This thread is very interesting as it covers a gap in my personal Joe timeline. I picked up only a few Joes in 1989 and 1990 and then nothing until eBay and TRU had my curiosity in 1998 or 1999.

Although it is often referred to as the death of the line around 1994, we now realize something else. The Joe line is hard to kill off completely. Just like 1987 Movie Duke, the line did not die, it just slipped into a neon paint induced coma, overcome with the inhalation of fumes and gaudy color schemes.

But it came back, first crawling, then infused with great detail and amazing articulation!
Never quite the same as the clever years from 1984-1986, but still creating interest and feeding imagination of our era.