G.I. Joe: Castle Fall Review

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the pull bag this is episode 526 we are in the

middle of GI Joe June apparently that's gonna

be a thing for one of their live streams from

Hasbro pulse and all that stuff but GI Joe June

we are wrapping up the World on fire slash Castle

fall thing now when you suggested to do both

of these and and I'm perfectly I knew about world

on fire at the time So that's all well good and

fine But I didn't when you said oh, we should

put a castle fall in there, too I'm like, oh,

okay thinking Castle fall was the next like six

issues here No, it's just a one -shot that ends

the the the world on fire story or an epilogue

to the World on Fire story. So if no one has

heard the World on Fire story, you can go back

to episode 521 where Eduardo M. Freyer joined

me. Never gonna get it right. Remember, just

think Freyer Tuck, Deep Freyer, Freyer Lawrence

from Romeo and Juliet. Absolutely. So he is back

and this is GI Joe Castlefall from IDW Publishing.

This most likely will be the last time in the

first episode in episode 521 and this episode

will probably be the only time we cover IDW GI

Joe stuff unless the new publisher which we will

talk about at the end of this podcast Decides

to reprint the IDW stuff under their own brand.

I don't think they're going to do that anytime

soon well, I know IDW did the the Devils do stuff

and just called it the yeah, they like what was

it redacted or something? I don't know. I think

that's what they had a name for it. They had

a name for it. It's It was see the problem is

the IDW books the transformers books specifically

I believe they are being removed from Amazon

I'm actually looking at some stuff and yeah,

I Mean I see some stuff, but not everything and

it's a little sad that that's happening actually

Wish it wasn't happening, but we start with the

cover to I Want to say world on fire, but it's

not it's Castlefall a Big old roadblock with

a chain gun gotta love it That's that's the block

we know and love I mean it's either that or it's

either that or He's got the chef's hat on Making

up some make up some yummy goodies in the the

commissary. Yep. Looking at this cover I want

a Transformers GI Joe crossover with Roadblock

with his chain gun of doom and Rhinox from Beast

Wars with his chain guns of doom that would be

amazing You know that hey, you know what I can

I can dig it I'm feeling it Yeah, I'm feeling

it. Absolutely. So this we did get we did get

a roadblock and Grimlock and Dreamwaves Transformers

crossover Not quite not quite what you're you're

asking for but true, but I mean it You know people

who use people or robots or whatever who use

chain guns like anybody who uses a chain gun

the the team of chain gun Mercenaries or whatever

you want to call them like that would be amazing

So we start off with Scarlett and tiger and apparently

it's been a year since they started training

and She still almost kicks his ass even though

he got a punch in at the end, which did not happen

a year ago This is good, this is this isn't you

yeah, I like this And then we and then we cut

to outside where all these vehicles are having

a race. They're not really having a race, but

they're They're doing something and Scarlett

is back at the Ops Center with oh who it did

Fade away is her name. I believe the the trader

that He went from one side to the other Right

that is fatal. Yeah Because she's she calls her

family later so they're chasing somebody or doing

something and Yikes lots of fighting You know

And I know and I don't mean to be a person who

Makes I'm a referential person folks. It doesn't

matter what the reference is I don't care about

the specifics of the reference but in the scene

later as they're driving down and they get ambushed

and all that and Tiger says what that's impossible

buddy. You need the no Needs a tripod when you've

got me and we've got roadblocks. So what that

reminds me of is Is good old Bradley Cooper as

face man in 2010s a team You know, hey Bosco

pop a window. I'm gonna go have a look outside

when they're flying the tank Oh With roadblock

standing there with the chain gonna do is exactly

what it reminds me of his solar absolutely love

it Yeah, although block is block and sometimes

be a bigger badass than Bradley Cooper. No offense

Bradley Yeah, no offense or rocket he ain't got

no respect Well, you know But um, you know talking

talking a lot, you know, it's funny that you

should think that you know, you should say that

There's a scene that You know that references

a team for you because thinking about Castlefall

I actually thought you know, cuz this this yeah,

this this basically is this It wraps up this

particular IDW universe. I mean, a little bit

of a spoiler. Yeah, it's not a total ending,

but it's good with the fact that by this time,

we knew that... I think by the time it came out,

we knew that IDW was gonna be... Yeah, I'm pretty

sure because they haven't closed up shop. I want

to make that clear to everybody. IDW Publishing

is still a publishing company. Turtles is still

furthering their... You're right. Absolutely.

But I just wanted everyone to understand that

we know it's not just... They aren't completely

it isn't like Dreamwave where they went out of

business like yeah And they never had like a

resolution like Which I'm surprised that IDW

you did not pick up the Dreamwave ball in some

some sort of weird like one shot or one like

just Okay, but anyway to the best of well to

the best of my knowledge with that It had more

to do with the fact that there's a bunch of stuff.

Yeah concerning Dreamwave That is tied up. Yeah

in like some legal stuff cuz you know, there's

there's there's there are people who Were supposed

to get paid for their work who weren't so exactly.

Yeah It it You know, it's one of those things

where Yeah, it'll be You know, as much as we

want to see the, you know, as much as we want

to see this wrapped up or to see what was supposed

to happen, it'll take a while. It will take a

long while. It's going to take a while. Yeah,

no, absolutely. But I was just saying like, yeah,

no, but I was just commenting that. IDW did like

like they brought Simon Furman on and did regeneration

one and continued the Marvel kind of thing and

they did other things and all as I was saying

was I'm surprised somehow some way they couldn't

have found a way to Give the Dreamwave fans the

ending that they so rightfully deserve that they

will never get because that company went out

of business Alright back to Joe. Yeah, so this

is a nice Send -off I think this has yeah, it

feels like it's more than a one -shot It feels

like it's a a full -on like normally when you

get one shots. It's So any story should have

a beginning middle and end but you know Sometimes

when you have monthly comics you have to keep

the reader going but because this was a one shot

it As I was reading and I'm like wow this comic

is kind of and I'm reading it at the tail end

of World on fire because luckily and again Thank

you for saying that it was a whatever because

it's in the world on fire trade paperback So

I didn't have to buy the single issue by itself.

Yeah. Oh good. It's right here. That's good You

know something and then the other the other thing

I think for me with with Castlefall. Now, here's

a question I got for you. Did you have you heard

of or did you ever see a TV series in the 90s?

