To go along with the announcement that Free Comic Day from IDW would involve G.I. Joe #155 1/2, Chris Ryall’s RyallTime blog reveals that it’s just the beginning…
“Diamond recently released information on the Gold-level sponsors for Free Comic Book Day in May 2010. Our book for that level is G.I. JOE 155-1/2, an all-new story that picks up where the old Marvel series (which stopped at issue 155) ended. The book leads into a new REAL AMERICAN HERO series that starts with issue #156. The online cover image wasn’t the final version, though–that one is pictured right here, with art by Augustin Padilla, who’s doing the interiors on this new book. The inimitable Larry Hama scripts, of course.”
Very cool news for the Marvel fans out there. It’ll be interesting to see how everything gets juggled, but it’ll be cool to see where this thing goes.
That’s pretty darn cool, I was excited enough by 155.5. I might need to go back and re-read some of those later issues next year before those come out just to refresh my memory of how things got left off.
huh didn’t DDP do this like ten years ago 😛
Interesting. But, does that bode ill for the current comic? I’m currently enjoying the new series, and while I love the old Hama Joe books, going back…again…seems redundant and kinda stretching. I really enjoyed what DD did in continuing and ultimately ending the series…this just seems like a stretch, but mainly unnecessary.
This is weird. I would have thought that if IDW was going to add another ongoing series with it’s own continuity, it would have been set in the Movie Universe. Or even Resolute’s.
Ugh. More shoving of Larry Hama down our throats. I know I’ll get bashed, but he’s got to be the most overrated man in Gi Joe mythology history. So we’re gonna take all the good work that Devil’s Due did with the comics and just throw that all away? 7 years of continuity gone just like that? And yeah, the new comics from IDW absolutely blow chunks too.
The only scribe who’s written Gi Joe that’s worthy to do it today is Brandon Jerwa, and guess what? Most of the die-hard morons ran him off the book.
Regarding the current comic, per Chris Ryall on the IDW boards…
“We’ll talk more about this soon enough, but one thing I do want to stress early on is that the existing continuity we’re doing won’t be touched–we’re fully committed to the direction we’ve set, fully focused on it, and planning some really exciting things over the next couple years. Between the goings-on in the next COBRA miniseries and how they’ll affect the main JOE book, plus some upcoming stories in ORIGINS that also tie in nicely to the core book, there should be no fear at all about us keeping things moving strongly head.
This is a fun side-step from that, a way to try something fans have been anxious to see that shouldn’t at all take away from the other JOE books. Ultimately, it’s comics–they should be fun, there should be room to try new (or old) things, and if there’s a way to occasionally react directly to what many fans would like to see, well, I’m all for it.
In the same way Chris Claremont’s current X-Men book gives certain fans a title that doesn’t at all overlap with the main X-continuity, this’ll give people another option and a chance to see Hama play around more directly with the continuity he built from the ground up.
So take it for what it is–just a fun thing to try–and don’t worry about it having any kind of adverse affect on the core Joe books. There’s enough to go around, and the only burden should be to Andy Schmidt in trying to keep all these books spinning in the air. But I think he’s well up to the task. ”
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