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Wasss once a man
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Comics all the way for me. So much more depth to the characters, all the Joes fit in with the concept of an elite military unit (no cartoon Shipwreck-types or guys that just "tag along" who they meet on a mission, like Quick-Kick and, er, Shipwreck...). Larry Hama kept a consistent "voice" to the book, the continuing storylines let you care about the characters and what would happen to them next more, and it didn't resort to wacky sci-fi like Fatal Fluffies and Cobra-La.
The cartoon may have been able to reach more people and get more kids into it but it was the comic that gave the line its identity (without Marvel there wouldn't have been things like the well-thought-out bios on the filecards, and Hasbro hadn't even thought up Cobra at the time they were looking to get a comic tie-in) and kept that identity strong long after the cartoon had descended into DIC crappiness and got canned.
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