it never seemed to get a HQ release.

>>940876

Thanks for reminding me how horrible all of that actually was. I apparently blocked half of it out.

Maybe I forgive them too much for teasing us with a Brendon Fraiser as Flint, but I'd still count them as more watchable than Bayformers and TMNT. The second one could of actually been good G.I. Joe movie if they had a better than Sci Fi Channel original movie budget and didn't bother with Bruce Willis guest starring as… Joe.

>>940876

>>940881

Also I'd count Byung-hun Lee as Storm Shadow as a plus. There's a lot wrong with those two movies, but they're slightly less garbage than everything else we've gotten.

>>940876

>somehow managing to make Snake Eyes gay and lame

Id make this a plus the Snake Eyes circle jerk has been going on since the 80s and has only gotten worse the more ninja like he became

>>940792

>second webm

anyone got that pic about a guy pretending to be a retard for 7 years?

>BUY ALL OUR PLAYSETS AND TOYS!

>>941078

well, they were cool toys

>stupid cartoony shit ported to milsim

I never knew I wanted this.

>>940947

>the QUALITY when the dinosaurs break into the dining room

Never gets old.

>>940342

I like how Bludd just walks off with no arm like that. No crying or yelling just bitter and walking. Also I liked the Baroness in this one minus the energy gloves she had.

>>940857

Didn't one of the early IDW runs have Chuck Dixon as the writer and Cobra being this ancient organization that plans world domination and have Krake as Cobra Commander conquering a South East Asian country?

>>940343

>Cobra workers are unionized (or at least Crimson Guard)

>Have access to dining hall, gym, R&R and Cobra dancers stage entertainment

>Medical plan

>Resurrects dinosaurs from fossils

So why are they the bad guys again? Can you really blame anyone seeking employment with them?

That changing tone of conversion in the second webm with the Crimsom Guard is so damn ridiculous it just becomes funny

>>941141

Utterly bizarre looking fictional military vehicle, but having a high viewpoint when going through shallow water does make it's design have surprisingly practical use.

>>941326

I pretty much only had Cobra toys, except for Snake Eyes because "muh ninjas". I never got the Cobra Hammerhead ;_;

PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!!!

>>940876

Its weird how in terms of movies and cartoon adaptations GI Joe got screwed over the hardest compared to Transformers and MLP.

>>941379

It's more like it was a crap cartoon property that had a writer on the comic book who took his job really seriously and put 110% into it, and boosted its rep way above what the source material would naturally have achieved on its own. Larry Hama should get a fricken' cheque every time a GI Joe doll sells.

>>941344

Polly is best Joe.

>>940913

Even still

>ninjas are cool

>silent ninjas are cooler

the take away should be that they should have had an easy job making his parts cool, yet they fucked it up and even managed to make his simple design horrible.

>>941379

Weirder still, the director was the guy behind the Mummy and its sequel.

>>941387

It is definitely decent. I'm only a couple issues in and I can't really see what it does particularly well but I want to keep reading.

>>941432

>Gets kicked out of the Navy during WWII for incompetence and malingering

>Becomes crappy pulp sci-fi author

>Practices occult rites with leading rocket scientist

>develops psychological psuedoscience called Dianetics

>converts said psuedoscience into religion to evade the FDA

>uses religion to build a paramilitary structure with a fleet and flagship

>focuses on 'clearing the planet' (world domination

tbh Cobra Commander's comic origins are far more believable

his cartoon origins are also far more grounded in reality than Scientology's

>>941447

hey wait a minute, something doesn't sound right there…

>>941441

Hama definitely put more work into it than anyone would have expected. Kind of like Bill Mantlo on Rom, Spaceknight, he just wouldn't write down.

>>941432

Honestly I like that about him. He came from nothing and built himself up into one of the most powerful men in the world.

>>941482

So they're ancaps or what?

>>941666

I read somwhere that when Hama created Cobra Commander he was inspired by some conservative pundit in the 70's who loved the sound of his own voice. That and he originally imagined the commander to sound like Orson Welles.

>>940857

>Sitterson's G.I. Joe is current Marvel tier shit

Good riddance.

http://archive.fo/l6jvj (the interview has been pulled but someone archived that)

http://archive.fo/GtQyz

Do you want all the shit Sitterson he's building with his G.I. JOE run and a pozzed version of M.A.S.K. to be finished instead by another completely different creative team?

>>943962

Sitterson's new Joe series literally got cancelled before issue 1 was released.

>>943980

I forgot to mention "in a new miniseries" in the end.