That interview is so good. Man, if Buzz had his way, it would be Hama who for alot of people. There were some great ideas that never came to light. If the "The Most Dangerous Man in the World" occurred, I bet there there would have been no Cobra La in the movie. Funny, how things work out.
Is it me or did DD rip off this idea in the new comic books from this?
Buzz: Mike Hill, who was on staff at the time, made a brilliant proposal to send the Joes off after a somewhat new foe called The Coil for the never made Sunbow season three (there was a DIC season three, but they never bothered to ask for any input from me or Flint or Steve and frankly, we were just as glad). As I recall, Mike's idea was that following the Movie, Cobra would be shattered as a world-wide organization. Under the guidance of Tomax and Xamot, a new organization called The Coil (much more criminal in nature than military) would be formed, picking and choosing among the best of the surviving Cobra units. Cobra-La was utterly wiped out, no survivors, except for Cobra Commander, who would be slithering about in the background for the first half of season three as some sinister character of shifting alliances, then be revealed in severely mutated form in the second half. He would be playing the Joes and The Coil against one another in an attempt to destroy both and rebuild Cobra.
Different characters, same plot.
Other timbits I didn't know about:
Looks like both comic and cartoon writers hated the idea of King Cobra, I mean Serpentor.
Falcon was originally supposed to be General Hawk's son? That would have been so much better than the Duke half brother idea.
