Skybound Entertainment’s G.I. Joe’s Silent Missions Beach Head #1!

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This is writer Kelly Thompson, and you’re listening

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Rass here, and you’ve made the great escape into

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the comics we’re reading right now here inside

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the pull bag. The first thing I’m going to ask

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you is. how have you liked that don’t answer

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this now obviously but how have you liked the

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skybound gi joe stuff and i’m not talking about

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real american hero i’m talking about the other

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stuff the energon stuff yeah the energon stuff

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gi joe will return after these messages well

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hello everyone it is i tfg1 mike coming to you

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with this little programming note i mentioned

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in the previous episode that This episode was

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recorded a year ago, and it was. I actually don’t

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remember when this episode was recorded, but

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please enjoy myself and Mike Irizarry from What’s

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On Joe Mind as we discuss the Skybound Entertainment

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Silent Mission, G .I. Joe Silent Mission Beachhead

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One -Shot from a year ago. Now, back to G .I.

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Joe. You’ve just jumped inside the pull bag.

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This is episode 581. Holy crap, folks. We’ve

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got 19, 18, 19 episodes to 600. I’m, of course,

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TFG on mic. I probably already said that, but

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I don’t know, because I’m crazy. Returning? I

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don’t remember the last time he was on. I don’t

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even remember if I did a Comic Origins with you

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or not. I forget. We did. Okay. Look, man, after

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580 episodes of a podcast in 12 and a half years,

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I totally understand where you’re coming from

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on that. I’m lucky I can keep every episode straight

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in my head. Like, Oh, what episode was that?

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I’m like, that was five 70 or that was four 37

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or that was, uh, I couldn’t, I couldn’t give

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you a number as to what I was on. It was about

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maybe a year and a half ago. I think we were.

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Yeah, it was about a year and a half ago. And

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I’m sure I’ll have the link in the show notes

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for Mike. There is a comic origins reading comic

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origins, but he has returned because. Skybound

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Entertainment, Under Image Comics, along with

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Hasbro, has started the G .I. Joe Real American

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Heroes Silent Missions five -issue series. We’re

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going to get to that, but first of all, you are

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a huge G .I. Joe fan, for those that don’t know.

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Yes. You are a huge Beachhead fan, for those

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that don’t know. Also, yes. That didn’t listen

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to the other episode. Why are you a huge Beachhead

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fan? You know, it goes back to the toy, mostly.

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The file card on the toy, I think, painted a

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colorful personality for this character, and

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he just kind of resonated for what I thought.

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A military hero was. And then, of course, the

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G .I. Joe cartoon was on at the time. I was,

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of course, a child when that was on. And he was

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fine there. Like, it’s not really my favorite

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version of the character, but there are some.

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I know he got played as the straight man against

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some of the more comedy elements of the show

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a lot. But there, too, he was always a competent

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soldier. He was a tough nut to crack. when busting

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Cobra skulls. And so he was pretty cool there

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too. But it’s kind of taken a life of its own

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as an adult collector. It was, it was, I was,

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I was active in the forum scene back in 2003

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to about 2008. I was an admin at Joe sightings

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.com. I was an admin at Joe battle lines. and

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active in a few other places as well. And my

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handle on those sites was always Beachhead. And

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so as we rolled through that second wave of my

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fandom in G .I. Joe, he just became a character

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that I was associated with more than I personally

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associated with. Gotcha, gotcha. Like somebody

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would say, oh, hey, did you see what Beachhead

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did? And they would be talking about me. And

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so there was kind of a, you know, almost a bound

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identity there. And so it’s taken a life of its

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own here in what I’ll consider wave three as

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I’ve just become, you know, an avid collector

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of anything that has to do with my guy, you know.

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beachhead and um i have very many of the version

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one figure yeah i don’t know exactly how many

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right now which is a it’s it’s a cop -out i know

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i but i i honestly just haven’t counted for a

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couple of weeks more than 50 more than well we’ll

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say almost somewhere around 200 okay that’s what

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i figured yeah it’s around 200 yeah It was one

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of those where we did an episode, for those that

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don’t know, I have also hosted What’s On Joe

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Mind for the last 14 years. 14 years next week,

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we’re recording this days before we do our 14th

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anniversary episode. And people won’t hear it

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until God knows when, but yay, happy anniversary.

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Right, right. I know. We’ll probably be working

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15 before that one. Oh, hey, now. Come on, now.

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I’m not that. No, no, no. But thank you for that

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late anniversary greeting. I appreciate it. So,

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anyways, where were we going with this? So if

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the cartoon isn’t your favorite version of him,

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what is your favorite version of him? Honestly,

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I tend to like the picture that, again, that

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the file card painted way back when we first

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saw him in 1986. And that was a card that was

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written by Larry Hama. And that’s who we’ve seen

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in the book, the comics all these years, even

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though he hasn’t been a real major player in

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the comics. Beachhead seems to be a guy that

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he likes to present as one of the top agents

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on the team. When there’s a hairy mission, Beachhead

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tends to be involved, even if you don’t get to

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see too much of him personally. This is really

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the first time we’ve seen Beachhead in a spotlight

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in the run of the homiverse, right? And I hate

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that term, but for ease, we’ll use it here. And

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so, you know, Larry, he’s one of those guys that

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Larry has liked to use, but has never given center

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stage. And so I was excited when this one was

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announced. Yeah, very cool. Yeah, as soon as

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I saw it, I was like, hey, it’s time to have

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Mike back on the show. Right. You see what I’m

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saying? It just became associated with me. Yeah,

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exactly. What is your overall opinion of the

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G .I. Joe side of the Skybound Energon Universe

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stuff? I’m actually really enjoying it. I know

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that’s not a popular, or I shouldn’t say it’s

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not popular, but it’s certainly not the only

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thread you see out there if you get on Internet

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Fandom and all, but that’s Internet Fandom for

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you. Anytime something is different from… From

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what’s been rolling around in your own personal

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head cannon for the last 30 or 40 years, it’s

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just instantly bad and we shouldn’t accept it.

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But I don’t feel that way at all with this. I

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had my concerns. I have to admit, I was always

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a guy who, when the question was asked, hey,

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do G .I. Joe and Transformers exist in the same

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universe? I was always very much a no, they don’t.

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That was always my answer, even though it did

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happen back in the day when the Transformers

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book was canceled and Larry Pama was given the

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orders to include Generation 2 Transformers stuff

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in the G .I. Joe book. But that part of their

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history seems to have been forgotten. So it almost

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like it got… got retconned out by ignoring

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it for 20 years. So, um, I, I was hesitant. I

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have to admit, I had some misgivings, but the

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way they’ve set it up has been pretty cool. Um,

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I I’ll, I’m not a big fan of the void rivals

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book. I think it just kind of, it’s pretty slow.

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It just feels like it’s exposition. Really? Yeah.

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I just, I can’t, I can’t connect to it. You know,

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it just, I I’ve, I appreciate what it’s doing.

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It fills in a lot of gaps, but on the whole,

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it’s not something that I’m excited to read every

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month. The Transformers book is okay. I think

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the body counts a little high for as early in

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the run as we are. It’s one of those where I

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don’t think the creative team is necessarily

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respecting that. Transformers is a big universe

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with many diverse characters that has been established

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over decades, and everybody is somebody’s favorite.

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And I understand not everybody can have a major

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role, but we’ve already seen some pretty popular

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characters just kind of show up for two panels

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and then get aced. So that leaves me a little

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cold when it’s been done as often as it’s been

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done. And I’m glad that… Go ahead. Go ahead,

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Mike. No, go ahead. Finish it. Finish it. I’m

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glad that G .I. Joe hasn’t necessarily gone that

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way, R .I .P. rock and roll. But one of those

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characters had to go early, right? Yeah. You

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knew that was going in. Yeah, in G .I. Joe they

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did. So I’m not, you’re the diehard here. I’m

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not. I’m on the outskirts. I have obviously been,

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I do a podcast, my buddy Jesse. His podcast,

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another comic review. That’s mainly where we’ve

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been covering the Energon universe stuff. And

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I sometimes will syndicate it over here on the

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pull bag with this silent mission stuff that

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we’re going to be talking about here in a few

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minutes, folks. I’m just doing five weeks straight,

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five episodes, 581 to 585, just one issue per

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and just having a run. of these silent machines

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because as you said briefly off air these essentially

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exist outside of because they’re a part of the

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real american hero homoverse even though yeah

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that doesn’t yeah i get it it’s easy it’s lazy

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i almost have to use it because it’s been adopted

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but i hate it yeah it doesn’t know so like for

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me i remember watching an episode here or there

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But I more so remember Cobra Commander showing

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up at the end of Only Human. You never want to

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mess with a terrorist, Mr. Draft Cobra. At the

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end of Only Human in Season 3 of Transformers.

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Transformers, right. Yeah, so this, when the

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Energon stuff came out, I was like, okay, I’ll

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give it a shot. And what do you think? Cobra

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Commander, I’m not a horror guy, so Cobra Commander

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was a little much for me. It wasn’t scary scary.

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It wasn’t like Freddy Krueger kind of thing.

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It wasn’t like Jason kind of thing, but it was

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still… I remember reading from the creative

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team on Cobra Commander, this is meant to be

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a horror book. This is Cobra Commander doing

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horrors. Okay. Eh, whatever. I think Scarlet’s

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my favorite of the individual character books

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so far. I love Kelly Thompson’s writing and the

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art in that was really good. Duke just seems

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to be… That book was action. I loved the story.

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It was non -stop. You got in at the start of

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the ride and you were just going 50 miles an

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hour the whole way. Yep, absolutely. Duke, it

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seems like they didn’t know what to do with Duke.

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I think Duke was the first one, right? Yeah.

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By rule, it became the prequel book for G .I.

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Joe. Yeah. And so I think Duke was more reliant

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on plot than some of the other, than certainly

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the Destro book was, than the Scarlet book was,

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and the Cobra Commander book was. Those three

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characters kind of got to have their own arc,

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whereas the Duke book was more about the beginnings

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of G .I. Joe. And so it had a bigger scope, and

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so it was a little bit messier to try and rein

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in to the five -issue format that they had set

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up for these things. So I gave it a little bit

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of leeway on that. I liked it. I appreciated

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that we got to meet some of the team then, so

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we didn’t have to worry about that and could

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just hit the ground running. When we hit the

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main ongoing. Yeah. And then Destro, ugh. See,

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I liked Destro. Because we’re not going to have

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the opportunity to give him that kind of a spotlight

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to necessarily get into his driving force, his

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rationales, his motivations. And so I think Destro

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is necessary because he’s going to be a real

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important part of the book proper. He needed

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some time to breathe so you knew what he was

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about going in. Destro was the first time I’d

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ever read anything by Dan Waters, who wrote,

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I believe it was Dan that wrote Destro, if I

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remember correctly. So that’s the first time

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I had ever read anything from this person. I

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would… rather have Kool -Aid Man write Destro

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than have Dan write anything else in G .I. Joe

00:15:52.429 –> 00:15:55.289
and unfortunately he’s going to be writing Jinx

00:15:55.289 –> 00:15:57.309
in this silent well thank god he’s not going

00:15:57.309 –> 00:15:59.110
to be writing it because it’s a silent mission

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but it’s one of those things where after we read

00:16:02.570 –> 00:16:07.610
Destro’s series I was like oh man I hope this

00:16:07.610 –> 00:16:09.649
ongoing is going to be so much better than the

00:16:09.649 –> 00:16:14.169
end of this oh I was so Between the end of Destro

00:16:14.169 –> 00:16:19.490
and the third arc of Transformers, I was so close.

00:16:20.350 –> 00:16:26.049
Right now, as of this recording, Transformers

00:16:26.049 –> 00:16:30.529
19 just came out. I can’t wait until issue 25

00:16:30.529 –> 00:16:33.809
when they get a new writer for Transformers.

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I don’t feel like… daniel warren johnson is

00:16:40.799 –> 00:16:44.259
a bad writer i just think oh no three arcs is

00:16:44.259 –> 00:16:50.179
too much for one person that wants to constantly

00:16:50.179 –> 00:16:53.960
deal with star scream constantly wants to and

00:16:53.960 –> 00:16:56.379
i don’t mind this part but this is what he does

00:16:56.379 –> 00:16:58.320
he throws in wrestling moves which is kind of

00:16:58.320 –> 00:17:00.379
cool seeing the transformers do wrestling moves

00:17:00.379 –> 00:17:04.720
but overall like that’s not what we’re there

00:17:04.720 –> 00:17:09.470
for and i just feel like it yes Every book is

00:17:09.470 –> 00:17:15.069
better with suplexes. Every single comic. Every

00:17:15.069 –> 00:17:21.509
one of them. Okay. All right. I just feel like

00:17:21.509 –> 00:17:24.509
at the end of that run or the end of issue 18,

00:17:24.630 –> 00:17:28.470
I’m just like, oh, man, I am so exhausted. I

00:17:28.470 –> 00:17:31.490
need fresh written blood here for Transformers.

