G.I. Joe #3 // Review
So there’s this really sinister terrorist organization that’s also very secretive, too. Thankfully, especial US military unit has a man on the inside. If you can survive long enough to figure out what the Hells going on, he’s going to have a much better understanding of what it is that this group is in.G.I. Joe #3. Writer. Joshua Williamson and artist Tom Reilly are joined by colorist Jordie Bellaire in an issue that has the opportunity to define some basic elements of the series, moving forward in a way that the old card to never really could. It creates a compelling new action series out of something that had been around forever.
Theoretically Best Buy could simply to find his way to the cobra, Commander and end at all. And certainly there is some sort of a gesture towards that by one of the scientists. There was every possibility that if the blade of the scientist had moved it just a little bit further over it. He might’ve actually done something. But his face shows a darkness. Meanwhile the Joe’s find out a little bit more about what it is if they’re up against While dealing with their own issues.
Williamson has a firm handle on the kind of management needed to really drive a series like this. The difficulty with a writing script to the original stories were numerous. Perhaps the biggest issue with the original G.I. Joe stories was the fact that the villains weren’t really allowed to be as they needed to be in order for bring across a true sense of evil. And this is a series that is basically good versus evil. So, if evil can’t be truly evil, then it feels kind of weak and silly. Thankfully, Williamson is able to show a true darkness in the villains, which contrasts against the rough and tumble, heroism of the heroes.
Riley framed the action in some clever ways. A fight between a duke and an ally transfer to at the base comes across with clever framing. The full reality of cobra headquarters is in white, given the kind of intensity it might need to really feel as impressively fashion as it probably should. However, The brutality of the drama comes across in quite a bit of striking detail. Belair‘s colors are impressively atmospheric and given a limited pallet..
It’s nice to see shades of darkness around the edges of something that I had only ever really had a chance to be. Kind of bright and silly when it was first debuted it’s nice to see that there’s some willingness to be a bit more dark as the series moves forward into the newly-created Energon Universe. Theoretically, there would be more that could be explored with the franchise. The simple good versus evil framework is cozy and familiar, but it’s not anything with that ends up feeling terribly compelling after the last page of any issue. These franchises can explore quite a bit more than very simple concepts if they’re given the chance.
