Skybound Entertainment’s G.I. Joe’s Duke and Scarlett Volume 1!

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Joe Kramer here, composer from Mission Impossible

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Rogue Nation. This podcast from the Geekcast

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Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Ow. This is writer

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Kelly Thompson, and you’ve jumped inside the

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back to G .I. Joe. You’ve just jumped inside

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like Transformers, He -Man, Super Heroes, TMNT,

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and Radiant Black. Yeah, we have all that and

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so much more. It’s all inside the pull bag here

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on the Geekcast Radio Network. So, without further

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ado, it’s time to talk about the comics we’re

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reading right now, here inside The Pull Bag.

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Scarlet, are you alright? Duke, it’s about time

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you guys showed up. A girl gets tired hanging

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around the house. You’ve just jumped inside The

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Pull Bag. I’m, of course, TF2 and Mike, and today’s

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featured guest, welcoming back, is Eduardo M.

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Fryer. Hello, sir, how are you? Yes, I’m back.

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I’m back. You can’t get rid of me. I am like

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a geeky cockroach. Your name is Eduardo. Your

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name is not Joe, and I don’t know what kind of

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apartment you have, so no, you can’t have a Joe’s

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apartment reference. Well, you just got a Joe’s

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apartment reference, but no. We are back. This

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is episode 583 of The Pull Bag. I did not intentionally,

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I kind of did intentionally mean to have three

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G .I. Joe episodes in a row. Months and years

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ago, my buddy Mike Arizari from What’s On Joe

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Mind joined me for the silent missions when those

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were originally announced, the original five

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issue. G .I. Joe versions of the Silent Missions

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because his favorite character is Beachhead.

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So in episode 582, you would have heard Beachhead.

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You would have heard Mike and I talk about that.

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What I’m going to do with the Silent Missions

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is. Since the Joe versions, the Joe character

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issues are now out in trade, I’m going to cover

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them in trade since we actually never covered

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any of the other issues. So we’ll cover the trade

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at some point. I don’t know when kind of thing.

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But today’s featured double feature comics are

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from the Energon universe. And we have. Duke

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and Scarlet. We have dumbass Duke and savage

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Scarlet, because damn, Scarlet’s on a mission.

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Holy crap. And as a favor to the listeners and

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the Joe fans, I’ll refrain from making references

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to, gee, should Scarlet be with Snake Eyes or

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Duke? Because, I’m sorry, the fact that we’re…

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putting those two minis together for this review.

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It just, it opens the door and I’m just like,

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you know what? Just be nice. Don’t do that. Don’t

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do that. Don’t do that to the poor people. Hey,

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at least Flint and Lady J aren’t here. Cause

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then you could mix and match all four people.

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Lordy. Just, just, just be careful because now

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in my head, it’s like, have they ever done a,

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comic that’s like some sort of double date thing

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you know flint flint and lady j duke and scarlet

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that would be amazing i would love to see kelly

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thompson write that that would be awesome oh

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man oh yes oh hello yeah that or gail simone

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yeah one of the deals but right now because kelly

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wrote scarlet that would be amazing oh yeah yeah

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and she and she gave us uh she gave the world

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jeff the land shark Thank you, Kelly. Yep, yep,

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yep. All right, getting into Duke. Originally,

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I reviewed this with my buddy Jesse, a .k .a.

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Matrix Prime, on his podcast, another comic review,

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when it released a couple of years ago, and we

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did not like Duke. Originally, we were not fans.

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of Duke originally. However, we read it in single

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issue month to month, and I… Comics are better

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in trade. They just are. Modern comics are better

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in trade. Any comic book from 1999 to now is

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better in trade. It just is. Okay, I’d say fair.

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I’d say fair that, yeah, there are a lot of comics

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that just work better in trade. And I have had,

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like I said, you and I just did Cobra Commander

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and Destro in episode 581. And even though I

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still, out of these four five -issue, originally

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they were five -issue miniseries. Out of these

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four character books, I still rate Destro the

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lowest out of the four because he’s the one that

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I just don’t care about. He’s the one that I

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care about the least. I’ve had more enjoyment

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reading these four books in trade than I did

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when Jesse and I did them in single issue. It’s

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just so much better. But Duke. Volume one, knowing

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is half the battle. And they still don’t tell

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us what the other half is. Yeah, no, dude, it’s

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red laser, blue laser. Come on now, you know

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that. All right. Creative team on Duke. Joshua

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Williamson is the writer. Tom Riley is the artist.

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Jordy Belair is the colorist. Jason Howard is

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the artist for the epilogue. Mike Spicer is the

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colorist on the epilogue. Russ Wooten is the

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letterer for the whole thing. Love Russ and his

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lettering. Tom Riley did the cover. Sean Mankiewicz

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is the editor. Andres Juarez is the logo and

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publication design. what do you think of the

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yellow, like the coloring for the cover and then

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the yellow for the inside stuff? I mean, it’s

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fine. And you know, the, um, given, given Duke’s

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usual color palette, as far as, uh, outfits are

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concerned. Yeah. It’s yeah. I think, I think

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it, it, it goes, um, you know, not it’s, Skybound

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as a whole, the artwork is not, I think, not

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what you would probably think for the Energon

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stuff that they’ve done. It’s not, I think, something

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that would readily, that’s what pops into your

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head. But to me, it does work. I think it works.

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I don’t have a huge problem with the art. I love

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the art overall in general for most of the books

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and most comics. I don’t think in 13 years of

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this podcast, I have ever crossed off a book

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on the list or stopped reading a book. Because,

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oh my God, the art is so atrocious. I may nitpick

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a certain piece of the art, or I may say I don’t

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like this in the art. The thing here in Duke

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that I’m going to say is, and I said it way back

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a couple years ago when Jesse and I did this,

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oh my God, it’s so beige. But I get it. It’s

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supposed to be beige. It’s supposed to be tan.

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What I think is cool is that I think, if I remember

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correctly without opening them, I think Cobra

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Commander and Destro both had read on their caution

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the contents of the booklet is confidential and

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their titles. I know Cobra Commander had read

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because I just looked at that. So I think that’s

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a nice contrast for that. Um, and then we have

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the volume one begins. So we do have that. I

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do like the, before we get to volume one begin,

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I do like the, the art page here after the, after

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the creative page, before we get in, I do like

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the field surveillance. I do like that piece

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of art. Cause it gives you all the other for

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skybound for image comics, but it does say special

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thanks to Hasbro and Michael Kelly, Ed Lane,

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Linda Lee, and, for their invaluable assistance.

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But I do like that image there. I just like the

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way that the trade is presented. Yeah. We start

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out with learning about Conrad Hauser, codenamed

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Duke. And even in boot camp, it was clear you

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had the right stuff. Okay, even now. I don’t

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remember when. Again, I’d have to pull up anothercomicreview

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.com and see when we reviewed Duke number one.

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Even back then when I read that line, the first

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thing that popped in my head was New Kids on

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the Block. I’m sorry. Every time anyone writes

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that, literally just how I read that. Even in

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boot camp, it was clear you had the right stuff.

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Literally musically in my head, that’s how it

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reads. Top of your class, exceeded all expectations.

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And we see how Duke is progressing through. We

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see an amazing. Full page spread of action here.

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We see him talking to General Hawk. And then

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we see another full page spread, which I’m going

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to have to lead into here. The bottom of the

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Patriot sign, General Hawk, he says, I’ve questioned

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my superiors before. I’ve had my bad days, too.

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But you’ve been given the answers, son. I’ll

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be candid with you, Duke. You’re turning into

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a walking American nightmare. Eh, he’s not Cody

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Rhodes. You weren’t there, Duke screams at him.

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We get another big page. We encountered a hostile

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jet that looked like one of ours, and then…

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Well, the thing transformed, and we have Duke

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versus Starscream. Holy crap. what do you think

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so far well I still remember I still remember

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the comic that actually had Duke confronting

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Starscream so it’s great that they it’s great

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that the miniseries leads from that and you know

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it’s great that we see that yeah Duke is you

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know this was I mean, I don’t know, you know,

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confronting a giant robot that then kills your

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buddy, I mean, that wouldn’t mess anybody up,

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so it is good to see that it’s like they’re not

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just gonna, you know, Duke isn’t just gonna brush

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it off and be like, okay, alright, we’ll get

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to start Scream. No, he’s like, yeah, you weren’t

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there, man, you know. Yeah. And the cool thing

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from, oh, go ahead, sorry. Yeah, no, I was gonna

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say that something That I’ve noticed. Is that.

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And I think this also. This even goes back to

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the IDW. Comics. And even actually. Even Devils

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do. When Devils do did it like in the early 2000s.

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Is to give Duke. Like characterization. Beyond.

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Just having him be this. You know poster boy

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soldier. You know it’s. trying to give him a

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bit more depth. I see that here, they do it right

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off the bat. This is somebody who’s dealing with

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the trauma of confronting a Transformer. A giant

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fucking robot, yeah. It’s not just a giant fucking…

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It’s one thing to find a VW bug in a junkyard

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and then it transforms into a friendly robot.

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This is running into something that looked like

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an F -15 transformed into a giant robot and then

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proceeded to take your friend and go squish.

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Squish, yeah. Yeah, you know, it’s like, yeah,

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that can color somebody’s perceptions. Yeah,

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no, I know. This is not Duke going through the

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plane junkyard, running into a plane, getting

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in the cockpit. wiping the logo on the yoke and

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seeing the Decepticon symbol and falling in love.

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This is not… Yeah, you’re not going to have

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the late, great Bernie Mac at the plane junkyard.

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You’re not going to… He’s not running into

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one of the aerial bots. And being like, oh, you’re

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a fellow soldier. Okay. Nope. And the coolest

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thing for me, what I was going to say before

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I let you continue on what I was going to say

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was the coolest thing right now with us going

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back and redoing this, technically doing this

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the first time on this podcast, but for me, rereading

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this now in trade is where we currently are in

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the Energon universe with the GI Joe ongoing

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with issue 20. Have you read issue 20 yet? Yes.

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Look at this panel. Look at the giant panel with

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him facing Starscream and then think to where

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we are currently in G .I .G .O. 20 where Optimus

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tells him Starscream is dead. The revenge thing

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is all gone and he has to move on in his grief.

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Like, oh my god. So much time is passed between

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what is happening right now with what we’re discussing

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here versus what is currently going on in the

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timeline. And it’s like, oh, my God. Like, he’s

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spent so much time looking for this giant ass.

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Oh, Starscream. Yep. Yep. So as we go further,

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and I, and I love how that, like, I wasn’t sure.

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I don’t, I didn’t remember if, uh, originally

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I liked the, the, the time lapses in this, but

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I really do. I like the, the six months later

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and the, wasn’t there a, was there a man of action?

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I swear there were two time lapses in this. Maybe

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I was wrong. I don’t know. Anyway, that’s six

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months later. It’s like, Oh, okay. So we’ve now

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switched and he’s going through and trying to

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find things and trying to figure out. And he,

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he breaks in. Does he break into Mars? Yeah,

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that is Mars, right? Yeah, it is Mars. Yeah.

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He breaks into Mars. Wow. Bold move. That’s a

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bold move. Cotton. What? No laugh? Come on, that

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was a good joke. Okay, if you say so. What? That

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was a good joke! What? Sorry, I didn’t get the

00:17:22.140 –> 00:17:26.259
reference. That’s a bold move, Cotton. Really?

00:17:26.359 –> 00:17:30.940
You’ve never seen dodgeball? I have, I have.

00:17:31.039 –> 00:17:32.859
That’s just not one of the lines that sticks

00:17:32.859 –> 00:17:37.960
with me. Oh, wow. Dodge a wrench, you can dodge

00:17:37.960 –> 00:17:43.690
a ball. Oh, boy. Okay. Yep. So he breaks into

00:17:43.690 –> 00:17:49.670
Mars. He gets caught, unfortunately. And they

00:17:49.670 –> 00:17:56.829
built this thing. See, this is where I got confused

00:17:56.829 –> 00:17:59.769
the first time and I got confused now. What is

00:17:59.769 –> 00:18:06.430
this robot thing that they built? What? The silver

00:18:06.430 –> 00:18:10.230
centurion looking thing. Yeah, I don’t know.

00:18:10.250 –> 00:18:14.309
I guess it’s just… I’m kind of wondering if

00:18:14.309 –> 00:18:19.069
it’s supposed to be the Energon universe equivalent

00:18:19.069 –> 00:18:23.930
to the snake robots from Real American Hero.

00:18:24.950 –> 00:18:28.690
Maybe. Because, I mean, we already had the battle

00:18:28.690 –> 00:18:32.549
android troopers in Destro, so this is not a

00:18:32.549 –> 00:18:37.049
battle android trooper. No, it’s not a bat. Yeah.

00:18:37.680 –> 00:18:39.519
I’m just wondering if it’s, and again, it could

00:18:39.519 –> 00:18:42.579
just be, like, maybe it’s their version of the

00:18:42.579 –> 00:18:48.480
snake. Maybe it’s just, you know, Cobra in, like,

00:18:48.480 –> 00:18:50.279
Sunbow and stuff. They’re always building giant

00:18:50.279 –> 00:18:52.359
robots, so this is just another giant robot.

00:18:53.799 –> 00:18:56.460
Yeah, and I just, I was trying to read through

00:18:56.460 –> 00:19:01.579
these pages to see if, like, and I was looking

00:19:01.579 –> 00:19:04.059
through the other part of it, and he’s like,

00:19:04.220 –> 00:19:11.339
I knew it, you nutjob. He’s seen too much, boss.

00:19:12.460 –> 00:19:16.519
Yeah, it doesn’t say. And Destro doesn’t say

00:19:16.519 –> 00:19:25.079
anything about what it is either. Huh. Interesting.

00:19:26.799 –> 00:19:30.619
So as we and then this is weird, though, like

00:19:30.619 –> 00:19:34.079
at the bottom of this, they have the. like the

00:19:34.079 –> 00:19:40.480
memorials of Dr. Adele Burkhardt and Duke, but

00:19:40.480 –> 00:19:47.039
yet they let him go. So that was, I’m like, wait,

00:19:47.119 –> 00:19:57.019
what? So that was weird to me. I do not like

00:19:57.019 –> 00:20:00.440
the red though. The red hurts my eyes actually.