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Right, right. I hear you on that. And I’ll throw

00:17:34.750 –> 00:17:37.900
in that I need. I almost need smaller stories

00:17:37.900 –> 00:17:42.279
at this point. Like, it’s been 18 issues of cataclysmic

00:17:42.279 –> 00:17:46.140
events in Transformers, and I’m just tired, right?

00:17:46.220 –> 00:17:49.319
I’m exhausted. Yeah. And the other thing is,

00:17:49.420 –> 00:17:52.420
Skybound, under Image Comics, Skybound Entertainment,

00:17:52.660 –> 00:17:54.259
under Image Comics, I always have to say that

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because I have to remind myself that it is an

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imprint of Image. They… do and do not do the

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spotlight or the single issue or the standalone

00:18:06.359 –> 00:18:09.599
or the whatever obviously we have these gi joe

00:18:09.599 –> 00:18:14.500
silent missions that we’re doing here but there’s

00:18:14.500 –> 00:18:17.759
still five of them it’s yeah yeah yeah and and

00:18:17.759 –> 00:18:20.880
they did the five issue miniseries why in the

00:18:20.880 –> 00:18:24.240
sam hell do you throw it look we all know most

00:18:24.240 –> 00:18:26.640
people know that i’ve read comics for any amount

00:18:26.640 –> 00:18:32.700
of at least more than two years 1 to 6, 7 to

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12, 13 to 18. Those are three full arcs of six

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issues each. That’s three story arcs. Why in

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the hell they got to throw in a wrench like doing

00:18:44.660 –> 00:18:48.640
a Starscream origin story in 13 and 14? That

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is what screwed me up. For that second story

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arc to start. And then we go to a star. No, that

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should have been a separate thing. That should

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have been the Starscream two issue thing that

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we had for 13 and 14. That should have been a

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five issue miniseries all about Starscream somewhere

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separate other than the ongoing. See, I’ll appreciate

00:19:08.880 –> 00:19:14.480
that they did not pad out more in a story that

00:19:14.480 –> 00:19:17.779
they didn’t feel they had, right? That’s true.

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I’m sure it was considered. These guys, comic

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book writing these days is… I feel like everybody’s

00:19:25.920 –> 00:19:28.900
got a whiteboard and they make the trees out

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to see where things lead to and what comes back.

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You get what I’m saying. You know what I’m saying.

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I get the feeling that when the Starscream story

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hit the whiteboard… I think it was probably

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given that consideration and then just like,

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well, really, I don’t know where we’d be padding

00:19:49.730 –> 00:19:53.509
it quite a bit to, to get to five issues and

00:19:53.509 –> 00:19:56.450
the timing would then be off with the rest of

00:19:56.450 –> 00:20:00.269
the book. And so I, I get it. I appreciate it.

00:20:00.309 –> 00:20:02.529
I don’t mind taking a step out. Like that was

00:20:02.529 –> 00:20:05.289
you, you brought up those two issues. I was going

00:20:05.289 –> 00:20:07.230
to bring up the most recent issue where you just

00:20:07.230 –> 00:20:11.170
kind of have a, a Megatron flashback. Yep. um

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i i kind of appreciated the break yeah i didn’t

00:20:15.609 –> 00:20:18.170
mind the megatron break because it was one issue

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and then it’s gonna start again you know it’s

00:20:20.589 –> 00:20:23.369
gonna i mean we didn’t see much and i mean other

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than you know him going through the trial five

00:20:25.609 –> 00:20:29.170
million times but you know right i mean we we

00:20:29.170 –> 00:20:32.869
needed to we needed to figure out yeah megatron

00:20:32.869 –> 00:20:36.710
a little bit so that’s a little bit anyway We’re

00:20:36.710 –> 00:20:39.289
here to talk about G .I. Joe, folks. And this

00:20:39.289 –> 00:20:42.569
series, this five -issue series that we have

00:20:42.569 –> 00:20:46.650
here for the Silent Missions, is all because

00:20:46.650 –> 00:20:49.309
of G .I. Joe, Real American Hero, Silent Missions,

00:20:49.309 –> 00:20:55.470
Editions 21. I’m assuming you read this, right?

00:20:55.549 –> 00:20:58.890
Because I didn’t read this. Read which one? The

00:20:58.890 –> 00:21:01.829
original, the 21, the landmark one that started

00:21:01.829 –> 00:21:04.579
all of this. Okay. How have you not caught up

00:21:04.579 –> 00:21:09.980
with that by now? Yeah, I’m in the Transformers

00:21:09.980 –> 00:21:14.359
camp, man. Look, I get you, but when people put

00:21:14.359 –> 00:21:19.119
together lists of greatest single issues in comic

00:21:19.119 –> 00:21:23.440
book history, G .I. Joe number 21 shows up on

00:21:23.440 –> 00:21:27.200
those lists. Oh, I’m sure. Even if you don’t

00:21:27.200 –> 00:21:30.160
care to go and reread the whole thing, which

00:21:30.160 –> 00:21:32.079
I would still recommend doing up until about

00:21:32.079 –> 00:21:35.579
issue 100, after that it’s a little bit optional

00:21:35.579 –> 00:21:42.240
but before that it’s a really good book so so

00:21:42.240 –> 00:21:45.460
i would say you know at some point sure do that

00:21:45.460 –> 00:21:47.500
for yourself but you really have to read issue

00:21:47.500 –> 00:21:53.519
21 it’s if nothing else you you can see it like

00:21:53.519 –> 00:21:57.410
it It feels less special now because so much

00:21:57.410 –> 00:22:00.130
of the visual storytelling cues from that book

00:22:00.130 –> 00:22:03.910
have been aped and copied a million times since.

00:22:04.190 –> 00:22:07.910
Yeah. It’s that big of a trendsetter. Yeah. Okay.

00:22:08.130 –> 00:22:12.690
So it’s required reading for comic book fans.

00:22:13.170 –> 00:22:15.630
Even if you don’t bother with the rest of the

00:22:15.630 –> 00:22:20.309
series, issue 21 is required reading. Join us

00:22:20.309 –> 00:22:24.000
next week, folks. It’s that. It stands alone

00:22:24.000 –> 00:22:27.119
on its own. Does it plug into the bigger story?

00:22:27.339 –> 00:22:31.119
Yes. But at its heart, is it Snake Eyes and Storm

00:22:31.119 –> 00:22:34.799
Shadow fighting it out in Castle Destro? Yeah.

00:22:34.900 –> 00:22:37.380
And it’s encapsulated pretty well in those 20

00:22:37.380 –> 00:22:41.509
-odd pages. Yeah. Very cool, very cool. So tonight

00:22:41.509 –> 00:22:45.269
we are starting with Beachhead for the silent

00:22:45.269 –> 00:22:48.109
missions. He gets the first issue. According

00:22:48.109 –> 00:22:50.630
to the copy here on Image’s website, superstar

00:22:50.630 –> 00:22:53.329
creators present unforgettable all -new G .I.

00:22:53.329 –> 00:22:56.009
Joe silent missions. The face of comic books

00:22:56.009 –> 00:22:58.170
changed forever when G .I. Joe Real American

00:22:58.170 –> 00:23:00.589
Hero number 21 introduced fans to the silent

00:23:00.589 –> 00:23:03.809
interlude, an action -packed story with no dialogue.

00:23:03.869 –> 00:23:06.869
Now in the standalone silent issue from Phil

00:23:06.869 –> 00:23:10.930
Hester. Wrote Green Arrow and a bunch of other

00:23:10.930 –> 00:23:14.230
stuff. Fan favorite Beachhead is trapped in a

00:23:14.230 –> 00:23:18.750
DMZ and hunted by the forces of Cobra. But can

00:23:18.750 –> 00:23:22.430
Beachhead save himself and the war orphans he’s

00:23:22.430 –> 00:23:26.109
vowed to protect? Of course he can. Why can’t

00:23:26.109 –> 00:23:29.809
he? He can do anything. He’s a badass, man. That’s

00:23:29.809 –> 00:23:32.930
right. So as I mentioned, writer, penciler, Phil

00:23:32.930 –> 00:23:38.160
Hester, Travis. Heimel or Himmel is on, is on

00:23:38.160 –> 00:23:40.799
inks. And then Lee Lockridge is the colorist

00:23:40.799 –> 00:23:46.680
for this. Oh man. Like I wasn’t sure, like if

00:23:46.680 –> 00:23:48.680
you did the reverse of this and take the images

00:23:48.680 –> 00:23:51.380
out, it’s just a prose novel. Like if you just

00:23:51.380 –> 00:23:53.900
had a script and like it, it’s literally just

00:23:53.900 –> 00:23:57.500
a prose novel. So I wasn’t sure like how well

00:23:57.500 –> 00:23:59.259
I was going to be able to follow this, but it’s

00:23:59.259 –> 00:24:01.640
fairly easy and you, you get it fairly well.

00:24:01.640 –> 00:24:06.410
And it’s, I really dug it. Yeah, I thought this

00:24:06.410 –> 00:24:10.490
was super fun. I mean, it’s dark as hell, but

00:24:10.490 –> 00:24:13.970
it’s super fun. Yeah, look, Phil Hester is a

00:24:13.970 –> 00:24:16.970
hell of a get for Skybound to do a G .I. Joe

00:24:16.970 –> 00:24:19.829
book. Phil Hester is apparently a big G .I. Joe

00:24:19.829 –> 00:24:22.890
fan. I’ve gone online and I’ve seen a lot of

00:24:22.890 –> 00:24:26.829
fan sketches that he’s done. He hasn’t done a

00:24:26.829 –> 00:24:30.599
whole lot with G .I. Joe in canon. But it’s apparently

00:24:30.599 –> 00:24:34.140
a favorite of his to sketch for fans when he’s

00:24:34.140 –> 00:24:36.220
out and about on the convention circuit and what

00:24:36.220 –> 00:24:39.799
have you. So it’s really cool that he gets a

00:24:39.799 –> 00:24:42.019
chance to do this. I was thrilled when I saw

00:24:42.019 –> 00:24:44.440
that he was going to handle my favorite character.

00:24:45.220 –> 00:24:48.900
And as far as the story itself goes, it’s fine.

00:24:49.019 –> 00:24:52.599
I have a complaint that what you read, which

00:24:52.599 –> 00:24:56.500
is off of Image’s website, it’s not at the front

00:24:56.500 –> 00:24:59.990
of the book, right? Like the actual comic could

00:24:59.990 –> 00:25:04.390
use that setup. Yeah. But I, but I like that

00:25:04.390 –> 00:25:08.509
it starts out slow. So, okay. So as, as we’re

00:25:08.509 –> 00:25:10.950
going through this and as always, folks, we usually

00:25:10.950 –> 00:25:14.690
go page by page here around these podcast parts.

00:25:15.069 –> 00:25:19.430
I like that. It’s that we start with the helicopter

00:25:19.430 –> 00:25:23.930
crash. Sure. No, no, no, no. I’m not saying that

00:25:23.930 –> 00:25:26.730
we needed to, to set up the story itself, but.

00:25:27.259 –> 00:25:30.140
but a couple of sentences to set up the location.

00:25:30.319 –> 00:25:34.720
Oh, okay. Literally, the two sentences that you

00:25:34.720 –> 00:25:38.259
just read off of the Image website could be on

00:25:38.259 –> 00:25:42.039
the inside cover of the comic. They are not.

