ComicArtFans member Shane Simek has posted 8 pages of lineart from an unpublished #0 issue that eventually got dumped for the story IDW went with when the format of the Joe book changed in production.
With art by Robert Atkins and a story written by Larry Hama, some of the stuff looks a lot more retro in nature, with some really dramatic action sequences as well, especially for only an 8-page layout. Check out the great images right here.
I kind of wish they went for this instead.
M6D- I think the main reason they didn’t was to allow for the slow build, “We don’t know who Cobra is” angle with the story.
GI Joe: COBRA would not have really worked had IDW established Cobra as already having HISS tanks, and being brazen enough to attack an American military convoy in their home territory.
But wasn’t the word from IDW’s mouths that there were differing timelines and we’d see how everything linked up?
I don’t see how having one book being the beginning of GIJoe (the earliest) another being the beginning of Cobra (the middle) and the last being and established Cobra vs and established GIJoe.
After all GIJoe: Cobra wasn’t really a story about Cobra anyways.