It was called Space Above and Beyond. I've heard

about it, but I've never actually watched it.

I know that it exists. Yeah, I don't know. I

haven't even seen trailer. Wasn't it a Canadian

series? It was on Fox. Oh, okay. Wasn't it a

time of like beyond belief and all that stuff?

Um, 2000 2001. I just know it was based on beyond

I want to say was 95 96. Because I was still

in high school. My best friend from high school.

He did you know, this was another mic that I

As he called as he as I called him and said Miguel

but yeah, he and I were both fans of this now

the reason I bring it up in relation to Castlefall

is that the show only lasted one season it got

cancelled right the last episode Reminds me a

bit of Castlefall in the sense that well Castlefall

doesn't wrap up everything Yeah, like, you know,

basically it does end with you know, one city

being liberated. Yeah, there's still a bunch

of other stuff out, you know, still a bunch of

plot lines that really weren't like, you know,

tied up. Yeah, yeah, they weren't they weren't

given with a bow tie. But if this is supposed

to be the last hurrah, you know, for this GI

Joe continuity as you know, IDW hands over the

keys to the next the next company works. Yeah,

like the ending is satisfying enough. Yeah, it's

satisfying enough and that's the thing space

above and beyond that last episode of season

one now it does end on a bit of a downer note

because one cast member is Definitely dead two

more are missing and another one has to get medically

Evacuated back to earth. Oh boy, and it's probably

never going to fight again You know leaving only

two members of the cast still standing right

and that's kind of a bummer But given the whole

war is hell type of feel that the series was

going for it works like if this is how It's supposed

to you know, if this is how They're gonna end

it Then you know it it works it's a downer but

it works and this is how I feel with Castlefall

If this is going to be an end -end, it works.

If this was meant to be end of chapter one, it

works. I feel the same way about this. Something

else that I want to bring up is about this time,

maybe even a little later, I think, IDW's second

Transformers continuity ended with a one -shot.

Called the theater Cybertron. Wait, what? Yeah,

hold on IDW second run unless you're oh you're

talking about the 2019 series Yes, okay. I'm

like because to me there's there are three volumes

to IDW to me personally and the reason why I

say that is because There was IDW 1 .0, which

was all the stuff before James Roberts and John

Barber took over. IDW 2 .0 was when Barber and

Roberts took over with More Than Meets the Eye,

Robots in Disguise, and then we got down to the

Unicron event. And then they rebooted again.

So yeah, I have not read past. In trade paperback,

I have not read past volume 3 of IDW's 2019 series,

so I don't know what happens in volumes 4, 5,

and 6. Okay, but it did end with a one -shot

called The Fate of Cybertron, and that one I

was not very satisfied with. It didn't feel like...

Really them trying to You know trying to wrap

things up. Yeah, it just felt like crap. We can't

wrap up everything This feels more that more

like an you know, this is the end of chapter

one Yeah, especially because there was a lot

of stuff hanging and you know Characters that

you don't think would be left hanging. We're

left hanging and I'm just like wow Wow, that's

yeah. Yeah, and it's one of those things where

I Like okay, I think I've said this to you before

but I'll say it again for the audience and audience

I'm sorry. I repeat myself a lot from going back

to old episodes Please go back to the old episodes

But something like crisis on infant earths something

like endgame something like Insert, final, fatal,

Transformers Unicron. Something that, like, okay,

IDW had the Transformers license in total for

17 years, okay? They didn't bring Unicron in

until they absolutely thought that's where the

story was going. Like, you don't bring in Unicron

in your series or your whatever. until the end.

If you want to end it and you want to reboot

it or you want to start a new story, that's when

you bring Unicron in. So for me, personally,

the IEW Universe of Transformers comics that

I love that started out with the death of Optimus

Prime going to More Than Meets the Eye and Robots

in Disguise and then later Optimus Prime and

Lost Light respectively, Once you hit Unicron

on that universe, I'm like, okay, I'm done. And

we did, we covered, Steve and I, Steve Megatron

and I covered the first three volumes of the

2019 series and I just couldn't get into the

character. I still want to finish it at some

point. If I even can, I don't know. I'm sure

I'll have to figure out some legal way to get

it. It is what it is. Uh, yeah, fate of cybertron.

Sifcon's unleashed their most powerful weapons

to prevent the Autobots from leaving side. But

who wrote this? Oh, roughly. That's the other

thing. I was not a like after three volumes of

the Transformers, Brian, roughly stuff. That

was the first time I'd ever read anything by

him. I was not a fan of his writing. I don't

know what it was. I just was not a fan of his

writing at all. But anyway back to Castlefall

boy, we really have to pad out this episode.

