You gotta love how CC punk's Destro and Firefly which sets them up to be very annoyed later on. And in fact, it would seem that Firefly in the DD teamed w/ Serpentor/Mindbender (remember that SUPERBAT story???) and is his own duder. THAT'S very cool. As much as I don't like 90% of what DD has done w/ GI Joe, I do like that they played off Firefly fairly well. Made him the bad booty sabateur he is, lurking in the shadows, a merc for hire, etc. Unlike Destro who went all weird...

You gotta love that sequence of Junkyard leading the Cobra into quicksand! (I know, probably not THIS issue but...)

I'm rather unaware of any other comic actually having an ongoing storyline like this. X-Men? No. Batman? No. Superman? No.

1 thing I gotta say is that with GI Joe's gigantic cast, it really never gets old seeing GI Joe battle the bad guys. I think we can all handle seeing Joe vs Destro. Or Joe vs Scrap Iron, Firefly, etc. I believe the toys skew our view a bit since we get so many rehashes. But if there were no toy, would we mind the use of Storm Shadow (uh, give or take the weird ninja mental stuff). Like, in the old Marvel book, it was always a rotating cast of bad guys. Other comics, it gets old fighting Doom every few issues or Dr Octopus or Venom or or or... You get the idea.