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cashel
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:26 pm |
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How can we accomplish that? We could inform those that left the series early on might want to jump back in for issues 180-182 as they appear to be better than arcs that followed. Perhaps get the word out to cbr and wizard that the book is getting a lot better and they should cover it more often. Talk it up at the local comic shop. Tell idw that we need a big event that comic sites would want to cover. I just don't know but there has to be something we can do to get those sales up like idw did with transformers. Any ideas?
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The Doomworm
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:31 am |
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Yes. Let's determine the best two runs of five or six issues with a beginning, middle, and end,
and talk them up all the time. The Blue Ninja run starting with the death of Billy. The Darklon issues starting with the infiltration of the bunker through the hillside.
Discuss.
- J.
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seanwalsh
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 5:59 pm |
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Wait, has it been confirmed that GI JOE #200 is the end?
I've had (and shared here) that suspicion myself - since TF REGEN ONE is ending with #100, and they both that & JOE #200 come out a month or so apart - but I was hoping it was just a baseless suspicion.....
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seaneley
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:15 pm |
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It's all Obama's fault ! Obaaaaaaammmaaaaaa!!!
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scryptic
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Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:36 am |
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That would suck, but it would be nice to at least have that issue 200.
So it's been confirmed for TF Regeneration One?
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shanecdavis
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Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:47 am |
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Not confirmed, in ARAH's case anyway. No idea about the TF rumor. This thread was just one of many 'the sky is falling' posts by Matt. Here is a quote from the editor, Carlos Guzman, in response to this very same topic he posted on IDW's site: http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopi ... afa2dd19e9CarlosG86 wrote: Uh, not sure where the idea that 200 would be the end of ARAH came from, but I'll just go ahead and paraphrase an answer I gave a while back:
There is absolutely NO plan to end RAH at issue #200. Far from it. Sales are going strong, Larry's rocking the scripts, and there's no sign of an end anytime soon. Ongoing means ongoing. Don't worry.
And, there you have it.
CARLOS Matt was at it again this past February and we received this response from SL Gallant, who needs no introduction: http://forum.idwpublishing.com/viewtopi ... afa2dd19e9SLGallant wrote: Hey guys, seems like most of you enjoyed the issue. To answer some things I saw...
A) the change to Falcon was asked for by Hasbro. Why it appears as the original in some places and not others is beyond me. Honestly, I like the toned down version myself, but that's only because I think it was a better drawing.
B) Shane- anything at happens weapon-wise is dictated to me. I don't know squat about guns, and as I tell my accountant, "I just draw s---!"
C) Shane again- colors- not me. I have nothing to do with it. I know Jim tries really hard to stay true to the toys, so odds are, it's based on a actual toy. Oh, and as much as I would like to have Scarlet in a mini skirt, or Torpedo in civies, unless it's dictated by the script... Not gonna happen. Sorry, but apparently the pecking order is God, Larry, Hasbro, IDW, the guy who sells pencils on the corner, the toilet brush, then me. I have no say in anything.
Oh and lastly, for everyone that constantly posts about it, there is no intent to stop RAH before (or after) 200. Unless something drastic happens, I'll be on the book until 200, if not longer. I talked to Carlos about this recently, and Wagner will be back for a couple of issues, but it has nothing to do with me being late, life just gets in the way. Scripts take as long as they take, approvals from Hasbro take time, so we build fill ins to make sure the book always comes out on time.
Now I have a question. I thought it was in one of the posts, but how many more issues do I need before I have the record for most Joe issues? Not including Dixon-verse or movie, just RAH? I constantly hear IDW is very happy with ARAH sales, so to me that is all that matters. I am sure Mr. Hama will hang it up at some point, but instead of worrying about when that is I am just going to enjoy the hell out of the ride!
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Thanks Shane. Actually, I was asking about TF, but it's good to know that ARAH is not scheduled to end (I'd actually read one of those posts before). I did find this interview with Furman that does suggest RG1 will end with #100: http://www.allspark.com/content/view/10004/16/Not 100% clear, but it seems like it was set that way from that start. It could also be that #100 was set as a minimum and they will perhaps renew Furman's contract at that point.
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No worries, scryptic. I was actually responding to seanwalsh and you kinda snuck your post in there, so I had to go back and clarify my comment.
Personally, I think #500 would be a perfect end to ARAH. That's only 26 more years. I think Mr. Hama can do it.
BTW - #200 is ONE YEAR from now!!!!
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scryptic
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With the New 52 at DC and all the Marvel reboots... is GI Joe ARAH currently the highest-numbered title out there 
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Overlord
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Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:49 pm |
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It's up there, especially since Constantine was canceled at #300. Fables just recently reached the centennial milestone. ARAH's the old man on the block.
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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:59 pm |
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Overlord wrote: It's up there, especially since Constantine was canceled at #300. Fables just recently reached the centennial milestone. ARAH's the old man on the block. can you imagine if Joe had continued from #155 back in the day? How sweet would that have been?
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shanecdavis
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I don't know, I shudder to think how much further Hasbro would have pushed the envelop. I jumped ship at #138. The last Hama storyline (Cyber Castle) was just awful. I can't imagine what would have happened after that. We wouldn't have even gotten the amazing #155 we did. It probably would have been some stupid story about Lobotomaxx and then we would have had to suffer through Hasbro's awful ideas like Spy Troops and Valor vs. Venom. Ugh.
On the bright side, we would have celebrated #375 this month instead of #188. Just wish it didn't take DDP mishandling the mythos and IDW doing a hard reboot to get Mr. Hama's creative juices flowing again. Not to mention his own stories from #155.5-170 where more miss than hit. He is certainly rolling now though!
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The ball is certainly rolling now, yeah it took a while. Some of that I feel like was the art - Larry has always alternated between "Core Group has status-quo altering grudge match", huge ensembles, and of course the best kind of Joe story and what we've been getting since the day Darklon returned - Special Missions style team-selections that build into larger stakes.
I can't say I love the Blue Ninjas but it was nice to finally have a "Battle of Broca Beach", and to have a talented artist like Shannon "create" a Cobra HQ town akin to Springfield (and hey, he did Springfield, too!) and do the Wax Museum, the burbs, the whole notion. Millville got that kind of love, but it was in the height of the #100 1990s, "we all need to look like bad Jim Lee art" time period. I like the cleaner stuff - even that border town in Benzheen that Cover Girl and Daina just defended felt really fleshed out like a real town. Benzheen City felt like a real Mid-Eastern metropolitan, nice city.
And the intrigue is back. All that Sneak Peek stuff worked out beautifully and I absolutely can't wait for more Chuckles.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:12 pm |
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seaneley wrote: Overlord wrote: It's up there, especially since Constantine was canceled at #300. Fables just recently reached the centennial milestone. ARAH's the old man on the block. can you imagine if Joe had continued from #155 back in the day? How sweet would that have been?I dunno. It's actually rather appropriate that it ended when it did -- at a time in real life when Clinton was hacking away the U.S. defense budget and closing military bases left and right. Mothballing GI JOE at that time was more notable than doing it at any other time. And when did they come back? At the most appropriate time in recent American history for GI JOE to return. .......literally, the day after.
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