00:20:01.710 –> 00:20:05.650
The red panels after this that he goes into and

00:20:05.650 –> 00:20:09.490
he finds all this stuff. And then he finds these

00:20:09.490 –> 00:20:17.769
troopers and the fight breaks out. That was a

00:20:17.769 –> 00:20:21.529
little much. I don’t know what I felt about this

00:20:21.529 –> 00:20:25.630
part of the book last time, but yeah, like this

00:20:25.630 –> 00:20:35.490
is a, yeah, I got to get out of here. So. I thought

00:20:35.490 –> 00:20:38.130
Duke was just turning into a loose cannon, but

00:20:38.130 –> 00:20:47.890
now he has a mission. And we get Stalker and

00:20:47.890 –> 00:20:57.150
Rock and Roll. Yep. Nice to get… And that’s

00:20:57.150 –> 00:21:00.089
something, again, I like about all the minis,

00:21:00.089 –> 00:21:04.089
is that, yeah, the focus is on the title character,

00:21:04.519 –> 00:21:08.779
But we still get some other characters getting

00:21:08.779 –> 00:21:12.460
filtered in. So, you know, it’s great that we

00:21:12.460 –> 00:21:14.740
get classic guys like Stalker and Rock ‘n ‘Roll.

00:21:15.980 –> 00:21:19.799
Yeah, Rock ‘n ‘Roll still has the beard. Yep.

00:21:20.759 –> 00:21:23.680
And Stalker, I mean, the introductory panel that

00:21:23.680 –> 00:21:27.279
they have for Stalker, it’s just, it’s perfect.

00:21:27.420 –> 00:21:29.839
It’s perfect. He’s in the jungle, you know, and

00:21:29.839 –> 00:21:33.680
he looks in his element. Mm -hmm. So, you know,

00:21:33.720 –> 00:21:37.519
I’m… Yeah, it’s like, yeah, no, I am definitely…

00:21:37.519 –> 00:21:41.039
It’s like, yeah, that’s… You know it’s Stalker.

00:21:41.160 –> 00:21:43.359
Like, even if they didn’t have the… Even if

00:21:43.359 –> 00:21:46.859
they didn’t identify who it was, I would be like,

00:21:47.019 –> 00:21:53.259
oh, yeah, that’s Stalker. Yeah, absolutely. And

00:21:53.259 –> 00:21:59.119
it is so very cool to see that they’ve… They’ve

00:21:59.119 –> 00:22:03.529
got the characters. And again, You know that

00:22:03.529 –> 00:22:06.650
they’re going to do whatever they can do with

00:22:06.650 –> 00:22:09.609
the license because they have the license. So

00:22:09.609 –> 00:22:14.250
whatever Hasbro lets them do, I don’t think Hasbro

00:22:14.250 –> 00:22:19.549
is here. And I could be wrong, but I think what

00:22:19.549 –> 00:22:23.069
Hasbro does or what they’ve been doing when they

00:22:23.069 –> 00:22:25.910
gave the license, look at what everything IDW

00:22:25.910 –> 00:22:31.130
did with Transformers and G .I. Joe. even when

00:22:31.130 –> 00:22:33.450
they had, you know, when, when they did the gem

00:22:33.450 –> 00:22:35.309
comics, cause we’re going to make comparisons

00:22:35.309 –> 00:22:37.789
to the gem comics later. When I talk about it,

00:22:37.809 –> 00:22:39.789
when we’re talking about Scarlet, cause Kelly

00:22:39.789 –> 00:22:42.829
Thompson wrote both the gem comic and, and Scarlet.

00:22:42.829 –> 00:22:49.930
So I think when Hasbro gives out a license for

00:22:49.930 –> 00:22:53.789
the comics, they want that whatever company it

00:22:53.789 –> 00:22:58.079
is to do. And as long as they have permission

00:22:58.079 –> 00:23:02.420
to use whatever characters, I mean, we’ve got

00:23:02.420 –> 00:23:08.720
these guys, we’ve got Duke, we’ve got all the

00:23:08.720 –> 00:23:12.460
normal Joe characters that’ll show up for the

00:23:12.460 –> 00:23:16.380
most part. And it’s just, it’s so cool. It’s

00:23:16.380 –> 00:23:19.759
so great. And I just, just absolutely loving

00:23:19.759 –> 00:23:26.809
it. So up next we get. the motorhome. Manny’s

00:23:26.809 –> 00:23:35.730
Mean Machines. And we got Clutch and Duke and

00:23:35.730 –> 00:23:39.690
poor Clutch. Yeah, Clutch, Duke, and Clutch’s

00:23:39.690 –> 00:23:46.289
date. Yeah, Clutch’s date that he… Fill in

00:23:46.289 –> 00:23:51.809
the blank. Hey, you know, if you want to and

00:23:51.809 –> 00:23:53.710
if you want to be, you know, if we want to get

00:23:53.710 –> 00:23:55.869
if we want to get cute, we could say, oh, maybe

00:23:55.869 –> 00:23:59.609
that’s, you know, maybe that’s the Energon universe

00:23:59.609 –> 00:24:03.529
version of Candy Appel or Hondaloo West or, you

00:24:03.529 –> 00:24:07.269
know, any or Amber. I don’t know. Just grab,

00:24:07.430 –> 00:24:10.849
grab, grab a name, grab a name from the from

00:24:10.849 –> 00:24:12.690
the old Joe stuff. And it’s like, OK, that’s

00:24:12.690 –> 00:24:24.910
what this is. Yeah. Yeah. Poor Clutch. He had

00:24:24.910 –> 00:24:27.009
a date with Amber and he didn’t hear anything

00:24:27.009 –> 00:24:32.829
back from her. Well, what would probably help,

00:24:33.049 –> 00:24:36.049
quote unquote, is the fact that, yeah, Duke comes

00:24:36.049 –> 00:24:38.890
in and he tries to introduce them and then has

00:24:38.890 –> 00:24:41.690
a brain fart and is like, Duke, this is a…

00:24:41.690 –> 00:24:47.430
Yeah. That’s kind of a recipe for this is only

00:24:47.430 –> 00:24:49.470
happening once. Yeah, this is only happening

00:24:49.470 –> 00:24:59.720
once. I guess my depth joke didn’t go over well

00:24:59.720 –> 00:25:07.259
with you. It was not too Johnny of me. Amber,

00:25:07.779 –> 00:25:12.180
he didn’t hear back from her. Yeah, no, I…

00:25:12.180 –> 00:25:17.900
Okay, just making sure. I got it. I got it. I

00:25:17.900 –> 00:25:21.900
got it. Anyway, poor, poor, poor Duke and Clutch.

00:25:21.960 –> 00:25:26.660
They make it to the garage, and they start working

00:25:26.660 –> 00:25:30.880
on stuff. And, oh, boy, do they start working

00:25:30.880 –> 00:25:39.519
on stuff. And, damn, they get into a firefight,

00:25:39.759 –> 00:25:44.140
all right. I love how they’re arguing about who’s

00:25:44.140 –> 00:25:47.119
driving and who’s firing the gun and who does

00:25:47.119 –> 00:25:50.740
it better and who doesn’t do it better. And just

00:25:50.740 –> 00:25:54.920
this fight, oh, man, this fight. And, well, you

00:25:54.920 –> 00:26:00.240
know, hey, you know, Clutch, you know, he’s supposed

00:26:00.240 –> 00:26:02.880
to be the Jeep driver. I mean, that’s been his

00:26:02.880 –> 00:26:06.420
thing for, I can’t believe I’m saying this, for

00:26:06.420 –> 00:26:12.519
over 40 years. Yeah. My joints hurt. Yeah. Yeah.

00:26:12.960 –> 00:26:16.460
So, so yeah, I mean, Hey, clutch behind the wheel

00:26:16.460 –> 00:26:19.279
of the wheel of the vehicle. I mean, not, Hey,

00:26:19.339 –> 00:26:23.000
you know, that’s, that’s his thing. Yep. He’s

00:26:23.000 –> 00:26:25.920
just got the wrong Jeep. Cause that Jeep doesn’t

00:26:25.920 –> 00:26:29.019
do anything really. I mean, it drives, that’s

00:26:29.019 –> 00:26:33.839
about it. Doesn’t do anything special. He’ll

00:26:33.839 –> 00:26:37.740
get the right Jeep eventually. Hopefully skybound

00:26:37.740 –> 00:26:40.380
will actually give us a clutch and you know,

00:26:42.159 –> 00:26:48.160
hounding miniseries. So they get caught by Major

00:26:48.160 –> 00:26:53.119
Blood. Actually, not Major Blood. Oh, not Major

00:26:53.119 –> 00:27:00.140
Blood. Yeah, they get some stalker and rock and

00:27:00.140 –> 00:27:04.559
roll catch -em. That’s what it is. The brief

00:27:04.559 –> 00:27:09.180
fight between Duke and Stalker. I kind of wonder

00:27:09.180 –> 00:27:11.660
if there are any Joe fans out there who enjoyed

00:27:11.660 –> 00:27:15.599
this moment, because I know Stalker, like in

00:27:15.599 –> 00:27:19.240
the Hama comics, like in the beginning, he was

00:27:19.240 –> 00:27:25.339
clearly the field leader. And then Duke got brought

00:27:25.339 –> 00:27:32.599
in, and Stalker kind of lost that position unofficially.

00:27:32.680 –> 00:27:37.339
So I kind of wonder if there’s a little cathartic

00:27:37.720 –> 00:27:40.259
thing going on here with, you know, with stalker

00:27:40.259 –> 00:27:46.019
beating Duke. It’s like, ah, see, you know. Yep.

00:27:46.039 –> 00:27:50.180
And they get sent to the pit, which is where

00:27:50.180 –> 00:27:57.759
we meet the Baroness. Yep. And yeah, I remember

00:27:57.759 –> 00:28:01.240
I was like, oh my God, they ended issue. I think

00:28:01.240 –> 00:28:04.160
this is the end of issue three. They ended issue

00:28:04.160 –> 00:28:07.400
three with Baroness. And I’m like, Damn it, I

00:28:07.400 –> 00:28:09.500
got to wait a whole other month to figure out

00:28:09.500 –> 00:28:12.519
the rest of the day. Again, this is like great

00:28:12.519 –> 00:28:15.900
cliffhanger ending on the Baroness having to

00:28:15.900 –> 00:28:19.740
have us wait a whole another 39 or 29 days or

00:28:19.740 –> 00:28:24.559
whatever it is. But it’s like, ah. Yep, and it

00:28:24.559 –> 00:28:27.980
was issue two. Was it issue two? It was issue

00:28:27.980 –> 00:28:30.559
two. Yep, it was issue two. I thought it was

00:28:30.559 –> 00:28:35.609
issue three. No, I don’t think that… Yeah,

00:28:35.710 –> 00:28:39.170
Skybound wasn’t that mean to make you wait until

00:28:39.170 –> 00:28:42.170
the end of issue three to get Baroness. It’s

00:28:42.170 –> 00:28:44.089
like, no, we’re going to end issue two with Baroness.

00:28:46.369 –> 00:28:49.450
We’re not going to make you wait. Yeah, so we

00:28:49.450 –> 00:28:54.130
get back to Mars and we get whatever they’re

00:28:54.130 –> 00:29:04.670
doing here. And we fully see… uh what’s his

00:29:04.670 –> 00:29:08.470
name jesus i just said it a minute ago major

00:29:08.470 –> 00:29:13.670
blood major blood i remember so my buddy jesse

00:29:13.670 –> 00:29:19.789
matrix prime big youtuber back in the day and

00:29:19.789 –> 00:29:26.509
uh he like Him doing another comic review, his

00:29:26.509 –> 00:29:29.750
podcast, first time he had ever read comics.

00:29:29.910 –> 00:29:32.589
So he literally, I’m trying to teach him the

00:29:32.589 –> 00:29:34.750
ropes and tell him every, trying to give him

00:29:34.750 –> 00:29:39.190
a, not necessarily the full 90 years of comics

00:29:39.190 –> 00:29:43.450
history lesson, but like enough to let him know

00:29:43.450 –> 00:29:46.589
like this is this and this is that and whatever

00:29:46.589 –> 00:29:49.829
else kind of thing. At the same time, still letting

00:29:49.829 –> 00:29:52.910
him explore what he wants to explore kind of

00:29:52.910 –> 00:29:56.740
thing. So as we’re going through whatever else

00:29:56.740 –> 00:29:59.079
we had this whole clip, I think there’s a clip

00:29:59.079 –> 00:30:01.640
on his YouTube channel. He clipped it out of

00:30:01.640 –> 00:30:06.279
the episode. We couldn’t, he couldn’t get over

00:30:06.279 –> 00:30:09.960
the major bloods name. And we ended up doing

00:30:09.960 –> 00:30:13.240
this whole major, but major, like we literally

00:30:13.240 –> 00:30:16.740
ended up a whole major bug thing. It’s like,

00:30:16.839 –> 00:30:20.579
Oh my God. No, see that. That’s Major Blood’s

00:30:20.579 –> 00:30:25.619
half -brother, who’s a beer enthusiast. Yes,

00:30:25.619 –> 00:30:30.660
yes, exactly. Major Bud, we charge more for the

00:30:30.660 –> 00:30:36.859
light version. So, yeah, we meet Major Blood

00:30:36.859 –> 00:30:42.599
here. And he’s got both eyes. For now. He ain’t

00:30:42.599 –> 00:30:48.309
gonna have that other eye for long. We get back

00:30:48.309 –> 00:30:54.569
to the pit. And I love this. I absolutely love

00:30:54.569 –> 00:30:57.970
this. The three of them talking through the cells.

00:30:58.849 –> 00:31:05.369
We get Baroness’s backstory. And she is shocked

00:31:05.369 –> 00:31:09.490
that Duke knows all the stuff about her and everything.

00:31:10.329 –> 00:31:14.930
And we get a really cool image of Starscream.

00:31:16.000 –> 00:31:21.099
When Duke is talking about his stuff and just

00:31:21.099 –> 00:31:26.259
so cool. Meanwhile, outside, there’s going to

00:31:26.259 –> 00:31:43.220
be invaders. Because… We’ve got… Rock and

00:31:43.220 –> 00:31:45.339
roll. Lock everything down. We’re about to have

00:31:45.339 –> 00:31:51.259
company. Listen up, bloodhounds. No one can know

00:31:51.259 –> 00:31:58.140
we’re here, so kill everyone. So the bloodhounds

00:31:58.140 –> 00:32:02.900
are after them. I like the fact that Major Blood

00:32:02.900 –> 00:32:09.700
has his own goon squad. It does remind me of…

00:32:11.019 –> 00:32:14.559
The old Joe Collectors Club, one of their convention

00:32:14.559 –> 00:32:20.119
sets actually did give Major Blood his own squad.

00:32:20.940 –> 00:32:25.099
Nice. I don’t think they were called Bloodhounds.