Don't we folks? Yeah, and it's funny because

they don't really I skip I'm we're not skipping

as far as the story goes but I skipped to the

Final panel and it doesn't say anywhere on here

like, you know nor like when who was it it was

What's the guy the when when spider spider -man

Oh Freak the did the guy the big the guy that

did it for like ten freaking years God was in

slot. Yes and slot when Dan slot took over or

when when no when Dan slot was leaving and then

Nick Spencer took how the hell I remember Nick

Spencer's name I've never read a single comic

of that's of the Nick Spencer run yet When Dan

slot was leaving and he was ending his story

Most comics, if you are rebooting the character

into something new, the final story will say

the end. This does not say the end anywhere in

this at all. So I would love to see more from

these. I love these characters between like we

said in episode 521 with world on fire. And with

this, this final one shot here, I would, this

is like. I've never been like I'm not always

on the GI Joe side I'm more on the transformer

side of things than anything else because I made

a choice when I was four years old in 1984 to

go with the giant robots than the military but

that's just me and I like GI Joe I don't dislike

it I have the the cartoon series we're gonna

eventually do that at some point over on Tooncast

with Optimus Solo and a bunch of other people

But as far as comics go, without having to read,

what is it, 200 issues, and I'm not disparaging

this, I'm just saying without having to read

200 issues of Larry Hama comics, not that that's

a bad thing, but I like when I can jump in on

the ground floor and I feel like World on Fire

and Castlefall was the ground floor for this

set of Joes, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah,

it's it was great to have a story that yeah,

you don't have to rely on You know 40 years of

content, you know, I love Hama, you know, I love

Hama and You know the something we can talk about

later is that you know, we you know those who

love Hama like me We will be getting we will

be getting more But it is great also to have

yeah, I'm perfectly Yeah, no, it is great to

have a continuity you can jump on without needing

needing to know yeah You know and it's just Yeah,

I think you know, I kind of wonder because yeah

slot got to put a definitive end on his run Then

it's like yeah, and you know this doesn't see

the end I kind of wonder like I have to wonder

and maybe if one of us was ever to run into the

writer at a convention or something we can find

out. I have to wonder is this one of those things

where they they did have cat like Castlefall

was always going to be a thing. Yeah it was always

going to be a thing but I have to wonder is it

something that They had you know, this was originally

maybe planned to be an issue like maybe to close

a storyline they were gonna do more but then

word came down that the GI Joe license was gonna

be shifting so You know this ended up becoming

a series finale instead of a season one. Yeah

Like I even have to wonder was Castle all gonna

be just part of the regular comic and then they

were like, nope we're gonna be announcing soon

that Our license has expired. So can you just,

you know, can you just wrap it up in this one

shot? Yeah. And eventually, like I said, I do

want to try, like I always want to give it the

old college try of doing various things. And

I had plans to. do Transformers volume. This

is the 2019 series volume for declaration of

war volume 5 Harz near and far and then Volume

6 wars end which was collecting 37 to 43 and

then like you said the fate of Cybertron was

kind of like the final one shot Episode so I

do want to eventually do that if I can get my

I've been probably going to have to actually

order the physical trade paperbacks which Physical

comics I haven't used physical comics since Punisher

what's the one welcome back Frank? Had that I

have told this story a thousand times folks,

but this podcast is a decade old this year So

you're gonna hear shit from the past. I had welcome

back Frank physically in Omnibus form all 12

issues. Yeah I'm holding it. I'm reading it.

I'm enjoying it I'm flipping through the pages

as I'm reading the book all of a sudden my hand

goes limp I fell asleep the book fell out of

my hand crashed to the floor the very next day

I went on to comixology .com and I have not looked

back since with digital comics because at least

I can, at the time when comixology wasn't bought

by evil, I could read them on my giant computer

screen. Now I am reduced to reading them on my

phone, which is fine. It is what it is. I still

enjoy the art. I love the stories from whatever

comics I read, but I wish somehow, some way,

Amazon did not. Incorporate comics ology and

then make it Kindle comics and just keep the

same user interface that comics ology had for

years that were sorry Breathe breathe breathe

take a breath Take a take a breath take a glass

of water. It's okay. It's okay. Believe believe

me. I I Really wish that hadn't happened to but

I make do and I actually still do physical comics

although it's more grabbing trades of collections,

but yeah, no, I I feel yeah for the IDW stuff

specifically that I still want to cover before

they are The like okay at some point. I don't

know when but I do know the exact person. I'm

gonna do this with Okay, and we're on such a

tangent folks But we're padding out this episode

because this is only one issue of a comic even

though it feels like seven Years and years and

years ago 30 years ago back in the 90s Marvel

Somehow some way Marvel and DC decided to get

along and they released a four -issue crossover

DC versus Marvel I actually voted on a few of

the fights. I just remember I'm like, oh, I'm

going to use logic. How'd that work out for you?

In some cases, it worked out really well. In

other cases, I'm like, Are you effing kidding

me? This guy would never beat this guy. I don't

care how popular Wolverine is. Lobo would leave

him a bloody splatter on the floor. You know

this to be true. Does have healing factor unless

he didn't have his healing factor at that time.

But he did. He did. It's just Lobo's a freaking

intergalactic bounty hunter who's gone toe to

toe with Superman, who can level entire freaking

building. I don't care about your freaking healing

factor. Wolverine would have lost. Maybe he wouldn't

have died, but he would have been gone for a

couple of hours because he would have probably

had to heal most, if not all, of his bone structure

and nerve endings. Freaking popularity BS. How

badly can I swear in this? Can do whatever you

want it doesn't matter. Okay. All right. All

right. I just won't know Yeah, let me just I

want to see I need to see something anyway because

I need to see what so anyway DC versus Marvel

At the time which I know I don't want to buy

it again. I want to see the order details you

idiots Okay, so DC versus Marvel the four issues

that combined the companies they did the story

with the Whatever the watcher. It wasn't the

watcher, but it was some weird I don't remember

So it was some cosmic thing. Yeah, it was some

cosmic. They were cosmic. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. So

just just say Exactly. Yeah, so I want I didn't

want I had a hard time on eBay finding each individual

issue So I'm like, okay, where can I get the

physical trade paper back of this because I know

there was one back on August of last year Luckily

all my bills were paid all my financial responsibilities

were done on Amazon I paid just over a hundred

and twenty dollars for the trade And it's in

my closet and my buddy comic concierge Dan Clark

and I are gonna do it. It's gonna cover it at

some point on the podcast I don't know when I

am net like even though I plan on being cremated

that book is going to be buried with me Just

because of having to find the damn thing in good

condition and It's a 30 year old comic I don't

mind if I have the money and I can spend it I

will but like I was in that stupid thing was

so stupid soon as I bought it Listings popped

up here. Would you like this exact same thing?

Would you like this for $60 half price? Hey,

I've grabbed I've gotten trades and then all

of a sudden like would you like the individual

issues I'm like No, that's why I bought the trade.

Yeah, I bought I don't need the individual issues

It's like would you want this omnibus that collects

this and this no Because I don't want the other

story. No, I don't want yeah. No, no, I don't

need the omnibus Thank you. You could have told

me that to begin with Yep, I'm okay. I'm okay.

Go back to GI Joe I'm up to the page where scarlet

says Frontier we can't provide backup once you

go subterranean. So they go subterranean backup

that's that's kind of where we are and Holy crap

lots of fights Yep, big fight scene. Yep, and

oh Lady Jake caps somebody in the head About

time she does something Ouch capping in the head

Damn, this is not this ain't your dad's gi joe

No folks, they're not just gonna smack them in

the head with the with the butt of their rifle.

Nope. Not at all Nope, nope Oh, yeah, oh yeah,

and you know you got uh, and then of course you

have the big uh the big twist because they think

they're catching dr mind bender and it turns

out to be major blood Yep, you made your blood

good old major blood Everybody's favorite Australian

mercenary, you know, there we go. There we go.

