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Originally Posted by lehsreh
and we know the comics are going to be brought back
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Um, the comics are already there, they were brought back in 2002...
My feelings are entirely dependent on what a new comic, or a new cartoon, are going to be in terms of style and content. Sigma 6 was a new cartoon and it didn't exactly endear itself to the fans and become a new status quo for the franchise. You KNOW that any post-movie cartoon is going to portray any characters more like they are in the movie (ie Ripcord...) and is probably going to be even further from the Sunbow series than S6 was in some respects. In fact, with DIC, S6 and Extreme, GI Joe on TV has a pretty shocking track record.
As for comics, if they do try and reboot the entire continuity they're in severe danger of losing me as a regular reader (as in, they'd have to pull out something miraculous to keep me). The prospect of nostalgia-based adventures of the Sunbow cast, to fit in with the 25th line, has me somewhat worried as it may work initially for all the people who haven't read a Joe comic since the '80s but I wouldn't rate its chances for keeping regular readers -- the only way to have an ongoing series with the level of maturity inherent to GI Joe's subject matter is to have things change and/or get more in-depth with the characters. Which is what the Joe comics have been doing for 25 years (barring that 7-or-so-year hiatus), but you get people (who often aren't reading the comic and haven't since the '90s) complaining about events and characterisations that stop it from resembling a Sunbow episode...
Personally, I'd rather they left the comics alone to carry on as they have been, or if anything get a more commercially-friendly art team and have a more new-reader-friendly ethos, and I'd be happy to give a new cartoon series a try but based on experience I'd keep expectations pretty low. But since we know for sure absolutely nothing about the content of any new comic or cartoon, though, I can't say I'm looking forward to either over the other.
It's not the medium that's the significant thing to me, it's what the medium is being used to convey.