00:25:42.259 –> 00:25:46.480
If you’re not plugged into the Image website,

00:25:46.819 –> 00:25:54.119
as many fans of this book probably aren’t. You

00:25:54.119 –> 00:25:56.579
know, that would be just a couple of sentences

00:25:56.579 –> 00:25:59.920
of lead -in that would be a nice, would help

00:25:59.920 –> 00:26:03.259
set the tone, would help set the mood. I just

00:26:03.259 –> 00:26:05.900
noticed this on the creative page, on the front

00:26:05.900 –> 00:26:09.279
page, under the Silent Missions logo. With deepest

00:26:09.279 –> 00:26:14.319
respect to Larry Hama, Steve Aliobla, okay, you

00:26:14.319 –> 00:26:17.839
can pronounce that, and George Broussos. And

00:26:17.839 –> 00:26:20.059
with deepest apologies to letterers everywhere,

00:26:20.240 –> 00:26:24.619
especially Pat Pruso, I’m like, oh, you guys,

00:26:24.960 –> 00:26:29.859
come on. But yeah, you’re right. But I get the

00:26:29.859 –> 00:26:33.940
concept. The concept is you need to figure it

00:26:33.940 –> 00:26:38.720
out. Again, I don’t look at these comics as,

00:26:38.960 –> 00:26:41.859
and I don’t, even with the Energon Universe stuff,

00:26:42.059 –> 00:26:46.490
I don’t look at these as… Hey, kids, come read

00:26:46.490 –> 00:26:50.269
this comic. This is, hey, 40 -something -year

00:26:50.269 –> 00:26:52.730
-old G .I. Joe fans, come read this comic. It’s

00:26:52.730 –> 00:26:57.289
for us, is who it’s for. I agree with you. I

00:26:57.289 –> 00:27:01.009
mean, you could have had, like, unknown DMZ.

00:27:01.069 –> 00:27:05.349
Two words up at the top left, or whatever kind

00:27:05.349 –> 00:27:08.789
of thing. But you’re just supposed to use your

00:27:08.789 –> 00:27:10.589
imagination. I guess that’s the whole point,

00:27:10.690 –> 00:27:13.009
is we’re supposed to use our imagination as far

00:27:13.009 –> 00:27:16.400
as to where the hell they are. Yeah, but even

00:27:16.400 –> 00:27:21.619
if you go back to the original issue 21, there

00:27:21.619 –> 00:27:23.740
was a couple of sentences on the inside cover

00:27:23.740 –> 00:27:28.240
to explain what was going to happen. So I don’t

00:27:28.240 –> 00:27:30.519
think they’re breaking their own rules by just

00:27:30.519 –> 00:27:34.680
saying, in this issue, Beachhead is trapped behind

00:27:34.680 –> 00:27:41.420
enemy lines in a foreign DMZ and has vowed to

00:27:41.420 –> 00:27:44.819
protect. War orphans, the war orphans who helped

00:27:44.819 –> 00:27:46.160
nurse him to health, you know, just something

00:27:46.160 –> 00:27:49.559
that would have been enough. Yeah. But instead

00:27:49.559 –> 00:27:53.940
we’re just kind of, we’ll just kind of get into

00:27:53.940 –> 00:27:56.039
it, I guess. We’ll make it up as we go along.

00:27:56.500 –> 00:28:00.539
Yep. So anyways, page one. Yes, page one. We

00:28:00.539 –> 00:28:03.740
do get right to the action. Like you get a couple

00:28:03.740 –> 00:28:07.900
of panels. These kids are feeding pigeons on

00:28:07.900 –> 00:28:10.079
the roof of the building they live in. And you

00:28:10.079 –> 00:28:14.940
see. Before you get halfway through, they can

00:28:14.940 –> 00:28:19.259
see the damaged helicopter above them on its

00:28:19.259 –> 00:28:24.880
way down. And it bounces off of their roof, which,

00:28:24.980 –> 00:28:27.539
I mean, amazing that anybody walked away from

00:28:27.539 –> 00:28:32.619
this. Yeah, exactly. And then on page two, in

00:28:32.619 –> 00:28:35.359
the full -page splash, a couple of Cobra troops

00:28:35.359 –> 00:28:39.519
and Beachhead are just flying out of the plane.

00:28:39.920 –> 00:28:44.140
Yep. Like it’s Sunbow all over again. Hey, man.

00:28:44.599 –> 00:28:50.539
You know. And Beachhead is bound. So he’s not…

00:28:50.539 –> 00:28:52.619
These guys are not going to have good landings.

00:28:52.839 –> 00:28:55.460
But they are at least falling out of a low -flying

00:28:55.460 –> 00:28:59.039
helicopter onto this roof. So it’s not as bad

00:28:59.039 –> 00:29:01.460
as it could have been. It’s not as bad as it

00:29:01.460 –> 00:29:04.859
could have been. But yeah, no, I… This is just…

00:29:05.069 –> 00:29:07.329
Looking at this again, it’s like, oh, wow. And

00:29:07.329 –> 00:29:09.769
I literally just read this like 20 minutes before

00:29:09.769 –> 00:29:12.690
we started, folks. And I’m like, this is real.

00:29:12.910 –> 00:29:15.269
I wasn’t sure how cool these were going to be.

00:29:15.930 –> 00:29:20.250
And so far, I’m digging this. Yeah. Well, again,

00:29:20.410 –> 00:29:24.650
it helps. They spent big on creative talent for

00:29:24.650 –> 00:29:30.950
these books. Yeah. So we have probably the biggest

00:29:30.950 –> 00:29:34.490
name. Well, the name that I knew the most about.

00:29:34.839 –> 00:29:37.039
in, in, as far as the five creators doing these

00:29:37.039 –> 00:29:39.960
five issues is Phil Hester and they put him in

00:29:39.960 –> 00:29:42.059
the lead off spot and that’s probably on purpose.

00:29:42.519 –> 00:29:47.740
Oh yeah, absolutely. So anyways, uh, by page

00:29:47.740 –> 00:29:51.220
three, you, you see the, uh, the two orphans

00:29:51.220 –> 00:29:54.940
who were feeding pigeons a moment ago. Uh, we

00:29:54.940 –> 00:29:57.220
got a better look at them. Uh, the, the older

00:29:57.220 –> 00:30:02.279
sibling, the, the girl is horrified as she should

00:30:02.279 –> 00:30:05.240
be that these. These men have fallen out of an

00:30:05.240 –> 00:30:09.900
exploded helicopter onto their roof and are tumbling

00:30:09.900 –> 00:30:12.359
all over the place in ugly fashion. Whereas the

00:30:12.359 –> 00:30:16.140
younger one, the boy, and the look on his face

00:30:16.140 –> 00:30:20.440
is important. He is smiling. He’s excited. And

00:30:20.440 –> 00:30:24.000
you see in front of him, he’s been playing with…

00:30:24.000 –> 00:30:28.140
He’s got a soldier in one hand and an alien monster

00:30:28.140 –> 00:30:31.299
in the other. So this is like right out of his…

00:30:32.930 –> 00:30:35.930
Imagination. Yeah, like he was playing, and then

00:30:35.930 –> 00:30:38.210
he looked up, and it’s actually happening right

00:30:38.210 –> 00:30:41.609
in front of him. Yep. So it’s a neat reaction

00:30:41.609 –> 00:30:44.109
there, and it’s important for later in the book.

00:30:44.829 –> 00:30:48.890
Yeah. So magically, everybody who fell out of

00:30:48.890 –> 00:30:51.630
the helicopter, the two Cobra Troopers and Beachhead,

00:30:51.750 –> 00:30:55.890
are alive and conscious. And they get into a

00:30:55.890 –> 00:31:00.170
fight. Right. Beachhead has managed to get his

00:31:00.170 –> 00:31:04.599
arms in front of him. which is a bad problem

00:31:04.599 –> 00:31:08.460
for, for Cobras. He already looks, he already

00:31:08.460 –> 00:31:11.559
looks beat up. Uh, clearly he had been taken,

00:31:11.559 –> 00:31:14.980
he had been taken captive in some off camera

00:31:14.980 –> 00:31:18.019
fight that happened beforehand. Yeah. Immediately

00:31:18.019 –> 00:31:20.400
goes about taking down the first of the Cobra

00:31:20.400 –> 00:31:23.119
troopers, chokes him out. Uh, you see him go

00:31:23.119 –> 00:31:25.279
down. The, the, the, the orphans are huddled

00:31:25.279 –> 00:31:27.960
over by the chimney. Uh, one of them pulls a

00:31:27.960 –> 00:31:30.799
gun or rather the second, uh, Cobra trooper pulls

00:31:30.799 –> 00:31:34.559
a gun and one of the orphans yells out to beachhead

00:31:34.559 –> 00:31:38.440
to warn him. So then beachhead has, is busy choking

00:31:38.440 –> 00:31:42.019
out the first Cobra wheels around and, and, uh,

00:31:42.019 –> 00:31:45.359
does that cool action movie thing where he, he,

00:31:45.440 –> 00:31:48.559
uh, the, the twists around and, and, and the

00:31:48.559 –> 00:31:51.000
Cobra troop takes all the bullets. That’s right.

00:31:51.579 –> 00:31:54.380
Cause you know, make do with what you got. And

00:31:54.380 –> 00:31:56.759
Beachhead takes the opportunity to, to cover

00:31:56.759 –> 00:32:01.380
behind a different chimney. Cause chimneys are

00:32:01.380 –> 00:32:03.339
the best cover ever. I mean, I know there’s not

00:32:03.339 –> 00:32:05.819
a lot of cover. They’re made out of bricks. They’re

00:32:05.819 –> 00:32:08.680
good covers. That’s true. So then we, we roll

00:32:08.680 –> 00:32:11.200
over to page. What is that? Five, three, four,

00:32:11.259 –> 00:32:14.779
five. Yeah. Maybe something like that. Five beginning

00:32:14.779 –> 00:32:17.460
of page five. Uh, we see Beachhead reestablishing

00:32:17.460 –> 00:32:19.859
himself. He’s standing behind the chimney. The

00:32:19.859 –> 00:32:23.240
other trooper, the one that fired at him. has

00:32:23.240 –> 00:32:27.140
grabbed the young boy by the collar and is now

00:32:27.140 –> 00:32:29.859
pointing the gun to his head and threatening

00:32:29.859 –> 00:32:33.839
him. He is yelling something at Beachhead to

00:32:33.839 –> 00:32:37.299
come out with your hands up. Beachhead complies

00:32:37.299 –> 00:32:40.079
and is immediately met with a bullet in the leg

00:32:40.079 –> 00:32:42.740
and another one that hits the side of his head.

00:32:45.640 –> 00:32:47.740
Beachhead not looking too good right about now.

00:32:47.819 –> 00:32:50.559
Yeah, he was already beat to hell, and now he’s

00:32:50.559 –> 00:32:54.160
got one piece of lead in him and a head wound.

00:32:54.779 –> 00:32:58.940
Yeah, that’s not good. He is obviously stunned

00:32:58.940 –> 00:33:03.839
or worse. Yeah. The Cobra Trooper comes up. Looks

00:33:03.839 –> 00:33:05.940
like an officer. He’s got the placard on his

00:33:05.940 –> 00:33:09.160
helmet. Comes over to do the double tap and finish

00:33:09.160 –> 00:33:12.619
the job, and the piece of roof that he is leaning

00:33:12.619 –> 00:33:16.720
on gives way. Yep. It did just have a helicopter

00:33:16.720 –> 00:33:19.680
bounce off of it after all. That’s true. Everybody

00:33:19.680 –> 00:33:23.940
go crashing down, down, down, down. So he, by

00:33:23.940 –> 00:33:29.579
sheer stroke of luck, goes over the side. And

00:33:29.579 –> 00:33:35.240
Beachhead is about to join him as the roof decomposes

00:33:35.240 –> 00:33:39.519
and loses its integrity. But the two kids save

00:33:39.519 –> 00:33:43.299
him. Miraculously. They, they grab him by the

00:33:43.299 –> 00:33:46.960
legs and, and they, they pull him back to, to

00:33:46.960 –> 00:33:49.180
safety. They get them on a, on a, on a bed sheet

00:33:49.180 –> 00:33:52.279
and they kind of work him down the stairs to,

00:33:52.380 –> 00:33:54.599
to the apartment that they’re living in. Yeah.

00:33:54.700 –> 00:33:57.500
I love this, this whole scene, this, the, the

00:33:57.500 –> 00:34:00.059
following, the crumbling of the bill, the side

00:34:00.059 –> 00:34:03.000
of the building, the falling, them trying to

00:34:03.000 –> 00:34:07.539
essentially pick him up or pull him down further

00:34:07.539 –> 00:34:11.260
or whatever. And then. Essentially, like you

00:34:11.260 –> 00:34:14.039
said, carrying him away to their apartment. I

00:34:14.039 –> 00:34:17.179
absolutely love this page. This looks so good.

