I spent #yojoeday yesterday in a semi-conscious flu-addled state, so I didn't even remember to put up a gallery.
I spent #yojoeday yesterday in a semi-conscious flu-addled state, so I didn't even remember to put up a gallery. For shame. Well, I'm well enough to do it now.
Special Missions 8
This is an interesting issue. Larry Hama doesn't like the CIA. This issue introduces asshole agent Anderson. The CIA is having the Joes extract a defector from a nameless south-east Asian country. The defector, Portland, is taking some important computer chips to the Communists. If the Joes can't extract him, Low-Light is to take him out.
An aside, Low-Light is one of my favorite Joes. He's the only Joe from North Dakota. His backstory is that he was a timid kid, afraid of the dark. He gets lost on a hunting trip and when they find him three weeks(!) later, he's smiling in the dark caressing his .22 rifle that he's been hunting with to survive. I wanted that to be me so bad.
The Joes pass a village that is something out of "the Killing Fields," and have to deal with the heat and environment as they wait for the convoy to show up at their ambush site. This is all really well done. You can feel how hot they are and how they're starting to crack up. When the convoy comes, it's actually an armored column. There's a kid on the road driving his buffalo home, blocking the way for the APCs. The bad guys immediately smell a trap, even though the kid isn't involved. The Joes go to radio that the mission is scrubbed, but their radio starts broadcasting a horrible loud noise that brings the bad guys down on them.
With no chance of extraction Low Light has to try to take out the defector, but he doesn't like his hand being forced like that. He takes time to save the kid and takes off after the defector as the Joes retreat.
Turns out the chips had a computer virus on them, and the Joe ambush was to make Portland's defection unimpeachable. The fate of the Joes didn't matter to the CIA at all. The CIA didn't think Low Light would pull the trigger. Well, he didn't, but he knocks him out and takes the chips. So the CIA's mission was a failure.
We'll be seeing more of Anderson later.
Bad Guys: Unnamed commies
Running Dog insult: No.
Cool toy(s): Computer chips with a "virus."
Bad-Ass Non-Joe: Buffalo kid
Weird stuff: The Joes have no issues beating the crap out of a CIA agent.
Rating: 4 Yo Joes.
Special Missions 8
This is an interesting issue. Larry Hama doesn't like the CIA. This issue introduces asshole agent Anderson. The CIA is having the Joes extract a defector from a nameless south-east Asian country. The defector, Portland, is taking some important computer chips to the Communists. If the Joes can't extract him, Low-Light is to take him out.
An aside, Low-Light is one of my favorite Joes. He's the only Joe from North Dakota. His backstory is that he was a timid kid, afraid of the dark. He gets lost on a hunting trip and when they find him three weeks(!) later, he's smiling in the dark caressing his .22 rifle that he's been hunting with to survive. I wanted that to be me so bad.
The Joes pass a village that is something out of "the Killing Fields," and have to deal with the heat and environment as they wait for the convoy to show up at their ambush site. This is all really well done. You can feel how hot they are and how they're starting to crack up. When the convoy comes, it's actually an armored column. There's a kid on the road driving his buffalo home, blocking the way for the APCs. The bad guys immediately smell a trap, even though the kid isn't involved. The Joes go to radio that the mission is scrubbed, but their radio starts broadcasting a horrible loud noise that brings the bad guys down on them.
With no chance of extraction Low Light has to try to take out the defector, but he doesn't like his hand being forced like that. He takes time to save the kid and takes off after the defector as the Joes retreat.
Turns out the chips had a computer virus on them, and the Joe ambush was to make Portland's defection unimpeachable. The fate of the Joes didn't matter to the CIA at all. The CIA didn't think Low Light would pull the trigger. Well, he didn't, but he knocks him out and takes the chips. So the CIA's mission was a failure.
We'll be seeing more of Anderson later.
Bad Guys: Unnamed commies
Running Dog insult: No.
Cool toy(s): Computer chips with a "virus."
Bad-Ass Non-Joe: Buffalo kid
Weird stuff: The Joes have no issues beating the crap out of a CIA agent.
Rating: 4 Yo Joes.
Low Light was a favorite of mine too.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wants to be a badass sniper.
ReplyDeleteIsn't he the one with chronic insomnia?
ReplyDelete