JoeDios.com Forums - Where do you get your inspiration???

01-31-2006, 06:10 AM	#11
General Hawk Veteran Offline --> Posts: 159 --> Join Date: Feb 2005	I think movies are my biggest inspiration when going through the Dio-Story process...I strive to try and make my action scenes "movie-like", and make it as close to a movie production as possible with still pics... For sure, other dio's are also a big inspiration. Tim's, Violentfix's, Wowboys, and pretty much any other dio out there always give me ideas and inspirations for where to go with my own, too... Justin __________________ www.GeneralsJoes.com Figure Reviews and Dio-Stories www.JoeSightings.com News, Forums, and Toy Sightings

Inspiration

01-31-2006, 07:37 AM	#12
chaosdjinn Veteran Offline --> Posts: 327 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	Inspiration I fuse together the Joe comic books and cartoons, movies(like braveheart/Troy/LOTR), and current events(obviously with the current set of pictures).

Where I Get My Ideas

01-31-2006, 08:59 AM	#13
Bayer Self-Important Offline --> Posts: 1,034 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	Where I Get My Ideas First, I hope to be able to post some pics in the near future...Life is currently in the way of the more important things. I get my ideas from the same places mentioned before (movies, comics, etc.) as well as places as the old GI Joe Adventure Team (pre-Real American Hero), Current news, conspiracy web-sites, and even in the oddity news from internet web news sites. I've got a different view of the GI Joe universe - Cobra isn't the only threat in the world. Bayer

02-03-2006, 09:22 PM	#14
BRASS KNUCKLE CHUCKLES Veteran Offline --> Posts: 738 --> Join Date: Oct 2005	Bayer, that is a great point that you mentioned that Cobra is not the only threat for the Joes. Just like in the real world bad guys are not just in limited to one group. For example people could use real world people that are threats such as middle eastern terrorists, IRA, Iran, North Korea, etc... With everything going on in the world right now if G.I. was real they would really have there hands full.

Inspiration & Hands Full

02-03-2006, 10:49 PM	#15
Bayer Self-Important Offline --> Posts: 1,034 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	Inspiration & Hands Full Absolutely. I'm actually writing and reviewing my first dio-posting as a recovery op from both the Libyan military and something else. The last formal situation we had in Libya was in 1986 ('Operation El Dorado Canyon' for those keeping score) however, who knows what kind of things are always going on behind the scenes. I think that Cobra is a nice go to when we run out of other forces to fight against. I have to say that they are the best equipped but that just challenges us to be more creative in our stories. Bayer

02-04-2006, 12:05 PM	#16
Sonneilon aka 'Paul WS Anderson' ;) Offline --> Posts: 7,751 --> Join Date: Jul 2005	I was gonna buy a bunch of BBI soldiers a few years ago and use them as South American mercernary forces for the Joes to fight. It never worked out due to cash flow. And when I think about it, it's probably better than I didn't try to do it.

Where do you get your inspiration???

02-04-2006, 01:25 PM	#17
bravo Veteran Offline --> Posts: 942 --> Join Date: Feb 2006	Where do you get your inspiration??? what i do is draw all my joes out,then make them..best bet use your imagination..

02-04-2006, 01:54 PM	#18
Raven Veteran Offline --> Posts: 174 --> Join Date: Sep 2005	It's not a case of Cobra being the only enemy, more of a case of Cobra representing all of America's enemies. The early Cobra figures had a very regal soviet look because the US was still in the cold war. Come the late 80's and 90's, America had started making enemies with the middle east, and as a result we got figures like the Night Creepers with Sinbad-swords and Turbans. When the Ghetto culture was peaking, we suddenly had Headman and his drug rings. When people suddenly became hippies, CESSPOOL made an appearance! So Cobra is the only enemy in the sense that it is all of their enemies teamed up (like some lame-o Marvel crossover set) Nowdays though, this has completely changed. It's politicaly incorrect to have such real-world connections in a toyline, and so all the characters are just made as generic badguys. Modern politics and conspiracies may have a large impact on my future stories, as there is just so much going on right now, it's pretty scary.

Cobra: The Enemy

02-04-2006, 06:08 PM

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Cobra: The Enemy

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Originally Posted by Raven

It's not a case of Cobra being the only enemy, more of a case of Cobra representing all of America's enemies.
The early Cobra figures had a very regal soviet look because the US was still in the cold war.
Come the late 80's and 90's, America had started making enemies with the middle east, and as a result we got figures like the Night Creepers with Sinbad-swords and Turbans.
When the Ghetto culture was peaking, we suddenly had Headman and his drug rings.
When people suddenly became hippies, CESSPOOL made an appearance!
So Cobra is the only enemy in the sense that it is all of their enemies teamed up (like some lame-o Marvel crossover set)

Nowdays though, this has completely changed. It's politicaly incorrect to have such real-world connections in a toyline, and so all the characters are just made as generic badguys.

Modern politics and conspiracies may have a large impact on my future stories, as there is just so much going on right now, it's pretty scary.

YEP! That's exactly as I saw Cobra for a long time. And I also agree that due to the political correctness of today, to "single out" any particular sub-strata of the world culture has become taboo - hence goodbye Headman and Cesspool.
I personally am not a great proponent of political correctness. Without opening an inspiration forum into a political discussion, I see good and evil in all cultural centers. There are those who would do things for the greater good and those who do things for their own gain. Only history can truly judge these people. I guess I want opponents who have both very familiar goals and some who have very alien (uncommon) ones. I think this can lead to some very interesting stories.

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Cobra's representation

02-07-2006, 02:36 PM

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My perception of Cobra, as with all 'enemies' of the US, is that it represents the power struggle over capital in this 'new world order' (Bush, G.H.W., 1991). In my dio, Cobra is Al Qaeda and vice-versa because they have gripes with US control of the world's capital(google "Iran's oil bourse a threat to the petrodollar" and you'll see some of the future history book footnotes to our coming war with Iran-and, ironically, some of the footnotes to why we are in Iraq). Even though the different sects of Islam are not on speaking terms, the 'common enemy theory' places them closer to each other than we can ever be and it seems we are drawing a line in the sand and pushing them towards each other no matter the perils that may exist.

As in the 80's, the struggle between capitalism and communism was often represented, either subtley or overtly, in the Joe storylines. The contemporary representations of this struggle for power is the struggle between capitalism and the 'faceless'(read: Cobra) others that capitalism shuns or exploits. These faceless individuals are the backbone of the resistance to the current world power- the US. We do truly live in mighty uncertain times. The 80's were a very complicated time growing up with the red scare, the Korean airliner being shot down, and the precursors to modern global conflicts- Pan am over Lockerbie, Libya, Beirut etc. In essence, the 92 bombing of the trade centers, the bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the 99 bombing of the USS Cole and September 11th were the first shots in a very long, prolonged battle for the supremacy of the planet.

As an American with young children, I can only hope that the drama of the current world stage of politics, economy, and religion plays out so that the ficticious Cobra arsenal in my dio does not manifest into reality threatening the future of innocents. My fear is that because holy warriors "measure time by the century," this global war for supremacy of resources, hearts, minds, capital and control is but beginning to surface.

Sometimes art reflects reality and sometimes reality reflects art- hopefully, for the sake of many, my 'silent' dio story stays somewhere in the realm of fiction...