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It ran into the early '90s when Larry Hama was forced to start making every-damned-body a ninja. You could see the interference happening and the quality degenerating despite his best (and admirable) efforts. It ran during both Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Also amusing, Cobra Commander isn't just any kind of salesman. Before the MLM he was a used car salesman. Does anybody know the issue that had the crowd of Cobra troopers shouting "YAY! MORE BENEFITS!"?
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Found the actual issue, so here is a higher quality scan with more details:  G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #29 (1984) Elissimpark posted:"What? Joe is attacking in the middle of my sales seminar? Okay everyone, impromptu team building exercise! Form fireteams with people who you haven't introduced yourself to yet." Cobra Commander was explicitly modelled on William F. Buckley Jr, as a guy who is mostly in it to hear his own voice.
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May 6, 2021 18:06
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SimonChris posted:Cobra Commander was explicitly modelled on William F. Buckley Jr, as a guy who is mostly in it to hear his own voice. If I sounded like Orson Welles you'd never shut me up either Phy posted:When it's comic Cobra Commander, does he still sound like Starscream? Pastry of the Year posted:Not in the Larry Hama-written continuity:
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May 6, 2021 18:21
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robziel posted:That issue was November of '84, so during Regan. Yeah GI Joe as we know it (4 inch figures, crazy vehicles, Cobra, etc) is all a product of Regan removing limitations on television aimed at children including commercial content.
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May 6, 2021 18:35
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I read all the Cobra Troopers dialog in 21 and 24's voices (Kinda like how it's next to impossible to imagine Carl Barks' Donald Duck sounding anything like cartoon Donald.) Keromaru5 fucked around with this message at 18:45 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 18:42
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Keromaru5 posted:And it's definitely easier to hear that Cobra Commander dialogue in, say, The Monarch's voice rather than Cartoon Cobra Commander. This must be a generational difference or something because I can't NOT hear Chris Latta, who also voiced Starscream.
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May 6, 2021 18:52
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I'm not generally in favor of extrajudicial murder by the military, but, yeah, send a drone up his rear end.
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SimonChris posted:
fun fact: Gore Vidal invented the neologism "Cryptofascist" specifically to describe William F. Buckley Jr. So Cobra Commander being modelled after him really fits.
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May 6, 2021 19:07
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Other than the dog kick, this will forever be the most perfect Cobra Commander moment, I feel: A later uplifting storyline has him reconnect with his estranged son, decide to cut the bullshit and pack it all in for him*... ..only for one of his elite troops to be rather miffed at wasting years of his life and even having plastic surgery for Cobra so he shoots CC in the back, buries him in a shallow grave and goes back to Cobra Island claiming to be Cobra Commander (badly) for a couple of years before the house of cards finally collapses. * I am convinced the insane accountant dressed in a giant bird suit also contributed to this, mind.
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May 6, 2021 20:47
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Namor has feelings about the reunification of Germany, & so does the Daily Bugle's political cartoonist Namor, The Sub-Mariner #10, 1991
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May 6, 2021 21:58
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SimonChris posted:
Several hours later: "Wait a minute, did we sit through that whole presentation just so he could tell us that we're going to start having deep cover operatives? I kind of assumed we already did..." Anyway, War of the Realms - Journey Into Mystery #3 
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forkboy84 posted:Namor has feelings about the reunification of Germany, & so does the Daily Bugle's political cartoonist He fought in the loving war, of course he has opinions.
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May 7, 2021 00:09
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TwoPair posted:
Thori is a very good boy and I’ve been meaning to post every panel of his from war of the realms.
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May 7, 2021 00:09
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ManiacClown posted:It ran into the early '90s when Larry Hama was forced to start making every-damned-body a ninja. You could see the interference happening and the quality degenerating despite his best (and admirable) efforts. It ran during both Reagan and George H.W. Bush. I always subscribed to the belief that Cobra Commander's secret origin in the cartoon was he was the badguy from Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuf9zMqWp2U
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I was going through Classic Joe a while back and took some panels, mostly focusing on my man Sebastian Bludd. I like to imagine that Bludd probably is a fine poet, but he's also an rear end in a top hat so this is what he leads with:  The Ballad of Bludd and Cobra Commander:   Bludd continuing to rule:  Absolute chad Sebastien Bludd drives theatre kid Zartan to tears:  Bonus: The Real American Heroes: 
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May 7, 2021 02:43
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I was going through Classic Joe a while back and took some panels, mostly focusing on my man Sebastian Bludd. I just watched GI Joe Rise of Cobra for the first time, and it would have been much improved by the addition of Sebastian Bludd. Second dumbest movie I've ever seen.
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May 7, 2021 02:55
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There's actually a new live action GI Joe movie coming this year with Henry Golding as Snake Eyes (also it is an origin story.)
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Snake Eyes is like the most boring joe. Give me the origin story of Lifeline, the joe who's motivated by not fighting and getting a pension.
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May 7, 2021 03:20
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mysterious ninjas are cool because they are mysterious. who gives a poo poo about origin stories?
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:mysterious ninjas are cool because they are mysterious. who gives a poo poo about origin stories? Look knowing Wolverine was a nerdy kid made me love him more.
