BEst argument someone gave me:

Caller: I am all about REBOOT!

Me: So you got no problems with Ripcord being Damon Wayans in the movie? And that it is an INTERNATIONAL force, set 10 years in the future to be P.C. ?

Caller: …..well….

“Was James Bond rebooted so the 20 movies were non canon?”

Yes, yes it was.

And I SUPPORT a reboot.

A fresh start, new stories. The world has changed a lot since the Joe’s were conceptualized. I think reinventing them would make them relevant again, and letting them develop new stories from the ground up will allow for NEW wrinkles, and twists.

I like that we now have a complete story going from Marvel’s no.1 to the end of the IDW stuff, even if WW3 left me pretty disappointed. That tale’s over and it’s time for a new one.

Man, I’d hate to explain to the person using the Bond example what Casino Royale was.

Some people just take this stuff way too seriously…

Anyway, good luck IDW guys.

I didn’t read much of the Devil’s Due stuff because the status quo never intrigued me. But origins don’t interest me.

I prefer for characters to be established and beyond the point at which I’d become acquainted with them. I’ll read Transformers comics when the main book is set in a world post-Rodimus Prime.

I enjoy Superman now because the character has the history with the Justice League, with the Legion of Super-Heroes as a teenager. It’s not all perfectly as it was originally published but I strongly prefer characters who are well past their origin and who have a long history and gigantic cast to draw upon, even if I’m not familiar with it.

The think any “basics”/”ultimate” approach is a sparse plate to dine from. It doesn’t interest me as a reader.

The way to get me as a reader is by presenting a crowded plate with some things I like on it. The issues with Devil’s Due, IMHO, were largely that it wasn’t playing with enough bold or entertaining elements; when I think G.I.JOE, I want to see what a clever person, very in touch with their inner child, would come up with if you handed them all the toys and file cards. I don’t need highly real, highly modern or even highly military.

But if you’re going to take toys off the table or ground it more, I’m not your target demo.

I’m not opposed to a reboot. But the reboot that would draw me in would probably start with team 300 members strong with personal histories and grudges and would mine obscure and oddball characters alongside the brand staples.

I don’t need the specifics of the Sunbow/DIC history or the Marvel/Devil’s Due history but I’m not interested in a new history unless it’s at least as developed, wrinkled, convoluted, rich and evolved right out of the box. Half the appeal for me is when some random guy shows up who DOES have a history and I get caught up on him, look him up or lean over to a friend and ask who that guy is.

And I think it’s essential to have lame and badly executed characters around because it enriches the world. If every character is well-executed, if nothing is unintentionally bad only to be salvaged later, that takes half the fun out of the show.

If you take things down to basics, you are guaranteeing that readers like me aren’t going to get interested for another ten years, provided the franchise doesn’t reboot again in that time.

The biggest BIGGEST difference between a GI JOE and Transformers relaunch is this: Transformers already had NUMEROUS universes that can rival DC’s multiverse: 80′s American TV, Japanese post Headmasters, MArvel Comics, UK comics, Beat wars, etc etc

GI JOE has had one…ONE continuity from 1983, and when there was a reboot ala` GI JOE extreme, we got 8 issues of Dark Horse crap

Sorry, IM not in it for thsi run. The deaths of the Joes in issues 109-111 suddenly seem trivial. Sneak Peek’s sacrifice, in vain, and Cool Breeze…. most likely never coming back

Sorry IDW you “nuked the fridge” in this fan’s opinion. I am not one of those internet trolls you seem to allude to in the beginning of the article, nor a fat ass fanboy who has nothing better to do than gripe. I am just a loyal fan from the days of ARAH (A Real American Hero, in case you didn’t know) who remembers his first figures (Duke and Grunt), picking up the all silent issue, seeign Fred become Cobra Commander, the Cobra Civil War in the 70s issues, seeing the REAL GI Joe in issue 86, seeing SNake-eyes unmasked in the early 90 issues, seeing Commander come back in 100, and the abov ementioned sacrifices of characters, BAttleForce 2000 included.

All these memories just got $#itted on. LIke pre-crisis DC.

Once again, the great Transformers didn’t impact much since there were MULTIPLE hitories and stories to begin with. GI JOE, that’s almost 30 years of continuity….kind of like a CLONE SAGA I recall.

Thanks IDW, thanks for letting me know I can save my money monthly. Clearly you weren’t fans enough. Personally, getting Hama on board is great, but it’s not enough. It would be like Stan Lee coming back in the mid-90s to reboot Spiderman after the clone debacle, also roughly 30 years after his first opinion.

GI JOE should be simple: Main title, a special missions like book to rotate and spotlight the plethora of characters they can rotate and maybe one mroe title

But I am tapping out, I feel tremendously insulted as a lifelong fan to read this article. Especially the allusion to who uses the internet to voice their opinions. Well if you can give me your home number and talk GI JOE philosophy, that would be fine by me, not all of us have the privilege to meet artists, writers, editors and creators personally to discuss issues. Some of us actually use the internet in a non-stereotypical way.

Give me a call, convince me why I should go this route?

Seriously

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-Eric

I hadn’t read G.I. Joe since the Marvel days, but after reading the 0 issue, I’m really looking forward to these books.

-D

any word on when the Marvel series will be reprinted?

I orginally thought IDW was going to pick up from the end of Marvel’s run. When I learned they were starting from Ground Zero and running with it, it sounded brilliant! What a great way to retcon out the space troops, monsters, and eco warriors but keep all the cool characters that are G.I. Joe.

Reboots–especially for licensed material–are fine, preferable even. It gives the creators a lot more freedom in an already constrained terrain.

Beau Smith
The Flying Fist Ranch