If C.C. wanted Snake-Eyes dead, then how come he takes no great interest in Snake Eyes in issue 9? I mean, other than wanting the location of GI JOE HQ. Yet, later we learn that C.C. was once so obssessed he tracked Snake-Eyes to the ninja dojo and spent a fortune hiring not only Zartan, but originally Firefly to kill him. Which also brings up why the two characters don't seem to recognize each other when they meet in issue...was it 25? Zartan probably being an expert on human mannerisms...even Firefly shouldn't be able to fool him. Of course, I could write that off as professional courtesy, not making it known they have met before...informally.

Also, issue 9 shows 4 caskets at a funeral in SE's flashback. His parents, his sister and ????...or is it another funeral?


I've always found as much hype as the regular Marvel run gets, Special Missions is ignored. Special Missions greatly benefited the Joe comic universe. Out of 28 issues, Snake-Eyes only appears in 3. Chuckles sees a lot of action along with a lot of Joes who'd otherwise only make cameos in the regular run, and GI JOE is shown to be more than just a group that fights Cobra. That must be it, Joe fans seem to be bigger Cobra fans...

Plus they were mostly one shots. Devil's Due cannot seem to tell a coherent (or engaging) story in a 10 issue span, back then Hama could write a decent one-shot. Actually, a few non-Hama issues were decent one-shots...though Herb Trimpe got a bit goofy with some of his writing.