Post by: Radio Guy on October 24, 2008, 10:05:23 AM
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Post by: Scramble on October 24, 2008, 09:35:55 PM
Speaking of names, anyone else bothered the art samples in the back clearly took something written about Roadblock and substituted the name Heavy Duty? As bad as Heavy Duty replacing Roadblock usually is, saying that picture was modeled after Heavy Duty v2 (http://http://www.thejoeindex.com/joeindex/usfigures/93/heavyduty2/) is the worst thing ever.
Post by: Radio Guy on October 24, 2008, 10:40:17 PM
Quote from: "Scramble"
Speaking of names, anyone else bothered the art samples in the back clearly took something written about Roadblock and substituted the name Heavy Duty? As bad as Heavy Duty replacing Roadblock usually is, saying that picture was modeled after Heavy Duty v2 (http://http://www.thejoeindex.com/joeindex/usfigures/93/heavyduty2/) is the worst thing ever.
i agree...the pic was obviously of Roadblock V2, but they called him Heavy Duty...I would like to think it's because the copyright for the name Roadblack has lapsed rather than they just didn't do the research....
Post by: canprime on October 24, 2008, 10:52:20 PM
It may or may not be good. I will however, give the benefit of the doubt to IDW since I really like what they did with Transformers.
Post by: wudstar on October 28, 2008, 09:20:10 PM
Wudstar
Post by: Captain Tomorrow on October 29, 2008, 08:31:34 AM
Post by: Pete The Greek on October 29, 2008, 08:59:34 AM
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Does anyone have any pictures here?
http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia ... hp?gid=662 (http://www.newsarama.com/php/multimedia/album_view.php?gid=662)
Post by: darth cujo on October 30, 2008, 11:08:18 PM
All 3 stories are from the same new full REBOOT continuity. Dixon's story is the "current" regular title. Hama's is the Origin of the Joe team, taking place some unknown amount of time before dixon's. And the Cobra story takes place in the same continuity, but not sure when. IDW will ultimately have 2 continuities. Their comic one and the movie one sometime next year. And there might be some resolute comics down the road.
Re: Roadblock; There's been a lot of ambiguity on this issue, but it's not a copyright issue, otherwise there'd be no figures called roadblock. We're getting lots of those. The last I read was hasbro wanted the name to fall in line with the movie, and the movie people chose heavy duty over roadblock because they liked the name better. So the character in IDW comics is roadblock, with the heavy duty name. Personally i think they should have just stuck with roadblock, but oh well.
Anyways
Here's some of my thoughts which i more or less posted over at joereloaded.com (a great place for comic info, btw).
Of the three stories, I think the most intriguing was definately the Hama one. Just the way it set up a couple characters and the basic premis of the joes and their recruitment. I felt it said more in its 5 pages than the other 2 stories did. The dixon story was a typical in the dark action mission with the set-up ending which is okay for a 5 page intro/preview. The chuckles story was typical of a story about a guy going deep under cover, but again a decent into.
Art-wise, my hands-down favourite is Atkins. It really fits the GI Joe style, and is nicely detailed. It always amazes me how art looks better in physical form in hand than on a computer screen. We've been treated to Robert's sketches and his comments over on Joereloaded, so the sketch section of the book wasn't much new, but it was really nice to see in print. I liked that they included his comments on each one as well.
The interview didn't reveal a whole lot. It was mostly light sort of promotional fluff, but it did once again convey an excitement among the creators, which is it's goal in a book like this.
So overall, we got three good little stories, and a nice little bit of extra content, all for a buck! Awsome stuff! Now is it January yet?!