Good. Yeah, I think he's Aussie Yeah, once again

accent. Yeah. Yeah once again, I have to praise

the art team on the colors because now between

the fight and Then the large panel Jeep scene

of them driving and then the next page of the

all kind of like blues and blacks and the color

swap is so like it just Bully and when I say

bleeds, I mean bleeds in a good way, which usually

when you somebody says the word bleed it's not

a good thing, but like it just flows into each

scene and it just works so well. I like the simplified

designs, the simplified artwork. Did I say that

when we covered the series proper? I think we

did. We brought it up. Yeah, well, that's the

interesting thing like you want the you want

the characters to pop you don't need the the

light above her like I'm on the page where where

He asks you. Okay, lady. J. I'm fine Like I said

on the radio like there's a light right above

her head You don't need the light to be illuminated

more than it already is What you need is to see

her as a character, see Major Blood, see Scarlet,

see whatever the, I forget what the kid's name

is, that's next to Scarlet's. You know, that's

the, like everybody was complaining with the

Beast Wars comic from IDW that happened in 2021

that the characters had all this definition,

but the backgrounds were just really simple.

back the point was was the backgrounds were to

be as colorful and as easy as possible in the

eyes so you can focus on the majority of the

character designs which popped the background

was not supposed to pop and i don't think in

this comic series the only time the background

should pop is if you have the like the the swing

lines here so we get to a point where Scarlet

is like major blood, sticks out his hand and

says, so major blood reporting for duty. What

do you say? Sticks his hand out to Scarlet. Scarlet

just kind of stares at him, stares at him. Bam!

Shoots him with a John Woo dove coming out of

nowhere. And the next insert panel is I say no

with more John Woo doves flying around her. But

the point here is the way she swung around her

arm, which is weird because in both of these

panels, she shoots him with her right hand, but

the panel that I'm talking about that I love,

the gun is in her left hand, so whatever it is

what it is. But like the lines around that to

show the action of how she switched hands or

how she did whatever she did, that is a background

pop, but she still is the main focus. the panel

to Her character versus having the doves fly

like in front of her face, which thankfully they

didn't do that Yeah, no, and and it's like I

keep thinking, you know classic comics You have

like There there, you know, there's I forget

if it's Kirby that did this but there was like

an really old from the 1960s or so. There's a

Captain America comic where, you know, Cap is

facing Batroc. Okay. And it is it's like, you

know, you have this like six or you have like

the these couple of pages with these panels of

various sizes showing blow by blow their fight.

There's no background. it's just white and you

have the two figures but it's like that's all

you need it's like this is a comic this is a

comic you don't need it's not like okay it's

not like the matrix yeah it's not like the matrix

where you have the rain soaked city streets and

you know the and you know there's carrion moss

just covered in you know covered in water and

you know Okay, I'll take that any day. Like,

forget Mr. Smith. Anyway, sorry. You understand

what I was going for. You're accentuating the

character. The background should complement the

character. The background should not... I mean,

the only time the background should be like the

star is like... later in this comic they have

like the cobra flag in one panel or there's the

building where the cobra symbol is on it there's

a panel here where they show the heliport later

like that can be because you're not focused like

that heliport shot is not there aren't any characters

i mean there are probably characters on the roof

as we see But in that shot, the background is

the star. Whereas if you have, like we've already

said, a character in frame or a character in

the shot, the way to do that is the accentation

of the character versus the background. You know,

I also think of the fact that what I also think

about is, you know, looking at, you know, looking

at the page where we have the whole back and

forth between MajorBlood and Scarlet, you know,

looking at that. So you have the top panel, which

is Scarlet shooting MajorBlood, and that has

the two characters in silhouette in the and then

there's no background. But to me, I'm just like,

okay, this still works because the focus is to

trick the audience into thinking, whoa, holy

cow, did she just gun down major blood? Did she

just kill him? Did we just have a major character

getting killed? We don't need to see buildings.

We don't need to see anything surrounding. It's

just the focus is Scarlett and Did she did she

shoot major blood? That's it? Yep, you know do

you know the scene doesn't you know, the scenes

focus is that it's not You know, it's nothing

else. We don't need to see anything else in the

back. Yeah, and she says to Whoever she's I think

it's is that It's not flint. It's God who's the

old guy? The general she's talking to after that

scene the old guy. I believe the talking Okay,

well if it's hockey, I want to say the talk.

It's nothing like Which is yeah, Dennis Quaid

But he's she says it was a tactical decision.

I just don't know if I believe you scarlet Yeah,

this is major blood. We're talking about the

man who killed Duke the man responsible for the

deaths of thousands 10 to 1 odds he was playing

us he would be he would pretend to be an asset

until the right moment came along and then he

would betray us yeah that tracks yeah it's like

yeah that sounds like major blood yeah very much

so yep that's that that that that's major blood

yeah Then dr. Mindbender is playing dog tricks

Okay, then Yeah And we finally get to see more

of Cobra commander finally like I feel like we

haven't seen much of he's been in the background

of world on fire and Castlefall For the most

part and now we finally get to see him. That's

cool Yeah, no, and it's you but you know what

I I do I Do though I like the idea of cover commander

being behind like behind the scenes You know,

I like being kind of off to the side, you know

a sort of this You know, it's just sort of this

force that's there You know, we know Cobra commanders

there. We know he exists But you know for the

life of you know for the life of everybody. How

do we? How do we prove that? What do we do with

it? You know, it's like how do you you know,

you know this thing exists, but You know, he's

being clever enough to just be in the shadows.

Yeah, and I like that I like that he's you know,

I Mean as cool as it is to a bad guy that gets

his hands dirty. There's also something cool

about a mastermind. That's just like Look, I

called you here because you have stuff to do

because you're not getting the job done. Why

aren't you? Are you going to have to be replaced?

Because I can do that. I love what what Baroness

says to him. Way outside your lane, Doc Monocle.

Yeah, and that also that that feels a little

like a Baroness thing, you know, because I know

I remember I remember the Marvel run a couple

of times to. Poke fun at him. You know people

would call mindbender. Dr. Brainwave And it was

just accepted that this is just those just people

being jerks. Yeah Absolutely. It's like oh, you

know mindbender is just such a weirdo. Okay brainwave

Boy, that's not your name. Oh could have pulled

me Could have pulled me. Oh What was the stupid

idiot's name in the flash It wasn't brainwave.