00:34:17.679 –> 00:34:22.900
Right. I had somebody say to me that that was

00:34:22.900 –> 00:34:26.159
totally unrealistic because there’s no way that

00:34:26.159 –> 00:34:28.219
these two kids would know to do these things.

00:34:28.400 –> 00:34:33.579
And I just kind of shook my head at it because

00:34:33.579 –> 00:34:38.159
I don’t have the experience of growing up in

00:34:38.159 –> 00:34:40.670
a war -torn country. but I’m going to guess that

00:34:40.670 –> 00:34:43.690
I would have some really impressive survival

00:34:43.690 –> 00:34:47.909
skills if I did. Yeah. So, so these kids knowing

00:34:47.909 –> 00:34:51.329
how to transport somebody bigger than them and

00:34:51.329 –> 00:34:53.829
knowing, you know, basic first aid, how to clean

00:34:53.829 –> 00:34:58.710
wounds, you know, basic field triage, things

00:34:58.710 –> 00:35:01.349
like that. Yeah. I get it because when I was,

00:35:01.349 –> 00:35:04.920
when I was these kids age, I, I would. You know,

00:35:04.920 –> 00:35:07.539
be running to ask mom where the band -aids were,

00:35:07.599 –> 00:35:09.019
and that’s about the best I was going to pull

00:35:09.019 –> 00:35:12.480
out. We grew up soft here in the U .S. of A.

00:35:13.840 –> 00:35:20.119
Well, yeah. So if you can’t comprehend that these

00:35:20.119 –> 00:35:23.400
kids did not grow up soft. Yeah, I don’t know

00:35:23.400 –> 00:35:26.000
what’s, yeah. Yeah, I got nothing for you at

00:35:26.000 –> 00:35:29.710
that point. Yeah, no, nothing for you. But yeah,

00:35:29.730 –> 00:35:32.909
like, yeah, I mean, yeah. I’ve done a lot of

00:35:32.909 –> 00:35:36.190
talking, Mike. How are you feeling? No, I’m loving

00:35:36.190 –> 00:35:38.510
this. And the way you’re saying about the like,

00:35:38.670 –> 00:35:41.130
yeah, you’re absolutely right. Because and this

00:35:41.130 –> 00:35:43.750
is just my stupid American bias, apparently.

00:35:43.809 –> 00:35:46.610
But I keep seeing these damn I keep seeing these

00:35:46.610 –> 00:35:48.409
damn pigeons. I’m like, oh, it’s a New York City

00:35:48.409 –> 00:35:49.969
roof. And then I realized, no, it’s not. It’s

00:35:49.969 –> 00:35:52.190
a damn foreign country. New York City is not

00:35:52.190 –> 00:35:54.780
a DMZ, at least not yet. Right. Give it time.

00:35:57.539 –> 00:36:00.360
There was some run back in the 70s and 80s where

00:36:00.360 –> 00:36:01.960
I think some of the residents would have disagreed

00:36:01.960 –> 00:36:05.840
with you. Okay, well, you know. But yeah, you’re

00:36:05.840 –> 00:36:08.960
right. These are not American children. These

00:36:08.960 –> 00:36:11.460
are children in some war -torn country. Some

00:36:11.460 –> 00:36:15.400
children in a demilitarized zone somewhere. And

00:36:15.400 –> 00:36:18.440
there are two of them. Now, I can see if it was

00:36:18.440 –> 00:36:21.099
just the boy by himself or the girl by herself.

00:36:22.159 –> 00:36:25.679
Right. Not being able to do this, but since they,

00:36:25.840 –> 00:36:28.960
and it seems like they’ve done this before. Right.

00:36:29.280 –> 00:36:31.980
Because. I get the impression that despite the

00:36:31.980 –> 00:36:34.119
fact that they don’t look very similar, that

00:36:34.119 –> 00:36:37.679
they are related. Oh, yeah. I assume. And I think

00:36:37.679 –> 00:36:42.920
by the time we get to page seven, we see the

00:36:42.920 –> 00:36:45.420
pictures on the wall of the apartment that they

00:36:45.420 –> 00:36:49.139
have taken Beachhead to. Yep. In which you see

00:36:49.139 –> 00:36:51.199
the boy and the girl, they’re a little bit younger.

00:36:51.769 –> 00:36:55.570
And standing behind them is their mom, who’s

00:36:55.570 –> 00:36:58.570
got a stethoscope around her neck. Yep, so doctor.

00:36:58.570 –> 00:37:02.730
So right there, they were paying attention, and

00:37:02.730 –> 00:37:06.750
either they picked it up from watching mom, or

00:37:06.750 –> 00:37:11.170
mom was smart enough to teach them the basic

00:37:11.170 –> 00:37:13.289
tenets of first aid. And there’s a first aid

00:37:13.289 –> 00:37:15.789
kit handy. We also see a picture of either dad

00:37:15.789 –> 00:37:19.329
or grandpa with war medals, and another one’s

00:37:19.329 –> 00:37:22.079
by the pigeon coop. So clearly they are taking

00:37:22.079 –> 00:37:28.760
care of dad, grandpa’s pigeons. Yep. And that

00:37:28.760 –> 00:37:31.440
explains why they’re on the roof. So great use

00:37:31.440 –> 00:37:35.460
of the space. Yeah, absolutely. Again, Phil Hester

00:37:35.460 –> 00:37:39.639
is one of the best. He is, even without actual

00:37:39.639 –> 00:37:42.980
words in the book. Because again, visual storytelling

00:37:42.980 –> 00:37:48.280
is an interesting medium. We have to infer all

00:37:48.280 –> 00:37:52.280
of this. the look that she gives him on this

00:37:52.280 –> 00:37:55.380
next page, the, the, the six panel page here,

00:37:55.519 –> 00:37:59.019
she just kind of like looks back at, at the,

00:37:59.019 –> 00:38:02.179
at her brother or whatever. It’s like, Oh, okay.

00:38:02.400 –> 00:38:06.659
Huh? Uh -huh. Yeah. You know, second half of

00:38:06.659 –> 00:38:10.420
page seven, seven, uh, the, the girl is beginning

00:38:10.420 –> 00:38:13.159
to dress speech heads wounds. Yep. Uh, whereas

00:38:13.159 –> 00:38:15.639
her little brother spies his big hunting knife,

00:38:15.739 –> 00:38:20.630
uh, on his, on his, uh, utility belt. and reaches

00:38:20.630 –> 00:38:24.869
for it. Because again, he’s been playing soldier,

00:38:25.050 –> 00:38:27.730
and now there’s a real soldier in front of him,

00:38:27.769 –> 00:38:32.929
and he is enthralled. She kicks his hand. Yep.

00:38:33.769 –> 00:38:36.269
And starts giving him orders. You can tell that

00:38:36.269 –> 00:38:39.070
she’s telling him to focus, that this isn’t playing

00:38:39.070 –> 00:38:42.230
around, and that she needs his help if they’re

00:38:42.230 –> 00:38:45.849
going to save Beachhead, and she kind of kicks

00:38:45.849 –> 00:38:50.030
him out. Yep. So the boy goes back to the roof,

00:38:50.090 –> 00:38:53.670
or he goes down to the base, rather, where the

00:38:53.670 –> 00:39:00.050
trooper had fallen from the roof. Yep. And salvages

00:39:00.050 –> 00:39:04.429
his pistol and belt, complete with Cobra sigil

00:39:04.429 –> 00:39:10.230
on it. Yeah. And brings it back. Yep. Well, they

00:39:10.230 –> 00:39:14.480
bring it to who? Who’s that guy? Well, I mean,

00:39:14.500 –> 00:39:17.139
it brings it back to the apartment first. And

00:39:17.139 –> 00:39:21.460
again, you see more of his toys. Yeah. Soldiers

00:39:21.460 –> 00:39:30.719
and monsters. And so she, his sister, doesn’t

00:39:30.719 –> 00:39:36.579
see the belt, but sees him holding the gun. You

00:39:36.579 –> 00:39:39.340
know, holding something, hiding something. Yeah.

00:39:39.460 –> 00:39:42.869
And then goes over to… you know, to see what

00:39:42.869 –> 00:39:44.989
they’ve got to eat, what, what they can possibly

00:39:44.989 –> 00:39:48.750
feed beachhead to get them on his feet. Uh, they’ve

00:39:48.750 –> 00:39:51.329
only got one can of sardines and then she sees

00:39:51.329 –> 00:39:54.869
the gun that he’s stashed with his toys. Yeah.

00:39:55.010 –> 00:40:00.909
Um, so she takes it because she, she’s a very

00:40:00.909 –> 00:40:03.769
bright girl and understands that this kid in

00:40:03.769 –> 00:40:05.929
the state of mind that he’s in does not need

00:40:05.929 –> 00:40:09.750
to have a firearm and, but also understands.

00:40:10.519 –> 00:40:13.980
that this is something that is valuable and can

00:40:13.980 –> 00:40:17.320
be traded for something useful. So she heads

00:40:17.320 –> 00:40:24.420
over to the de facto, I’m going to guess local

00:40:24.420 –> 00:40:28.159
mobster. Yeah. Guy who can get a hold of things

00:40:28.159 –> 00:40:31.820
that are difficult to find in demilitarized zones.

00:40:35.400 –> 00:40:39.320
As you can see, he’s a big guy. you know, big

00:40:39.320 –> 00:40:43.000
shiny head. Um, and his, his goon is next to

00:40:43.000 –> 00:40:45.059
him with his big baseball bat, brandishing it

00:40:45.059 –> 00:40:48.739
in front of the crowd. Uh, she, she gets to the

00:40:48.739 –> 00:40:51.340
front. She waves this, this Cobra bag in front

00:40:51.340 –> 00:40:55.840
of him. And, and so he trades it for a first

00:40:55.840 –> 00:41:02.460
aid kit. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah, no, this is. And,

00:41:02.500 –> 00:41:06.360
and, and a CB or radio or some sort of radio,

00:41:06.440 –> 00:41:09.400
some sort of something. Yeah. Cause she got to

00:41:09.400 –> 00:41:12.659
call somebody, but then. Right. She hustles away.

00:41:12.900 –> 00:41:15.699
Yeah. She hustles away, but then Cobra shows

00:41:15.699 –> 00:41:19.980
up. Oh crap. Right. So Cobra shows up. Uh, they,

00:41:20.039 –> 00:41:22.960
and Terry, they, they see the, uh, the mobster,

00:41:23.000 –> 00:41:25.480
the local mobster, uh, with, with the Cobra belt

00:41:25.480 –> 00:41:31.539
or, or, and, uh, he sells her out. So clearly

00:41:31.539 –> 00:41:33.559
he knows who this girl was. They were in the

00:41:33.559 –> 00:41:38.449
same town or whatever. And, um, And so the girl

00:41:38.449 –> 00:41:41.170
comes back. She’s got the radio and the first

00:41:41.170 –> 00:41:43.849
aid kit and goes back to the apartment. She sees

00:41:43.849 –> 00:41:48.570
smoke coming out. So she sprints into the apartment.

00:41:48.750 –> 00:41:52.789
She sees her brother and an awake beachhead.

00:41:53.130 –> 00:41:57.610
And they are firing up the stove. So she is a

00:41:57.610 –> 00:42:01.309
little bit at ease. She presents the radio to

00:42:01.309 –> 00:42:03.510
beachhead. Beachhead is, I mean, he’s beat to

00:42:03.510 –> 00:42:06.260
hell. Yeah. His head is bandaged. His arm is

00:42:06.260 –> 00:42:08.860
bandaged. He’s got a crutch. He is maskless,

00:42:08.880 –> 00:42:11.880
I think, for the first time in the Hall of Earth.

