Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero #299
The final GI Joe IDW story arc continues to disappoint, with a messy story involving clones, resurrections, uninteresting heel and face turns and a supposedly epic scale that feels anything […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero #298
The final GI Joe IDW story arc continues, with the silly shenanigans involving a resurrected clone of Genghis Khan and a fake casino resort on Cobra Island developing even further. […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero #297
It’s the end of an era, as IDW’s amazing GI Joe run comes to a close. Despite having legendary GI Joe writer Larry Hama scripting this final story arc, it […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #4
The four issue homage to the campy 80s GI Joe cartoon concludes here, with the Genie having granted Cobra Commander’s final wish to end the conflict – but if course, […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: 40th Anniversary Special (2022)
It’s 1984. The ‘real’ GI Joe: A Real American Hero’s 21st issue script has gone missing, leaving Marvel with a strict time limit to get a replacement issue ready for […]
Board Game Review: GI Joe: Deck-Building Game
I’m a big fan of classic GI Joe, and have covered a few of the recent GI Joe comics right here on the blog. So when I saw that Renegade […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #3
Cobra Commander’s grasp of the intricacies of wish-granting seems to be less than perfect – leading the Genie in his service to deliver an unforeseen consequence to the evil overlord’s […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: Hearts & Minds (2010)
I grew out of comics in the 90s; or at least, superhero comics for the most part. It was a bit of a weird time for mainstream comics, with the […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #2
The Genie-powered COBRA continue to cause havoc across the globe, with GI Joe struggling to control the manifestation of Cobra Commander’s wishes. Yet the Commander hasn’t learned that he has […]
Comic Book Review: Classic GI Joe Vol. 1
Having had the GI Joe license since 2008 – and creating their own, successful continuity with the characters – IDW began reprinting the 80s Marvel issues that were largely written […]
Comic Book Review: GI Joe: A Real American Hero – Saturday Morning Adventures #1
The 80s was a real Golden Age for a specific type of Saturday morning cartoon. If you’re my age (or thereabouts), you’ll be very familiar with the genre of cartoon […]
TV Review: The Toys That Made Us
I reviewed a single episode of Netflix series The Toys That Made Us recently (the one covering Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and found it to be full of interesting details about how the turtles became such a phenomenon. What I found most intriguing was just how much of what we know about the franchise – what we perhaps take as […]
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