It was so season seven or there was one season

where it was This guy in a chair. I don't know

Okay. Oh, yeah, I know the one you're talking

about. Yeah, I thinker that's yeah Tinker yeah,

the thinker good lord. I remember him 1960s name

that is So we get Cobra Commander saying they

are not just terrorists. They are foolish. They

are fools who have no idea what is best for this

world and my patience with them is at an end.

And then we cut to Scarlet and Tiger doing more

training and she kind of gets the better of him

again. I thought that would be like a teacher

or student learning from the teacher and he gets

the best of her at the end but but again talking

about characters and action shots and backgrounds

this the top of this page these four panels with

the the blue outlines of wherever they are and

how like that top panel here where she's standing

and and her you know left foot kind of blends

into the blue and white of the flight Blends

in but it stands out at the same time that that

is really good. Oh, yeah and Major blood is Kind

of he's still here. So that's good, I guess You

laughing It's no homie. I just love the way you're

like that's good. I guess I don't know. I mean

he's a villain, right? He's he's part of the

bed like I don't know Yeah, no, no, I mean you're

you're you're right. It's like, okay, you know,

he's a villain but Uh, you know, it's hey I do

like the I do like the comical little touch.

There's a cute little get well soon card Yeah,

like next to next to him. It's like You've got

to wonder who's nice enough to be like, yeah,

get well soon. Get well soon. Good luck. Good

luck recovering from your injuries. Who's the

fan that thought it would be nice enough to do

that? And then we get to some part of the city

and, hey, I just lost contact with Shot right

in the whatever. And the bats show up. And they

ain't no Louisville sluggers, ladies and gentlemen.

Yep. No, these guys, these... Oh. They have,

like, BFGs on them. Yep. And again, color -wise,

I love the panels with Cobra Commander and Baroness,

with it all being right around them and their

cohorts and... That's, again, the art in this

is just so good. Oh, yeah. And Faithway talking

with Scarlett, she's like, oh, mobilize the teams.

Faithway's like, which teams? All of them. Yeah.

Scarlett, I think, was one changed piece of art

away from Probably screaming it like Gary Oldman

and the professional. Yeah, which teams What's

the what's the other one what's the other reference

where oh It's um It's something that's overused

now and I don't like that. It's overused now,

but I will say again Yeah, once again going back

to that 2010 classic film the a team everybody

uses that now and it pisses me off because Liam

Neeson I'm sure it was said before 2010 but Liam

Neeson as Colonel John Hannibal Smith of the

A -Team saying that in a tank that they are flying

and it has the bumper sticker fire everything

on the back of the car. I'm trying to remember

though Was it hang I'm trying to remember I think

Nero says that in Star Trek 2009. Yes, he does.

He says fire everything. Yeah, it's been used

a lot. I'm not saying that it Lately people have

been using it too much a lot. Yeah. Well, and

then there's there's a great variation with the

Star Trek generations when they're trying to

back out of the Nexus in the beginning, the captain

of the Enterprise B, Captain Cameron Fry of the

Enterprise B, yelling, Oh Lord, yeah, that's

not the same thing. You know what? The volume

and the intensity are very similar. Yes, but

it's not the same thing. Hey, it's along the

same lines. Same intensity, you know Same intensity,

but not the same line. So doesn't count. Okay.

No, no No, I don't want any other enterprise

no bloody a b c or d That counts Scotty so we

get back to major blood and and dr. Meinbender

and their Either arguing over credits over over

the over the whatever they're doing here Yeah,

Joe did and I've investigating them for months

and I found their headquarters act their intelligence

and But I still can't give you credit for it.

I'm like really seriously. Come on So does oh,

okay He chokes it. Oh, no He throws him out the

window. Oh, okay. I see what's happening Wow,

okay at first I thought he was just gonna like

strangle him and Just like okay. He just drops

him out the window Alrighty then well no more

dr. Mindbender cuz I don't think you could survive

a fall from that. I that looks like pretty high

Yeah, yeah, no that yeah, I don't yeah the hospital

like I can see if I can see other like in the

in the scene in the panel. It's right after Where

mindbender says I can think of my I can think

my way out of anything. So it's after that panel

where blood reaches for him The building that's

next to mindbender the little green building

outside the window There's no way that they're

not on like the first or second floor. That's

going to kill him He did There's yeah, he did

he did he gone he gone he gone guess we're gonna

have to like call dr Venom and just be like hey

you want to be in the comic cuz We're gonna need

a mad scientist, you know We're gonna need a

mad scientist you free So, okay, I understand

that this whole thing is Cobra is supposed to

be the in charge and whatever else but them calling

GI Joe terrorists know what am I missing here

like you know it's no you you answered the question

when you when you started your sentence you know

Cobra are supposed to be the ones in power right

so pretty much yeah that would make GI Joe the

terrorists of course there is there is the thing

well there is the thing though There is the thing

though where one person's terrorist is another

person's freedom fighter. That's true. So, you

know, it's Cobra calling G .I. Joe terrorists.

You know, that's like, all right, right. I get

it. Like, hey, we're in charge. We're the president

this year. Let's, you know, stop trying to revolt

against us. Stop trying to, you know, incursion

on the White House people. Yep. Exactly. Exactly.

It's like, you know, it's hey Cobra's in charge,

you know, we're in charge We're making the rules

and if you're against us in the rules that makes

you the bad guys Which is not entirely act, you

know not entirely true, but you know We're charged

and sometimes make the rules It's like according

to my rules, you know, you're not you know, it's

Yeah And then is this tiger that's running away?

I Assume that's in the red shirt in the red jacket.

This is after Cobra commander gets on the helicopter

Well, let's see, okay Let me see where he says

they're gonna get Baroness next who has an eye

on Baroness and he runs into Baroness That is

tiger, right? Oh, let me see, we got... Yeah,

Tiger is usually the one with the red jacket.

Yeah, so that's Tiger. Yeah, that is Tiger. That

is Tiger, yeah. But yeah, well especially because

since he's getting into a fist fight with the

Baroness, he's getting into a fist fight with

the Baroness, and this is, I mean if you look,

If you look when he and the Baroness are fighting,

the six panels, they mirror the earlier thing

with Tiger versus Scarlett. Scarlett, yeah. So

the one thing that confuses me as much as I like

it, you impudent child, what? You think I shouldn't

hit a lady? I think you should not touch a superior.