00:42:12.300 –> 00:42:16.260
Yeah. Not ever. IDW had a couple issues where

00:42:16.260 –> 00:42:20.420
he did not have a mask. And so she presents the

00:42:20.420 –> 00:42:22.380
radio to him, and he goes over, and he starts

00:42:22.380 –> 00:42:26.059
calling for help, trying to get a signal. And

00:42:26.059 –> 00:42:29.139
you see the brother is taking the hat that was

00:42:29.139 –> 00:42:33.650
on his head, and he is cutting. eye hole into

00:42:33.650 –> 00:42:37.789
it. He’s trying to make his, his hat like a balaclava

00:42:37.789 –> 00:42:41.630
like beachhead has. Yep. And a beachhead is over

00:42:41.630 –> 00:42:43.710
at the window trying to get a signal on this,

00:42:43.730 –> 00:42:48.329
this phone radio thing. And, uh, it’s like, it’s

00:42:48.329 –> 00:42:51.030
very, it’s, it’s probably a very Eastern block

00:42:51.030 –> 00:42:56.090
phone. Yeah. Most likely. Absolutely. Yeah. And

00:42:56.090 –> 00:42:58.590
so, uh, beachhead, uh, goes to the window and

00:42:58.590 –> 00:43:03.030
he sees the local, you know, goons. Yeah. Uh,

00:43:03.130 –> 00:43:05.829
with, with some, uh, what looked like alley vipers

00:43:05.829 –> 00:43:08.449
heading towards the building with, with full

00:43:08.449 –> 00:43:11.849
gear, uh, and then tells the girl that he’s got

00:43:11.849 –> 00:43:13.730
to go up to the roof in order to get a signal,

00:43:13.829 –> 00:43:16.630
puts his mask back on. And you know, the, the

00:43:16.630 –> 00:43:19.510
Cobra Cobra hits the building and it’s time for

00:43:19.510 –> 00:43:23.230
beachhead to go back to work. Yup. So he, uh,

00:43:23.489 –> 00:43:26.829
there’s, there’s floors missing. There’s open

00:43:26.829 –> 00:43:30.019
ceilings. A beachhead gets an alley viper tangled

00:43:30.019 –> 00:43:32.960
up in some cables, pulls them upward. And then

00:43:32.960 –> 00:43:35.780
in the, in the hubbub, the other alley vipers

00:43:35.780 –> 00:43:38.760
just full the pull, you know, full fill the,

00:43:38.840 –> 00:43:41.840
uh, the, the, the captured alley viper full of

00:43:41.840 –> 00:43:44.639
lead. And it brings most of the rest of the ceiling

00:43:44.639 –> 00:43:47.340
back down on them, but it also brings, brings

00:43:47.340 –> 00:43:49.820
enough noise that beachhead can go somewhere

00:43:49.820 –> 00:43:53.300
else. Yeah, exactly. I love that page. That might

00:43:53.300 –> 00:43:55.929
be my favorite page of the whole book. Right.

00:43:56.010 –> 00:43:59.150
So top of that page is all the, it’s all the

00:43:59.150 –> 00:44:01.590
background in the, in the solid color, the gray

00:44:01.590 –> 00:44:04.389
color. And then the second page is the second

00:44:04.389 –> 00:44:06.650
part of the top of the page is the red color

00:44:06.650 –> 00:44:10.010
and all the silhouettes are in white. Oh, that

00:44:10.010 –> 00:44:13.750
is so good. Right. Everybody’s looking up. Everybody

00:44:13.750 –> 00:44:16.210
thinks that beachhead is still above them. And

00:44:16.210 –> 00:44:19.449
then in panel two, we see, we look down by their

00:44:19.449 –> 00:44:22.690
feet and there’s beachhead with a big knife and

00:44:22.690 –> 00:44:26.710
instantly. stabs up through the floor, uh, through

00:44:26.710 –> 00:44:31.610
an alley viper’s foot. So now, now the, the confusion

00:44:31.610 –> 00:44:35.650
is on and they’re looking for ways to get out

00:44:35.650 –> 00:44:37.789
of that room because they understand now, Hey,

00:44:37.869 –> 00:44:40.550
we’re sitting ducks and this guy’s good. Yup.

00:44:40.690 –> 00:44:45.210
Um, heading towards an exit, a stairwell, and

00:44:45.210 –> 00:44:50.190
there’s a refrigerator coming down. Yeah. Uh,

00:44:50.289 –> 00:44:52.570
and so, so beachhead has managed to get to himself

00:44:52.570 –> 00:44:55.909
behind this refrigerator. It falls on top of

00:44:55.909 –> 00:44:57.869
the alley vipers. He takes one of their guns

00:44:57.869 –> 00:45:02.849
and he opens up on the alley. Meanwhile, glad

00:45:02.849 –> 00:45:05.449
it was a refrigerator and not the kitchen sink

00:45:05.449 –> 00:45:08.449
because that would just be too on the nose. Well,

00:45:08.510 –> 00:45:11.010
right. Maybe, maybe he could have thrown the

00:45:11.010 –> 00:45:16.369
kitchen sink after. Yeah, exactly. Meanwhile,

00:45:16.469 –> 00:45:20.110
the kids are on the roof. The boy is wearing

00:45:20.110 –> 00:45:23.429
his beachhead mask, and the girl is trying to

00:45:23.429 –> 00:45:26.289
get as high as she can so that Eastern Block

00:45:26.289 –> 00:45:31.070
phone picks up some bars. Cut back to the remaining

00:45:31.070 –> 00:45:33.329
alley vipers. Beachhead is pulling one through

00:45:33.329 –> 00:45:39.070
a wall. Then, you know, he’s preparing to deal

00:45:39.070 –> 00:45:43.440
with the last two. When suddenly a little stone

00:45:43.440 –> 00:45:45.280
hits one of them, bounces off of his helmet.

00:45:45.619 –> 00:45:49.159
And lo and behold, the dumb brother is back.

00:45:51.699 –> 00:45:55.840
In his beachhead mask. Yes. With a slingshot.

00:45:57.039 –> 00:46:02.199
I saw that and I was like, oh, kid. Yeah, this

00:46:02.199 –> 00:46:08.659
little guy, he’s brave, but he’s dumb. He does

00:46:08.659 –> 00:46:11.239
not quite understand what he’s up against here.

00:46:11.360 –> 00:46:15.139
Those alley vipers open up. Beachhead dives from

00:46:15.139 –> 00:46:17.780
out of the shadows, tackles the kid and gets

00:46:17.780 –> 00:46:20.239
him to cover, but takes some more glancing shots.

00:46:20.960 –> 00:46:25.099
As beat up as he has been to this point, he’s

00:46:25.099 –> 00:46:29.599
even worse off now. As the alley vipers recover,

00:46:30.000 –> 00:46:33.179
the boy leads Beachhead to the sewer, the drainage

00:46:33.179 –> 00:46:36.780
pipes. At which point they get out of the building,

00:46:36.940 –> 00:46:41.820
or they get out of the room, and the alley vipers,

00:46:41.880 –> 00:46:45.699
unfortunately, see them. They clamber up to the

00:46:45.699 –> 00:46:49.079
roof where the girl is, and the alley vipers

00:46:49.079 –> 00:46:52.840
emerge. Beachhead is barely conscious. The brother

00:46:52.840 –> 00:46:56.440
is holding him up, and the girl, in a bit of

00:46:56.440 –> 00:47:00.659
quick thinking, releases all the pigeons. So,

00:47:00.659 –> 00:47:03.420
when I was reading this, my first thought…

00:47:03.599 –> 00:47:07.559
This page. I was like, okay. I know what she’s

00:47:07.559 –> 00:47:10.300
going to do, but I wonder how they’re going to

00:47:10.300 –> 00:47:15.659
make it look. And I was like, okay. Got it. Yep.

00:47:16.159 –> 00:47:20.519
Right. It’s straight up John Woo. It’s straight

00:47:20.519 –> 00:47:23.119
up John Woo doves is what this is. Even though

00:47:23.119 –> 00:47:25.139
these are pigeons and not doves, this is the

00:47:25.139 –> 00:47:28.000
first thing I thought of was that goddamn dove

00:47:28.000 –> 00:47:32.039
in Mission Impossible 2. All doves are are fancy

00:47:32.039 –> 00:47:39.030
pigeons. They are direct cousins. So she agitates

00:47:39.030 –> 00:47:40.849
all the birds. The birds fly out of the coop.

00:47:41.170 –> 00:47:43.570
They distract the alley vipers. And then when

00:47:43.570 –> 00:47:47.869
the birds clear, there’s a dragonfly, a tomahawk.

00:47:48.369 –> 00:47:52.190
Tomahawk, yep. And they’ve got, you know, Stalker

00:47:52.190 –> 00:47:54.329
is a machine gun trained on them out of the side

00:47:54.329 –> 00:47:57.929
of the tomahawk. Scarlet and Lifeline are in

00:47:57.929 –> 00:48:01.130
there. Scarlet is giving a very Scarlet -like

00:48:01.130 –> 00:48:03.949
smirk. And holding her hands in the air. And

00:48:03.949 –> 00:48:07.110
you see the alley vipers in turn, their hands

00:48:07.110 –> 00:48:09.809
in the air later, we got the, we’re on the last

00:48:09.809 –> 00:48:13.389
page now. And, uh, everybody’s aboard the dragon

00:48:13.389 –> 00:48:15.949
flight or the dragon. There I go again. Everybody’s

00:48:15.949 –> 00:48:19.309
aboard the Tomahawk. Tomahawk. Lifeline is patching

00:48:19.309 –> 00:48:22.269
up beachhead. Uh, you see stalker doing sit rep

00:48:22.269 –> 00:48:24.250
in the front. Uh, but beachhead is sitting with

00:48:24.250 –> 00:48:27.349
the two kids. He is, you know, I imagine he’s

00:48:27.349 –> 00:48:29.849
thanking them for all of their help. Yep. Um,

00:48:29.889 –> 00:48:32.809
and the, the boy. He’s covered in a blanket,

00:48:32.849 –> 00:48:37.630
but he’s still got the mask on. Yep. And Beachhead

00:48:37.630 –> 00:48:40.409
reaches over, pats him on the head, and then

00:48:40.409 –> 00:48:42.349
takes the mask off of him and throws it out of

00:48:42.349 –> 00:48:45.610
the side of the chopper. Yep, and it lands. And

00:48:45.610 –> 00:48:48.329
it lands where some of the folks who are left

00:48:48.329 –> 00:48:52.150
behind are foraging for some supplies in the

00:48:52.150 –> 00:48:56.920
building that just came down. Yeah. So there

00:48:56.920 –> 00:49:00.619
again, this kid, all issue long, he’s wanted

00:49:00.619 –> 00:49:04.119
to play soldier. And the message that we get

00:49:04.119 –> 00:49:09.320
Beachhead giving him wordlessly is, it’s not

00:49:09.320 –> 00:49:13.199
worth it. It’s not worth it, kid. This is not

00:49:13.199 –> 00:49:15.659
the life you want to live. No, yeah, you have

00:49:15.659 –> 00:49:18.360
your whole life to live ahead of you. Pick something

00:49:18.360 –> 00:49:25.239
else. He is deliberately messaging that he’s

00:49:25.239 –> 00:49:27.940
not trying to be a hero. He’s trying to do a

00:49:27.940 –> 00:49:31.500
job. Yeah. And it’s an ugly job and a messy job,

00:49:31.800 –> 00:49:35.019
and it’s probably something that haunts him.

00:49:35.059 –> 00:49:37.860
I would assume so. When he closes his eyes at

00:49:37.860 –> 00:49:42.260
night. Yep. But that’s where we end, with the

00:49:42.260 –> 00:49:47.659
tomahawk flying off in the distance. Yep. Absolutely.

00:49:49.079 –> 00:49:56.840
And it’s… So I guess on the whole, I did enjoy

00:49:56.840 –> 00:50:02.380
this one. I really dug it. It’s a tough ask when

00:50:02.380 –> 00:50:04.619
you have a character who’s, again, getting his

00:50:04.619 –> 00:50:08.039
first real spotlight, his first real solo spotlight,

00:50:08.320 –> 00:50:11.019
and you’re doing it in a story that has no dialogue.

00:50:11.960 –> 00:50:17.480
Yeah. Right? Yeah, that’s true. That’s a big

00:50:17.480 –> 00:50:23.639
ask. Yeah. But I think Phil Hester, uh, did a

00:50:23.639 –> 00:50:27.579
great job of, of avoiding some of, I mean, I’ll

00:50:27.579 –> 00:50:30.599
call him beachheads character weaknesses in the

00:50:30.599 –> 00:50:32.800
sense that he doesn’t, he doesn’t have a really

00:50:32.800 –> 00:50:34.599
well -defined one, even though he’s been around

00:50:34.599 –> 00:50:37.460
for almost 40 years, but you know, there’s not

00:50:37.460 –> 00:50:40.780
a huge character in the comic universe for him.

