When I was a kid I did not like the cartoon because nobody ever died.. I wanted blood! Anyhow I only got to see like one or one and a half episode because when I was young we had no cable TV.. Sigh.
Cant even remember the episode just a lot of shooting.
I liked the comic though, not because it had a lot of death and mayhem but because if you did not want to read superhero stories it was pretty much the only choise exept for some old war comic and agent stuff. I did not like Destor or Serpentor because they were to supervillany in my oppnion. The comic had a lot good stories but also a lot of bad ones. I saw some GI Joe cartoon episodes on Youtube and they were funny in a childish way I think that the writers of the show were held to extreme care bear standards and that they tried their best with what they were allowed to do.