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SimonChris posted:There were several attempts, but they all died pretty early in the run. Yeah, sorry about that. I swear I'll get back around to it at some point. Disclaimer: may not actually get back around to it at some point ManiacClown posted:It ran into the early '90s when Larry Hama was forced to start making every-damned-body a ninja. Ha ha, yeah, "forced to"... Vulpes Vulpes posted:Bonus: The Real American Heroes: Sadly, that is far from the worst thing that happens to Bongo the Balloon Bear.  Bucnasti posted:Yeah GI Joe as we know it (4 inch figures, crazy vehicles, Cobra, etc) is all a product of Regan removing limitations on television aimed at children including commercial content. No, no, no. The 80s GI Joe action figures were born from an inspired corporate idea to get around the FCC regulations in place regarding toy advertising. Toy commercials on TV were not allowed to have more than 10% of the commercial be animation or special effects. The idea was that you had to show actual kids playing with the actual toys. Someone at Hasbro realized, "Hey, they don't have any rules like that for books," and so they approached Marvel to create a comic book tie-in for their new toy line. As a result, Hasbro got to run fully-animated 30 second commercials for the comic book which just happened to also promote their toys, and Marvel got a nationwide TV ad campaign for their new comic. There's an episode of the Netflix series The Toys That Made Us devoted to GI Joe that goes into this including interviews with most of the principal players. Anyhow, Funny Panels Thread...  
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Nipponophile posted:No, no, no. The 80s GI Joe action figures were born from an inspired corporate idea to get around the FCC regulations in place regarding toy advertising. Toy commercials on TV were not allowed to have more than 10% of the commercial be animation or special effects. The idea was that you had to show actual kids playing with the actual toys. So that's why all toy commercials were annoying dog poo poo with little twerps moving the toy around and talking in an annoying voice and making me not want to buy it! Nothing makes a Terminator toy seem less cool than having a skinny 8 year old holding it up and making it talk.
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My favourite ads of the era were any that featured a kid stiffly holding their dolls and swooshing it through others such that it caused the villain(s) to tumble down the small dirt hill in whatever dirt dimension those kids inevitably inhabited.
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Ghostlight posted:My favourite ads of the era were any that featured a kid stiffly holding their dolls and swooshing it through others such that it caused the villain(s) to tumble down the small dirt hill in whatever dirt dimension those kids inevitably inhabited. What about when they knocked a stack of brightly colored plastic cubes on the bad guy?
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Picture an Overwatch toy commercial, with a kid turning Reaper rapidly back and forth squeaking "Die, die, die!"Crowetron posted:What about when they knocked a stack of brightly colored plastic cubes on the bad guy?
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Ghostlight posted:Snake Eyes is like the most boring joe. Give me the origin story of Lifeline, the joe who's motivated by not fighting and getting a pension. There's an issue of Special Missions with Lifeline in it where he just wallops the poo poo out of Horrorshow from the Oktober Guard, because it turns out Lifeline got a black belt in aikido specifically to focus on its lack of offense. I was surprised as a kid to find out aikido was a real thing.
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Crowetron posted:What about when they knocked a stack of brightly colored plastic cubes on the bad guy? After I grew out of playing with action figures I would look back on those commercials and think "why didn't anyone sell the loving cubes?!"
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Which would be more Cobra, having a dedicated choir who enjoy both singing and tormenting innocent ears with Muzak, or having a choir that is forced to sing Muzak as some esoteric punishment for failure that can also be used to torment innocent ears. Actually, probably the first. They'd be selling that as a 20 CD collection on late night TV, call now and as a bonus...
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May 7, 2021 06:44
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"How many Yaz albums do you have on this thing?"
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Huh, I didn’t know the comic predated the cartoon. Now I know...
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:"How many Yaz albums do you have on this thing?" "None of the early stuff but everything she's done since 2008."
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Bucnasti posted:Huh, I didn’t know the comic predated the cartoon. That was the usual game plan for the 80s 'glorified toy commercial' cartoons. The U.S. wouldn't legally let you air a cartoon that's just an ad for the toy, but you could make a comic book that's a glorified toy commercial and then make a cartoon that's an adaptation of the comic. The fun part was that, since the comics themselves were basically a perfunctory interim step that only needed to exist and that's it, they let the comics artists and writers do whatever they wanted. And because comics had a much smaller cost to produce than an animated cartoon, a lot of the comics kept running because 'eh, gently caress it, it's still making money'. I think G.I. Joe's comics outlasted the cartoon (I know the action figures lasted long enough to cross over with Street Fighter 2), but I know that both the original Transformers and Sonic the Hedgehog comics long outlasted their shows.
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Crowetron posted:What about when they knocked a stack of brightly colored plastic cubes on the bad guy?
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Wanderer posted:There's an issue of Special Missions with Lifeline in it where he just wallops the poo poo out of Horrorshow from the Oktober Guard, because it turns out Lifeline got a black belt in aikido specifically to focus on its lack of offense.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:Bonus: The Real American Heroes: Poor Bongo remains a sore point with me even now. I'm still holding out for Scrap Iron to get what's coming to him. 
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Ghostlight posted:See! He's educational and anti-fascist! Gi Joe is very educational  I really need to reread this again.
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Vulpes Vulpes posted:I was going through Classic Joe a while back and took some panels, mostly focusing on my man Sebastian Bludd. That idiot Bludd thinks Proust rhymes with Faust!
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Pastry of the Year posted:That idiot Bludd thinks Proust rhymes with Faust! well he's Australian
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Non Americans get all up in arms about Squirrel and Girl, this is no biggie.
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Elissimpark posted:Which would be more Cobra, having a dedicated choir who enjoy both singing and tormenting innocent ears with Muzak, or having a choir that is forced to sing Muzak as some esoteric punishment for failure that can also be used to torment innocent ears. Sounds like someone’s never heard the absolute banger “Cold Slither” https://youtu.be/bnM-u7rZwtI
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