And I'm thinking, Much as I love when Baroness

undresses, why is she undressing? Well, I think

okay in this case What's going on is she's gonna

get she's gonna get into fisticuffs with tiger

Okay, and she knows she knows enough that if

she really wants to give him a beating. Yeah

then Wearing that jacket is not gonna help Okay,

you know she knows she knows enough about hand

-to -hand combat You don't wear you know, sorry,

but you know fans of that leather jacket look

thing Yeah, if you're gonna go toe -to -toe with

somebody ditch the jacket. It's not It looks

cool, but it is gonna be an endurance Yeah, you

want your arms unencumbered and she basically

you know hands his ass to him Don't know about

the hands ass. I think that He puts up a decent

fight. I mean, yeah, no, he doesn't No, so she

takes her jacket off. No, she takes her jacket

off. She punches him in the first panel He kind

of pushes and she's pushing and pulling and whatever

It looks like he bites her hair in the next panel

and then she here No, no, no, the year is later

uh the ear is the second to last panel but the

the one right after she pushes him away the first

time he he's in close again and then she pushes

him away again then the final time is he bites

her ear and she's going it's like and i taught

him everything he knows fine let's know that's

Fun. That's okay. I like that. That's interesting.

But it wasn't like he was punching her back.

That's my point. It was more of a grappling type

of fighting where they're grabbing at each other.

There was one punch that she threw at him at

that panel. He threw no punches at her after

the first time he punched her. So that's kind

of my point like wait a minute and then obviously

he does the he does the the bitch move and bites

your ear Yeah, well, I mean, you know, it's It's

kind of one of those it does feel like one of

those One of those fights that You know, it's

not really a Fight so much, you know, it's like

it doesn't it turns into a grapple turns into

a grappling match which You know It's it happens,

you know kind of yeah, not every not, you know,

not every fight is gonna be this, you know Great

little, you know martial arts exchange where

it's like punches and kill again Like you said,

it's this whole scene is like it's a red and

white background Whereas when Scarlett taught

him everything he knows it was a blue and white

background. So it's a mirror of each of the things

but like they're not doing the same, like they're

not mirroring the previous scene. They're doing

it in a way where it shows the scene looks like

the previous scene, but they're. Yeah, it is.

It is definitely homaging the previous scene.

It's just not. Yeah, it's not. It's not an absolute

mirror. There's not a lot of punching and kicking

and whatnot. Yeah. I think it was interesting

that Baroness tries to act, you know. Going into

this Baroness is like oh, I am going to beat

the ever -loving daylights out to me But you

know the fight is very for a character like Baroness

to be involved in this. It's very inelegant She

would probably disagree with you, but yeah Sometimes

not not all the time Probably. Stupid peasant,

what do you know? Marinus, glad you could make

it. Who says Cobra provides? Who is the person?

The one who gets shot in the middle of the riot?

Yeah. My guess is that it's not, it's nobody,

it's not supposed to be like any big name person.

Okay, so it's just one of their lackeys. it's

just a lackey or you know a grunt or whatever

and you know it's just like the whole purpose

of this is just to show uh it's pretty much just

to show like oh this is you know things things

are are like flipping around you know things

are changing things are going back to normal

this is america this is not coba i don't know

about yeah i don't know about back to normal

but yeah this whoever you know you have that

one trooper yeah who you know who then shoots

the cobra provides because it's like it's it's

kind of also showing you know there were people

that you know we don't see yeah that um That

basically, you know, these, you know, whoever

this was, they probably joined because of the

paycheck, because it's like, OK, I need, you

know, I need to provide for my family. But then

see everything that goes down and seeing the

commanders retreating and everything. You know,

God was just like, you know what? Fuck it. Yeah,

I'm done. I quit. You know, and that would be

that would have been a. That would have actually

been. Really kind of cool To have like, you know,

if the series had continued yeah to have maybe

you know more members of Joe who were ex cobras

who were like Yeah, I only did this, you know,

cuz I had to provide for my family and whatnot

This is just yeah. No, I you know this it was

this or nothing, right? I'm you know, but yeah,

I'm not into this I don't, I don't care. I don't

care. I'm done with this crap. Yep. So we get

the general taking down the Cobra flag, putting

back up the United States of America flag. Look,

look, it's, it's, it's, it's Unicron. No, you

should say something. So Scarlet goes up to make

her speech. Cobra Commander is gone and Chicago

is free for now, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And yeah, welcome to G .I. Joe. That's it. There

you go. And that's how it that's that's how we

end it with Scarlet basically being like, yeah,

You're all, you know, you were all Joes today.

Yep. My favorite variant cover from this is the

one by Ariel Diaz. It is the Baroness. Oh, it's

so good. Oh, yeah. That jacket never looked so

good. I still remember the I still remember that

there was supposed to be a cover, a Baroness

cover for was it? I think it was one of the Devil's

Dew issues. And it was this great Adam Hughes

Baroness It was this great, you know Adam Hughes

Baroness Cover and it didn't get used So I think

it Did get used later on for IDW, but yeah somebody

and you know somewhere, you know, I think it

was Hasbro that was kind of like no Yeah, don't

do that. Yeah, no, we're not doing we're not

doing sexy Adam Hughes Baroness and it's like

Yeah, I think when people saw the cover it's

like why not we want that cover Yeah, exactly.

So because this is continuing where we left off

in episode 521 of the podcast This is the end

of the trade with all the variant covers and

everything else and then they have the profiles

for all the characters. They have Tiger, Hawk,

Frontier, Jinx, Roadblock, Major Blood, Lightfoot,

Daemon, Stalker, Fadeaway, Zartan, Snake Eyes,

Duke, Dead, Bomb Strike, Scarlet, Chuckles, Tunnel

Rat, Dr. Mindbender, The Bats, Lady J, Cobra

Commander, Rock and Roll, Baroness, Cover Girl,

and at the end of this, it's a thing of art by,

let's see, I forget that name because I screwed

that up. by Freddie Williams, Hope Lives Here,

and it's Scarlett and Roadblock and all that.

