With the world shifting from almost nothing going on to everything coming back, we’re getting used to fitting things into our schedules again. So this week we have a couple quick movie reviews, news of some series premieres and more. Plus, we talk about that Snake Eyes trailer and what we’d like to see done with GI Joe.
In 1984, along with all of the awesomeness on the radio, in the arcades and in movie theaters, there was something else, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. It was the latest iteration of a classic toy that made the leap to comics and animated series. This was all well and good, but then issue 21 happened and it became a paradigm shift for comics, in my opinion. Why, you may ask? Because it was silent, no words, sans dialogue! How did this tell a story? Well, you know the saying “A picture is worth 1,000 words”? This proved it! Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – G.I. Joe, Larry Hama, and the Silent Issue
For 10 years, IDW has been publishing the G.I. Joe comics. When they got the license (after Devil’s Due lost it), they decided on a complete reboot, ignoring the continuity from the Marvel and Devil’s Due versions of the comic. They now have ongoing titles, short-run miniseries and even reprinted classic Joe comics. And, back in December, they introduced a big change that fans seem to have embraced: a new Snake-Eyes. Continue reading Comics Cosmos – A New Dawn for the Joes
Earlier this week I was talking to a coworker about The Dark Tower. I admitted that I had not read the series, but thought that the movie was alright, but I had the feeling that fans of the novels would not be happy. This led to a discussion about movie adaptations as a whole and then segued into movie adaptations of animated properties. Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – Defending Your Geek
In 2009 we got something on the big screen that fans had been waiting on for a long time, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Now, as a fan, I was excited to see that we were finally getting a live action G.I. Joe movie. But I had heard of some of the changes that were being made in the interest of wider appeal, and I was ok with that, I got it. But there were other changes that were made and additions and whatnot… and what we ended up with was not G.I. Joe. Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – The G.I. Joe Movie We Deserve