Comments on: G.I. Joe by Sunbow – What stuck with you? http://generalsjoes.com/2008/09/05/gi-joe-by-sunbow-what-stuck-with-you/ Tue, 22 May 2012 20:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lehsreh http://generalsjoes.com/2008/09/05/gi-joe-by-sunbow-what-stuck-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-75 lehsreh Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:07:35 +0000 http://generalsjoes.com/?p=202#comment-75 i watched the cartoon but only read the comics a few years back, so the cartoons are where i get the characters from. yes, the cartoons were silly and out there, but so too is raising land from the ocean to make a island and snake eyes killing like a 100 people to get to cobra commander and letting him go. also, i have to disagree that the comics had better character development. everyone seemed so blend to me. flint, hawk, duke and falcon could all have been the same person. great characters that we loved in the cartoons like quick kick, bazooka and shipwreck had no unique characteristics whatsoever. i once started a thread asking people to write some good sayings from both the comic and the cartoon and who said them. joedios is first and foremost a place where everyone is influenced by the comics, yet no one could think of a single saying from the comic, but there were many, many from the cartoon. i watched the cartoon but only read the comics a few years back, so the cartoons are where i get the characters from. yes, the cartoons were silly and out there, but so too is raising land from the ocean to make a island and snake eyes killing like a 100 people to get to cobra commander and letting him go.

also, i have to disagree that the comics had better character development. everyone seemed so blend to me. flint, hawk, duke and falcon could all have been the same person. great characters that we loved in the cartoons like quick kick, bazooka and shipwreck had no unique characteristics whatsoever. i once started a thread asking people to write some good sayings from both the comic and the cartoon and who said them. joedios is first and foremost a place where everyone is influenced by the comics, yet no one could think of a single saying from the comic, but there were many, many from the cartoon.

]]> By: Doug Smallwood http://generalsjoes.com/2008/09/05/gi-joe-by-sunbow-what-stuck-with-you/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Doug Smallwood Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:25 +0000 http://generalsjoes.com/?p=202#comment-72 I was also iniatially introduced to G.I. Joe through the cartoons, then the toys, then the comics. Unfortunately, I didn't discover the comics until they were in the late 40's. Because I lost so much comic book backstory, my sense of character development came mostly from the cartoons. As an adult (in age, not in mind), a lot of the plots do seem so ridiculous that it might as well have been thrown in with the regular Marvel Comics continuity. On the other hand, there were well well written stories like the time where Shipwreck was brainwashed into believing he had a family and the tragedy that came from the discovery of the truth. The cartoon has had such an influence over me that whenever I see Joe characters with word balloons, it is the voices from the cartoon series I hear. In my Joe-verse Cobra Commander sounds like Chris Latta, and Lt. Falcon sounds like Don Johnson. I was also iniatially introduced to G.I. Joe through the cartoons, then the toys, then the comics. Unfortunately, I didn’t discover the comics until they were in the late 40′s. Because I lost so much comic book backstory, my sense of character development came mostly from the cartoons. As an adult (in age, not in mind), a lot of the plots do seem so ridiculous that it might as well have been thrown in with the regular Marvel Comics continuity. On the other hand, there were well well written stories like the time where Shipwreck was brainwashed into believing he had a family and the tragedy that came from the discovery of the truth. The cartoon has had such an influence over me that whenever I see Joe characters with word balloons, it is the voices from the cartoon series I hear. In my Joe-verse Cobra Commander sounds like Chris Latta, and Lt. Falcon sounds like Don Johnson.

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