The cartoon was GI Joe to me, I was a kid and that was my window in to the GI Joe world I can rember having a VHS tape of the episode Red Rockets Glare in which Cobra puts real rockets on the top of these Red Rocket Drive In's who coincidentally Roadblock' Aunt and Uncle had bought. They call him Marvin in front of Recondo, Recondo snickers. As the rocket on the roof is starting to lauch Roadlock trying to stop it climbs on it along with Tomax and Xamot they fly on it it crashes in Washington Dc in the pond in front of the Lincoln memorial and they are all fine. I thought it was crazy as a kid but I didn't care I loved it. To this day I hear some of the voices in my head Major Bludd, Destro, Shipwreck, Cobra Commander, Zartan, Roadblock, Leatherneck, and Wetsuit just to name a few. The cartoon is awesome. The comics i read the Marvel run and I really liked it and thought Hamma did a great job with the restraints placed on him. Hamma was also great at the sub plot and bringing things back later on in the run. The Devil's Due comics take way too much crap were they as good as the Marvel run no but they are good did they mix comics and cartoon stuff sure but they did bring Joes back into comics hell they brought Larry Hamma back to writting joes. In closing it was much easier to show my mom what vehicles I wanted as a kid when I saw them on the cartoon which is Hasbro doing thier jobs as the show was a half hour commercial for the toys.

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