And then what is so awesome about this is in

this trade folks, if you need resources and you

can't find them online, this has a list of all

various crisis intervention and support networks,

mental health resources, and education and awareness

resources. This is amazing. Again, because this

is part of the this is part of the world on fire

trade paperback because of issue seven of of

world on fire and the suicide thing. Absolutely

love that. Yeah, no, it's it's it's good that

they didn't. But yeah, the fact that issue seven

is in there, it's like, yeah, let's you know,

we're not just going to. We're not gonna make

the resources disappear. It's like no here. They

are. It's like if you don't have the individual

issue We're still giving you the resources and

that's that's good because I mean this was this

is I think an important enough thing that it's

like yeah Yeah, we can't just let it go. I Like

this ending I like that Chicago is now free I

like that, you know, we didn't have to have shockwave

blow it up or anything like that Yeah Yeah, we

didn't have to have any of that stuff or dark

dark side of the moon We didn't have to have

Pink Floyd show up and have a concert in Chicago.

Oh geez It's it's transformers in GI Joe even

though this isn't transformers, but yeah, I don't

I don't think Transformers would have worked

with this particular iteration of G .I. Joe.

No, I don't think so either. I think I would

have. I don't think. Yeah, I don't think they're

on their own. And that's fine. Yeah, it's a completely

different. It's a world of bend. Cobra is in

charge. Like it's a you know, we've been talking

about multiverses all hour long here. We've actually

been talking for about two hours, but the podcast

will be about an hour and hour and whatever.

So whatever. So yeah. But yeah, no, I I dug this

I almost if we hadn't talked as long as we talked

when we recorded episode 521 I almost wish we

just put it in there and did it as all one thing

but I'm glad we did it as a separate thing because

it feels like the end of whatever issue number

it was for world on fire, I forget if it was

10 issues or nine, I forget what it was. And

then coming back to do it again with this is

really fun and really great. Oh yeah. And hey,

you know what? Absolute worst case, is there

anything, does there exist a thing like omnibuses

for podcasts? Because I mean, if that's the case,

you know, we could have like, hey, it's the...

The G .I. Joe World of Fire Omnibus podcast featuring,

you know, making both parts together. Yeah, people

would have to pay me to do that. But I could

technically cut out the intro, cut out the intro

music and clips and whatever that I put in this.

And I could find a way to tack it on the end

of the other episode. But that would make it

like three and a half, four hours. Steve doesn't

like that. Spatial things where we store these

things sometimes don't like that So, okay. Yeah.

No, that's usually what we have three to four

hour episodes at the this anyway That's all other

discussion for another day for me or whatever.

Yeah, that's yeah, so that's uh Yeah, we are

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We will get Eduardo's opinion on, at this point,

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and beyond. Final thoughts on Castle Fall and

World on Fire in general? You know what? Honestly,

yeah, this was a great way to end this particular

iteration of G .I. Joe and this was something,

this was unique and interesting and, you know,

part of me is like this is a great story, you

know, with like a great used to end it and then

another part of me was like you know I would

love to see what else that uh that they had in

mind but it's like either way either way I'm

good like if this is the last time we're going

to be talking about it I'm okay with that if

you know like a year or two down the road we're

talking about it again because hey guess what

you know this is world on fire you know part

two the the bucketing okay That's you know, I

put a bucket on the fire unless the bucket has

water in it knock it off Well, that's what I'm

saying, you know, you take the bucket the bucket

is water you tip it over the water goes on the

fire cheap That would be too long a title. I

know right and Plus, you know Yeah, well, you

know and then plus Not to mention the fact that

if it's a big enough bucket and the fire is the

right size the bucket could smother the fire

It couldn't potentially as so see see there we

go Freaking a man. No prize it damn it. Don't

complain. No prize it No prize it So folks a

week ago today, we are talking june 21st here

inside the pull bag So one week ago today June

14th, 2023, finally, after so much silence, so

much everything, just finally. So there was one

news story about maybe five and a half, six months

ago where Hasbro said, we have a new comics partner

for Transformers and G .I. Joe, but we are not

yet ready to reveal who that is. And I'm sitting

here like, just tell us the damn name. tell us

the damn name. And everybody was speculating

and whatever else. My biggest speculation, and

I knew this would never happen because I didn't

think Hasbro would team up with the thing I'm

going to say. So we had Marvel Comics in the

80s for Transformers. This is 2020. Right. This

is 2023. Give it to DC just to be ironic. But

I know Hasbro is not going to team up with Warner

Brothers and Discovery and all that and DC and

everything else. But that's just my comical thing

about it of like being, haha, it would be hilariously

funny if it was DC Comics and that would be kind

of cool. However, according to TFW 2005 and other

sources, Image Comics, Transformers, number one

release date and creative team revealed. Now,

I did not know, I knew Sky, the one thing I knew

about Skybound was it was the Walking Dead guy.

It was Robert Kirkman. I did not know it was

an imprint of Image Comics. Now, I love Image

Comics. I love... Either did I. Yeah, I did not.

I thought Skybound was a different thing. Yeah,

and here's my thing, because in the time leading

up to this, I knew, you know, I had heard rumblings,

you know, I, I know, you know, I know a lot of,

I know a lot of Joe guys and I heard rumblings

that was going to be skybound. Um, nothing, but

you know, nothing was being said. Nothing was

being said. Um, then, you know, it was announced

that ROM and micronauts were getting omnibuses

from Marvel, right. Which, you know, to me, I'm

like, Yes, give me the things, you know, and

then for a minute there, there was a little discussion

on a couple of sites. Could this mean Marvel's

getting the license back? Yeah, that's what everyone

thought, too, was potentially Marvel. Yeah, because

Micronauts and ROM are both Hasbro properties.

And, you know, during the IDW years towards the

end there, all of the Hasbro properties were

being bumped into one you know, they're being

lumped into one universe. So, you know, it's

such a thing of like, okay, is this what we're

heading towards? But it turned out no, it was,

you know, the rumor, the rumor that had been

going around was true. It's skybound. Yeah. So

I'm just like, okay, interesting. And you know,

interesting, it is a sort of a homecoming. Yeah,

a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I think that was due.

Yep. Yep. Yeah, that was all right. It was a

at the start. That was do was was a a theory

of image and then they're like, oh, I did not

know that. Yeah, I think the first first like

20 something issues, I believe, had an image,

you know, you could get the image logo on the

corner. And then at a certain point, Devils do

went off on their own. So just looking at devils

do publishing It no devils do I don't think was

any kind of Started as both a commercial art

studio and a small press comic book publisher.

