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This site is ideally for people that remember the comics of the eighties and beyond and want to either reminise or complete their collection.  I've recently completed all the sets and I want to help others complete theirs. 

This page is for news from the world of GI Joe comics

Please have a look around the site and you'll find a run down of all the different series of GI Joe Comics and a continuity and chronology guide to help you read your comics in the right order.

There's also a guide to where to find and buy the classic comics and a links page to other GI Joe / Action Force sites.

Any comments or things you might like to see on this website please contact me at
 feedback@gijoe-actionforce.co.uk


NEWS

The Original Continuity is BACK!!!!

Coming April 2010 is GI Joe 155 1/2, a continuation of the Marvel series written by Larry Hama,  there hasn't been an official statement whether this will fit into the DDP continuity or not but the impressions on the forums around the Joe Universe is that it will be independent which personally I think is a great shame.

GI Joe: Rise of Cobra UK - Cancelled 

Panini have apparently sent letters to all subscription holders stating that the UK movieverse series has been cancelled.  There were no release dates or subscription offers printed in the issue released at the beginning of January.  It's another great shame to see the end of the first UK material in 20 years; but you never know, the movie sequel has been confirmed which may produce another series.

Out Now


Issue 6 of GI Joe: Rise of Cobra UK looks like it will be the final issue of the series so catch it while you still can!!!  The Snake-Eyes movie series finally comes to an end,  Snake-Eyes trains with the Hard Master in the main title and Origins spotlights how Beach Head joins the team.  Finally the excellent Cobra II makes it's debut including the first appearance of a certain Cobra operative that lives in the sewer!! 


Out February 2010


GI Joe Issue 15 - No confirmed date
GI Joe: Origins Issue 12 - Out 3rd Feb
GI Joe Cobra II Issue 2 - Out 17th Feb
GI Joe: Operation Hiss Issue 1 - Out 24th Feb

Out March 2010

No Confirmed Dates

GI Joe Issue 16
GI Joe: Origins Issue 13
GI Joe Cobra II Issue 3
GI Joe: Operation Hiss Issue 2

Out April 2010

No Confirmed Dates

GI Joe Issue 17
GI Joe: Origins Issue 14
GI Joe Cobra II Issue 4
GI Joe: Operation Hiss Issue 3


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What happened to the original continuity??

Below is a statement from the IDW GI Joe Forum by Chris Ryall - Editor In Chief at IDW on 08/07/08

"When we first started considering Joe, or even before that, in just keeping an eye on the DDP comics and pondering what we'd do "if," we looked at various options.

Option 1: Keep the continuity, continuing what multiple publishers have done over two-plus decades, trying to wrangle continuity that didn't always make perfect sense or flow perfectly from issue to issue, let alone from publisher to publisher.

Option 2: Pick and choose from the past, and maybe pick up right after Marvel's run ended, ignoring the rest.

Option 3: Do our own thing.

Ultimately, it wasn't even a hard decision.

We respect like crazy what Marvel did. Without that historic run, Joe never would've been a lasting, viable comic property. It would've been Marvel's Masters of the Universe (remember that old DC comic? I do. Or remember Crystar, Crystal Warrior? Or other failed toy comics? Yep, I do). Instead, it and Rom Spaceknight showed that toy comics could be their own thing, could be so much more.

I also respect what others have done since. But the thing of it is, the idea of continuing it brings with it two main problems:
1. It's presumptuous. How in the world would we ever even know what DDP was going to do with the finale of WWIII when we had to get started? We wouldn't, so to assume one thing and have it play out differently would be trouble enough.
2. The bigger point--it's not our story. If we pick up where DDP left off, we're not IDW doing the things that Hasbro wants us to do and that fans expect, we're DDP West. Their concluding storyline left things in a way that we'd need to either invalidate lots of it to be able to include all the characters we want, or we'd have to write around what they did since it wasn't what we'd do. All of which seems much more wrong than blazing our own trail. We'd be one step away from bringing in Mephisto to wipe away the elements we don't want to use.

The biggest point to make is that while we weren't looking to scrap two decades of good (some great, some not so) comics, we were looking to give new fans something to get excited about, something to make old fans anticipate something new rather than more of the same, and something we'd be proud to have our logo on.

Are we doing a reboot? The answer is, we're starting at the beginning. A New Beginning. But we're doing it in a way akin to what they did with James Bond last year. The movie stripped away a lot of the things that had made the franchise feel bloated and ridiculous and started over. Not necessarily scrapping what was to come in the characters' future movies, but resetting things, losing the bloat, making the character stand out again, and reminding people why it was once great.

That's what we're doing. And doing it with Larry, where he's a two-decades-better storyteller than he was, and with the wisdom of years to think about what worked and what didn't, is immensely exciting to me. Before, he was essentially making it up as he went. Now, he know what he wants to do, and is being given the freedom to do it.

I had dinner with Larry in NYC a few weeks ago and we talked about all of this, and in his mind and mine, there was only one way to make this work right, so that's what we're doing.

Time to start fresh, paying tribute to what's come before, not invalidating anything that's come before or reworking it to make it fit with what we want to do, and not being hamstrung by what other people have done.

Time for G.I. Joe: A New Beginning."
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Chris Ryall
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
IDW Publishing

Original Continuity

With the end of the DDP run the continuity and chronology page has been updated to include everything from 1982 - 2008.   There are a few 25th anniversary toy pack issues I'm still to get my hands on but I'll update the page when I get hold of them and if they fit in
Anything you don't agree with contact me at 
feedback@gijoe-actionforce.co.uk 
There has been a few queries regarding the continuity but due to reasons out of my control I've not had the chance to look into them.  I promise I will do these soon!!

Action Force Monthly Issue 16 Found???  Help Required!!!


I've recently managed to get hold of the above artwork recently on ebay.  As it doesn't match any other Action Force work, we're presuming that this is a part of issue 16 of Action Force Monthly / GI Joe European Missions that never saw print.  The markings in the top left hand corner say 7, Action Force (Fatal Distraction).

Checking with other comics, I think the artist may be regular artist Robin Smith. We're looking to see if anybody has any other pieces of artwork from this unreleased story or have hold of a script named 'Fatal Distraction', We're making an effort to see if we can piece together this story and release an exclusive AF / GI Joe exclusive story never before seen.

If you have any information please contact me on feedback@gijoe-actionforce.co.uk or find us on the forums of www.bloodforthebaron.com , www.joereloaded.com & forum.idwpublishing.com !!!!!!!!

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