Hey, you know what Star Wars? GI Joe totally killed your toy sales. Kung Fu grip forever. #yojoeday
Hey, you know what Star Wars? GI Joe totally killed your toy sales. Kung Fu grip forever. #yojoeday
Special Missions 22
No toy commercial here. This is another hostage rescue issue. There seem to be a lot of these. Chuckles, Lady Jaye, Hit and Run, Shockwave are staking out a house where three terrorists have taken a family hostage. One holds a child in his room upstairs, and the other two, a man and a woman, hold the husband and wife in the kitchen. This is kind of a “and now we know!” story. It’s about not making snap judgments about people based on appearances. The terrorists killed 17 people at an airport before escaping and taking their hostages. They were wearing ski-masks, so the only way to identify them is by the horrifying grin on one of them. Hit and Run thinks he sees the same grotesque grin as he looks in the house through his binoculars.
Lady Jaye disguises herself as a makeup saleswoman and knocks on the door. A pretty blonde woman answers the door and Lady Jaye hands her her “card” which actually reads, “play along we’re here to rescue you” for which the blonde unloads on her with a Mac 10. Of course the pretty blonde couple are actually the terrorists, and the man with the death-grin, Lazlo, is a Vietnam vet with nerve damage giving him a rictus. Shockwave takes out the terrorist upstairs with the kid. Hit and Run busts in and luckily makes the right choice and shoots the blonde man instead of the dad with the rictus.
But the woman escapes with the kid as a small plane lands in a field to pick her up. Little does she know that Lazlo was a Marine sniper instructor. He grabs a rifle and shoots her dead.
The “reveal” is pretty weak since the setup was obvious, but I’m sure a lot of kids were surprised. This is still a nice issue because it’s a procedural, with the surveillance, reviewing of videotape, some investigation by Agent Saxon (the CIA agent Stalker decked a few issues ago), and then the tense shootout, ending with Lazlo’s deadeye shot.
Bad Guys: Generic terrorists.
Running Dog Insult: No, but there’s a nice “Pig!”
Cool Toy(s): M-16 scope zeroed to 200 meters.
Badass Non-Joe: Lazlo.
Rating 3 ½ Yo Joes
Special Missions 22
No toy commercial here. This is another hostage rescue issue. There seem to be a lot of these. Chuckles, Lady Jaye, Hit and Run, Shockwave are staking out a house where three terrorists have taken a family hostage. One holds a child in his room upstairs, and the other two, a man and a woman, hold the husband and wife in the kitchen. This is kind of a “and now we know!” story. It’s about not making snap judgments about people based on appearances. The terrorists killed 17 people at an airport before escaping and taking their hostages. They were wearing ski-masks, so the only way to identify them is by the horrifying grin on one of them. Hit and Run thinks he sees the same grotesque grin as he looks in the house through his binoculars.
Lady Jaye disguises herself as a makeup saleswoman and knocks on the door. A pretty blonde woman answers the door and Lady Jaye hands her her “card” which actually reads, “play along we’re here to rescue you” for which the blonde unloads on her with a Mac 10. Of course the pretty blonde couple are actually the terrorists, and the man with the death-grin, Lazlo, is a Vietnam vet with nerve damage giving him a rictus. Shockwave takes out the terrorist upstairs with the kid. Hit and Run busts in and luckily makes the right choice and shoots the blonde man instead of the dad with the rictus.
But the woman escapes with the kid as a small plane lands in a field to pick her up. Little does she know that Lazlo was a Marine sniper instructor. He grabs a rifle and shoots her dead.
The “reveal” is pretty weak since the setup was obvious, but I’m sure a lot of kids were surprised. This is still a nice issue because it’s a procedural, with the surveillance, reviewing of videotape, some investigation by Agent Saxon (the CIA agent Stalker decked a few issues ago), and then the tense shootout, ending with Lazlo’s deadeye shot.
Bad Guys: Generic terrorists.
Running Dog Insult: No, but there’s a nice “Pig!”
Cool Toy(s): M-16 scope zeroed to 200 meters.
Badass Non-Joe: Lazlo.
Rating 3 ½ Yo Joes
I love the kid's fuck you lady! look in the second to last panel.
ReplyDeleteOne of the Joes says to Lazlo, "You'd shoot a woman?" He says, "I'd shoot the Queen of the Sugarplum fairies if she was going to hurt my kid!"
ReplyDeleteLazlo knows what's up.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course Lady Jaye was wearing a Kevlar vest. And made sure to describe the exact 9mm rounds she was shot with, because Larry Hama.
ReplyDeleteI think because Larry Hama is going to be my response to everything from now on.
ReplyDelete"Did that fix get pushed to production, Keith?"
"No. Because, well Larry Hama."