I’m still woefully slacking on my own review, but to tide people over, here’s a fancy-pants newfangled video review courtesy of GrandLAN and Youtube. It covers two of IDW’s new titles, COBRA, as well as Groom Lake.
Link to the video itself is here.
Credit to Chris Ryall on his Ryalltime Blog for pointing it out!
ComicContinuum.com has posted a five-page preview to the upcoming second issue of G.I. Joe: Origins, slated to hit stands next Wednesday. This issue appears to pick up right where issue #1 left off, digging a bit more into Snake Eyes’ past, but also uncovering a bit more about the mysterious Chimera as well.
Check out the preview here.
While I haven’t gotten COBRA #1 quite wrapped up yet, I do have reviews posted for last week’s issues in my Comic Review section. Check the links below as well:
Along the same lines as IDW’s recently announced “I Am Optimus Prime” book, featuring Robot Heroes versions of all of the familiar Transformers characters, the comic publisher will be releasing “We Are G.I. Joe” a comic geared towards 4-7 year olds with Combat Heroes taking center stage.
Full details of this awesome looking upcoming book can be found at Chris Ryall’s “Ryalltime” blog, and I also slapped up a gallery of some of the images below. This looks like a whole lot of fun! My three-year old already runs around the house yelling “COBRA!” so this will be the next obvious step in the evolutionary chain.
So far the word is good. Lots of positive remarks about this new limited series. I’m hoping to get my own words down on virtual “paper” within the next couple of days as well (not to mention catching up on reviews for Prequel #1 and G.I. Joe #3). Anyway, until I get mine up, check out some others around the web:
Based on what I’d seen in #0, and the limited information that had sorta leaked out there, I had pretty high hopes for this book. Let’s just say I haven’t been let down…
I’ve been trying to stay really on top of the news about G.I. Joe: COBRA, because it’s shaping up to be a pretty bad ass looking book. But somehow this image of a variant cover eluded me until today. Check it out:
Am I the only one totally seeing those guys in shadows as updated Crimson Guards? That’s certainly what they look like to me. I find it pretty interesting that the first real glimpse of COBRA we may get in this new IDW universe isn’t even in the main book. I’m hoping the timeline here merges with the main book and we see some crossover. I think that would be a pretty cool way to tie the books together and introduce COBRA to the main title in the process.