by generalsjoes | Feb 17, 2016 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Comics, IDW
IDW Publishing has released their list of upcoming comic solicitations for May, 2016, including the newest issues of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Street Fighter X G.I. Joe. Check out all the details below.
Street Fighter X G.I. JOE #4 (of 6)
Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Emilio Laiso (a) • Phil Jimenez (c)
The World Warrior Tournament enters the finals, and M. Bison will stop at nothing to be the last one standing! Can the Street Fighters and G.I. JOE stop the Shadaloo dictator before he takes the top spot?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Street Fighter X G.I. JOE #4 (of 6)—Subscription Variant
Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Emilio Laiso (a) • Nelson Daniel (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
- Your favorite Street Fighter characters face off against G.I. JOE for the first time ever!
- 8-bit Variant cover by Matthew Waite!
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #228: Cobra Nation, Part 3
Larry Hama (w) • S L Gallant (a & c)
Things have been quiet on the Cobra front, as far as G.I. JOE can tell… but that may just be because there’s a snake in the grass on the homefront. Could there be a traitor within G.I. JOE’s ranks?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero #228: Cobra Nation, Part 3—Subscription Variant
Larry Hama (w) • S L Gallant (a) • Brian Shearer (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
G.I. JOE: The Complete Collection, Vol. 9
Larry Hama (w) • Herb Trimpe, Marshall Rogers, Rod Whigham, Ron Wagner, Don Hudson (a) • N/A (c)
Presenting the full run of original G.I. JOE comics in proper reading order. Includes an introduction and issue notes by Mark W. Bellomo. Collects issues #77–83 of A REAL AMERICAN HERO and issues #14–19 of SPECIAL MISSIONS.
HC • FC • $49.99 • 356 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-607-2
Bullet points:
- The in-depth look at Marvel’s classic G.I. JOE run continues!
by generalsjoes | Feb 17, 2016 | Marauder "Gun Runners"
Okay, I think I’m in love.
Alongside their latest Kickstarter for the Marauder Task Force Valkyries, Marauder “Gun Runners” also included a great stretch goal for the “stedi-cam gunner” an excellent looking tweaked version of the Marauder Task Force figure with rolled up sleeves, different lower legs, a fantastic new helmet, webgear, and really cool looking new stedi-cam heavy weapon.
Today over on the Marauder Gun Runners Facebook page we get a first look at an early test shot of this set and frankly, it looks amazing. Even better than I thought it might. The same fantastic design work that we’ve come to expect from Boss Fight Studio, all working flawlessly within the Marauder customizable figure system. Really great stuff. Check out the mirrored images below.
by generalsjoes | Feb 17, 2016 | 12" Scale, G.I. Joe Collectors Club
While Toy Fair news was pretty sparse in the way of Hasbro’s G.I. Joe line, the G.I. Joe Collectors Club started this week off on the right foot with a nice look at the upcoming 12″ Mike Power “Atomic Man” as well as a report that FSS 4.0 would start arriving “in the next week or so”!
Great news for those of us who subscribed. The image of Mike Power can be found on the G.I. Joe Collectors Club Facebook page, and you can read the FSS update via their Twitter page here.
by generalsjoes | Feb 16, 2016 | G.I. Joe, Podcasts
The guys from the Full Force are back with another action-packed…or is it action FORCE packed episode discussing all the latest G.I. Joe news.
Chris, Dave, and Eddie talk with Erik from Boss Fight and run through the gauntlet of G.I. Joe information…there’s more than you think!
Check out the latest episode over on the Podbean Page, or listen to it embedded below. FULL FORCE.
As series 2 comes to a close the boys at the Full Force celebrate 100,000+ overall downloads and listens since they began the show!! They delve into the Wolverine’s different guises and it’s drivers in the Figure Review, Erik ‘Chico Rodrigues’ Arana delivers a superb ‘Hunter’ in the Mexican Boss Fight Builds and Justin Bell gives us all of the news hot of the General’s Joes presses!! With series 3 around the corner (this means nothing to anybody but Chris) we wonder what the future holds for these three amigos……no we don’t!! FULL FORCE!!
by generalsjoes | Feb 15, 2016 | G.I. Joe, G.I. Joe Collectors Club
So what exactly is the future of G.I. Joe?
Short answer – I don’t think anyone except Hasbro really knows. Heck, I’m not even sure Hasbro themselves know.
Some confusion has emerged over the past 24 hours based on a post by HISSTank which states that Hasbro confirmed at Toy Fair that there would be no 50th Anniversary type line sold at Toys “R” Us this year.
I don’t consider this news very surprising.
Hasbro did go on to confirm that there would be a ComicCon exclusive, and that they were committed to getting the Fan Vote winner Stiletto out to collectors as well. Beyond that, pretty much nada.
Many Joe fans lept to the attack citing a Tweet from Entertainment News International that seemed to say there would be a G.I. Joe presence at retail this year, but in fact, that Tweet merely said a “few reveals” would be at JoeCon. I consider an SDCC set (or two) and the Stiletto release a few reveals, to be sure.
At this point, as it has been several times in recent years, the future of G.I. Joe as a retail brand remains murky. The one main difference now is that while G.I. Joe at retail was sketchy, we at least at the Collectors Club to fall back on, which was generally good for 30 – 40 releases per year, a nice healthy number. Now as we push forward towards 2016 and 2017 not only is retail looking unhealthy, but rumors persist that the Collectors Club is off the brand as well.
So what the heck is going on here? It makes no real sense to jettison Fub Publications if you’re also jettison a retail presence unless there’s some kind of fallback plan, which at this point there doesn’t appear to be. All Hasbro will really tell us right now is “wait for a movie”, but that does us no good in the short term. Over the past few years, the G.I. Joe collectors community has been dwindling with no real catalyst to bring us together, aside from the Kindle Worlds fan vote, which was a fantastic experience, but ultimately came and went.
As we look towards 2017, we have no clear vision of a retail brand, and simply no clue on any product from any sort of Collectors Club, and hell, we may not even have an annual G.I. Joe Convention to look forward to.
I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, but I hope that we can get some kind of information from Hasbro at some point, just so we don’t continue to be left adrift, wondering. I’m one of those few who actually enjoys some healthy speculation, but speculating on something vs. nothing doesn’t do much for me.
Hopefully we can find out what’s next and get some kind of answers beyond just waiting for the next movie.