00:32:26.279 –> 00:32:32.220
I think they were called something else. But

00:32:32.220 –> 00:32:35.119
yeah, it was kind of cool. They had these brown

00:32:35.119 –> 00:32:40.450
and black uniforms. Good stuff. I think I actually

00:32:40.450 –> 00:32:43.730
managed to find at least one of those figures

00:32:43.730 –> 00:32:47.670
at another convention. Got it for a good price,

00:32:47.670 –> 00:32:53.170
too. Very cool, very cool. So they have this

00:32:53.170 –> 00:32:57.029
battle here between them and Baroness and Duke

00:32:57.029 –> 00:33:01.829
and all that, and they do eventually escape.

00:33:05.410 –> 00:33:13.349
And we… we get to a point of… Ah, see, I

00:33:13.349 –> 00:33:18.670
told you it wouldn’t be long before Major Blood

00:33:18.670 –> 00:33:22.589
would not have both his eyes. He needs to tell

00:33:22.589 –> 00:33:25.769
that big boss of his that my rate just doubled.

00:33:26.069 –> 00:33:29.910
I did not factor in this kind of hazard pay when

00:33:29.910 –> 00:33:37.289
I took the hit. Yep. She owes me an eye. Eh,

00:33:37.349 –> 00:33:40.650
suck it up, buttercup. That’s all I gotta say

00:33:40.650 –> 00:33:46.690
to him. Yep, exactly. Yeah, you lost an eye.

00:33:46.769 –> 00:33:49.869
God gave you two, so you have a spare. Exactly.

00:33:51.029 –> 00:33:56.910
I forgot it happened this early. Yeah, no, me

00:33:56.910 –> 00:34:01.730
too. I mean, I thought that was… Yeah, I kind

00:34:01.730 –> 00:34:06.230
of… I had thought that the losing the eye thing

00:34:06.869 –> 00:34:09.869
happened also kind of a little later on in the

00:34:09.869 –> 00:34:12.610
thing. Like, I thought it was a finale thing,

00:34:12.750 –> 00:34:15.510
but it was like, oh, no, actually it’s, yeah.

00:34:18.670 –> 00:34:21.610
But hey, if you’re a major blood, at some point

00:34:21.610 –> 00:34:23.610
you’re going to lose your eye. That’s just a

00:34:23.610 –> 00:34:37.040
given. Yep. So Duke is staying behind and Apparently

00:34:37.040 –> 00:34:41.400
something needs more power. What happened to

00:34:41.400 –> 00:34:43.579
the power cores we provided you? They’re already

00:34:43.579 –> 00:34:49.820
maxed out, sir. The thing is, you’re asking for

00:34:49.820 –> 00:34:54.480
a lot with these new weapons. Everything we’re

00:34:54.480 –> 00:34:58.639
working on needs a better power source, or it’s

00:34:58.639 –> 00:35:04.980
all going to fail on the battlefield. Hey, boss.

00:35:05.849 –> 00:35:10.989
we have another problem. Blood blew it. Duke

00:35:10.989 –> 00:35:19.489
is in the wind. Oh, boy. So, yeah, that’s Destro

00:35:19.489 –> 00:35:26.329
for you. Yep, and he brings in Scrap Iron, and

00:35:26.329 –> 00:35:28.369
I noticed that Scrap Iron is using his rocket

00:35:28.369 –> 00:35:32.369
launcher. I don’t collect the classified figures.

00:35:34.000 –> 00:35:36.880
But I have to wonder if, like, the design, so

00:35:36.880 –> 00:35:39.800
I’ll have to, like, do some digging to see if

00:35:39.800 –> 00:35:44.159
the rocket launcher that Scrap Iron uses is what

00:35:44.159 –> 00:35:47.320
the design is for the Classified line. Yeah.

00:35:47.619 –> 00:35:49.639
Because I know in Classified they did, you know,

00:35:49.639 –> 00:35:51.780
we do have a Scrap Iron figure, and I know that

00:35:51.780 –> 00:35:54.559
he also, they had him come with his rocket launcher.

00:35:55.519 –> 00:35:58.900
Yeah, absolutely. So I wouldn’t be surprised

00:35:58.900 –> 00:36:02.599
if, yeah, this is a Classified line thing. Probably.

00:36:05.930 –> 00:36:10.730
And nice of them to roll out the welcome wagon.

00:36:10.869 –> 00:36:21.190
They attack Duke. He gets shot down by scrap

00:36:21.190 –> 00:36:32.659
iron. No one is living through. Hmm. What does

00:36:32.659 –> 00:36:37.780
it take to stop this guy? It’s going to take

00:36:37.780 –> 00:36:41.420
a lot more than that. And, you know, something,

00:36:41.699 –> 00:36:45.539
I don’t know if this was on purpose or not, but

00:36:45.539 –> 00:36:50.400
the confrontations that Duke has had, bad guy

00:36:50.400 –> 00:36:53.239
-wise, he’s fought with major blood, he’s fought

00:36:53.239 –> 00:36:56.139
with major blood, and now he, you know, scrap

00:36:56.139 –> 00:36:58.739
iron shoots him down. I just find it kind of

00:36:58.739 –> 00:37:01.460
ironic because all three characters were voiced

00:37:01.460 –> 00:37:06.760
by Mike Bell in the Sunbow cartoon. So really,

00:37:06.920 –> 00:37:10.880
it’s almost like fighting with yourself. Yeah,

00:37:10.920 –> 00:37:14.019
pretty much. Absolutely love that, though. Absolutely

00:37:14.019 –> 00:37:18.019
love that. Just like at Mars, the weapons are

00:37:18.019 –> 00:37:22.599
here. That’s a massive battery, but what are

00:37:22.599 –> 00:37:31.059
they powering? Energon. Well, it is called the

00:37:31.059 –> 00:37:34.880
Energon universe, so… I know you’re watching

00:37:34.880 –> 00:37:40.699
me. I know you can hear me. You built that damn

00:37:40.699 –> 00:37:44.300
robot that killed my friend. No, they didn’t.

00:37:45.320 –> 00:37:51.960
You can hide all you want. Not only am I going

00:37:51.960 –> 00:37:56.039
to tell the whole world about you, I’m going

00:37:56.039 –> 00:38:04.099
to kill your flying robot. Well, that’s the best

00:38:04.099 –> 00:38:08.679
sound effect I can make, and there’s a bat. Yep,

00:38:08.699 –> 00:38:12.539
there we go. That is a bat, right? Oh, yeah,

00:38:12.539 –> 00:38:16.079
that is a bat. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that’s what I

00:38:16.079 –> 00:38:22.699
thought. That’s no ordinary bat, man. Where the

00:38:22.699 –> 00:38:27.309
hell is Duke? If you want to ever see the light

00:38:27.309 –> 00:38:30.090
of day again, Clutch, you’ll tell us where Duke

00:38:30.090 –> 00:38:38.530
took that sky striker. Oh, please, Mrs. Nash.

00:38:39.809 –> 00:38:43.769
In the fifth grade was scarier than you. If you

00:38:43.769 –> 00:38:48.269
think I would ever rat out my buddy. Colonel

00:38:48.269 –> 00:38:52.789
Hawk, sir? Oh, you can take a walk, Chief. Colonel

00:38:52.789 –> 00:38:57.760
Hawk, sir? We found this in the wreckage. Oh,

00:38:57.780 –> 00:39:11.320
boy. It could lead us to Duke. Does anything

00:39:11.320 –> 00:39:14.840
stop this guy? I hate to admit it, but I’m impressed.

00:39:15.780 –> 00:39:21.969
Perhaps it’s time for a different approach. Yeah,

00:39:21.989 –> 00:39:27.190
because Duke is kind of unstoppable for the most

00:39:27.190 –> 00:39:30.750
part. Well, I mean, I don’t know about unstoppable,

00:39:30.769 –> 00:39:34.570
but he’s definitely been taking a licking and

00:39:34.570 –> 00:39:39.730
keeps on ticking. Yep. And can I just say, Destro’s

00:39:39.730 –> 00:39:47.429
outfit. Oh, God. I don’t even want to. I was

00:39:47.429 –> 00:39:50.300
trying to ignore it this whole time. Yeah, no,

00:39:50.460 –> 00:39:55.219
I just… Well, when there’s a big splash page

00:39:55.219 –> 00:39:58.840
of it, yeah, it’s kind of hard. I mean, it’s

00:39:58.840 –> 00:40:02.539
like, I get it, I get it. Let’s try and go for…

00:40:02.539 –> 00:40:06.539
For something like this, let’s maybe try to get

00:40:06.539 –> 00:40:11.380
away from his 80s look and try and get something

00:40:11.380 –> 00:40:13.980
a little bit more realistic, but just the open

00:40:13.980 –> 00:40:19.980
collar, it’s just like… He feels more like

00:40:19.980 –> 00:40:27.619
a villain in NCIS than Death Stranding. Oh, hell

00:40:27.619 –> 00:40:32.199
no. You take that back. No, no, no. NCIS villains

00:40:32.199 –> 00:40:36.579
would never do this. NCIS villains would never

00:40:36.579 –> 00:40:39.960
dress like this. I think it depends on the villain.

00:40:41.099 –> 00:40:45.340
They would not have that. Not the open chest.

00:40:47.050 –> 00:40:49.909
They might have something like this suit, but

00:40:49.909 –> 00:40:52.030
they would not have that open chest with that

00:40:52.030 –> 00:40:56.469
large -ass, ugly -ass jewel that looks like something

00:40:56.469 –> 00:41:00.030
that Apu would grab out of the Cave of Wonders.

00:41:03.650 –> 00:41:12.429
Do not touch the jewels in the Cave of Wonders.

00:41:13.170 –> 00:41:17.090
You have touched the jewel. Yeah, you do it better

00:41:17.090 –> 00:41:21.309
than I do it. But, like, oh, my God. What in

00:41:21.309 –> 00:41:25.889
the hell? Like, Destro. And I know it’s a different

00:41:25.889 –> 00:41:30.230
artist than in the Destro series, I think. But

00:41:30.230 –> 00:41:36.409
his face, his, like, it’s, like, dark. It’s a

00:41:36.409 –> 00:41:39.889
dark. I mean, there is a glistening shine on

00:41:39.889 –> 00:41:42.610
the top of his head on the left side. But the

00:41:42.610 –> 00:41:45.409
rest of his whole face in this series so far,

00:41:45.570 –> 00:41:49.489
it’s darker. It’s not as shiny silver as it usually

00:41:49.489 –> 00:41:52.829
is. I’m not complaining about it. I’m just stating

00:41:52.829 –> 00:41:58.690
a fact here. It’s a little strange. Once a great

00:41:58.690 –> 00:42:01.469
soldier, but recently fallen from grace and too

00:42:01.469 –> 00:42:04.829
far down the rabbit hole. However, I have a proposition

00:42:04.829 –> 00:42:14.099
for you, Duke. Oh, boy. What I am building here

00:42:14.099 –> 00:42:17.340
will revolutionize the world. In all wars, there

00:42:17.340 –> 00:42:24.900
is only one winner. The weapons. He points at

00:42:24.900 –> 00:42:29.739
his ugly -ass trinket on his chest. You know

00:42:29.739 –> 00:42:32.820
as well as I do that red and red and white and

00:42:32.820 –> 00:42:39.679
blue is made from your blood. I saw one of your

00:42:39.679 –> 00:42:51.119
robots. It killed my friend. It turned into fascinating

00:42:51.119 –> 00:42:56.659
and not one of mine. What? It was built by your

00:42:56.659 –> 00:43:01.280
people. They lied to you. This is why you came

00:43:01.280 –> 00:43:05.280
to Dr. Bernhardt and eventually to me. Because

00:43:05.280 –> 00:43:08.179
you are in search of answers and I can give them

00:43:08.179 –> 00:43:14.840
to you. Join me. Join me and together we can

00:43:14.840 –> 00:43:17.139
rule the galaxy as father and son. Sorry, wrong

00:43:17.139 –> 00:43:19.820
speech. Wrong speech, yeah. Wrong speech, wrong

00:43:19.820 –> 00:43:23.099
speech. Sorry. Wrong speech, wrong speech. Join

00:43:23.099 –> 00:43:24.860
me and I’ll give you these cool high -tech toys.

00:43:25.820 –> 00:43:33.260
Yeah, no, wrong one. But yeah, so they have this

00:43:33.260 –> 00:43:42.360
whole back and forth and… Destro leaves him

00:43:42.360 –> 00:43:49.800
in front of the Bat Trooper. He tries to attack

00:43:49.800 –> 00:43:52.019
the Bat Trooper. The Bat Trooper basically just

00:43:52.019 –> 00:43:59.340
bitch slaps him. Yeah, but then Duke pulls a…

00:43:59.340 –> 00:44:04.800
What is it? Who was it in Mortal Kombat that

00:44:04.800 –> 00:44:07.880
would pull the head and the spine out? Was that

00:44:07.880 –> 00:44:12.230
Sub -Zero? I think so. I could be wrong. He pulls

00:44:12.230 –> 00:44:19.349
a Mortal Kombat fatality on the bat. Yeah. Yep.

00:44:23.369 –> 00:44:29.809
Damn. And again, Duke is, like we’ve said, he

00:44:29.809 –> 00:44:34.130
is a fighter, obviously, but wow. Surviving a

00:44:34.130 –> 00:44:38.869
freaking explosion. Surviving a freaking explosion.

00:44:38.889 –> 00:44:42.489
It’s like, good grief. Yeah, that’s a big boom.

00:44:44.150 –> 00:44:50.789
That page, the explosion page, to quote Lilo

00:44:50.789 –> 00:44:54.570
Dallas Multipass, that’s a big bada boom. Big

00:44:54.570 –> 00:45:07.099
bada boom. Yep, yep, yep, yep. So, yeah. We get

00:45:07.099 –> 00:45:10.360
to the more explosion part. He’s trying to escape.

00:45:11.900 –> 00:45:15.940
We get First Sergeant Conrad Hauser was found

00:45:15.940 –> 00:45:29.380
dead today. Oh. I remember this. His body was

00:45:29.380 –> 00:45:32.840
discovered by blah, blah, blah, blah. So it’s

00:45:32.840 –> 00:45:35.739
all the news reports about the various things

00:45:35.739 –> 00:45:39.360
and whatever else. And then he’s found dead.

