Blood for the Baron!

got my copy today. it's a bit rushed, i think. the story could've done with a few more pages, but it's good old Larry Hama, 's scheming, and are up to no good behind his back, and is back in thanks to some brainwashing...

art's good too, is very slinky looking. i might well get into the ongoing on the strength of this...

8/10

it was indeed classic larry hama, good read, im on the fence though, the minute it contradicts DDP im out. Im hoping it doesnt majorily contradict DDP though as Id like to continue reading it,

felt like the GI JOE i grew up with for sure

I also got mine today, havent got around to reading it yet, just quickly looked through it. Looks good though.

larry was asked in the IDW forum Q&A at thee back about bringing in SKAR and the Shads, but didn't answer cuz he was also asked about the Oktober Guard (who he liked), Serpentor (who he didn't care for) and Cobra-La who he hated.

ya that was cool that someone asked, I was so happy that they did, even though we didnt get the answer. Im 99 percent sure he has no clue as to WHO the RED SHADOWS or SKAR is and that is why he didnt answer, so at least this puts a little seed in his ear kind of thing

thats the only bad thing about Larry Hama, if he needs something to tell his story he will just make up something instead of looking deep into the joe universe for something that could be used for EXACTLY the same thing. He will always give us good stories but dont ever expect little fan nods or usages of obscure characters like DDP did, He isnt a fan of GI JOE really.

got my copy and I liked it. it didnt look so much like marvel gi joe but it deinately felit like it... only thing I wasnt keen on was the new cc body armour.

jamarmiller wrote:it was indeed classic larry hama, good read, im on the fence though, the minute it contradicts DDP im out. Im hoping it doesnt majorily contradict DDP though as Id like to continue reading it,

felt like the GI JOE i grew up with for sure

Havent read the issue yet, But I totally agree with jamar. I love the DD joe Verse and it seems like everyone else hated it. My current joeverse follows up the DD story with cobra split into factions and well, I have a lot of free time so I have like alot of backstory.

Backstory is what makes things interesting and great to follow..............at least for me.

I didnt start with issue 1 of marvel way back in the 80s I started somewhere around issues 80 and then I went backwards to find out all the cool stories.

the whole Idea of scrapping all of that continuity from DDP just sucks and reeks of laziness .

Id rather have seen what larry would have done with the events after WWIII but as someone said before on these boards, at least that gives RED DAWN and the rest of the books we do here free reign of things LOL

it's not laziness, it's just a different story-telling choice.

I should have said IMVHO sorry