00:50:41.219 –> 00:50:45.280
Uh, but he got there by focusing on some of the

00:50:45.280 –> 00:50:47.320
secondary characters in the book, you know, the,

00:50:47.400 –> 00:50:52.159
the, the girl, the boy, uh, the local goon. Uh,

00:50:52.239 –> 00:50:54.260
we got a lot of reaction shots from the Cobra

00:50:54.260 –> 00:50:57.840
troopers and the alley vipers. And so, you know,

00:50:57.840 –> 00:51:00.719
a lot, lots of little things to, to, uh, to pass

00:51:00.719 –> 00:51:03.920
that. And so he, he got to just play beachhead

00:51:03.920 –> 00:51:09.480
as, uh, the upstanding unstoppable hero, right?

00:51:09.539 –> 00:51:13.500
Like snake eyes light, if you will. Um, but Hey,

00:51:13.659 –> 00:51:16.760
that, that’s kind of what he is, right? Well,

00:51:16.800 –> 00:51:19.260
Beachhead can and does talk, though, right? I

00:51:19.260 –> 00:51:21.500
mean, granted, this is a silent mission. That’s

00:51:21.500 –> 00:51:23.940
the whole point of this concept. But in normal

00:51:23.940 –> 00:51:28.239
fashion, in a normal comic, he actually does

00:51:28.239 –> 00:51:31.440
talk. He’s not a snake eyes. Right, right. But

00:51:31.440 –> 00:51:35.760
what I mean by that is that as he has been presented

00:51:35.760 –> 00:51:40.579
in his limited spots in the comic book, you get

00:51:40.579 –> 00:51:42.760
the impression that there are very few guys on

00:51:42.760 –> 00:51:44.820
the Joe team that could take Beachhead in a fight.

00:51:45.449 –> 00:51:48.550
Yeah, that’s very true. Snake Eyes is the man,

00:51:48.670 –> 00:51:51.909
obviously. Scarlet is pretty well the number

00:51:51.909 –> 00:51:55.989
two. But after that, Beachhead’s in that group

00:51:55.989 –> 00:52:00.230
of guys that you just don’t see getting beaten

00:52:00.230 –> 00:52:05.130
up very much. It took being incredibly outnumbered

00:52:05.130 –> 00:52:09.449
and completely outgunned to make him the underdog

00:52:09.449 –> 00:52:12.210
in this story. That’s what we know about Beachhead.

00:52:13.920 –> 00:52:16.380
But again, it was a great job. I was thrilled

00:52:16.380 –> 00:52:19.199
when I saw that Phil Hester got the spotlight

00:52:19.199 –> 00:52:22.380
for my favorite character. I think he did him

00:52:22.380 –> 00:52:30.300
a great deal of justice. I would give this one

00:52:30.300 –> 00:52:35.280
on a whole, I’d give it a B+. I wish we got a

00:52:35.280 –> 00:52:38.500
little bit more. It felt like a quick read, but

00:52:38.500 –> 00:52:41.039
I think that’s just part of not having dialogue.

00:52:41.690 –> 00:52:45.210
Yeah, I wish we could have had… I mean, again,

00:52:45.369 –> 00:52:49.070
we understand the concept here, folks. We get

00:52:49.070 –> 00:52:55.750
that. But I do wish that this did have dialogue,

00:52:55.869 –> 00:52:59.329
because I think that would make it better. This

00:52:59.329 –> 00:53:02.630
was a good enough story that I think if you had

00:53:02.630 –> 00:53:08.800
given it dialogue, given it a B story… This

00:53:08.800 –> 00:53:11.159
could have been a four -issue arc or a five -issue

00:53:11.159 –> 00:53:14.079
arc or whatever. This could have been its own

00:53:14.079 –> 00:53:18.440
little mini saga. The bones are that good there.

00:53:18.739 –> 00:53:22.699
But as it is, for a one -issue standalone with

00:53:22.699 –> 00:53:27.820
no ads in the middle, there’s no dialogue, but

00:53:27.820 –> 00:53:32.099
it was still well -paced. We had our action times

00:53:32.099 –> 00:53:37.090
and we had our not -action times. what was on

00:53:37.090 –> 00:53:39.590
camera to, for lack of a better term, what was

00:53:39.590 –> 00:53:44.789
on panel was used very effectively in both situations.

00:53:45.829 –> 00:53:49.730
So it was used very well. And the thing is, I

00:53:49.730 –> 00:53:53.250
say this all the time, you need, whether it’s

00:53:53.250 –> 00:53:55.550
a single issue, whether it’s a standalone, whether

00:53:55.550 –> 00:53:57.849
it’s a one -off or whether it’s an ongoing series,

00:53:57.949 –> 00:54:04.610
every issue has to have a balance of action and

00:54:04.610 –> 00:54:09.280
story. There are some series and ongoings that

00:54:09.280 –> 00:54:13.380
do action one issue less on story. They do more

00:54:13.380 –> 00:54:15.400
story in another issue and a little bit less

00:54:15.400 –> 00:54:19.599
on action. But because these are intended to

00:54:19.599 –> 00:54:23.400
be silent mission number ones, one offs, we’re

00:54:23.400 –> 00:54:25.260
not getting it. I would love for us to get a

00:54:25.260 –> 00:54:28.019
beachhead number two. Right. Not in that way,

00:54:28.079 –> 00:54:31.920
folks. You know what I mean? But, you know, like

00:54:31.920 –> 00:54:37.460
radio jokes. 16 years in, it’s still not too

00:54:37.460 –> 00:54:41.619
good for poop jokes. No, never. That’s right.

00:54:42.519 –> 00:54:46.059
But it’s one of those things where I honestly

00:54:46.059 –> 00:54:49.059
think they should find somebody, whether it’s

00:54:49.059 –> 00:54:52.179
Phil Hester or whether it’s somebody else, find

00:54:52.179 –> 00:54:55.480
somebody that wants to do a… five -issue, four

00:54:55.480 –> 00:54:58.000
-issue miniseries about Beachhead or something.

00:54:58.880 –> 00:55:01.039
Maybe, I don’t know if they’re going to bring

00:55:01.039 –> 00:55:03.960
him into the Energon universe section of this,

00:55:04.099 –> 00:55:05.739
because I know this is obviously Real American

00:55:05.739 –> 00:55:10.039
Hero, and it’s all whatever. Beachhead is actually

00:55:10.039 –> 00:55:14.260
listed in… Oh, that’s right. He is in the,

00:55:14.260 –> 00:55:17.239
uh, the, the advanced notice for issue seven.

00:55:17.280 –> 00:55:19.360
So when the second, that’s right. That’s the

00:55:19.360 –> 00:55:22.860
second story kicks off with the, the, the, the

00:55:22.860 –> 00:55:26.280
dark ops GI Joe team Flint. That’s right. Yep.

00:55:26.820 –> 00:55:29.739
Beachhead is part of that team. So yes, we will

00:55:29.739 –> 00:55:34.039
see him at, at a time of, of release. That story

00:55:34.039 –> 00:55:37.539
arc is probably over, um, by now. Yeah. Yeah.

00:55:37.559 –> 00:55:42.179
I have celebrated my 60th birthday. Really? You

00:55:42.179 –> 00:55:46.659
don’t look over 45. Right. It’s 10, 15 years

00:55:46.659 –> 00:55:48.900
down the road. But at the time of recording,

00:55:49.079 –> 00:55:54.059
that’s next month. Yeah. So we will see him in

00:55:54.059 –> 00:55:57.000
Energon. Hopefully he’s not a guy who shows up

00:55:57.000 –> 00:55:59.679
for three panels and is killed. But he is on

00:55:59.679 –> 00:56:01.719
the cover, so I have the impression that he’s

00:56:01.719 –> 00:56:05.199
going to be a big part of that team. Yeah, that’s

00:56:05.199 –> 00:56:09.139
good. He’s the focus of the cover. Yeah. So,

00:56:09.139 –> 00:56:15.219
anyways. That’s very good. He was in… What’s

00:56:15.219 –> 00:56:17.619
the magazine with all the previews? He was in

00:56:17.619 –> 00:56:21.340
the previews. Yeah, absolutely. What’s the name

00:56:21.340 –> 00:56:24.000
of the magazine? The one that’s named after the

00:56:24.000 –> 00:56:29.559
word of the thing? We don’t know. It’s not even

00:56:29.559 –> 00:56:34.710
that late. Yeah. I can’t even blame that. It’s

00:56:34.710 –> 00:56:37.210
10 o ‘clock somewhere, man. It’s 10 o ‘clock

00:56:37.210 –> 00:56:39.789
somewhere. That just means that I should have

00:56:39.789 –> 00:56:46.349
been drinking five hours ago. But yeah, so far,

00:56:46.550 –> 00:56:48.989
Silent Missions, I’ll probably give this five

00:56:48.989 –> 00:56:51.650
out of five. I had no issues with this. I thought

00:56:51.650 –> 00:56:54.909
I was going to have issues with not having actual

00:56:54.909 –> 00:56:57.409
dialogue, but I was able to follow the story

00:56:57.409 –> 00:57:00.019
along very well. It’s a very enjoyable story.

00:57:00.380 –> 00:57:02.400
Beachhead’s a great character. I’ve always known

00:57:02.400 –> 00:57:05.000
he’s been a great character, but like you’ve

00:57:05.000 –> 00:57:09.360
said, not really used all that much. At least

00:57:09.360 –> 00:57:12.119
not in comics. Yeah, lack of spotlight kind of

00:57:12.119 –> 00:57:15.559
thing. I think the only one I can think of that

00:57:15.559 –> 00:57:17.820
has less of a spotlight than him is Barbecue.

00:57:18.960 –> 00:57:21.300
Oh, no. There’s lots of Joes that show up far

00:57:21.300 –> 00:57:25.639
less than Beachhead does, even. But again, it’s

00:57:25.639 –> 00:57:29.090
not that Beachhead’s never around. Yeah. It’s

00:57:29.090 –> 00:57:31.090
just that he’s never the focus of what’s going

00:57:31.090 –> 00:57:33.949
on. Even if you go to the cartoon, that season

00:57:33.949 –> 00:57:37.130
two of Sunbow, he’s in just about every damn

00:57:37.130 –> 00:57:41.309
episode, but he’s never the focus. So even there,

00:57:41.530 –> 00:57:45.269
you don’t get a real good feel for his character.

00:57:45.429 –> 00:57:49.349
He’s a competent soldier. He can be kind of a

00:57:49.349 –> 00:57:53.889
jerk when you agitate him. I want a stone cold

00:57:53.889 –> 00:57:59.219
righteous attention. Your chin is down. Your

00:57:59.219 –> 00:58:05.800
chest out. Your gut in. Your face mean. Because

00:58:05.800 –> 00:58:09.940
you are rough, tough, fighting machines. Thank

00:58:09.940 –> 00:58:12.360
you. It’s a real pleasure to see that one of

00:58:12.360 –> 00:58:15.760
you is a real trooper. It’s a matter, man. Let’s

00:58:15.760 –> 00:58:19.039
look sharp, eh, compadres? Better, sweetheart?

00:58:19.480 –> 00:58:23.349
Don’t you call me sweetheart. You six rawhide,

00:58:23.389 –> 00:58:26.289
you’re going to learn soldiering. Hey, there’s

00:58:26.289 –> 00:58:28.650
only five of you. Where is that gold -plated

00:58:28.650 –> 00:58:31.349
goof -off, Lieutenant Falcon? Terrific question.

00:58:32.190 –> 00:58:34.809
Man said he had some errands to do. Go to the

00:58:34.809 –> 00:58:37.070
tail of a wallpaper’s footlocker. Weird stuff.

00:58:38.730 –> 00:58:43.909
I think he had a date or something. I’m going

00:58:43.909 –> 00:58:46.110
to see what you rawhides are really made of.

00:58:46.329 –> 00:58:51.710
You get kind of the basic of things. He had a

00:58:51.710 –> 00:58:54.510
lot of respect for the guys that he knew put

00:58:54.510 –> 00:58:58.650
their time in in the uniform. Leatherneck and

00:58:58.650 –> 00:59:01.090
Wetsuit were always the comic shenanigans for

00:59:01.090 –> 00:59:04.909
him to play off of, but he respected those guys

00:59:04.909 –> 00:59:07.929
because of the work they put in. There’s that

00:59:07.929 –> 00:59:11.409
famous episode where Mainframe and Zorana kind

00:59:11.409 –> 00:59:15.559
of hook up. like beachhead lets mainframe kind

00:59:15.559 –> 00:59:19.219
of just ignore her clearance levels and things

00:59:19.219 –> 00:59:21.440
like that because he trusts mainframe he knows

00:59:21.440 –> 00:59:25.360
mainframe is put in the time so like there’s

00:59:25.360 –> 00:59:27.780
there’s an honorable guy in there just not necessarily

00:59:27.780 –> 00:59:32.000
the world’s most likable guy but but again he’s

00:59:32.000 –> 00:59:36.440
never the focus of the episode so you know in

00:59:36.440 –> 00:59:38.719
a season where we got three episodes about leatherneck

00:59:38.719 –> 00:59:41.730
we got nothing about beachhead Well, here’s hoping

00:59:41.730 –> 00:59:47.530
with the comic series, we can get more. I would

00:59:47.530 –> 00:59:50.309
love, I would love for them to ride this wave

00:59:50.309 –> 00:59:53.670
of GI Joe popularity and bring back special missions.

