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Originally Posted by turner

Not only is Hama offically the man as hired by Hasbro and inventing the mythos from the ground up (even the concept of cobra for an enemy, and the filecards), but his writing is just way superior to anything else I've read. When I read other joe comics (I've also got all the ddp including every spin off, and 13 of the european missions, and some transformers crossovers, and all the con issues, the 3-d ones, etc) they just don't make it to the level of Hama's writing (though I liked some ddp, and really like the dreamwave series). Even the original comics that came with the comic packs (like the resolute ones) are great.

Hama/GI Joe fans should also check out Nth Man. Alfie, the one person with super human abilities uses his powers to make the world a safer place by getting rid of all the nuclear weapons, but it ends up triggering World War III. Now the US sends Alfie's only childhood friend, John Doe to assassinate him. One of my all time favorite series. Great story, characters and art. Only downside was is was canceled a few issues early so Hama had to skip a little of the later story to fit the ending in.