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I'll probably buy the first issue (or two, what with advance ordering -- my comic store doens't order GI Joe comics for the shelves as they wouldn't sell...) but chances are I'll not bother.
What I'll be curious about is what of the characters' histories will they choose to acknowledge and what will they drop? Like where will the cutoff point be?
The idea of starting over from where the Marvel run left off seems a bit pointless, since that's what DDP did and why would the people asking for this be satisfied with what IDW would do any more than they were with DDP? Plus people seem to forget that by the end, the Marvel series was pretty dire anyway in most respects. Getting Larry Hama to follow up on the end is also something DDP did already with the first story-arc in the Frontline series.
Really, it feels like a reboot will be more work than continuing the 25-year-long history (something Transformers didn't have when IDW started with them) and just done for the sake of being different, and to use the relatively tiny number of characters who've been killed off (like Crank Case is going to do anything significant -- most of the dead Joes, people only cared about them after they died!).
I feel the same towards Marvel's Ultimate line of comics -- I'd rather read about the characters I know and care about than people who just look like them, and waste my time trying to figure out what's the same and what's different while reading storylines that are just "edgy," post-modern takes on what's been done before that depend on a familiarity with the REAL stories for a large part of their impact...
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