YoJoe Comic mastermind antarctica sends along an update, reporting that he’s totally revised the YoJoe comic section, focusing on continuity and “flow” from one series to another. Using official Hasbro terminology, he laid out the entire page with renewed organization.
As great as the YoJoe Comics Archive has been, this makes it even better. It truly is a fantastic resource and antarctica deserves a ton of praise for the hard work he’s put in keeping it up to date, especially as IDW continues to flood the market with new books.
Great stuff! Check it out for yourself right here.
As an addendum to this, he’s also added summaries to the section for G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #155.5 as well as the Hearts and Minds Ashcan promo, G.I. Joe #17, G.I. Joe: Cobra #4, and G.I. Joe: Origins #15. Check out links to all of those IDW summaries right here.
Calling the Devil’s Due continuity “Disavowed” is clever, if not a slap in the face to the DD guys, adding insult to injury over the republication rights to their books. I don’t know what DD did to piss off Hasbro, but I hope it was something good, since they seem to have gotten a pretty raw deal in regards to all that.
And yes, I really, REALLY like the Devil’s Due run. I’m missing a couple trades, so I’m glad they’ll eventually be reprinted, but I’m curious about who gets paid for that.
The reason DDP lost the license to publish GI Joe is still a mystery, but the reason that Hasbro has choosen to make the DDP universe the Disavowed one, is so that Larry Hama can have complete free reign to write what he wants to in the A Real American Hero storyline. No toys coming out that he must include in the story, no continuity of the future he must think about.
He is now able to write GI Joe in his own style which is make it up as he writes it with little to no planning. And if #155 1/2 is a breif glimpse I think we will all very much enjoy the new series.
And big thanks to Justin for the nice comments.
“Disavowed” ? Man, that sounds so… negative and disrespectful. It’s the first time I’ve heard of this term in this context. Is it truly Hasbro who introduced it ? Where ? When ?
@antarctica
I get that, and I am looking forward to the new Larry Hama run for sure. I don’t mind at all what they’re doing (ret-conned or alt-reality is a staple in most fictional universes, and I can easily handle it and welcome it), I guess I’m just questioning how they’re doing it, in terms of the creator recognition and all that.
As an aside, I’ve had your comics section bookmarked for a long time, and it’s been a great resource for me in collecting back-issues and keeping up on continuity and such. So I’ll echo the sentiment of the post: Awesome job!