00:45:39.440 –> 00:45:45.760
Oh, no, he was just in a coma. Well, yeah, nice,

00:45:45.980 –> 00:45:50.219
nice reference. Although I think in this particular

00:45:50.219 –> 00:45:56.909
case, it does kind of remind me of the IDW. yeah

00:45:56.909 –> 00:45:59.489
comics were like you know to be a member of gi

00:45:59.489 –> 00:46:02.510
joe they fake your death and yeah yeah yeah yeah

00:46:02.510 –> 00:46:06.210
no no but like that was the first thing that

00:46:06.210 –> 00:46:08.949
popped into my head was duke was found conrad

00:46:08.949 –> 00:46:12.389
hauser was found dead and his body was this and

00:46:12.389 –> 00:46:14.369
body was that and then you get to the first hospital

00:46:14.369 –> 00:46:16.389
scene you see him laying in the bed and i’m like

00:46:16.389 –> 00:46:20.710
oh so he’s a little patched he’s a little patched

00:46:20.710 –> 00:46:23.670
a little um you know patched up his eyes are

00:46:23.670 –> 00:46:26.900
closed he doesn’t have any like breathing apparatus

00:46:26.900 –> 00:46:30.280
or anything on him. And he got a haircut. He

00:46:30.280 –> 00:46:35.079
got a haircut. Finally got a haircut. That’s

00:46:35.079 –> 00:46:38.019
no way to speak in front of a lady soldier, dead

00:46:38.019 –> 00:46:45.940
or not. Oh, whatever, sir. Cover girl, yay! Cover

00:46:45.940 –> 00:46:51.239
girl, yay! Yay, we got another Joe female in

00:46:51.239 –> 00:46:56.789
here. Oh, man, they’re… Look, man. I love what

00:46:56.789 –> 00:47:00.769
they’re doing with Gia. And I’ve said this before,

00:47:00.969 –> 00:47:06.750
and I say it all the time. When I was, let’s

00:47:06.750 –> 00:47:10.010
say, five, six, seven years old, so 85, 86, and

00:47:10.010 –> 00:47:14.989
87, I’m a rare person where you put two things,

00:47:15.050 –> 00:47:18.530
like Pepsi or Coke, I’ll make a choice. And once

00:47:18.530 –> 00:47:21.750
I make that choice, I stick with that. I don’t

00:47:21.750 –> 00:47:24.739
go, like, I don’t. go back and forth between

00:47:24.739 –> 00:47:27.460
the two kind of thing. So I picture it. I had

00:47:27.460 –> 00:47:30.599
nothing against GI Joe. We’ve covered other GI

00:47:30.599 –> 00:47:34.940
Joe things on the podcast, but I, as a kid, I

00:47:34.940 –> 00:47:38.219
never really watched the, I have the DVDs. Now

00:47:38.219 –> 00:47:40.159
I got to go back and watch them at some point,

00:47:40.219 –> 00:47:44.500
but I never really watched GI Joe religiously

00:47:44.500 –> 00:47:48.300
kind of thing. I always watch transformers. So

00:47:48.300 –> 00:47:51.550
that’s the thing. Like, Getting to read these

00:47:51.550 –> 00:47:54.469
comics via Skybound, even though I read, I didn’t

00:47:54.469 –> 00:47:57.309
read all the IDW stuff. I only like pick and

00:47:57.309 –> 00:48:00.269
chose what I wanted to read out of that. But

00:48:00.269 –> 00:48:05.170
starting with this, like. Between G .I. Joe,

00:48:05.269 –> 00:48:08.590
Void Rivals and Transformers, it’s always kind

00:48:08.590 –> 00:48:11.570
of volleyed between which one is my number one,

00:48:11.630 –> 00:48:15.119
number two and number three. Half the time lately,

00:48:15.420 –> 00:48:18.239
G .I. Joe has been in the top spot because I

00:48:18.239 –> 00:48:21.260
just love this comic. The whole thing that they’ve

00:48:21.260 –> 00:48:24.480
been doing is just so great. And reading this

00:48:24.480 –> 00:48:28.719
in trade really changes my mind on this series.

00:48:28.880 –> 00:48:31.940
I don’t know what it is. It just reads better.

00:48:32.239 –> 00:48:37.960
And the story is so good. Well, I think it’s

00:48:37.960 –> 00:48:42.760
the fact that you don’t have to wait. 30 days

00:48:42.760 –> 00:48:44.800
or something, or three weeks or something for

00:48:44.800 –> 00:48:49.739
the next installment. And especially with something

00:48:49.739 –> 00:48:54.320
like this, where you have Duke on the run trying

00:48:54.320 –> 00:48:58.659
to investigate Mars and things like that, it

00:48:58.659 –> 00:49:01.219
just flows better when you don’t have to wait

00:49:01.219 –> 00:49:13.039
for the next thing. Yeah, absolutely. So, as

00:49:13.039 –> 00:49:17.980
he’s in the hospital here, is anything true anymore?

00:49:18.699 –> 00:49:21.400
Here’s the truth that I know. We need you, Duke.

00:49:21.440 –> 00:49:25.400
Your country needs you. You’re the second person

00:49:25.400 –> 00:49:28.980
to offer me answers. Why should I trust you now?

00:49:31.039 –> 00:49:39.039
Oh, boy. He’s in the hospital, man. Why take

00:49:39.039 –> 00:49:42.880
me back to the pit, Colonel? This is our new

00:49:42.880 –> 00:49:47.360
base of operations. But the enemy knows about

00:49:47.360 –> 00:49:52.340
it. Let them come. I knew you weren’t dead. Nothing

00:49:52.340 –> 00:49:58.360
keeps my boy down. He never gives up. He stays

00:49:58.360 –> 00:50:01.980
till the fight’s won. That’s right. Damn right.

00:50:02.199 –> 00:50:05.860
What are you doing out here, Clutch? Hawk didn’t

00:50:05.860 –> 00:50:08.949
tell you? I want you to build a highly trained

00:50:08.949 –> 00:50:11.650
special mission force, one that can handle these

00:50:11.650 –> 00:50:16.010
new threats on the horizon. I’m not a chance.

00:50:16.269 –> 00:50:19.289
I’m not fighting anyone’s secret war. Clutch,

00:50:19.329 –> 00:50:22.230
you gotta ride out of here. Hold on, Duke. This

00:50:22.230 –> 00:50:25.170
is bigger than you know. There’s a lot more happening

00:50:25.170 –> 00:50:28.530
here than you can imagine. It’s more than just

00:50:28.530 –> 00:50:31.710
Destro. It’s more than just one jet that turns

00:50:31.710 –> 00:50:36.860
into a robot. It’s more than meets the eye. Don’t

00:50:36.860 –> 00:50:39.860
jump the gun. This is Jason Marsden, voice of

00:50:39.860 –> 00:50:42.860
Duke, from G .I. Joe Renegades. You are listening

00:50:42.860 –> 00:50:46.460
to the Geekcast Radio Network. What do you mean?

00:50:48.059 –> 00:50:50.900
One of our drones caught this on a surveillance

00:50:50.900 –> 00:50:55.219
a few months ago. This big SOB turns into a truck.

00:50:55.400 –> 00:50:58.460
Destro might not have built them, but someone

00:50:58.460 –> 00:51:01.260
did, and we need to know what they are and how

00:51:01.260 –> 00:51:05.690
to stop them. Prove you can, son. So what do

00:51:05.690 –> 00:51:10.829
you say, Duke? We destroy them all. And the big

00:51:10.829 –> 00:51:17.510
SOB truck? None other than Optimus Prime. That’s

00:51:17.510 –> 00:51:23.570
right. Dun, dun, dun. And that is the end of

00:51:23.570 –> 00:51:28.110
the main part of Duke Volume 1, Knowing is Half

00:51:28.110 –> 00:51:31.750
the Battle. There is an epilogue here, though.

00:51:32.969 –> 00:51:38.849
And the epilogue includes Baroness here. Are

00:51:38.849 –> 00:51:42.130
you out of your mind, Duke? The last time you

00:51:42.130 –> 00:51:44.550
saw Baroness, she had a gun aimed at your head.

00:51:45.429 –> 00:51:48.030
Why does that guy look like J. Jonah Jameson?

00:51:49.469 –> 00:51:51.429
I don’t know, but he’s missing the mustache.

00:51:51.949 –> 00:51:54.190
He’s missing the mustache, but look at the hair.

00:51:55.789 –> 00:51:58.349
Technically, Colonel Hawk, the last time I saw

00:51:58.349 –> 00:52:00.690
her, she stole a helicopter and escaped custody.

00:52:02.730 –> 00:52:05.550
Tokyo should be arresting her, not recruiting

00:52:05.550 –> 00:52:14.230
her. Anastasia, she’s either passed off, stabbed

00:52:14.230 –> 00:52:18.150
in the back, or killed every ally she’s ever

00:52:18.150 –> 00:52:25.230
had. Yada, yada, yada. See a nice big splash

00:52:25.230 –> 00:52:30.780
page of all of that. And we get a nice big splash

00:52:30.780 –> 00:52:35.719
page of Baroness in G .I. Joe uniform. Yo, Joe,

00:52:36.000 –> 00:52:44.199
she says. And the epilogue goes on to say, That

00:52:44.199 –> 00:52:47.059
was not part of the plan. Lady J is right, sir.

00:52:47.179 –> 00:52:49.679
I thought you wanted us to recruit Baroness to

00:52:49.679 –> 00:52:54.000
our side. This still worked in our favor as she

00:52:54.000 –> 00:53:00.210
now has a bond with Duke Flint. Why the subterfuge?

00:53:00.210 –> 00:53:03.710
Duke and I have had some trust issues recently,

00:53:03.849 –> 00:53:07.750
and he must not know that we’re making more than

00:53:07.750 –> 00:53:17.630
one team. To be continued in G .I. Joe. And that,

00:53:17.750 –> 00:53:21.809
I could swear that that epilogue was taken from

00:53:21.809 –> 00:53:26.289
the regular Joe series, because I… I think

00:53:26.289 –> 00:53:31.030
so, yeah. I don’t remember that being in the

00:53:31.030 –> 00:53:33.510
individual issues. I remember reading that, but

00:53:33.510 –> 00:53:36.309
not there. Yeah, not there. I don’t know why

00:53:36.309 –> 00:53:39.929
they put it in Duke for the trade. Well, I guess

00:53:39.929 –> 00:53:48.750
probably to give a better end point and also

00:53:48.750 –> 00:53:53.670
to kind of lead more into the regular series.

00:53:54.989 –> 00:54:00.610
I guess, but I don’t know. It’s weird. All right.

00:54:02.650 –> 00:54:05.530
Final thoughts on Duke. What did you think overall?

00:54:06.829 –> 00:54:09.329
I have to agree with you. Reads better in trade.

00:54:10.570 –> 00:54:14.010
Interesting seeing a Duke that’s not, you know,

00:54:14.010 –> 00:54:17.409
clean -cut poster boy. You know, this is a Duke

00:54:17.409 –> 00:54:20.789
that’s trouble, that has some issues. So, you

00:54:20.789 –> 00:54:24.809
know, interesting. Also just very interesting

00:54:24.809 –> 00:54:28.110
how they bring in other characters, you know,

00:54:28.130 –> 00:54:29.630
other Joe characters, like how they introduced

00:54:29.630 –> 00:54:32.570
Clutch and how they introduced Baroness. I mean,

00:54:32.590 –> 00:54:38.590
I still remember that, you know, we spoke about

00:54:38.590 –> 00:54:41.610
this before, that, you know, that big poster

00:54:41.610 –> 00:54:44.710
image showing the cast for the Joe books. And

00:54:44.710 –> 00:54:48.650
we have Baroness like in a Joe outfit. And it’s

00:54:48.650 –> 00:54:51.110
like, wait, what? They’re casting her as a good

00:54:51.110 –> 00:54:59.260
guy this time? Yep. It’s interesting. Yeah, absolutely.

00:54:59.460 –> 00:55:03.500
It was very interesting, and it’s very cool to

00:55:03.500 –> 00:55:09.579
see her working with them. And when I read it

00:55:09.579 –> 00:55:14.659
the first time, I was like, oh, okay. So they’re

00:55:14.659 –> 00:55:19.559
kind of playing up the Rise of Cobra. Except

00:55:19.559 –> 00:55:22.559
she’s not an infected part and wouldn’t have

00:55:22.559 –> 00:55:25.000
to worry about that. But she’s still keeping

00:55:25.000 –> 00:55:28.179
the wig on and this, that, and the other thing

00:55:28.179 –> 00:55:30.780
and everything else. But, no, I absolutely loved

00:55:30.780 –> 00:55:34.000
it. Zero to five with half points. What are you

00:55:34.000 –> 00:55:38.960
going to give Duke? Let’s see. Out of five, I

00:55:38.960 –> 00:55:44.289
think a four. Yeah, I had much more fun this

00:55:44.289 –> 00:55:47.550
time around. A lot of the writing, and I’m so

00:55:47.550 –> 00:55:50.809
used to Joshua Williamson’s writing now, so going

00:55:50.809 –> 00:55:53.489
back and reading this again, seeing the origins

00:55:53.489 –> 00:55:58.090
again, it’s much more enjoyable. So yeah, I’m

00:55:58.090 –> 00:56:00.469
right there with you to four. Taking a quick

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00:59:19.309 –> 00:59:21.829
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00:59:41.369 –> 00:59:44.599
good. Yeah, that’s alright. All right, folks,

00:59:44.800 –> 00:59:47.300
we are back here inside the pullback. This is

00:59:47.300 –> 00:59:51.440
episode 583. It is our skybound entertainment

00:59:51.440 –> 00:59:55.380
under Image Comics. It is the Energon Universe.

00:59:55.480 –> 01:00:01.820
We are wrapping up the G .I. Joe miniseries with

01:00:01.820 –> 01:00:05.159
Scarlet. First off, really quickly, before we

01:00:05.159 –> 01:00:07.039
get into Scarlet, I do have to tell you, folks,

01:00:07.119 –> 01:00:10.679
I have a history with the lovely Kelly Thompson,

01:00:10.880 –> 01:00:15.800
because in 2015, It was announced over at IDW

01:00:15.800 –> 01:00:19.059
Publishing that Gem in the Holograms was going

01:00:19.059 –> 01:00:25.760
to get a comic book series. And we did a review.

01:00:27.320 –> 01:00:29.800
But a friend of mine, Kendra Hale, did a written

01:00:29.800 –> 01:00:35.000
review of the first issue. And then my misfits,

01:00:35.099 –> 01:00:40.619
Nicole Hale, a .k .a. Beatles Diva, and… Amy,

01:00:40.619 –> 01:00:45.780
a .k .a. Lady Wreck, we all did Jim and the Holograms

01:00:45.780 –> 01:00:50.699
comic books here. We did episodes here on the

01:00:50.699 –> 01:00:54.699
pull bag covering the entire series. Was it me

01:00:54.699 –> 01:00:58.960
and Amy? I forget if it was both of us or just

01:00:58.960 –> 01:01:03.539
me. We actually got to interview Kelly back in

01:01:03.539 –> 01:01:10.159
July, I want to say. Where is the date on this?

