The comics, the stories were always grittier in the comics, and they were able to get away with alot more in the comics, you never saw anyone die in the cartoon, and that is just not realistic in combat. In the comics, major characters have died, and will probably continue to die until DDP finishes it's run this summer. I think that will leave a real black hole in the Joeverse.

__________________
SILENT DUSTY

"...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him."
- General Ulysses S. Grant