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Special Missions 5
Almost a rehash of the classic Joe issue, "Shakedown," this issue features the Night Raven and Conquest instead of Skystriker and Rattler. The super dickish Night Raven pilot treats his ground crew like shit, as opposed to Slipstream, who buys toys for his crew's kids. Ace and Slipstream provoke the Night Raven into firing on them, and Ace is shot down. The rest of the issue is Slipstream pwning the Night Raven, who gets his just desserts when he's shot down and suddenly his mistreatment of his crew doesn't seem like a very good plan anymore. Mostly, you just shouldn't trust anyone Cobra would hire.
This is our weakest issue so far, but it's still fun, especially the over the top Cobra pilot. He's a huge pretentious, egotistical dick. There's just no way this aviation story can hold a candle to Shakedown, but that's not really this issue's fault, that's just a classic issue.
Bad Guys: Cobra, specifically the Air Viper
Running Dog insult: Nope.
Cool toy(s): The Night Raven, and for a literal toy, see weird stuff.
Bad-Ass Non-Joe: Not really bad-ass, but I'll count him anyway, the Night Raven ground crew.
Weird stuff: No-Prize for anyone who can explain why Slipstream gives his crewman a Megatron toy and calls it Jetfire. Herb Trimpe even pencilled some Transformers comics. It's really weird.
Rating: 3 Yo Joes.
Special Missions 5
Almost a rehash of the classic Joe issue, "Shakedown," this issue features the Night Raven and Conquest instead of Skystriker and Rattler. The super dickish Night Raven pilot treats his ground crew like shit, as opposed to Slipstream, who buys toys for his crew's kids. Ace and Slipstream provoke the Night Raven into firing on them, and Ace is shot down. The rest of the issue is Slipstream pwning the Night Raven, who gets his just desserts when he's shot down and suddenly his mistreatment of his crew doesn't seem like a very good plan anymore. Mostly, you just shouldn't trust anyone Cobra would hire.
This is our weakest issue so far, but it's still fun, especially the over the top Cobra pilot. He's a huge pretentious, egotistical dick. There's just no way this aviation story can hold a candle to Shakedown, but that's not really this issue's fault, that's just a classic issue.
Bad Guys: Cobra, specifically the Air Viper
Running Dog insult: Nope.
Cool toy(s): The Night Raven, and for a literal toy, see weird stuff.
Bad-Ass Non-Joe: Not really bad-ass, but I'll count him anyway, the Night Raven ground crew.
Weird stuff: No-Prize for anyone who can explain why Slipstream gives his crewman a Megatron toy and calls it Jetfire. Herb Trimpe even pencilled some Transformers comics. It's really weird.
Rating: 3 Yo Joes.
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