01:01:11.780 –> 01:01:17.380
Date, date, date. Hello. Oh, no, it was all of

01:01:17.380 –> 01:01:22.480
us. Me, Amy, and Nicole got to interview Kelly

01:01:22.480 –> 01:01:28.920
Thompson back in September 4th of 2015. It was

01:01:28.920 –> 01:01:31.780
Kelly Thompson, IDW Publishing, 21st Century

01:01:31.780 –> 01:01:36.699
Jam. Nice. Lucky. She she’s on my list of creators.

01:01:36.820 –> 01:01:40.539
I want to meet like in person. Yeah. I’ll I’ll

01:01:40.539 –> 01:01:42.480
send you the link to that interview. That interview

01:01:42.480 –> 01:01:45.480
is two hours, nine minutes and 32 seconds long.

01:01:46.099 –> 01:01:49.900
That was such a blast. But hang on. Is it outrageous?

01:01:50.239 –> 01:01:52.840
Truly, truly outrageous. Oh, of course it is.

01:01:52.940 –> 01:01:56.800
Always. Always, always, always. You know, I have

01:01:56.800 –> 01:01:58.760
to throw that in there, right? No, of course.

01:01:58.780 –> 01:02:04.519
Of course. Absolutely. We. Yeah, we had a blast

01:02:04.519 –> 01:02:10.940
with her, and it was so fun. But yeah, we covered

01:02:10.940 –> 01:02:23.219
all of the Gem series from IDW, and when it was

01:02:23.219 –> 01:02:25.420
announced that she was going to be doing the

01:02:25.420 –> 01:02:29.500
Scarlet, miniseries for skybound i was like oh

01:02:29.500 –> 01:02:32.320
because i have not you mentioned jeff the land

01:02:32.320 –> 01:02:37.179
shark i hang my head in shame because that’s

01:02:37.179 –> 01:02:40.320
something i need to catch up with i need to go

01:02:40.320 –> 01:02:43.980
back and and grab jeff the land shark by his

01:02:43.980 –> 01:02:48.320
his fin there and and read his comic i have not

01:02:48.320 –> 01:02:50.800
done that yet because a lot of things as i’ve

01:02:50.800 –> 01:02:53.880
mentioned before on the podcast i’m so far behind

01:02:53.880 –> 01:02:56.900
on stuff on, on everything. And I just haven’t

01:02:56.900 –> 01:03:00.360
had the time and haven’t had the, the place to

01:03:00.360 –> 01:03:04.360
do stuff and, and all that. So, and actually

01:03:04.360 –> 01:03:06.059
it’s funny that you also, that you mentioned

01:03:06.059 –> 01:03:10.039
Jeff again, because in, uh, in honor of the fact

01:03:10.039 –> 01:03:12.920
that we’re, we’re covering a book by tell it

01:03:12.920 –> 01:03:16.559
by, uh, Kelly Thompson. I actually have, uh,

01:03:16.800 –> 01:03:19.559
I actually have, uh, a Jeff, the land shark plushie

01:03:19.559 –> 01:03:23.059
right next to me as we record. There you go.

01:03:23.659 –> 01:03:26.860
And I mean, who wouldn’t? Jeff is adorable. Yeah.

01:03:27.139 –> 01:03:30.300
I’ve seen Jeff. I think I might have read the

01:03:30.300 –> 01:03:34.260
first issue or the first couple. I might have

01:03:34.260 –> 01:03:37.659
read like a preview of whatever the first issue

01:03:37.659 –> 01:03:40.440
was. I just have never gotten into it kind of

01:03:40.440 –> 01:03:42.079
thing. And it’s not that I haven’t wanted to.

01:03:42.300 –> 01:03:45.480
There’s so, dude. And it’s not just that it’s

01:03:45.480 –> 01:03:49.000
90 years, 100 years of comics or whatever. But

01:03:49.000 –> 01:03:56.389
there’s so much stuff. I’m spread thinner than

01:03:56.389 –> 01:03:59.250
the thinnest roast beef at the best deli in New

01:03:59.250 –> 01:04:04.289
York City. Like, just, I’m doing the best I can.

01:04:04.610 –> 01:04:07.869
All right, folks, we are getting into Scarlet,

01:04:07.889 –> 01:04:11.130
five -issue miniseries from Skybound Entertainment

01:04:11.130 –> 01:04:14.969
under Image Comics. For the creative, the writer

01:04:14.969 –> 01:04:18.730
is Kelly Thompson. The artist is Marco Ferrari.

01:04:19.719 –> 01:04:23.119
The colorist is Lee Lockridge. Russ Wooten is

01:04:23.119 –> 01:04:26.440
on lettering. Woo, Russ. Love Russ. Cover is

01:04:26.440 –> 01:04:30.500
done by Marco and Lee Lockridge, along with Joelle

01:04:30.500 –> 01:04:34.900
Jones. Ben Abernathy is the editor. Andre Suarez

01:04:34.900 –> 01:04:38.760
is the logo and publication design. And Ashby

01:04:38.760 –> 01:04:45.780
Florence is the production. And we have the file

01:04:45.780 –> 01:04:52.400
surveillance. Not file, field surveillance. Nice

01:04:52.400 –> 01:04:58.460
image there of Scarlet. And just like in the

01:04:58.460 –> 01:05:02.820
Duke series, huge thanks to Hasbro’s Ed Lane,

01:05:03.039 –> 01:05:05.980
Michael Cohn, Linda Lee, and Talia Rio for their

01:05:05.980 –> 01:05:12.659
invaluable stuff. So we start with Volume 1.

01:05:13.679 –> 01:05:18.139
Now, when this was first announced, it was like,

01:05:18.829 –> 01:05:23.690
It’s Scarlet Mission Impossible. That’s how it

01:05:23.690 –> 01:05:26.829
was described in every article I read online.

01:05:27.349 –> 01:05:31.610
And that’s why you find folks before you heard

01:05:31.610 –> 01:05:37.130
Kelly Thompson’s promo on our our intro where

01:05:37.130 –> 01:05:40.090
she says you’re listening to the full bag. You

01:05:40.090 –> 01:05:43.699
would have heard composer Joe Kramer. do the

01:05:43.699 –> 01:05:46.860
GCRN promo. I have voice promos from all kinds

01:05:46.860 –> 01:05:51.079
of people, all kinds of voice actors and musicians

01:05:51.079 –> 01:05:54.639
and other people that do the, you’re listening

01:05:54.639 –> 01:05:56.699
to, the geek kids do all that kind of stuff.

01:05:57.179 –> 01:06:00.119
When we interviewed Joe Kramer at the time when

01:06:00.119 –> 01:06:02.840
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation was just coming

01:06:02.840 –> 01:06:06.300
out or just came out or whatever, he’s the composer

01:06:06.300 –> 01:06:14.679
on Rogue Nation and Fallout. Fallout was the

01:06:14.679 –> 01:06:18.079
sixth one, right? Yeah, I think so. I believe

01:06:18.079 –> 01:06:21.000
so, yeah. Yeah, because Rogue Nation was five.

01:06:22.380 –> 01:06:27.860
Well, I had him do various promos, and one of

01:06:27.860 –> 01:06:30.219
the promos is, if you don’t listen to the Geekcast

01:06:30.219 –> 01:06:33.579
Radio Network, this tape will self -destruct

01:06:33.579 –> 01:06:36.300
in five seconds or whatever it is. So you folks

01:06:36.300 –> 01:06:39.320
will have heard Joe Kramer at the beginning of

01:06:39.320 –> 01:06:45.980
this, because I… Even Kelly herself said to

01:06:45.980 –> 01:06:48.880
me, yeah, this is pretty much Scarlet in a Mission

01:06:48.880 –> 01:06:53.000
Impossible type situation. And I absolutely love

01:06:53.000 –> 01:06:56.440
that. I think that is so cool. Yeah, although

01:06:56.440 –> 01:06:59.260
the opening, I would say the opening of the book

01:06:59.260 –> 01:07:03.119
reminds me a little less of Mission Impossible,

01:07:03.179 –> 01:07:07.960
and it reminds me more of the opening to True

01:07:07.960 –> 01:07:12.210
Lies. I could see that. I could see both. Yes,

01:07:12.269 –> 01:07:16.530
I agree. I mean, just the whole, you know, going

01:07:16.530 –> 01:07:19.170
in the infiltration suit and then ditching it

01:07:19.170 –> 01:07:22.789
to have like a nice, in this case, instead of

01:07:22.789 –> 01:07:28.869
a tuxedo, a nice dress. Yeah. Yeah. I’ll also

01:07:28.869 –> 01:07:31.269
counter that the only thing that she was missing

01:07:31.269 –> 01:07:34.449
with ditching the dress is pulling off her mask.

01:07:35.670 –> 01:07:38.889
That would have made it mission. Yeah. Yeah.

01:07:39.090 –> 01:07:43.210
Yeah. But that bike, that bike is so mission.

01:07:43.969 –> 01:07:48.130
The third, the, what is it? The fourth or like

01:07:48.130 –> 01:07:52.869
the seventh or eighth page where, when she’s

01:07:52.869 –> 01:07:55.190
doing, Oh, it’s when she gets back to when she’s

01:07:55.190 –> 01:07:58.369
in Washington, DC, that, that bike is so mission.

01:07:59.889 –> 01:08:03.829
Uh, but yeah, no, she’s, she’s at, she infiltrates

01:08:03.829 –> 01:08:07.679
this party. She’s looking for jinx. Uh, Jinx

01:08:07.679 –> 01:08:14.219
is in one stunning red dress and, uh, yeah, Scarlet’s

01:08:14.219 –> 01:08:16.460
in a green dress. It must be a Christmas party.

01:08:16.960 –> 01:08:22.319
It isn’t folks. It isn’t just, just joking. Um,

01:08:22.680 –> 01:08:27.380
but yeah, and she’s talking to control, whoever

01:08:27.380 –> 01:08:31.220
control is. And I swear every time anyone on

01:08:31.220 –> 01:08:34.600
anything, whether it’s a comic or. TV show or

01:08:34.600 –> 01:08:37.520
movie. Anytime anyone’s talking to control, I’m

01:08:37.520 –> 01:08:41.960
like, yes, chief, this is agent 86. No control.

01:08:42.220 –> 01:08:46.039
I, I, I can’t do that. I think of Maxwell smart,

01:08:46.239 –> 01:08:55.579
uh, controlling chaos. Oh boy. So yeah, she goes

01:08:55.579 –> 01:08:58.579
to infiltrate and control keeps telling her not

01:08:58.579 –> 01:09:03.020
to engage. And the whole time she’s doing what,

01:09:03.369 –> 01:09:07.170
She’s not told to do. She’s not doing the job.

01:09:07.609 –> 01:09:10.970
She’s doing the job, but she’s not listening

01:09:10.970 –> 01:09:14.569
to them because she’s taking everybody out and

01:09:14.569 –> 01:09:18.529
she’s saving the hostages and all of that. What

01:09:18.529 –> 01:09:24.529
do you think so far? Yeah, well, first off, I

01:09:24.529 –> 01:09:27.109
mean, I think one thing I got to agree with you,

01:09:27.170 –> 01:09:32.010
Jinx’s red dress is definitely stunning. Yeah.

01:09:33.299 –> 01:09:38.600
I just wonder… I have to wonder. I think something

01:09:38.600 –> 01:09:44.500
I would love to know is Jynx having the Urshikagi

01:09:44.500 –> 01:09:48.920
tattoo on her upper thigh like that. Was that

01:09:48.920 –> 01:09:54.279
indicated in the script? I mean… Yeah, because

01:09:54.279 –> 01:09:57.840
the placement really caught my eye. I’m like,

01:09:57.899 –> 01:10:01.800
whoa, okay. Holy cow. Alright. On her upper thigh?

01:10:02.859 –> 01:10:09.180
Yeah, it’s on the Rishikage tattoo. You mean

01:10:09.180 –> 01:10:16.859
her arm? No, it’s not on her arm. The upper part

01:10:16.859 –> 01:10:23.220
of her arm has a floral tattoo pattern. The Rishikage

01:10:23.220 –> 01:10:28.460
tattoo is on her left thigh. You have that slit

01:10:28.460 –> 01:10:34.000
in the dress, and you can see it peek out. I

01:10:34.000 –> 01:10:35.899
don’t know what you’re looking at, but there’s

01:10:35.899 –> 01:10:39.560
no tattoo on her leg. Yeah, it’s on her leg.

01:10:41.600 –> 01:10:45.659
Which… In where she’s standing there? She’s

01:10:45.659 –> 01:10:49.600
not where she’s… Okay, not when… When, um…

01:10:51.580 –> 01:10:58.460
I see it. I was just about to do… It’s the

01:10:58.460 –> 01:11:01.840
panel. It’s on the left side of her leg. I see

01:11:01.840 –> 01:11:04.880
it. It’s when control. I recognize this symbol,

01:11:04.920 –> 01:11:11.020
but I can’t place it. I gotcha. Gotcha. I was

01:11:11.020 –> 01:11:13.119
looking at the inside, not the outside of her

01:11:13.119 –> 01:11:15.619
left leg. It’s on the outside of her left leg.

01:11:15.699 –> 01:11:21.340
Gotcha. Yeah, that’s bold. Yep. And interesting

01:11:21.340 –> 01:11:24.420
variation, because, I mean, yeah, usually throughout

01:11:24.420 –> 01:11:26.619
media, the Rishikage tattoo is, again, on the

01:11:26.619 –> 01:11:30.479
arm. Yeah. But, yeah, the whole, again, the opening,

01:11:30.600 –> 01:11:33.020
very, the opening, again, feels, you know, very

01:11:33.020 –> 01:11:35.859
Mission Impossible, very True Lies, you know,

01:11:35.880 –> 01:11:39.600
walking into the party and just, you know, acting

01:11:39.600 –> 01:11:49.390
like she belongs there. Yep. Absolutely. But

01:11:49.390 –> 01:11:53.170
yeah, the brawl. Gotta love the just turned into

01:11:53.170 –> 01:11:56.430
a brawl permission to engage. Yeah. It’s like,

01:11:56.529 –> 01:11:59.789
wait, no, permission denied. So it’s like, what,

01:11:59.829 –> 01:12:02.189
I’m just supposed to stand here watching people

01:12:02.189 –> 01:12:05.949
getting the crap beaten out of them? Okay. Yeah.

01:12:07.689 –> 01:12:10.010
Exactly. I’m supposed to sit here and do nothing?

01:12:10.489 –> 01:12:14.470
That’s not going to work for me. We get back

01:12:14.470 –> 01:12:17.979
to Washington, D .C. That goes as well as can

01:12:17.979 –> 01:12:22.380
be expected. She gets back home and she realizes,

01:12:22.560 –> 01:12:27.560
wait, somebody’s here. Hmm. I wonder who that

01:12:27.560 –> 01:12:31.920
could be. Once a spy, always a spy. Dangerous

01:12:31.920 –> 01:12:36.300
game to play, sir. You can call me Stalker, Sergeant.

