Several online sites are reporting that Paramount has sent them nine new images from the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA, however that’s not really the case from what I’ve seen. The images look mostly recycled, with really the only new one being of Snake Eyes vs. Storm Shadow sword-fighting.
Still, just for the sake of being certain, I’ve mirrored all of the “new” images below, courtesy of ComingSoon.net.
In what can only be described as one of the more bizarre licensing deals I’ve seen recently, G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA and Norton Antivirus (by Symantec) have teamed up in a new campaign to sell Norton Antivirus software. It’s got a spiffy Flash intro and lots of Snake Eyes in your face.
Check out the site at gijoe.norton.com and check out some screen caps below.
We’ve seen a lot of these images before, but not quite at this level of photo quality, so I thought it was worth posting again…mostly because nearly this entire wave is great! Agent Helix, Flash, Pit Commando, and General Hawk are absolutely ass-kickingly awesome. In fact, I’ve found quite the opposite from my normal opinion, I’m liking the Joe figures in general a heck of a lot more than the COBRA ones. A bizarre reversal.
Anyway, you can check out the images here, and I’ve also mirrored them below:
Another little tidbit I got in my box of goodies was a comic book that looks to be the one that comes with the G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA video game. There are only seven pages of new story in it, and these pages were also featured in Issue #1 of the Rise of COBRA movie adaptation, but I haven’t seen much chatter about it, so I figured I’d bring some attention to it. Maybe it’s just because I love the Marvel Comics character “Taskmaster” so much, but Helix is really resonating with me. I love the character, I love her look, and I really like the concept a lot. She’s apparently going to be a fairly core component of the upcoming video game (which really excites me), but I hope she kind of indoctrinates into the regular IDW universe as well. Perhaps the Helix special being released in August will touch on that a bit.
The story basically involves General Hawk giving Duke a rundown of her abilities as we watch some video of her in action…then he finishes the story by saying that they believe COBRA has her, which I would imagine leads directly into the video game itself.
Here are some of the panels below…a pretty good read, even for only a few pages.
Picking up right where they left off, One-18th.com has posted the latest review in their weeklong G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA release event! Some great images and interesting insight from Smokescreen, the admin.
Check out the full review here, and I’ve also mirrored a number of images below.
With thanks to the Facebook page of the MSgijoeCollectorsClub, and the folks over at The Terror Drome, we’ve got a new toy commercial to check out, this time featuring the 12″ Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow:
Also, courtesy of the same group, better video for the previous commercial as well:
