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05-27-2007, 10:26 PM	#11
Sonneilon aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;) Offline --> Posts: 7,751 --> Join Date: Jul 2005	I totally agree, LB. For someone to purposely do a silent issue, that's lame. What this DOES prove is that Hama comes from the generation where the pictures can tell a story w/o us needing to know much. THAT is something a lot of current-gen artists can't do. Yeah, YOU DREAMWAVE!!! Comics are so text oriented, it really can bog things down. I think it's the next issue where Grunt says, "hey scarlet, what happened to ya? You were doing your parajumping yearly thingy and BAM, you're gone..." I wondered too WHY she was captured. But at the same time, it was a way to intro the red ninja which I could care less about. Shoulda left THEM back in #21, DD!!!

05-27-2007, 10:35 PM

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.......I wondered too WHY she was captured.......

Sometimes a girl just has an 'off' day................even when she's me..........

Besides, us women know that sometimes, SOMETIMES, we have to let you menfolk 'rescue' us...............

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05-28-2007, 03:26 AM	#13
Stormer Wasss once a man Offline --> Posts: 1,430 --> Join Date: Nov 2006	I first read this as a reprint in Marvel UK's Action Force Weekly title. It was bookended by a couple of UK-originated strips dealing with Scarlett's abduction and the aftermath with Cobra Commander, Destro and Storm Shadow. Those had dialogue as usual and I barely noticed the lack of speech in the #21 part -- I guess that shows how good Hama's visual storytelling abilities were and how naturally the action in that issue flows without the need to speech. For the most part, I liked the SS/SE connection -- the mystery and soap opera gave the book a continuity to follow that went deeper than the Joes foiling Cobra's world domination plots. This was a relatively subtle way of starting all that and for those reading it when it came out I can only imagine the level of intrigue that last page brought up! __________________ * * * * * Come check out my Flickr account for more pics of my collection and additional shots from my JoeDios photoshoots. Includes my "Class Reunion" and "Foes Of The Joes" sets, exclusive to Flickr! Last updated 2/5/10.