01:12:36.640 –> 01:12:42.119
Oh, so Stalker broke in. Yeah. Always nice to

01:12:42.119 –> 01:12:47.899
see him. Yep, and good to see that he’s… I

01:12:47.899 –> 01:12:53.600
think beforehand, her getting reprimanded by

01:12:53.600 –> 01:13:00.420
this Major Gorman or whatever. First of all,

01:13:00.420 –> 01:13:03.560
it’s like, yeah, I don’t recognize him. He’s

01:13:03.560 –> 01:13:09.359
probably created just for this, but… it’s a

01:13:09.359 –> 01:13:11.720
bit of a cliche, but it’s a fun cliche with like,

01:13:11.779 –> 01:13:13.800
you know, having that one superior officer who’s

01:13:13.800 –> 01:13:16.460
just fricking clueless and, you know, exists

01:13:16.460 –> 01:13:20.460
only to be like, you’re a loose cannon. Yeah.

01:13:21.600 –> 01:13:25.159
Yeah. It’s good that they had. So again, like

01:13:25.159 –> 01:13:29.000
she’s, again, this is think of it. Again, you

01:13:29.000 –> 01:13:33.420
keep mentioning true lies, but I, I fully think

01:13:33.420 –> 01:13:37.390
it, like I said, Kelly even said to me, It’s

01:13:37.390 –> 01:13:40.210
full on mission impossible. That’s what she was

01:13:40.210 –> 01:13:46.449
going for. And that you can’t just put general

01:13:46.449 –> 01:13:49.130
Hawk. I mean, I think general Hawk does show

01:13:49.130 –> 01:13:52.550
up eventually at some point, but like, you can’t

01:13:52.550 –> 01:13:55.430
just have Scarlet going to general Hawk. You

01:13:55.430 –> 01:13:59.390
have to have her going to somebody who at the

01:13:59.390 –> 01:14:05.800
end, isn’t really going to matter. Like. So,

01:14:05.880 –> 01:14:11.000
you know, because, again, she’s a secret operative.

01:14:11.060 –> 01:14:16.100
She’s undercover. She’s not supposed, like, this

01:14:16.100 –> 01:14:20.560
is not, like, this isn’t Scarlet who’s a part

01:14:20.560 –> 01:14:30.779
of Roadblock, Duke. Help me out here. Roadblock,

01:14:30.899 –> 01:14:37.539
Duke, Tunnel Rat. Beachhead. This isn’t a six

01:14:37.539 –> 01:14:41.359
-man Joe team here. This is just her and Jinx

01:14:41.359 –> 01:14:47.300
eventually doing their spy thing. And Stalker

01:14:47.300 –> 01:14:51.680
even calls her out. You know, spy versus spy

01:14:51.680 –> 01:14:55.340
kind of thing. So this is a spy thing. Interesting.

01:14:55.399 –> 01:14:57.840
And it’s interesting seeing that they don’t know

01:14:57.840 –> 01:15:01.010
each other. Yeah. Because, you know, that’s…

01:15:01.010 –> 01:15:04.109
Again, their friendship is supposed to be something

01:15:04.109 –> 01:15:07.350
that’s established, so having, you know… Yep.

01:15:08.149 –> 01:15:12.609
And, yeah, you gotta give Stalker credit for

01:15:12.609 –> 01:15:17.989
trusting that he wouldn’t get a… His head cut

01:15:17.989 –> 01:15:21.529
off. Yeah, his head cut off or blown off. Yep.

01:15:21.789 –> 01:15:23.729
But, you know, fortunately she was smart enough

01:15:23.729 –> 01:15:27.060
to be like, okay, you know, let me… Let’s not

01:15:27.060 –> 01:15:29.960
shoot first and ask questions later. Let’s see

01:15:29.960 –> 01:15:32.819
what happens. Let’s ask the questions first.

01:15:33.779 –> 01:15:37.319
Speaking of friendship, we go four years ago

01:15:37.319 –> 01:15:42.039
and we meet Jinx and Scarlet. We get the two

01:15:42.039 –> 01:15:48.119
of them and that’s a nice little page showing

01:15:48.119 –> 01:15:51.319
their friendship and we get more of that as time

01:15:51.319 –> 01:15:55.689
goes on. We get back to I almost said bullseye

01:15:55.689 –> 01:15:58.729
because they have a bingo and bullseye joke there.

01:15:58.829 –> 01:16:02.890
But we get back to her and Stalker. We kind of

01:16:02.890 –> 01:16:08.149
go back and forth here between stuff and whatever.

01:16:08.250 –> 01:16:12.829
We see Snowjob. Love seeing Snowjob here. So

01:16:12.829 –> 01:16:17.310
cool. And we see Scarlet actually wearing an

01:16:17.310 –> 01:16:20.529
outfit similar to Snowjob, which she looks good

01:16:20.529 –> 01:16:26.090
in it. Oh, yeah. I love the white. Kind of reminds

01:16:26.090 –> 01:16:29.369
me of a different Scarlet. He was a widow, don’t

01:16:29.369 –> 01:16:45.090
you know? What? And we see her fighting in the

01:16:45.090 –> 01:16:49.270
white and she’s kicking ass and taking names.

01:16:52.560 –> 01:16:55.960
Too late for second thoughts. Who wants a long,

01:16:55.960 –> 01:17:05.460
fulfilling life anyway? On guard. We see a nice

01:17:05.460 –> 01:17:09.180
big splash page of her basically killing all

01:17:09.180 –> 01:17:16.460
the ninjas. Or whatever they are. Good few fight

01:17:16.460 –> 01:17:28.020
panels here. We see… Sensei, wait! My apologies

01:17:28.020 –> 01:17:31.539
for disrupting your sanctuary, Hardmaster. My

01:17:31.539 –> 01:17:33.939
name is Shaina O ‘Hara, former U .S. military,

01:17:34.340 –> 01:17:37.380
and I come with an offer. I am listening. What

01:17:37.380 –> 01:17:43.720
is your offer, O ‘Hara? Jinx is… playing at

01:17:43.720 –> 01:17:46.439
extremely close unless I’ve misread everything.

01:17:49.869 –> 01:17:52.689
That would be unfortunate, considering the play.

01:17:54.390 –> 01:17:58.949
After all, the play’s the thing. Catch the conscience

01:17:58.949 –> 01:18:05.649
of the king. Uh -huh. She says, the offer is

01:18:05.649 –> 01:18:14.750
me. Do I need you? It seems perhaps you do. He’s

01:18:14.750 –> 01:18:17.229
not taking the bait. I might be in real trouble

01:18:17.229 –> 01:18:24.000
here. Oh, crap. Well, if you’re going to cliffhanger

01:18:24.000 –> 01:18:27.020
chapter one, what better way to do it than Storm

01:18:27.020 –> 01:18:32.840
Shadow? I mean, we got Jinx. Yeah. We got Jinx,

01:18:32.880 –> 01:18:39.520
we got the Hardmaster. We got Storm Shadow. Yeah,

01:18:39.520 –> 01:18:43.520
that was… I remember when issue one dropped,

01:18:43.659 –> 01:18:47.979
and I was like, oh, crap. You’re going to cliff

01:18:47.979 –> 01:18:50.340
hang it with storm shadow. What a way to go.

01:18:51.659 –> 01:18:56.420
That was so good. I love Kelly’s writing. I just,

01:18:56.619 –> 01:19:00.600
I love the way she writes. And again, I, it’s

01:19:00.600 –> 01:19:03.279
been years since I’ve seen the GI Joe cartoon.

01:19:03.800 –> 01:19:09.140
It’s been years since I’ve seen or heard or remember

01:19:09.140 –> 01:19:12.060
any of the way any of these characters actually

01:19:12.060 –> 01:19:16.760
are. So getting to read these characters and

01:19:16.760 –> 01:19:20.420
how these writers interpret these characters

01:19:20.420 –> 01:19:25.680
for the first time is so refreshing to me. I

01:19:25.680 –> 01:19:28.680
remember bits and pieces of how Duke is supposed

01:19:28.680 –> 01:19:33.819
to be. I remember bits and pieces of how Cobra

01:19:33.819 –> 01:19:36.100
Commander, like Cobra Commander, Destro, and

01:19:36.100 –> 01:19:38.500
Duke are the three that I remember the most of

01:19:38.500 –> 01:19:43.989
how they were in the cartoon specifically. Scarlett,

01:19:43.989 –> 01:19:47.590
Flint, and Lady J, I kind of sort of remember,

01:19:47.850 –> 01:19:54.270
but I don’t really. So having Kelly write the

01:19:54.270 –> 01:20:00.229
character, I like this version of her the best

01:20:00.229 –> 01:20:04.390
for the most part. And again, I’m going to eventually

01:20:04.390 –> 01:20:07.989
get back to, I actually have my DVD case right

01:20:07.989 –> 01:20:11.350
next to me here at my desk with the G .I. Joe.

01:20:12.469 –> 01:20:16.670
cartoon dvds in it so i guess no time like the

01:20:16.670 –> 01:20:18.789
present and just throw them in my computer and

01:20:18.789 –> 01:20:21.569
start watching but yeah no absolutely love the

01:20:21.569 –> 01:20:24.409
love the writing what are your thoughts so far

01:20:24.409 –> 01:20:28.810
after the first issue well so far so good and

01:20:28.810 –> 01:20:34.590
you know i love that um I, you know, I, again,

01:20:34.750 –> 01:20:36.550
very, you know, very Mission Impossible, very

01:20:36.550 –> 01:20:40.069
True Lies, very, you know, even maybe a little

01:20:40.069 –> 01:20:44.189
bit of John Wick. But so far, I mean, so far,

01:20:44.289 –> 01:20:49.289
yeah. And I also kind of love how, you know,

01:20:49.310 –> 01:20:53.810
I love that, again, adding more to the, you know,

01:20:53.829 –> 01:20:57.390
to the Joe side of the Energon universe. You

01:20:57.390 –> 01:21:00.529
know, eventually the Shikage were going to pop

01:21:00.529 –> 01:21:04.430
up at some point. You know, whether we like it

01:21:04.430 –> 01:21:09.310
or not, ninjas are a thing that is in G .I. Joe.

01:21:10.289 –> 01:21:13.609
I mean, ninjas are cool. I ain’t got no problem

01:21:13.609 –> 01:21:17.529
with no ninjas. I usually prefer them to be,

01:21:17.630 –> 01:21:20.390
you know, lean green and on the screen, but I

01:21:20.390 –> 01:21:26.479
ain’t got no problem with ninjas. Yeah, no, I

01:21:26.479 –> 01:21:32.359
don’t either, but there are some, and at times

01:21:32.359 –> 01:21:35.939
I kind of agree with this, where they kind of

01:21:35.939 –> 01:21:38.140
feel like the ninja aspect of G .I. Joe gets

01:21:38.140 –> 01:21:41.739
used a little too much. But, you know, it is

01:21:41.739 –> 01:21:45.359
a thing. It is a thing. I haven’t experienced

01:21:45.359 –> 01:21:50.720
enough of G .I. Joe to have that, like, burnout

01:21:50.720 –> 01:21:57.250
on ninjas. Yeah. Well, like for me, the Arashikage

01:21:57.250 –> 01:22:02.149
so far, Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes are the only

01:22:02.149 –> 01:22:07.850
ones that I’ve seen to this point. And so, you

01:22:07.850 –> 01:22:11.750
know, I so far haven’t had that burnout, luckily.

01:22:13.590 –> 01:22:16.949
Turtles joke, barely got a laugh. Jesus, man,

01:22:17.069 –> 01:22:27.949
get with it. Oh, boy. So they took her. So she

01:22:27.949 –> 01:22:34.289
gets captured. They took her lockpick that was

01:22:34.289 –> 01:22:37.850
in her mouth, but they didn’t take the one that

01:22:37.850 –> 01:22:43.289
was embedded in her skin. Now, Jesus, this is

01:22:43.289 –> 01:22:47.869
rough. That’s hardcore. Oh, that’s very hardcore.

01:22:49.800 –> 01:22:52.100
Well, and that’s right there. That’s right there

01:22:52.100 –> 01:22:56.659
with like, um, the, there was a, you know, IDW

01:22:56.659 –> 01:23:00.840
did a, uh, a series that was GI Joe versus transformers.

01:23:00.840 –> 01:23:03.739
And yeah, there was one where, yeah, she even

01:23:03.739 –> 01:23:07.640
had a, um, Scarlett actually had like a, a USB

01:23:07.640 –> 01:23:10.600
board or something in her head. So, you know,

01:23:10.619 –> 01:23:18.689
that, that actually hurts my head. So she gets

01:23:18.689 –> 01:23:21.930
the thing out of there. She cuts herself free.

01:23:23.310 –> 01:23:28.109
Another coded message from Jinx. I love this.

01:23:28.189 –> 01:23:31.949
Go hard. So the whole time here, folks, we haven’t

01:23:31.949 –> 01:23:34.529
really mentioned this, but her history with Jinx

01:23:34.529 –> 01:23:36.670
and how they’re kind of sisters and whatever

01:23:36.670 –> 01:23:40.010
throughout their history, they’ve had coded messages

01:23:40.010 –> 01:23:42.229
for each other all over their house and all over

01:23:42.229 –> 01:23:46.609
their places and things like that. I love that

01:23:46.609 –> 01:23:48.789
it’s kind of like a sister language. It’s kind

01:23:48.789 –> 01:23:52.109
of like their own little language. And another

01:23:52.109 –> 01:23:54.949
quoted message from Jinx. Go hard. Oh, well,

01:23:55.010 –> 01:24:00.590
all right then. And yeah, it’s time to… Hard

01:24:00.590 –> 01:24:09.229
it is. Let’s go. Yep. And she goes for the glory

01:24:09.229 –> 01:24:13.310
and goes for the guts. Fights all the ninjas.

