G.I. JOE MOVIE ADAPTATION #1 *SPOILERS*

[scryptic]

Written by Denton J. Tipton, art and covers by Casey Maloney.

The movie begins here in part one of this special weekly series! You want to know what the characters look like? How they translate to the big screen? What Cobra's evil plans are? Then you must buy this book!

32 pages, $3.99, in stores on July 1.

http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/ ... dwjuly.htm

[HELLSTROM]

Preview up at CBR website.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=21370

It's only a couple of pages and the covers. The art does look good on this.

[Phil Kost]

5 Page Preview

[waki]

story is cool. just hate that washed out greyish look from having colored pencils, still looks way to sketchy.

[todd_m6d]

Summary --- SPOILERS





















It begins 1641 as James McCullen is brought up on charges of conspiracy as he is selling arms to both the King and the King's enemies. His punishment is not death, but wearing an iron mask for the rest of his days.

Skip to present day as McCullen's descendant presents a demonstration of his nano-technology to a room for of generals. The nano-mites are shown to eat metal and destroy a tank while not harming the soldiers inside. McCullen then reveals the first shipment of his new technology will leave from his factory the next day under the watch of an elite NATO unit. After the meeting there is a conversation between Hawk and McCullen in which Hawk offers the support of his team. McCullen declines.

The story moves to Kyrgystan where the elite unit led by Duke receives the MARS case of warheads and heads out on it's delivery. the convoy doesn't notice an unmarked gunship sneaking up behind it. The gunship takes out the air support and vehicles on the ground. Duke and Ripcord's vehicle is turned over after a pulse blast. The gunship then lands and deploys a squad of Vipers along with the Baroness to take out the remaining soldiers on the ground and recover the case of warheads.

Duke pulls an injured Ripcord out of their vehicles just before it explodes and then makes a move to stop the Baroness from taking the case. He comes face to face with a Viper and the Baroness and is shocked when he recognizes who the black haired woman really is. She kicks him to the ground and Viper is about to shoot him when another air craft enters the area. The Vipers on the ground are taken out by an arrow and a knife through the chest and for the first time we see the ninja Snake Eyes!

While the Joes provide a needed distraction in taking out the Vipers, Duke is able to recover the case from the Baroness just as she escapes in the gunship. We're left with Duke guarding the case as he first comes face to face with Scarlett, Heavy Duty, and Snake Eyes...


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There's a four page interview with Brian Reed on GIJoe :Rise of Cobra the Game after the end of the comic.

That is followed by a 5 page preview for Helix.

[Antarctica]

Bring on the comic cover hunt.

Looks like we got two covers. The IDW covers from SDCC are known about. I just received in my email box an email from IDW talking about all of the stuff going on with them, which includes info about hte Joe exclusive covers.

But the Retailer incentive, which my store didn't get. A website is listed but you redirected to a my space account. comickaze.com

Anyway, it looks to be a comic book store in San Diego.

[Antarctica]

The main page of the Movie Comic book section has been updated.

http://www.yojoe.com/comics/idwprequel/

Summary available for #1.

And information on the different Alt cover options

[The Doomworm]

I enjoyed that it started with Destro's family history. Between that and the Hard Master being in it, the movie has at least something going for it. It's really feeling a lot like the first Xmen flick, with the team showing up in the first big action sequence to save the new guy from danger.

So, the costume designer decided that Cobra would make more sense with snake scales on their masks? Certainly takes any iffy paramilitary militia type of threat out of the villains... now they truly are more like supervillains.