They're separate from image 2004 received micronauts

Because I remember I remember the covers do have

The image logo on it Huh, well, I don't know

what you have because according to this information

they I don't see images name anywhere on Yeah,

this at all, but it is what it is anyway the

the news for for Transformers comics and GI Joe

comics Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment

continue via Bleeding Cool Weekends over from

TFW 2005. Share for you the release date and

creative team of the new Transformers number

01 comic. Void Rivals number 1, which will be

kicking off this Transformers slash G .I. Joe

shared universe storytelling. Voids number 1

came out last week. Let's see, we'll hit Convict

stores this past Wednesday the 14th. Digital

versions are already available. Reveals that

Transformers number one out in October will be

written and drawn by Daniel Warren Johnson. So,

oblivion song and what's the other one? Do a

power bomb. I still need to read those and still

need to cover those on the show, but I don't

know when that's gonna happen yet. we also they

also have additional information about the upcoming

duke number one and cobra commander number one

comics in january which you can read so transformers

number one out in october will be written and

drawn by daniel warren johnson the massive transformers

fan also behind extremity murder falcon and do

a oh so it wasn't um oblivion song it was murder

falcon that's what it was and do a power bomb

Duke number one out in December will be written

by Joshua Williamson. DC Comics' current big

writing cheese begins Infinite Frontier, so basically

Joshua Williamson, the awesome Joshua Williamson.

Duke number one will be drawn by Tom Reilly of

both Ant -Man and Wasp, Astro Hustle and the

Thing. Cobra Commander number one will be written

also by Joshua Williamson and drawn by Andrea

Melania, whatever. Whatever and launch in January

2024 I am most interested obviously in the Transformers

book But I will most death we will you and I

will most definitely be covering at least Cobra

commander I don't know if I want to cover Duke

because what are they gonna do to kill him after

the fifth issue? Serious like the dude just he

always dies like Why is it always? Most of the

time well, I mean, okay he you know, I mean doubles

do IDW Well main IDW You know, there is there

is yeah there are there are a few things where

he does get to He does get to have a long lot

a long happy life But yeah, I do I do say yeah,

no, they're probably they're probably not gonna

kill off up to the fifth issue, you know But

it's interesting that they're doing they're doing

this that are giving these guys Individual Minis

like this. Yeah kind of makes me wonder are we

gonna get you know, are we gonna get? Like an

individual mini series for flop. I don't know

if it's a metaphor I don't know if these are

actual mini -series. I think these are new ongoing...

No, the Transformers... The Transformers, Cobra

Commander, and Duke, I think, are all new number

ones for series. Now, potentially I could be

wrong and they could be mini -series, but I think

they are all going to be ongoings for... Skybound

because Skybound has the license and they have

to start somewhere just like how when IDW restarted

where they restarted with the death of Optimus

Prime and then they went into more than meets

the eye number one and robots in disguise number

one those were comic book series that lasted

I think 50 if I remember correctly left out my

head 57 issues each plus other things so I think

these are new ongoings For these franchises because

it's a new publisher and they have to start somewhere.

I don't think these are mini -series yet Yeah

Picture what is this? This is an old picture.

Is it? Oh, this is the oh wow Okay, all right.

That's double zoom number one. What's on the

top corner? What's on the corner there? That's

interesting because well then Wikipedia needs

to be updated because they say nothing about

image comics Anyway, uh, well, okay be fair be

fair Uh devil's dew did go on their own starting

with issue 26 of the main Of the main comic.

Okay, that's probably what yeah the first the

first 25 issues It was devil's dew via image.

Oh, okay But yeah, if you look if you type in

like, you know, uh, g .i joe devils dew 26 You'll

see that. Yeah, it switched to something where

it's just the devils dew logo. Yep Any other

thoughts from you about IDW's GI Joe run or world

on fire slash castle Yeah, no, I think the only

other thing the only final thought I have is

that not only are we getting this new shared

universe Which is apparently called the energon

universe. I don't know why But maybe Energon

is going to be at the heart of a lot of these

stories. But one thing I am also glad about is

Larry Hama had continued his Marvel run with

IDW. It ended on a cliffhanger with the U300.

But they have announced that it is going to continue.

And it's going to continue. It's going to continue

from just like when IDW. brought the Hama run

back. First issue of Skybound's Real American

Hero comic is going to be 301. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, that's great. That's awesome because they're

giving us something for each type of fan. They're

giving us the longtime fans that have read 300

issues and they're continuing that story with

Larry Hama doing it. And they're also giving

us new stuff with Williamson and all that. Daniel

Warren, is it Daniel Warren? Whatever, the new

Transformers guy. So I'm excited and interested

to see what, now that we know a final answer

of, yes Regis Philbin, this is their final answer.

It's going to skybound under image and all that.

It's going to be interesting. Coming up folks.

We have got two more episodes here in June episode

527 and 528 527 will be the kill lock volume

to the artisan Wraith This is IDW publishing

Livio Ramandelli. This is the second arc of his

universe I highly suggest you check out the kill

lock volume 1 and volume 2. I think you will

like it because it's It's robots, it's also sci

-fi, and you're a Star Trek nerd, I know you

are. So this may be right up your alley. My friend

Heather and I reviewed these two trades, and

they are very, very cool. And then Joe Reed and

I are going to be back with another Image Comics

title. We're going to do Radiant Black Volume

2 Team Up. So that's what's happening. at the

end of June, in July, podcasts published there.

Steve Megatron and I are gonna be back with Star

Trek The Motion Picture Echoes, number one. Joe

Reed and I will do Rainier Black, volume three,

Rogues Gallery. And then Steve and I will do

Star Trek Defiant, four and five, and Star Trek,

the main ongoing, numbers eight and nine. So

that's what's going on for the end of this month

and all of next month. Anything you want to promote,

sir? Anything you want to say, pimp out or anything?

Well, I mean, you know, you can always check

out Market 42 to hear more, you know, hear more

of me and the podcast world. I'm on Twitter.

You know, there is, I will say this, that, you

know, if you had a chance to read any of the

comics that I've published, You know, I wrote

a few issues for this indie comic called The

Seer for Rising Sun. You know, if you like what

I wrote, you will be happy in the coming months.

I don't want to say any more. But just, yeah,

don't, you know, trust me. Stuff is coming. Very

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