01:24:14.510 –> 01:24:25.029
basically kicks everybody’s ass. Yep. We get

01:24:25.029 –> 01:24:30.970
another flashback where they’re talking to each

01:24:30.970 –> 01:24:41.729
other. I love their relationship. I love the

01:24:41.729 –> 01:24:48.850
way that Kelly writes it. You still pissed about

01:24:48.850 –> 01:24:55.670
what’s -his -face? Oh, someone’s grouchy. That’s

01:24:55.670 –> 01:24:58.189
probably why you’re dropping your shoulder every

01:24:58.189 –> 01:25:05.550
time. It’s not because I’m grouchy. No? I don’t

01:25:05.550 –> 01:25:12.430
think so, but maybe. I just absolutely love their…

01:25:12.890 –> 01:25:18.590
their relationship just it’s so good what are

01:25:18.590 –> 01:25:21.250
you thinking so far as we’re getting through

01:25:21.250 –> 01:25:26.569
this um well i mean good yeah i do love the i

01:25:26.569 –> 01:25:28.970
do like the flashbacks i do love that they have

01:25:28.970 –> 01:25:35.510
their own little language and you know i also

01:25:35.510 –> 01:25:40.569
um you know i i do love that because it it establishes

01:25:40.569 –> 01:25:46.460
their It does establish their, you know, it gives

01:25:46.460 –> 01:25:52.979
them a history. It feels, yeah, it just, it feels

01:25:52.979 –> 01:25:58.779
great. I do love that there’s a, I do love the,

01:25:58.840 –> 01:26:06.520
I love the fact that, I love also the, a little

01:26:06.520 –> 01:26:11.460
reference to, you know, are you still mad? Are

01:26:11.460 –> 01:26:13.659
you still mad about what’s his face? And it’s

01:26:13.659 –> 01:26:16.500
like, yeah, there’s a part of me that’s like,

01:26:16.600 –> 01:26:23.020
hmm. Who are they talking about? Yeah. I mean,

01:26:23.039 –> 01:26:26.020
it could be who we’re thinking. It could be somebody

01:26:26.020 –> 01:26:31.000
else. I don’t know. I don’t know. The world may

01:26:31.000 –> 01:26:35.319
never know. So we get to Scarlet and Storm Shadow,

01:26:35.600 –> 01:26:38.920
and they’re sharing some tea here. Or whatever

01:26:38.920 –> 01:26:44.760
it is. And we get to Scarlet Storm Shadow and

01:26:44.760 –> 01:26:49.359
the Hardmaster. And they are going to send her

01:26:49.359 –> 01:26:53.260
on this mission, her first mission for the Urashikage.

01:26:55.439 –> 01:27:02.939
And yeah. An ancient weapon of unusual origin.

01:27:06.060 –> 01:27:09.319
Some have called this weapon the soul of the

01:27:09.319 –> 01:27:13.640
Arashikage. We’ve worked tirelessly on its safe

01:27:13.640 –> 01:27:20.479
return. We have learned from a source that the…

01:27:20.479 –> 01:27:25.760
I can’t pronounce that. You know what? I was

01:27:25.760 –> 01:27:27.560
trying to figure it out. The best I came up with

01:27:27.560 –> 01:27:33.890
was Mugenonami. There you go. Have aligned with

01:27:33.890 –> 01:27:37.770
an outside power intending to sell them our weapon.

01:27:41.510 –> 01:27:45.250
So they get more plans. They make more plans.

01:27:46.050 –> 01:27:48.949
And we’re seeing, as they’re making the plans,

01:27:49.050 –> 01:27:52.470
we’re seeing how she’s going to infiltrate and

01:27:52.470 –> 01:27:57.989
do her Mission Impossible run. Which she does.

01:27:58.890 –> 01:28:03.579
And damn. See, originally, I thought that the

01:28:03.579 –> 01:28:11.819
last panel there, when she jumps off the helicopter,

01:28:12.020 –> 01:28:13.380
I thought that was the end of the issue, but

01:28:13.380 –> 01:28:17.460
it’s not. I think it was the beginning of…

01:28:17.460 –> 01:28:22.199
I forget, where is the end of… I don’t know.

01:28:22.479 –> 01:28:24.859
Because this is in trade now, folks, it all kind

01:28:24.859 –> 01:28:28.920
of blends together for me. Chapter two. I know

01:28:28.920 –> 01:28:32.539
chapter two ends. She’s in the building, but

01:28:32.539 –> 01:28:40.039
security, I guess, says that she’s there. So

01:28:40.039 –> 01:28:44.020
we get her jumping down the shaft now. Jumping

01:28:44.020 –> 01:28:45.699
out of a helicopter. Now she’s jumping down a

01:28:45.699 –> 01:28:50.619
shaft. Yeah, that’s the Mission Impossible move

01:28:50.619 –> 01:28:54.170
right there. Except we don’t, because she jumps

01:28:54.170 –> 01:28:57.449
down the shaft, and then she goes into the tank.

01:28:58.569 –> 01:29:02.949
I wish that shaft landed in an all -white room

01:29:02.949 –> 01:29:07.500
where she has to hang there. before she can land

01:29:07.500 –> 01:29:11.600
on the floor. That would have really made it

01:29:11.600 –> 01:29:17.000
Mission. Yeah, although she’s missing like Jean

01:29:17.000 –> 01:29:22.380
Reno holding on to her whatever rig. That’s true.

01:29:23.460 –> 01:29:28.520
Very true. That’s funny. See, there you go. See,

01:29:28.640 –> 01:29:32.260
that one, that reference I jumped in on. There

01:29:32.260 –> 01:29:40.600
you go. Yep, yep, yep. that’s not a knife this

01:29:40.600 –> 01:29:43.399
is a knife that knife he had in that move oh

01:29:43.399 –> 01:29:46.840
my god that knife when he stuck it in the rat

01:29:46.840 –> 01:29:49.579
two things when he stuck it in the rat and then

01:29:49.579 –> 01:29:54.279
when it fell when it fell down and hit the hit

01:29:54.279 –> 01:29:57.720
the the table the the computer table because

01:29:57.720 –> 01:29:59.899
we all thought it was gonna hit oh man that knife

01:29:59.899 –> 01:30:03.510
was crazy I’m not usually a knife guy, but damn,

01:30:03.630 –> 01:30:06.750
what a souvenir to have, even though it really

01:30:06.750 –> 01:30:09.529
doesn’t. I’m sure that knife isn’t that big.

01:30:09.689 –> 01:30:11.470
If you look at it when he’s holding it in his

01:30:11.470 –> 01:30:14.210
hand, it’s not that big. But the way they made

01:30:14.210 –> 01:30:20.510
that camera angle to, oh, God. Anyway, so we

01:30:20.510 –> 01:30:23.729
get Scarlet. She’s in there. They know she’s

01:30:23.729 –> 01:30:31.060
there. We get her fighting everybody. Trying

01:30:31.060 –> 01:30:33.520
to get away from a shark. Yeah, pretty much.

01:30:33.819 –> 01:30:36.880
Yeah, I wonder in that shark tank, I wonder if

01:30:36.880 –> 01:30:40.699
that’s Kevin or if that’s Mark or if that’s Robert

01:30:40.699 –> 01:30:48.300
or, you know. They’re not adorable enough. Well,

01:30:48.319 –> 01:30:51.979
it is a shark tank. You never know. It is. Maybe

01:30:51.979 –> 01:30:59.399
his name is Bruce. Hey, get some Spielberg in

01:30:59.399 –> 01:31:07.539
there. Jabberjaw, Jabberjaw. Oh, boy. No. What?

01:31:08.319 –> 01:31:14.800
No. What? You don’t like Jabberjaw? No, I’m just

01:31:14.800 –> 01:31:16.720
trying to cut you off before you start getting

01:31:16.720 –> 01:31:19.840
into the theme song. Jabberjaw, Jabberjaw, Jabberjaw.

01:31:22.300 –> 01:31:30.949
Grown. Jabba Jaw, Jabba Jaw, the bestest shark

01:31:30.949 –> 01:31:36.329
I ever did see or saw. I don’t even remember

01:31:36.329 –> 01:31:39.909
the theme song. I just remember Jabba Jaw. Yeah.

01:31:40.210 –> 01:31:44.569
So Scarlet goes and kicks everybody’s ass. They

01:31:44.569 –> 01:31:48.029
blow something up. What in the… Oh, wait a

01:31:48.029 –> 01:31:49.989
minute. Does she blow it up or do they blow it

01:31:49.989 –> 01:31:53.369
up? Hold on. Does she have the detonator or do

01:31:53.369 –> 01:31:58.460
they… No, she has it. She has the detonator.

01:31:58.720 –> 01:32:02.479
She has a thermal detonator. Yes, she has a thermal

01:32:02.479 –> 01:32:06.319
detonator, and she blows it up. I’m sorry, that

01:32:06.319 –> 01:32:10.859
looks like a thermal detonator. It does, actually.

01:32:11.039 –> 01:32:13.579
Yeah, if you zoom in, it does, actually. It looks

01:32:13.579 –> 01:32:15.399
like a thermal detonator. I’m just waiting for

01:32:15.399 –> 01:32:18.920
it. It’s just missing the little doohickey at

01:32:18.920 –> 01:32:24.439
the top, you know, the little switch. Yeah, that

01:32:24.439 –> 01:32:28.899
little thing. But yeah, it feels like a thermal

01:32:28.899 –> 01:32:34.180
detonator. Yep, yep. Actually, looking at it,

01:32:34.220 –> 01:32:36.659
yeah, it’s got a button, but it’s not the same

01:32:36.659 –> 01:32:39.260
kind of… Yeah, it’s not the same kind of thing,

01:32:39.260 –> 01:32:45.600
but yeah. So Scarlet completes her mission. She

01:32:45.600 –> 01:32:50.279
gets to Jinx, and Jinx is like, yeah, no, I have

01:32:50.279 –> 01:32:54.229
to stay. I can’t leave. I have to be the one

01:32:54.229 –> 01:33:00.170
to do all this other stuff. Another fight. They

01:33:00.170 –> 01:33:06.829
hug. Yep, yep, yep. We get a hug. We get a cobra

01:33:06.829 –> 01:33:11.029
chopper, but surprisingly enough, it’s just a

01:33:11.029 –> 01:33:14.729
regular chopper. Yep, it’s just a regular chopper.

01:33:14.729 –> 01:33:21.149
It’s not a fang. It’s not a mamba. Nope. Nope.

01:33:21.390 –> 01:33:27.250
No special choppers for you. Well, not yet. And,

01:33:27.270 –> 01:33:29.069
you know, I guess there’s some days where it’s

01:33:29.069 –> 01:33:32.390
like, you know what, I just feel like flying

01:33:32.390 –> 01:33:35.829
a, you know, we’ll just fly a regular chopper.

01:33:36.210 –> 01:33:42.329
Yep. So this is kind of where the story switches

01:33:42.329 –> 01:33:48.280
to jinx, because Scarlet has gone back to wherever.

01:33:48.280 –> 01:33:51.720
Because Jinx is like, I have to stay. I have

01:33:51.720 –> 01:33:57.460
to infiltrate them. I have to make sure and this,

01:33:57.539 –> 01:33:59.020
that, and the other thing and everything else.

01:34:01.319 –> 01:34:05.140
Wait, did Scarlet stay too? They’re both there.

01:34:05.439 –> 01:34:11.180
Yeah, they’re both there. I thought she was okay.

01:34:11.659 –> 01:34:15.319
You know, one thing I do want to bring up is

01:34:15.319 –> 01:34:20.899
the fact that Up until, like, towards the end

01:34:20.899 –> 01:34:26.560
of, you know, the fourth issue, or, you know,

01:34:26.560 –> 01:34:28.199
we’ll say fourth chapter, since we’re dealing

01:34:28.199 –> 01:34:34.640
with the trade, this really is not as, you know,

01:34:34.640 –> 01:34:40.180
this doesn’t have that much connection to the

01:34:40.180 –> 01:34:44.619
Energon universe, but then we see that the, you

01:34:44.619 –> 01:34:49.090
know, we see that sword. The sword is actually

01:34:49.090 –> 01:34:54.350
made from Energon. Then it’s like, oh, here we

01:34:54.350 –> 01:34:58.689
go. And Cobra Commander shows up looking like

01:34:58.689 –> 01:35:00.949
the classic Cobra Commander we all know and love.

01:35:01.130 –> 01:35:03.689
And it’s like, okay, so now we’re really getting

01:35:03.689 –> 01:35:06.470
into, we’re really connecting it to the Energon

01:35:06.470 –> 01:35:10.069
universe. Yeah, I think through the first three

01:35:10.069 –> 01:35:15.119
issues, like I said, it’s… Her having to rescue

01:35:15.119 –> 01:35:18.899
Jinx. And then once Jinx is rescued, they then

01:35:18.899 –> 01:35:22.699
go on to finish the mission Jinx was supposed

01:35:22.699 –> 01:35:27.079
to do. So what? Wait a minute. So we get a nondescript

01:35:27.079 –> 01:35:33.039
chopper. We get an explosion. Wait a minute.

01:35:33.140 –> 01:35:36.819
Hold on. Oh, the building explodes. Okay. So

01:35:36.819 –> 01:35:38.880
the chopper comes in. The building explodes.

01:35:40.779 –> 01:35:45.979
Let’s see here. I guess we did pass a subtle

01:35:45.979 –> 01:35:50.340
few miles back. She survived. I know she did.

01:35:51.720 –> 01:36:06.199
Oh, that’s a fun new pain. Oh, boy. Jinx. Storm

01:36:06.199 –> 01:36:19.909
Shadow. Cobra? I don’t know. Storm Shadow’s doing

01:36:19.909 –> 01:36:25.890
some kind of weird camouflage thing. I don’t

01:36:25.890 –> 01:36:28.409
know about weird camouflage so much as it’s just,

01:36:28.529 –> 01:36:32.470
you know, the stereotypical ninja, you know,

01:36:32.470 –> 01:36:34.510
trying to blend with the surroundings type thing.

01:36:38.010 –> 01:36:42.289
Maybe, but… His arm looks like it’s inside

01:36:42.289 –> 01:36:45.869
that mountain or crevice or whatever. Like, look

01:36:45.869 –> 01:36:52.510
at the panel there where he said, he says, he,

01:36:52.510 –> 01:36:57.250
he grabs her mouth. He says Cobra, but the bottom

01:36:57.250 –> 01:37:01.270
panel where he’s pulling her, his up, like where

01:37:01.270 –> 01:37:04.289
his elbow bends, it looks like his arm is inside

01:37:04.289 –> 01:37:07.789
the mountain. Yeah, no, I think, okay. I think

01:37:07.789 –> 01:37:09.789
that’s okay. I think what, What that’s supposed

01:37:09.789 –> 01:37:13.750
to be is like smoke. Okay. That’s like a smoke

01:37:13.750 –> 01:37:19.850
trail going through his arm. Okay. He’s not pulling

01:37:19.850 –> 01:37:22.989
a Kitty Pryde and facing into the wall. Okay.

01:37:23.149 –> 01:37:30.270
Commander, are we spit it out already? And yeah,

01:37:30.329 –> 01:37:34.689
like you said, Cobra Commander shows up in his

01:37:34.689 –> 01:37:39.000
classic 80s garb. Although the troopers look,

01:37:39.039 –> 01:37:41.739
I think the troopers look awesome. Yeah, the

01:37:41.739 –> 01:37:45.779
troopers look good. Go, go, go. He’s seen us.

