I think a lot of people agree with you. I'd almost say a majority of the fandom agrees. Personally, I like Snake-Eyes. I have no problem with him being a ninja as well as a commando. However, I don't think he's the greatest warrior on the face of the Earth, and I do think he was way overexposed near the end of the Marvel run. I think he's probably the best commando on the Joe team, but Storm Shadow is a better ninja.

Yeah, you're right. In the comics he's way overused. But it's the same with Duke and Flint in the cartoon. And with DD, I think they beat the horse dead with Beachhead! I really think they need to dig into some of the other characters. Lowlight has always fascinated me. His original story was he was an abused kid who was afraid of the dark and daddy punished him by leaving him in the woods at night with only a rifle,...or something to that effect. I liked MainFrame, too! Too bad DD killed him off. We hardly know anything about Grand Slam either! What about Airtight? I'd like to see his "behind the scenes" life. There are so many characters they could develop if they layed off Snake eyes.

on another note, I'd like to see more with Wraith!

You certainly are entitled to express your opinion, and I agree with you one hundred percent. I was as hardcore a Joe fan as could be back then, but even I got sick of the whole Snake Eyes/Storm Shadow ninja rubbish towards the end of the Marvel run. I also agree that it probably hastened the demise GI Joe, along with the fact that Hasbro killed the toy line because no one was buying the unadalterated crap they were churning out by the early/mid nineties. Snake Eyes certainly has purpose in my Joeverse, but he ain't no ninja.

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Yeah, the superhuman ninja crap got old real quick....and the whole "Firefly...was he or wasn't he a ninja" thing...BLAH! And then the "let's jump on EVERY bandwagon to get our piece of the pie" thing! (You know....Mega Marines= Aliens, Eco Warriors = Capt Planet, DEF = COPS, dino hunters = Jurrassic Park) God, I'm suprised they didn't have a new purple, red, yellow and blue GI joes to to try capitalize on Teletubbies!

for me, the Marvel stuff ended with issue 115......after that it was all downhill!

mmm, it's nice to know im not the only one who saw things this way. The only reason I thoght of this at all was that I recently read the whole marvel series comics again. I noticed at the end how every issue was about Sneak Eyes assutling all of Cobra by himself and winning. It made it seem like there was no need for a team, just let him attact by himself and kill everyone. I agree with the overuse of Duke and Flint in the cartoon too, Snake Eyes wasnt as used in them as the comics. Myself i would have loved to have had more Quick Kick, or sci-Fi or dusty.