Cobra Special Reveals Hidden Depths To GI Joe’s Bad Guys

If you ’re looking for the later smart , inventive reboot then the place to look , pretty surprisingly , isGI Joe : Cobra , the last issue of which is unloose this week and offers a little Watchmen - urge on playfulness with the comic data formatting .

This week’sGI Joe : CobraSpecial is really an epilog and explanation to the four issues that have come before , telling the parentage of the power behind the terrorist pot in such a path that the mirthful itself becomes a physical metaphor for the characters involve . To say too much more would be to spoil the reveal that came at the ending of the original mini - serial publication , but suffice to say that this is literally a comedian that deserves to be translate backwards and forwards , with a symmetry that at once rewards and betrays the reader .

It ’s a clever idea , and one that goes beyond its gimmicky nature thanks to the performance and the fact that it legitimately works as a metaphor for the story it ’s telling ; a final sign that this is a unlike , more thoughtful G.I. Joe .

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It ’s dead on target — GI Joe : Cobra tells a different story than the one we ’ve seen in toys , comic strip , cartoon ( and now , movies ) through the old age – One of an secret Joe agent , working his direction upwards through the Cobra ranks as the organization puts itself together , and as things get more and more out of his control . Dispensing with almost all of the over - the - top component of the franchise – although we get easter - egg - style glimpse of the automatic BATTs and the HISS tanks – this is a hard - inch take on the conversant . And it ’s miles away from the old cartoon ’s enforce no - bullets , no - death rules ( As one captured Joe finds out midway through the story , when an interrogation come too close to the Sojourner Truth ) .

quotation writer Mike Costa ( act with Christos Gage on the miniskirt - series ’ four issues ) with the revise , but maybe Ed Brubaker , as well ; his Sleeper seems like an obvious influence here , even if this serial publication has a nihilism perhaps even greater than Brubaker ’s mod classic . Artist Antonio Fuso ’s presence helps , give the book a spiky freshness unlike the more traditional Joe comics , and accommodate in with the off - kilter belief of the serial as a whole .

Even if you have n’t read the GI Joe : Cobra serial , tomorrow ’s Special is well deserving pick up ; it abide alone enough – and has enough formalist maneuver – to work on its own . But if you piece up the four issues that get before , you ’ll find yourself confronted with a Cobra more naturalistic , and much more interesting , than you could ’ve envisage when you played with the toys as a kid .

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