comic reboot

[lehsreh]

there was a poll over on histank awhile back about the future of the comics. not sure who will get them, dreamwave or marvel. i saw it again somewhere monday that there is a chance that we may see a reboot of the joeverse. what would you want, keep everything from image and marvel, just marvel or a reboot?

[Sonneilon]

It is speculated that IDW will get the license. These are the people who are currently doing the comics for the 25A comic packs. I'm not sure how many people are lined up, but according to Phil Kost (military advisor on current Joe book), they are actively looking for a writer. The other rumor is that there will be a soft reboot.

Now, there are rumors that the comic will cater to the original 13 for awhile. *shrug*

Personally, I'd like 2 series. One that caters to the old and one that caters a new breed of GI Joe members.

The old stuff, it'd just be more of the same. You wouldn't get aging Gung Ho and whoever like what DD originally tried. I'm sure the writer could do the missing adventure of GI Joe.

New breed would include characters like Dart, Crosshair, Munitia, the Plague, Bombstrike, etc. Certainly, we NEVER got enough of the characters to get a better judgment on them, y'know? And hey, the Marvel comic definitely helped sell the toys, yes? There would be some crossover of the original team, but it'd focus more on the characters that got no love.

[Stormer]

The Plague (including Munitia) is getting a LOT of attention in the current WWIII storyline...!

Personally I'd like to see the continuity continue. There's so much that's intrinsic to the characters now, like SE & SS, Destro & Baroness, Flint, Cobra Commander, Zartan, etc, that has come out of the stories that've been told since the Marvel run started (helped along by the filecards following the comics a lot). Note that DDP tried the Reloaded series and did a Sigma 6 mini but it's the core continuity that's carried on getting published. Not to mention its continued use packaged with the toys.

If they start over, I'm sure they'd be able to tell fine stories with nice art but I wouldn't have the emotional connection. They'd have to base so much of it on the existing comics that it'd just feel like they were going over old ground, or alternatively the characters would be so different I'd again have less of an inclination to care what happened to them.

I just have a horrible feeling that Hasbro's going to do what they did with Transformers and shift things with the brand to be more in-line with the movie (and any changes it's made to the mythos) for the sake of public recognition...

[gogorobo]

i see idw ignoring everything that ddp did and just continue after the marvel series or completely reboot the series and start fresh kind of like what dc did with the original crisis, or they could just lead the series up to the movie and then have it based in the movies world,either way i'm gonna give it a shot, idw is putting out some good books right now so they've got the benefit of the doubt in my book

[Sonneilon]

Trust me, IDW is trying to figure out WHAT to do. They KNOW that if they do the Queseda, it'll piss EVERYONE off. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. Therefore, we do dios!

[silentdusty]

I happened to really enjoy the DDP run. I thought for the most part the stories were great, and this current WWIII storyline is one of the best I've seen in a long time. Larry Hama created these iconic characters, however, he isn't the be all, end all in the Joeverse. Heck look how many different writers have done Spiderman, Superman, Batman etc.