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For me,I had the comics before I even found the toys.Now,don't get me wrong,I love the Sunbow cartoon,but the Marvel comic IS the Joe-Verse for me.

What amazed me most about the comic is I first got them when I was 8-9 years old,and they are exciting,gritty stories.But then,as I continue to re-read them as I get older,I find Larry Hama's put a TON of political and social subtext in the stories,just waiting to be found.In the comic we discover that the GI Joe team are sent to do 'Cold War' dirty work by people who don't care about them,and that Cobra is a parody of certain aspects of the USA's miliary/industrial policies.

To answer the second question,while Storm Shadow had a great 'presense' in the cartoon,I prefer the conflicted comic version.

06-21-2007, 03:21 PM	#3
maxtype Veteran Offline --> Posts: 392 --> Join Date: Mar 2007	For me,I had the comics before I even found the toys.Now,don't get me wrong,I love the Sunbow cartoon,but the Marvel comic IS the Joe-Verse for me. What amazed me most about the comic is I first got them when I was 8-9 years old,and they are exciting,gritty stories.But then,as I continue to re-read them as I get older,I find Larry Hama's put a TON of political and social subtext in the stories,just waiting to be found.In the comic we discover that the GI Joe team are sent to do 'Cold War' dirty work by people who don't care about them,and that Cobra is a parody of certain aspects of the USA's miliary/industrial policies. To answer the second question,while Storm Shadow had a great 'presense' in the cartoon,I prefer the conflicted comic version.