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Rod Whigham or Herb Trimpe, or from the current comic how about Robert Atkins. He's easy to get a hold of since he's a regular poster on gijoereloaded.com. I had asked suggested to him before he should come up to Canada for a Canadian Joe Con, and he seemed open to the possibility some day. So he at least knows about the con.

But can you wait til next year for these guys, since I won't be attending this year. My wife and I will be a bit busy since we're due to have a baby that week.

But yeah Rod Whigham and Herb Trimpe would be awsome as far as classic comic creators go.

Curious, this is

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Safety Warning: This Product is for Adult Collectors. It may contain sharp points, small parts that are choking hazards, and other elements that are not suitable for children under 16 years of age.

Maybe these didn't pass safety tests and that's why they were canned?

BBTS has been putting this on a lot of their toys lately. Maybe in answer to some new law or something in the US. Either way, it's just a protect your butt thing for them to not get sued for some reason.

Anyone know if these will hit canadian online retailers?

Saw these the other day at walmart in vaughan (3 of 4 sets, no duke). I won't be collecting these anyways, but thought I might get SE. I was tempted, but at $8.92... pass. That's actually a $ more than the indy ones (I checked to see if they were on clearance like the rest of the indy stuff), which is odd to me since indy has a licence fee, joe doesn't, yet joe is more expensive. Wonder what the star wars ones are priced at. Either way, even if I was planning on collecting them, 9 bucks is pretty steep to me.

I enjoyed all three stories. Heck they're only 5 pages, so not a whole lot can happen.

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?!

Just completed a trade with Grunt. Great person to trade with, excellent communication and great patience. Nice to chat with as well. And the comics are great! A couple less holes to fill, thanks.

Met up with Condor on the weekend. It was nice to meet him and he was a pleasure to deal with. Thumbs up!