A somalia dio story would be sweet and with PTE stuff you could easily get your hands on helicopters and and humvees without spending too much money. But those Black Hawks don't have miniguns on them, that bothers me a lot, perhaps not with others, but I want those Black Hawks to have those awesome machine guns on it. As for desert camouflaged Joes, PTE has some and there's a few Joes too but of course there's always customizing. Have you seen Wowboy's stuff yet? He has a great collection of desert themed customs which are just awesome and he has a desert scenery set up too. If you haven't checked that out it might give you some ideas.

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I have a new site for my table top tactical strategy role playing game for action figures and miniatures. There's also diostories there too! Check it out at: http://thewayofwar.net/

one of ther reasons i don't dio is that i am very lacking in photoshop. also, it's more of a PTE- Eversparkle dio with cobra thrown in as a bad guy, so i couldn't really post it here. but, that dosen't mean i won't post it on you tube, and link it here!

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Well, I have little talent and only a few programs, but I try my best.

Most of my sort comings are big battles. I'm not good at visual story telling, but it doesn't stop me.

My dios are just self-indulgent. I'm not even sure other people would like them. They are made for me first and foremost. It is easier than writing a fan fic, so I can pull up a scene or photo I did, get a little chuckle, and get to see how I feel GIJoe should be done.

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"I can glide silently and land without a sound, I am the eerie presence in the pitch black room"

Same here! The whole point of the Joe/TF crossover is to entertain me. If other people enjoy it that's great, but all I'm doing is writing a story where all these characters meet in the way I think they should meet. I've read Marvel's, Devil's Due's, and Dreamwave's attempts to cross these characters over with each other, and none of them rang true.

The Marvel series was too disjointed, trying to squeeze in all the bits of continuity from the ongoing Joe and TF series that they could, leading to weirdness like Optimus Prime leading the Autobots in the first issue, then being dead in the next, and Cobra Commander and Destro being present at first, but then Serpentor in charge two issues later.

The Dreamwave series was set in the past, so none of the Transformers turned into their proper alternate forms. Plus, it was too dark. If Joes and TFs are going to cross paths, it should be fun! That doesn't mean it can't be dramatic, but it certainly shouldn't be dark and brooding.

The first Devil's Due crossover (the only one by that company that I've read) got a lot right. It was bright, it was exciting, it had some good character moments, but again, the Transformers were all turning into Cobra vehicles. It's a cool visual, but c'mon, people! When Optimus Prime and Duke cross paths, Prime should be a semi truck, darnit!

Anyway, I kinda got off track there. I'll just reiterate what I'm trying to say-- I write everything I write (dios, fanfics, and back in the day, RPG campaigns) for my own amusement, no one else's. If others enjoy it, that makes me feel good, but at the end of the day, I'm only trying to entertain myself.

I think Stan Lee once said something to that effect-- He wrote comic books that he would've wanted to read, and was lucky enough to get them published.