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which do you look forward to the most, a new cartoon or new comic?

03-21-2008, 12:43 PM	#1
lehsreh G.I. Smurf Offline --> Posts: 3,446 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	which do you look forward to the most, a new cartoon or new comic? with the movie there will probably be a new cartoon. and we know the comics are going to be brought back, so which are you looking forward to the most. i know this site is mainly a comic site, but still thought id throw the poll out there. if anyone has read much of anything i have written on here, you should know i want the cartoon. actually i would pick a new series(as long as its close to the first) over the movie.

03-21-2008, 01:22 PM	#2
General Scarlett Hell hath no fury.... Offline --> Posts: 7,646 --> Join Date: Dec 2006	You forgot to add the option of 'Both'..... __________________ Non illigitamus carborundum~Vos mos non effrego mihi Coming soon: 'JoeSpecialOps'

03-21-2008, 01:26 PM

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You forgot to add the option of 'Both'.....

...or the option of "Neither"....

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03-21-2008, 01:40 PM

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...or the option of "Neither"....

Heh.....how did I know that you were going to say that.....

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03-21-2008, 02:03 PM	#5
gogorobo 181st fighter pilot Offline --> Posts: 1,250 --> Join Date: Jun 2007	had to go with the cartoon, this is what i really remember as a kid and the comics came second, i actually found out about the comics after the toon and was surprised to find the difference between the two,but still it would be nice to see a well made(not crappy fake anime)cartoon on the air __________________ got to get tough JOHIO!!!!!!

03-21-2008, 05:16 PM	#6
snakeeater Veteran Offline --> Posts: 362 --> Join Date: Jul 2006	I had to go with the comic, mainly because I thought the original Sunbow cartoon was good, but not much else (DIC, Sigma 6) was all the great, and I expect the same quality of any new cartoon. I've been more impressed with the comic incarnation of Joe of the past 10 years than the cartoon.

03-21-2008, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by lehsreh

and we know the comics are going to be brought back

Um, the comics are already there, they were brought back in 2002...

My feelings are entirely dependent on what a new comic, or a new cartoon, are going to be in terms of style and content. Sigma 6 was a new cartoon and it didn't exactly endear itself to the fans and become a new status quo for the franchise. You KNOW that any post-movie cartoon is going to portray any characters more like they are in the movie (ie Ripcord...) and is probably going to be even further from the Sunbow series than S6 was in some respects. In fact, with DIC, S6 and Extreme, GI Joe on TV has a pretty shocking track record.

As for comics, if they do try and reboot the entire continuity they're in severe danger of losing me as a regular reader (as in, they'd have to pull out something miraculous to keep me). The prospect of nostalgia-based adventures of the Sunbow cast, to fit in with the 25th line, has me somewhat worried as it may work initially for all the people who haven't read a Joe comic since the '80s but I wouldn't rate its chances for keeping regular readers -- the only way to have an ongoing series with the level of maturity inherent to GI Joe's subject matter is to have things change and/or get more in-depth with the characters. Which is what the Joe comics have been doing for 25 years (barring that 7-or-so-year hiatus), but you get people (who often aren't reading the comic and haven't since the '90s) complaining about events and characterisations that stop it from resembling a Sunbow episode...

Personally, I'd rather they left the comics alone to carry on as they have been, or if anything get a more commercially-friendly art team and have a more new-reader-friendly ethos, and I'd be happy to give a new cartoon series a try but based on experience I'd keep expectations pretty low. But since we know for sure absolutely nothing about the content of any new comic or cartoon, though, I can't say I'm looking forward to either over the other.

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03-21-2008, 07:10 PM	#8
silentdusty Crusty Ol MWO Offline --> Posts: 2,994 --> Join Date: Oct 2006	The comics, the stories were always grittier in the comics, and they were able to get away with alot more in the comics, you never saw anyone die in the cartoon, and that is just not realistic in combat. In the comics, major characters have died, and will probably continue to die until DDP finishes it's run this summer. I think that will leave a real black hole in the Joeverse. __________________ SILENT DUSTY "...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him." - General Ulysses S. Grant

03-21-2008, 07:16 PM	#9
Agent Viper Legendary Offline --> Posts: 2,220 --> Join Date: Aug 2007	Have to say Comics! Im getting into the G.I.Joe comics now! Ive been a fan of comics for a long, long, long, time so I would want to see a detailed, mature comic __________________ This is war, survival is your responsibility.

03-21-2008, 08:07 PM	#10
Self-Modifier Crossover King Emeritus Offline --> Posts: 1,472 --> Join Date: Feb 2005	I can't vote, because the answer would unfortunately be neither... Unless by some miracle, it was a new comic written by Larry Hama, and a new cartoon featuring Michael Bell as Duke, Bill Ratner as Flint, a Chris Latta sound-alike as Cobra Commander, etc. ...In which case the answer would be both! ...But that's not likely to happen now, is it? __________________ is on indefinite hiatus...