00:59:53.909 –> 00:59:57.769
Cause there’s the GI Joe is a, there’s 500 guys

00:59:57.769 –> 01:00:01.230
on the GI Joe team. Yep. There there’s just stories

01:00:01.230 –> 01:00:04.670
to tell and, and you can do it. And I’m not saying

01:00:04.670 –> 01:00:06.829
that it has to be like the old days where every

01:00:06.829 –> 01:00:10.280
issue is a new issue, but you can tell. four,

01:00:10.280 –> 01:00:13.320
five, six issue stories in special missions.

01:00:13.980 –> 01:00:17.280
Yeah, absolutely. You get a new creative team

01:00:17.280 –> 01:00:21.519
on for each story and we get five issues about

01:00:21.519 –> 01:00:25.760
Shockwave or six issues about Shipwreck. You

01:00:25.760 –> 01:00:28.880
talk about a guy who just has no function in

01:00:28.880 –> 01:00:32.219
the comic books. Shipwreck. As popular as Shipwreck

01:00:32.219 –> 01:00:35.840
is, Shipwreck is a non -entity in Larry Hama’s

01:00:35.840 –> 01:00:38.840
books. So it would be cool to see something with

01:00:38.840 –> 01:00:42.400
Shipwreck in that world. Poor Shipwreck. Never

01:00:42.400 –> 01:00:49.039
gets the respect he deserves. All right. Mr.

01:00:49.360 –> 01:00:52.820
Mike, what do you got coming up? What’s on your

01:00:52.820 –> 01:00:57.139
mind? As I said, our 14th anniversary episode

01:00:57.139 –> 01:01:00.820
is coming up. We record that this Wednesday.

01:01:01.159 –> 01:01:06.250
These days, I know our beginnings. We’re in the

01:01:06.250 –> 01:01:11.329
humble world of audio -only podcasting. In recent

01:01:11.329 –> 01:01:16.210
years, we have gone to live streaming once a

01:01:16.210 –> 01:01:19.750
week, talking about G .I. Joe news. We do that.

01:01:20.010 –> 01:01:22.230
We’ve bounced around a little bit, but for the

01:01:22.230 –> 01:01:26.030
time being, we are Wednesday nights at 9 p .m.

01:01:26.030 –> 01:01:31.809
Eastern on YouTube. You can find us at, our channel

01:01:31.809 –> 01:01:37.250
name is W .O .J .M. what’s on joe mind and uh

01:01:37.250 –> 01:01:41.190
we’re there and again most most wednesdays we

01:01:41.190 –> 01:01:43.269
are there for it’s usually a couple hours it

01:01:43.269 –> 01:01:48.150
is currently the the show is uh me and my brother

01:01:48.150 –> 01:01:52.090
rob are our our our group’s resident comic book

01:01:52.090 –> 01:01:56.590
expert and um and a lot of times we’ve got phil

01:01:56.590 –> 01:01:58.530
donnelly from articulated points he’s kind of

01:01:58.530 –> 01:02:01.869
our our regular sub as we go through some some

01:02:01.869 –> 01:02:06.429
casting stuff. Uh, and we kind of rotate that

01:02:06.429 –> 01:02:09.269
third chair around. So you never know who you’re

01:02:09.269 –> 01:02:11.889
going to get. And then sometimes the third chair

01:02:11.889 –> 01:02:13.869
is a guest with something to plug. Sometimes

01:02:13.869 –> 01:02:16.710
we’ve got a host in the third chair and we’ve

01:02:16.710 –> 01:02:19.489
got a guest in the fourth chair. Who’s got another

01:02:19.489 –> 01:02:22.170
exciting project. Uh, we’re, you know, it’s not

01:02:22.170 –> 01:02:25.909
just GI Joe. We, we kind of tackle some, some

01:02:25.909 –> 01:02:29.449
adjacent style properties and, and, uh, small

01:02:29.449 –> 01:02:33.360
toy manufacturers. We’ve, We talked to Troy McKee

01:02:33.360 –> 01:02:36.500
from Call Sign Longbow quite a bit. Our former

01:02:36.500 –> 01:02:39.639
co -host Carson Metaxas is on from 3D Joe’s.

01:02:39.659 –> 01:02:42.260
He’s got Operation Recall, so we’re very plugged

01:02:42.260 –> 01:02:48.119
into that. We’ve had Ben Conway from Skeletron

01:02:48.119 –> 01:02:53.539
on a couple times, and we keep playing tag on

01:02:53.539 –> 01:02:56.460
getting him back in. So I expect we’ll have him

01:02:56.460 –> 01:03:00.130
back very soon. So there’s all kinds of guys

01:03:00.130 –> 01:03:04.670
that we go to regularly. Mark Gerwig is kind

01:03:04.670 –> 01:03:06.730
of in the rotation. He’s one of the guys who

01:03:06.730 –> 01:03:11.150
does the G .I. Joe 3D printing podcast and is

01:03:11.150 –> 01:03:16.670
the driving force behind Mark II Design. This

01:03:16.670 –> 01:03:19.849
dude just does incredible stuff on that 3D printer.

01:03:20.010 –> 01:03:23.469
His first time on our show, we asked him, it’s

01:03:23.469 –> 01:03:24.730
like, hey, do you have any projects you want

01:03:24.730 –> 01:03:27.449
to show off? And he just reaches down under his

01:03:27.449 –> 01:03:31.000
desk. and busts out this classified scale, so

01:03:31.000 –> 01:03:37.940
six -inch scale, two -seater shark. You know

01:03:37.940 –> 01:03:41.679
how in the old cartoon show, when they made the

01:03:41.679 –> 01:03:44.079
shark toy back in 1984, it was just this big

01:03:44.079 –> 01:03:46.940
open cockpit because it had that gigantic hunk

01:03:46.940 –> 01:03:51.320
of plastic deep six to stick in it. Well, nobody

01:03:51.320 –> 01:03:54.340
likes that. That’s the worst G .I. Joe ever,

01:03:54.420 –> 01:03:59.039
is that deep six. And so Mark, with the classified

01:03:59.039 –> 01:04:02.659
figures, well, no, I want the shark to be like

01:04:02.659 –> 01:04:04.880
it is on the old cartoon series where you got

01:04:04.880 –> 01:04:09.059
a front seat and a back seat. And so that’s what

01:04:09.059 –> 01:04:12.280
he did. And he just busts out this huge shark.

01:04:13.000 –> 01:04:17.420
And me and Rob and our other host at the time,

01:04:17.539 –> 01:04:20.539
Mark Weber, we just sat there with our jaws hanging

01:04:20.539 –> 01:04:26.280
open. When Mark Gerwig is on, it’s always a cornucopia

01:04:26.280 –> 01:04:31.340
of crazy stuff. He has his own show, too. Most

01:04:31.340 –> 01:04:34.079
Sunday mornings, the G .I. Doe 3D Painting Podcast

01:04:34.079 –> 01:04:38.739
is live. We try and touch a lot of bases in the

01:04:38.739 –> 01:04:41.659
community and talk to all kinds of different

01:04:41.659 –> 01:04:45.800
folks about all kinds of different things. The

01:04:45.800 –> 01:04:48.880
week after that, we’ll be back with another guy

01:04:48.880 –> 01:04:51.019
who’s in the rotation quite a bit, Roger Taft.

01:04:51.579 –> 01:04:54.099
who is one of the publishers of the After Action

01:04:54.099 –> 01:04:58.139
Report books. Oh, very cool. And he will be on

01:04:58.139 –> 01:05:01.780
with Greg Augustin, who is doing a Command Files

01:05:01.780 –> 01:05:04.639
series. And that Kickstarter will be getting

01:05:04.639 –> 01:05:07.179
going. So again, I know no one will hear this

01:05:07.179 –> 01:05:10.179
until five years from now. Shut up. But this

01:05:10.179 –> 01:05:18.159
is the sort of thing that we do. Most weeks,

01:05:18.239 –> 01:05:21.599
there is not enough G .I. Joe news proper. to

01:05:21.599 –> 01:05:24.539
fill two hours at a time. So we try and get out.

01:05:24.579 –> 01:05:27.659
I feel like if we’ve done nothing else in 14

01:05:27.659 –> 01:05:30.940
years, we’ve built a community. Yeah, absolutely.

01:05:31.059 –> 01:05:35.059
And we’ve been lucky enough that the folks in

01:05:35.059 –> 01:05:38.059
our community are people that try to create and

01:05:38.059 –> 01:05:41.980
give back to that same community as well. And

01:05:41.980 –> 01:05:48.340
so it’s almost comedy levels of wealth. That

01:05:48.340 –> 01:05:50.420
we have to pull from, from just the folks that

01:05:50.420 –> 01:05:52.360
we’re friends with. And, you know, we, we get

01:05:52.360 –> 01:05:55.019
outside of that when we can, but my God, I need

01:05:55.019 –> 01:05:57.840
somebody to stop doing stuff to, to make windows

01:05:57.840 –> 01:06:03.960
some, some weeks. But, uh, but that’s, that’s

01:06:03.960 –> 01:06:07.539
what I got going on. Mr. Blanchard. That’s what

01:06:07.539 –> 01:06:11.179
I have going on. What’s on Joe mind every Wednesday

01:06:11.179 –> 01:06:15.320
at nine on YouTube. W O J M. What’s on Joe mind.

01:06:16.099 –> 01:06:18.699
Tune in. We’d love to see you. absolutely the

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01:06:20.760 –> 01:06:25.099
uh it is also it is also available if you if

01:06:25.099 –> 01:06:28.360
you still want to do audio uh if you’re not a

01:06:28.360 –> 01:06:32.199
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01:06:32.199 –> 01:06:35.179
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01:06:35.179 –> 01:06:37.920
get your podcasts what’s on joe mind is there

01:06:37.920 –> 01:06:43.800
absolutely i will have at least three links in

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the show notes now youtube An Android version

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and an Apple version, because apparently you

01:06:48.949 –> 01:06:51.989
need both, even though Android is superior. Anyway.

01:06:52.289 –> 01:06:57.590
I have no real horse in that race, man. I have

01:06:57.590 –> 01:07:00.650
a MacBook right now, but it’s because somebody

01:07:00.650 –> 01:07:03.989
made me a really good deal. Before that, I was

01:07:03.989 –> 01:07:10.570
just a career PC guy. Exactly. All right, folks.

01:07:10.869 –> 01:07:14.289
No ad break in this one. I don’t feel like editing.

01:07:14.940 –> 01:07:17.800
more than i actually have to right now and besides

01:07:17.800 –> 01:07:19.719
like he said this isn’t going to come out until

01:07:19.719 –> 01:07:24.099
like 2079 or something it’s in the time capsule

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we’re shooting it to the moon that’s right to

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01:08:20.840 –> 01:08:23.159
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It’s for the best. whether they’re a billionaire

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on Mike. You guys got a Twitter thing or are

01:08:54.300 –> 01:08:57.619
you done with that platform? Uh, we are there,

01:08:57.760 –> 01:09:00.539
but it’s inactive. We are, we are more active

01:09:00.539 –> 01:09:05.180
on, uh, we are actually still active on, on Facebook

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where again, we got the same name as, as the

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toes in the communities in those spots. There

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we will be discussing in episode 582 Skybound

01:09:38.199 –> 01:09:41.760
Entertainment’s G .I. Joe’s Silent Missions Jinx

01:09:41.760 –> 01:09:46.619
number one. Oh, God, I hope that is well written

01:09:46.619 –> 01:09:51.319
because I swear if he screws that character up

01:09:51.319 –> 01:09:55.899
like he screwed up Destro. I was hoping to never

01:09:55.899 –> 01:09:58.659
have to read that person’s writing ever again.

