Toplessrobot.com is a wonderful geek news site, and they include daily lists about some aspect of geek culture. This morning's list was so wonderful, I had to share.
It's the 8 Biggest Reasons the G.I. Joe Comic Kicks The Cartoon's Ass.
My Personal favorite? #5: There Was No Cobra La.
The G.I. Joe cartoon was downright awesome until the movie decided to screw it all up by announcing that Cobra was founded by a bunch of retarded mutant men who once ruled the Earth before the Ice Age. And Cobra Commander was an actual friggin' snake man! It was a horrible way for Sunbow to wrap up the G.I. Joe cartoon and the DIC cartoons that followed, while inferior all-around, had the good grace to mostly ignore that whole travesty.
Hasbro forced Larry Hama to include a lot of crap in the comic book in order to promote the toys, good examples being Hardball, G.I. Joe's very own baseball player, and Raptor, Cobra's accountant who dressed like Harvey Birdman. But when it came to including Cobra-La, Hama gave a big middle finger to Hasbro and said he was not putting them in his awesome comic, no way in hell. Hasbro folded. Larry Hama kicks ass.
Amen to that. The Cobra La sucked so badly it's hard to quantify it with regular measurements of suckiness. Thank God for Larry Hama not letting that crap fly in the comics. The man is a saint and should be treated as such.
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