Newish Website - www.gijoe-actionforce.co.uk

[The Baron]

I still suggest putting the entire, or at least as many as possible, Action Force run between just two issues of GI Joe.

[jamarmiller]

ya the more you can get in , in the least amount of places the better

[Destro]

With the end of DDP's run now upon us, I've finally finished the Continuity of all series released 1982 - 2008 including the first three 25th anniversary comics, I've done other little updates here and there.

Baron, you sent me a PM a while ago to add a link to a site for buying BAF comics but I've looked for it but I've lost it, can you send it again.

[The Baron]

If it wasn't ebay it'll have been http://www.26pigs.com.

[Destro]

All,

My site is down at the moment, my site provider is acting a bit stupid and they'll only reply after 24hrs which is making for a reeeeaaaallllyyyy long conversation to fix it which has lasted since Wednesday.

The problem is that the site at it's peak usually averages 1000 hits over 2 days but I got over 15,000 hits over the 2 days immediately after the Superbowl due to the movie trailer which put me over my bandwidth limit for February. I paid for 1 month's extra to cover but now that has expired, they've mistaken that with my domain expiry that's actually got a long time to go!!

Anyways, I'm hoping I'll get it back up and running in the next couple of days and I'm taking the opportunity to give the site a bit of a facelift while it's down.

I didn't want anyone thinking that I'd just abandoned the site because a lot of people use the continuity guide on it and I'd also like to say thanks for the e-mails of support I've received through the site, they're much appreciated!!!

Cheers

Brian

[Destro]

.....and it's back!!

[SPEC OPS]

ya the more you can get in , in the least amount of places the better

OMG SteveD - any comment? (sorry just having a schoolboy moment)!

[Malcolm Orr]

Hmmm...

Well I think that Action Force and GI Joe are parallel continuities...

In Action Force, Flint is British, Jaye is Irish, and they met sometime before 'Gun Boat'. They just don't fit together easily.

For example in the DDP series (I think) when Flint and Baroness are held together, they call him American and he sings an American song. I've reordered/recoloured/relettered and retitled many of the US comics into MAF comics. In that example above I've changed American to British and GI Joe to Action Force, and Flint now sings 'Rule Britannia'. Additionally I've even retitled many of the recent pin ups and toy adverts!

For obvious reasons I can't post the comics! Just for personal use, but here's a page from (I think GI Joe 157) where I've collected the 7 or pages featuring Flint's team for a short stand alone tale. As you can see, the titles are rewritten, the speech rewritten and the colouring textured (with stars and glares added) The source and final sizes are comparative - I had to blow up the images) EDIT: actually on that one I hadn't yet redone the speech)

[The Baron]

I'd be interested in seeing these! I could MAYBE host them as a fanfic project, it depends how many changes there are.

I'm pretty certain there were only 155 issues though....

[jamarmiller]

Malcolm Orr

those pages are awesome! I love it. nice work, I loved how they been modernized.

I do however do the opposite LOL as far as changing things ( cant do the coloring as cool as you do though) I like to have these fit in with the US stuff since its the longer / larger continuity.

but again they look amazing, great work