Published: July 20th, 2011
Written by: Larry Hama
Art by: John Stateman, Herb Trimpe, Rod Whigham, Andrew Wildeman
Based on: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero by Hasbro
Marvel Comics (original printing), IDW Publishing (reprinted), 280 Pages
Review:
The last volume was probably where I would have jumped off the series when I was a kid, if I hadn’t jumped off of it before that due to getting older and getting strange feelings around girls.
Sadly, this collection of issues didn’t pick things back up and it just continued down a crappy path.
At this point, it’s like all the good stories have been told and the series just feels like it is running aimlessly on fumes without a clear direction. Maybe Larry Hama stopped caring and Hasbro was just making him wedge in all their new, weird toys, which, in my opinion, wrecked the franchise and killed it due to terrible redesigns and stupid, unrealistic vehicles.
With this stretch of issues, the art quality also fell off fairly significantly. While this features multiple artists, the overall quality is poor and littered with issues from bad perspective to weird faces and bizarre anatomy.
This is also longer than the previous eleven volumes by a couple of issues, which made pushing through it even harder.
But at least there were a lot of ninjas!… even if most of the new ones look really stupid.
Rating: 5.5/10
Pairs well with: Any of the original Marvel G.I. Joe and Transformers comics.
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