01:37:50.020 –> 01:37:53.800
Scarlet gets shot. They both get knocked off

01:37:53.800 –> 01:37:58.739
the building. Yeah, it’s quite literally Mission

01:37:58.739 –> 01:38:01.000
Impossible. Jumping off a building. They don’t

01:38:01.000 –> 01:38:04.770
jump. They get knocked off the building. Okay,

01:38:04.850 –> 01:38:08.489
it looks like Scarlet pushes Jinx off, and then

01:38:08.489 –> 01:38:13.350
she jumps, falls off. Yeah, that’s what I’m saying.

01:38:13.569 –> 01:38:16.649
Yeah, she pushes her off, and then she falls

01:38:16.649 –> 01:38:18.850
off, and then they have to get the parachute

01:38:18.850 –> 01:38:22.630
going. And I do love once Scarlet gets to the

01:38:22.630 –> 01:38:28.409
ground, I love her going through and disguising

01:38:28.409 –> 01:38:33.859
herself and trying to blend into the crowd. Yeah,

01:38:33.859 –> 01:38:37.579
that whole page is good. And then her meeting

01:38:37.579 –> 01:38:42.640
up with Snowjob. Yeah. I love that whole thing.

01:38:42.939 –> 01:38:46.840
I love Scarlet and Snowjob. So there’s two…

01:38:46.840 –> 01:38:50.340
I don’t think Skybound’s ever going to do this,

01:38:50.399 –> 01:38:52.340
but there’s two miniseries I would love to see

01:38:52.340 –> 01:38:55.920
in the future. Scarlet and Snowjob and Hound

01:38:55.920 –> 01:38:58.899
and Clutch. I don’t think it’s ever going to

01:38:58.899 –> 01:39:01.000
happen, but I would love to see it happen. Yeah.

01:39:01.039 –> 01:39:05.420
Or, you know, Scarlet and Jinx. Yeah, but we

01:39:05.420 –> 01:39:09.800
kind of have that here. Yeah. Yeah. But just,

01:39:09.880 –> 01:39:11.960
you know, they made such a great pair. It would

01:39:11.960 –> 01:39:15.619
be great to just. True. And officially call it

01:39:15.619 –> 01:39:20.479
Scarlet and Jinx. That’s true. So we have Scarlet

01:39:20.479 –> 01:39:23.239
and Snowjob doing their thing, and we have Storm

01:39:23.239 –> 01:39:26.779
Shadow and Jynx doing their thing. The sword

01:39:26.779 –> 01:39:34.359
gets returned to the Hardmaster and gets held

01:39:34.359 –> 01:39:39.699
up for the Arashica. Wait a minute, what? Hold

01:39:39.699 –> 01:39:42.020
on, wait a minute. From what I can see, yeah,

01:39:42.020 –> 01:39:45.779
the sword, you know, Storm Shadow brings the

01:39:45.779 –> 01:39:48.239
sword back. Like, the sword is supposed to be…

01:39:48.590 –> 01:39:51.050
belong to the clan you know and storm shadow

01:39:51.050 –> 01:39:54.909
brings it back and you know it seems like he’s

01:39:54.909 –> 01:39:56.909
like okay you know it’s back in the clan and

01:39:56.909 –> 01:40:00.090
i think you know and he’s kind of i think it’s

01:40:00.090 –> 01:40:06.449
like he’s oh i’m stupid i’m silly i thought that

01:40:06.449 –> 01:40:11.039
did never mind scarlet joined the arashikage

01:40:11.039 –> 01:40:15.579
the storm shadows apart okay i got it no i made

01:40:15.579 –> 01:40:18.899
a i thought there was a secondary clan never

01:40:18.899 –> 01:40:24.619
mind yeah okay i got you got you got you yeah

01:40:24.619 –> 01:40:27.979
arashikage arashikage arashikage he holds the

01:40:27.979 –> 01:40:31.210
sword up the sword gets a good uh Good lightning

01:40:31.210 –> 01:40:35.050
strike, and that’s how we end this one. Yep,

01:40:35.090 –> 01:40:37.350
and it’s interesting because it ends kind of

01:40:37.350 –> 01:40:40.529
on a… I don’t want to say like a cliffhanger,

01:40:40.670 –> 01:40:42.569
but it kind of ends on a thing where it’s like,

01:40:42.729 –> 01:40:49.350
yeah, you know, it is, you know, like, it is

01:40:49.350 –> 01:40:54.329
back with the clan, with the Orishikage. Yeah.

01:40:54.649 –> 01:40:57.430
But the way Storm Shadow’s kind of holding it,

01:40:57.470 –> 01:41:02.100
it… it kind of leaves it, it, it has, it has

01:41:02.100 –> 01:41:08.479
Scarlet and it has, um, Jinx kind of, uh, I don’t

01:41:08.479 –> 01:41:11.939
know if I want to say read, but they’re kind

01:41:11.939 –> 01:41:18.140
of, they’re kind of like, this, you know, I don’t

01:41:18.140 –> 01:41:20.479
know about this, you know, that, that kind of

01:41:20.479 –> 01:41:24.770
thing. Yeah. So, All of the trades for the five

01:41:24.770 –> 01:41:27.409
-issue miniseries that they did are called Volume

01:41:27.409 –> 01:41:32.550
1. So they could potentially do more of these

01:41:32.550 –> 01:41:36.010
in the future. Volume 1, and I forgot to mention

01:41:36.010 –> 01:41:38.470
this at the beginning of the Scarlet coverage,

01:41:38.850 –> 01:41:45.250
Volume 1 for Scarlet is Special Mission. So hopefully,

01:41:45.470 –> 01:41:48.369
maybe Kelly will do another one in the future.

01:41:48.470 –> 01:41:51.619
I don’t know if that’s in Skybound’s plans. They

01:41:51.619 –> 01:41:57.680
haven’t gone back to do any other one shots so

01:41:57.680 –> 01:42:03.079
far with any of the stuff. I’m not sure what

01:42:03.079 –> 01:42:07.399
they’re doing currently. I do hope, I do hope

01:42:07.399 –> 01:42:10.300
though that, yeah, they do more if, you know,

01:42:10.300 –> 01:42:12.800
and if it’s not, you know, and if for whatever

01:42:12.800 –> 01:42:19.090
reason they’re not doing more with, um, you know,

01:42:19.109 –> 01:42:22.810
they’re not doing more with these characters,

01:42:22.869 –> 01:42:26.289
you know, with, with Duke, Scarlet, you know,

01:42:26.289 –> 01:42:29.510
Destro, Cobra Commander. Yeah. I would hope at

01:42:29.510 –> 01:42:31.770
least it’s like, get some other characters in

01:42:31.770 –> 01:42:34.529
there. Like, you know, maybe give Jinx her own,

01:42:34.529 –> 01:42:39.810
you know, her own little mini series. Maybe do,

01:42:39.930 –> 01:42:42.369
you know, maybe give Storm Shadow his own little,

01:42:42.390 –> 01:42:47.319
you know, his own little thing. Maybe do, You

01:42:47.319 –> 01:42:49.319
know, there are other Joes that you could actually

01:42:49.319 –> 01:42:55.880
throw in there, you know. Example, I mean, I

01:42:55.880 –> 01:43:00.840
can think right now, hey, what about, you know,

01:43:00.840 –> 01:43:05.140
what about Scoop? You know, he was a Joe introduced

01:43:05.140 –> 01:43:09.180
in like 89, who’s like a photojournalist type,

01:43:09.279 –> 01:43:11.579
you know. Imagine him, you know, like, I know

01:43:11.579 –> 01:43:15.779
they gave him, IDW gave him like a… a storyline

01:43:15.779 –> 01:43:19.000
in the G .I. Joe Cobra series, but like, you

01:43:19.000 –> 01:43:21.020
know, maybe something with quick kick, maybe

01:43:21.020 –> 01:43:24.579
something with, I mean, you know, the, the Joe,

01:43:24.699 –> 01:43:27.880
you know, G .I. Joe has such a huge cast. It’s

01:43:27.880 –> 01:43:30.479
like, yeah, it’s the limit, you know, who do

01:43:30.479 –> 01:43:32.979
you, you know, grab a character and it’s like,

01:43:33.039 –> 01:43:39.680
okay. Yeah, absolutely. You never know. And not

01:43:39.680 –> 01:43:44.020
knowing is half the battle. So knowing is half

01:43:44.020 –> 01:43:47.760
the battle and not knowing is half the battle.

01:43:47.840 –> 01:43:50.720
Not knowing is half the battle, exactly. And

01:43:50.720 –> 01:43:54.020
here I thought it was red lasers, blue lasers.

01:43:54.680 –> 01:43:58.899
That too. There are three parts. Oh, okay. So

01:43:58.899 –> 01:44:02.460
wait, shouldn’t it be one third of the battle?

01:44:04.010 –> 01:44:06.949
Yes. One third. That’s right. There you go. It’s

01:44:06.949 –> 01:44:09.170
fractions of battles. That’s right. Fractions

01:44:09.170 –> 01:44:15.810
of battles. That’s right. Yep. Yep. Yep. All

01:44:15.810 –> 01:44:18.050
right, folks, that’s going to do it for us. Do

01:44:18.050 –> 01:44:19.789
you have anything you’d like to promote, sir,

01:44:19.829 –> 01:44:23.029
before I run through the closing? Oh, hell yeah.

01:44:23.189 –> 01:44:26.250
I mean, I’m, I’m working now with the rising

01:44:26.250 –> 01:44:30.180
sun comics. And I mentioned the other, you know,

01:44:30.199 –> 01:44:32.260
the last time we recorded, I’m working on new

01:44:32.260 –> 01:44:35.079
issues of this year. And I’ve got to say, it

01:44:35.079 –> 01:44:39.420
is coming along quite nicely. Very cool. So,

01:44:39.579 –> 01:44:44.279
I mean, any, you know, sooner rather than later,

01:44:44.399 –> 01:44:48.000
you know, we’ll be putting up the new issues.

01:44:49.659 –> 01:44:52.239
Might even be doing some Kickstarters. You know,

01:44:52.279 –> 01:44:55.079
we’re still working those out. I did recently

01:44:55.079 –> 01:44:59.939
get a chance to look at a couple of covers. They

01:44:59.939 –> 01:45:06.960
look awesome. We’ve got a group of new artists

01:45:06.960 –> 01:45:10.060
who will be doing these things. Just the other

01:45:10.060 –> 01:45:12.180
day, one of the artists was showing off the covers

01:45:12.180 –> 01:45:16.319
for his issue. Honestly, those of us who were

01:45:16.319 –> 01:45:18.279
looking, we were having a hard time picking our

01:45:18.279 –> 01:45:23.819
favorites because they were all good. Honestly,

01:45:23.899 –> 01:45:26.159
yeah. More Sears coming. More stuff is coming

01:45:26.159 –> 01:45:30.640
from Rising Sun. I’ll keep you guys informed.

01:45:32.140 –> 01:45:35.109
Very cool. Very cool. All right, folks, that’s

01:45:35.109 –> 01:45:36.630
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01:46:08.270 –> 01:46:12.850
still on Twitter. I’m also on Blue Sky. Still

01:46:12.850 –> 01:46:17.090
on Facebook. I think the only things I haven’t

01:46:17.090 –> 01:46:19.510
pulled the trigger on are TikTok, which I never

01:46:19.510 –> 01:46:24.390
will. Never will. And Insta. And the Instagram.

01:46:24.890 –> 01:46:28.020
Yeah. I do the Instagram. I’ve been doing the

01:46:28.020 –> 01:46:31.060
Instagram for about five years now, and most

01:46:31.060 –> 01:46:34.399
of the time it’s just scrolling. I find myself

01:46:34.399 –> 01:46:39.300
just using it for entertainment. I post stuff,

01:46:39.460 –> 01:46:44.060
but I don’t actively. I’m not posting on there

01:46:44.060 –> 01:46:50.939
every day. I’m looking at it for content consumption

01:46:50.939 –> 01:46:56.699
more than content production. Yeah, no, I mean,

01:46:56.720 –> 01:47:01.819
I have friends who are on Insta, and yeah, they

01:47:01.819 –> 01:47:03.979
share videos all the time, and it’s like I can’t

01:47:03.979 –> 01:47:06.920
open it, because it’s like, do you want to watch

01:47:06.920 –> 01:47:09.800
this on the app? It’s like, no, I don’t have

01:47:09.800 –> 01:47:12.000
the app. Do you want to watch this on the app?

01:47:12.100 –> 01:47:16.119
I don’t have the app! You can download the app.

01:47:19.699 –> 01:47:22.800
You want to give out your Twitter or your stuff?

01:47:23.399 –> 01:47:31.180
Well, the Twitter is… It’s pronounced WhiteBalloonKing,

01:47:31.439 –> 01:47:37.060
but it’s at W -H -T -B -L -L -N -K -I -N -G.

01:47:37.619 –> 01:47:45.760
And then, yeah, as far as BlueSky, it’s emfryer76.

01:47:46.460 –> 01:47:51.640
That’s E -M -F -R -E -Y -R -E -7 -6 at BlueSky.

01:47:52.590 –> 01:47:56.529
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we will be i believe steve megatron is going

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to come back and we are going to I’ll be rediscovering

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Transformers Volume 1, Robots in Disguise from

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Skybound Entertainment. I’m going to hopefully

01:48:23.239 –> 01:48:30.359
actually enjoy Daniel Warren Johnson’s run because,

01:48:30.500 –> 01:48:38.000
wow, reading it the first time around, it was

01:48:38.000 –> 01:48:41.960
rough. And I had never read anything the guy

01:48:41.960 –> 01:48:44.859
wrote before. And I usually can keep an open

01:48:44.859 –> 01:48:48.239
mind about new writers that I’ve never read before

01:48:48.239 –> 01:48:53.159
kind of thing, but just, I don’t know. It was

01:48:53.159 –> 01:48:57.640
really like, and then when we get to volume two,

01:48:57.699 –> 01:49:05.619
how they, how, oh boy. Issue 13 and 14 should

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have been separated out and done differently.

01:49:09.100 –> 01:49:12.039
Issue 13 and 14 of Transformers from Skybound

01:49:12.039 –> 01:49:14.199
Entertainment should not have been a Starscream

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double shot spotlight in the middle of the damn

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book. That should have been separate. That’s

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a whole friggin’ thing. Anyway, for now, I am

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TF2 and Mike with… With Eduardo Pryor. As always,

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make your greatest game in the comics, and we

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will catch you next time. Later, sister. We’ve

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got a war to win. I was going to bring flowers,

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but I thought you’d like these better. One, two,

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three. Ow. What? What? No, the one, two, three,

01:49:54.079 –> 01:50:00.199
ow. Okay. Yeah, that’s the one, two, three. Ow.

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Okay, good. I just had to double check. Wake

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