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lunchlander's review against another edition
3.0
Increasingly strange, with more and more sci-fi style toys, ninja stuff and complicated, intertwined "secret origin" relationship reveals straining credulity further with each issue. And the inks drown out some pretty good artists, like Mark Bright... but it's still fun, albeit clearly on the downward slide at this point.
lunchlander's review against another edition
3.0
The last few stories here, introducing the Eco-Warriors and featuring Andrew Wildman doing his best (worst?) Liefeld impression, show all the folly of the '90s infecting a run that was already probably a bit longer than it needed to be.
However, the early stories, featuring Cobra's invasion of a middle eastern country and the Joe team's attempt to retake it, has all the cartoon meets geopolitics meets military technology and tactics that Hama was best at, and some solid pencils, albeit pencils hurt by weak inking and weaker coloring. And Hama's obsession with ninjas can get silly, but it also provides some pretty fun action sequences, and it's hard not to have continuing affection for the team of Snake-Eyes, Scarlet and Storm Shadow.
However, the early stories, featuring Cobra's invasion of a middle eastern country and the Joe team's attempt to retake it, has all the cartoon meets geopolitics meets military technology and tactics that Hama was best at, and some solid pencils, albeit pencils hurt by weak inking and weaker coloring. And Hama's obsession with ninjas can get silly, but it also provides some pretty fun action sequences, and it's hard not to have continuing affection for the team of Snake-Eyes, Scarlet and Storm Shadow.
matt4hire's review against another edition
4.0
Oh, man. NINJAS NINJAS NINJAS. I love GI Joe ninjas. I love Bright's art on this book. I love all that stuff. So this volume was a ton of fun for me.
matt4hire's review against another edition
4.0
First of all, the pseudo-Desert Storm arc, the one in Benzheen, is great. Then the Destro arc. Oh, MAN. I like Destro working with the Joes even better than when he's working against them. And then...NINJAS!!!! I love ninjas. They're awesome.
matt4hire's review against another edition
4.0
At least I know that, when it comes to GI Joe comics, Larry Hama hasn't missed a trick in all those years.
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