01:09:59.180 –> 01:10:03.819
Dan Waters didn’t do that book. Destro? Yes,

01:10:03.880 –> 01:10:08.180
he did. No, no, he didn’t do Jinx. Is he? No,

01:10:08.239 –> 01:10:12.420
Danny did Jinx. Which one is? Wait a minute.

01:10:12.479 –> 01:10:15.659
Hold on. Let me look at this. I’m not familiar

01:10:15.659 –> 01:10:22.300
with Danny past that, but she did. Dan Waters.

01:10:22.439 –> 01:10:25.220
I think Dan Waters did. I think he did the Duke

01:10:25.220 –> 01:10:29.920
book. Okay, so this is what the preview time,

01:10:30.079 –> 01:10:32.699
folks. G .I. Joe, Real American Hero, Jinx number

01:10:32.699 –> 01:10:36.180
one, released April 9th. So this is way back

01:10:36.180 –> 01:10:39.880
in the past, folks. I got it in arm’s reach.

01:10:40.260 –> 01:10:43.579
I haven’t read it. Now in a standalone silent

01:10:43.579 –> 01:10:46.520
issue, the chart -topping team of Danny, Arkham

01:10:46.520 –> 01:10:50.279
City, The Order of World, and Dan Waters, Destro

01:10:50.279 –> 01:10:53.300
Universal Monsters, Creature from the Black Lagoon,

01:10:53.340 –> 01:10:56.619
lives, put the iconic G .I. Joe ninja, Jinx,

01:10:56.659 –> 01:10:59.829
in the most dangerous mission of her life. She

01:10:59.829 –> 01:11:02.930
has 20 seconds and 20 pages of real -time action

01:11:02.930 –> 01:11:07.569
to escape a Cobra base on a snowy mountain of

01:11:07.569 –> 01:11:12.229
death. Okay, as long as he’s only doing, like,

01:11:12.289 –> 01:11:15.029
the story beats and he’s not actually… Some

01:11:15.029 –> 01:11:17.710
of the writing, it’s the writing that he does

01:11:17.710 –> 01:11:20.170
that I had a problem with. Some of the language

01:11:20.170 –> 01:11:23.310
he used, not language as in, oh my fucking god,

01:11:23.510 –> 01:11:26.439
but language as in, like… saying the wrong

01:11:26.439 –> 01:11:29.319
like the wrong way to say something like the

01:11:29.319 –> 01:11:32.500
wrong way i don’t know if that dialogue was a

01:11:32.500 –> 01:11:34.119
little clunky in spots i’ll give you that yeah

01:11:34.119 –> 01:11:37.079
that’s that’s what i mean about why i don’t like

01:11:37.079 –> 01:11:39.920
him as a writer it’s the dialogue that i had

01:11:39.920 –> 01:11:44.380
the issue with on on on mr waters’s run so hey

01:11:44.380 –> 01:11:47.840
if if danny is the lead i’ll i’ve never read

01:11:47.840 –> 01:11:50.779
anything from that person so we’ll we’ll see

01:11:51.319 –> 01:11:54.800
I haven’t read it per se. I did look at the first

01:11:54.800 –> 01:11:59.079
couple pages. The art is interesting there. It

01:11:59.079 –> 01:12:04.439
was reminiscent of, remember that Brad Scioli

01:12:04.439 –> 01:12:08.119
Transformers G .I. Joe book? It kind of reminded

01:12:08.119 –> 01:12:11.420
me of that. Tom Scioli, you mean? Right. Thank

01:12:11.420 –> 01:12:15.579
you. Thank you, Tom Scioli. And again, I don’t

01:12:15.579 –> 01:12:17.840
mean that as an insult. Right. No, no, no. It’s

01:12:17.840 –> 01:12:22.020
a very stylized take. Yeah. And, um, on, on the

01:12:22.020 –> 01:12:24.159
thing. So I, again, I, I have to sit down and

01:12:24.159 –> 01:12:27.380
actually read it. I’ve got that one in the spirit

01:12:27.380 –> 01:12:30.220
book. Yeah. Uh, kind of next up on the pile.

01:12:30.260 –> 01:12:32.960
It just, it was, this was a crazy week. Yeah.

01:12:33.100 –> 01:12:38.180
So they’re all crazy weeks. Oh, hell. Um, um,

01:12:38.399 –> 01:12:42.760
if you’d like, uh, again, like I said, my brother

01:12:42.760 –> 01:12:48.989
is the comic guy. You just don’t. You just want

01:12:48.989 –> 01:12:51.409
to pass me off onto your brother. I see how it

01:12:51.409 –> 01:12:57.590
is. The thing of it is, I need him to get out

01:12:57.590 –> 01:13:01.489
there and help with the PR. But again, he’s always

01:13:01.489 –> 01:13:05.979
willing to stop and talk about comics. So if,

01:13:06.060 –> 01:13:08.680
if you, I’ll give you his email address. Sure.

01:13:09.619 –> 01:13:13.039
Uh, so yeah, Danny is the co -writer. Waters

01:13:13.039 –> 01:13:15.300
is the co -writer. So they’re co -writing this.

01:13:15.359 –> 01:13:19.619
Like I said, hopefully it’s more Danny than Mr.

01:13:19.739 –> 01:13:22.439
Waters is, but she is also, I assume it’s a,

01:13:22.520 –> 01:13:25.279
she, I would assume that too. I believe that

01:13:25.279 –> 01:13:28.380
they are a thing. Okay. No, but, uh, there’s

01:13:28.380 –> 01:13:30.720
no, there’s no dialogue for him to clunk up.

01:13:30.819 –> 01:13:34.750
So that’s, that’s true. There we go. I keep forgetting

01:13:34.750 –> 01:13:41.090
it’s Silent Missions, folks. Right. I think ultimately,

01:13:42.069 –> 01:13:44.409
and are we still recording? Is this going to

01:13:44.409 –> 01:13:48.510
show? I can cut it out if you want. I’m not going

01:13:48.510 –> 01:13:50.210
to say anything bad. I just didn’t want to necessarily

01:13:50.210 –> 01:13:55.000
start working blue. Oh, we’re explicit around

01:13:55.000 –> 01:13:56.560
here. You can say whatever the fuck you want.

01:13:56.739 –> 01:13:59.699
Right, right, right, right. But I mean, there’s

01:13:59.699 –> 01:14:01.800
a difference in the occasional curse word and

01:14:01.800 –> 01:14:05.579
working blue. So we’ve both been around this

01:14:05.579 –> 01:14:09.140
block long enough to know that. But anyways,

01:14:10.960 –> 01:14:16.600
I think ultimately it’s the blessing and the

01:14:16.600 –> 01:14:20.359
curse of this little mini -series, if you will.

01:14:20.760 –> 01:14:23.819
That it’s got a ceiling that you’re not necessarily

01:14:23.819 –> 01:14:29.260
going to get past, right? Because Silent Interlude,

01:14:29.399 –> 01:14:34.880
issue 21 of the old Marvel run, it’s the original,

01:14:34.960 –> 01:14:38.239
and it’s really good, right? So it’s always going

01:14:38.239 –> 01:14:40.539
to be the best. You’re just not going to clear

01:14:40.539 –> 01:14:46.090
that one. Yeah. But… not having dialogue in

01:14:46.090 –> 01:14:48.430
your issue not having b stories to run through

01:14:48.430 –> 01:14:50.630
your issue i think it kind of raises the floor

01:14:50.630 –> 01:14:54.270
yeah i agree right so there’s not a whole lot

01:14:54.270 –> 01:14:58.909
to bog down your book as can happen sometimes

01:14:58.909 –> 01:15:02.189
there’s uh any number of comics i can remember

01:15:02.189 –> 01:15:04.850
over the years where where the main story is

01:15:04.850 –> 01:15:06.529
great and that’s what you’re reading for and

01:15:06.529 –> 01:15:11.090
then you know look i’m a spider -man fan so um

01:15:11.090 –> 01:15:14.529
lord knows you’re you’re tuning in Sometimes

01:15:14.529 –> 01:15:17.189
because you want to see Spider -Man fighting

01:15:17.189 –> 01:15:20.829
the Scorpion. And then there’s some B story involving

01:15:20.829 –> 01:15:23.369
Betty Brant at the Bugle that you’re just like,

01:15:23.449 –> 01:15:27.210
why is this getting four pages? Why is this happening?

01:15:27.329 –> 01:15:29.409
I don’t care about Betty Brant. I’m here for

01:15:29.409 –> 01:15:34.430
Spider -Man, the guy on the cover. And I know

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world building and depth and all that stuff,

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but sometimes you’re giving you’re giving spotlight

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time to uninteresting characters, and that’s

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not going to happen here. Jinx is on the cover.

01:15:49.399 –> 01:15:51.979
That whole book is about Jinx. Spirit is on the

01:15:51.979 –> 01:15:54.119
cover of the next one. That whole book is about

01:15:54.119 –> 01:15:56.119
Spirit. Beachhead was on the cover of this one.

01:15:56.260 –> 01:15:59.420
That whole book is about Beachhead. Yep, absolutely.

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And again, with the degree of talent that they’ve

01:16:06.159 –> 01:16:08.359
enlisted, nobody’s going to fail this assignment.

01:16:08.500 –> 01:16:12.319
I gave a school -style letter grade. It’s okay.

01:16:13.100 –> 01:16:16.039
Nobody’s getting a D on this assignment. Nobody’s

01:16:16.039 –> 01:16:19.079
getting an F on this assignment. The worst they’re

01:16:19.079 –> 01:16:22.220
going to do is a C -. Yeah, absolutely. But the

01:16:22.220 –> 01:16:25.359
best they’re going to do is a B+. Yeah. But that’s

01:16:25.359 –> 01:16:27.750
fine. That’s great. Look. Look, if you could,

01:16:27.750 –> 01:16:30.090
if you could promise me a B minus to a C plus

01:16:30.090 –> 01:16:32.670
on every book that I bought, I would be a much

01:16:32.670 –> 01:16:34.470
happier person at the comic store every week.

01:16:34.949 –> 01:16:39.369
Yeah, exactly. And yeah, no, I’m very much like

01:16:39.369 –> 01:16:42.149
just the way I’m just cycling through just really

01:16:42.149 –> 01:16:44.729
quickly, like 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five,

01:16:44.789 –> 01:16:47.689
four, three, two. Well, like, wow, that jinx

01:16:47.689 –> 01:16:51.579
story looks really good. even counting it up

01:16:51.579 –> 01:16:57.319
even going backwards through the book so so hang

01:16:57.319 –> 01:17:01.140
in there right it’s the best best advice i can

01:17:01.140 –> 01:17:04.779
give you there’s only if you don’t like dan waters

01:17:04.779 –> 01:17:08.479
there’s only so much damage he can do thankfully

01:17:08.479 –> 01:17:11.880
there’s no words for that one thankfully all

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right folks i think that’s gonna do it for us

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for now i am tfg and mike with Mike, here’s Harry

01:17:19.260 –> 01:17:22.520
from What’s On Joe Mind. As always, make your

01:17:22.520 –> 01:17:24.399
greatest game in the comics, and we will catch

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you next time here inside the pull bag. Later,

01:17:29.600 –> 01:17:33.460
everybody. Jinx, why aren’t you dueling Lieutenant

01:17:33.460 –> 01:17:37.359
Falcon? He didn’t show. Guess he was too chicken

01:17:37.359 –> 01:17:39.800
to take me on. Either that or he heard you’re

01:17:39.800 –> 01:17:45.079
one bad luck lady. Who says so? Everybody, the

01:17:45.079 –> 01:17:47.300
word is when you’re around, things go wrong.

01:17:47.850 –> 01:17:50.170
Yeah, well, they usually turn out right in the

01:17:50.170 –> 01:17:54.590
end. What in blue blazes are you doing? Sparring.

01:17:54.750 –> 01:17:58.109
Any problem with that? Yeah. Your eyes. Keep

01:17:58.109 –> 01:18:01.069
them open. But I… Mouth closed, eyes open.

01:18:01.289 –> 01:18:18.420
Yes, sir. And don’t call me sir. Pathetic! Don’t

01:18:18.420 –> 01:18:21.439
bother to unpack. You ain’t staying here long.

01:18:21.979 –> 01:18:26.659
Care to try it again? My way? As my blind ninja

01:18:26.659 –> 01:18:31.920
master used to say… The keenest eye is that

01:18:31.920 –> 01:19:15.689
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