GI Joe ARAH #164: look who's back....from the DEAD!

[yojoebro82]

In the latest issue of GI Joe: A Real American Hero, Spirit and Sneek Peak are on lookout at the PIT, getting ready to defend against Cobra.

 

Just one problem: SNEEK PEAK DIED IN GI JOE 113!!!

 

This GI Joe series is a direct continuation of the Marvel GI Joe, both of which are written by GI Joe "great" Lary Hama. Ironically, he wrote both this issue and Sneek Peak's death! The issue in which Sneek Peak died was actually very good. He's gunned down and a distraught Dusty has to carry his body off the battle field, all the while recalling a Christmas dinner he had with SP and his mom, and promising her that if anything happened to her boy, he'd bring him home to her. There is also no question about his death, with Stalker checking for a pulse and anouncing, "This man's been dead for hours".

 

Still, here he is in the latest issue, alive and well, standing guard the way any LIVE D-list GI Joe could do!

 

There's enough blame to go around here.

 

First the editors, who's JOB it is to give the fans consistency in the story, and not over look the little things like, say, characters that shoud be DEAD! But hey, I'm sure they're too busy with important things like lining up 3 artists for next month's cover, making sure the writers stretch thier stories thin enough to make 5 issues for the TPB, and cranking out enough series and miniseries of one franchise to take up a good chunk of space on the shelf.

 

Then of course there's Hama himself, who should probably just remember his own stories. I think of all the times I turned a deaf ear when I heard fans bring up the possibility of Hama being a hack. He wrote ALL of my favorite childhood comic. Couldn't be.....

 

It all just makes it look like the people behind the scenes are just cranking out Joe books for a paycheck because they know there's a moderate fan base. And we all know THAT couldn't be the case...

 

Anyhow, here's a link where you can check out the miraculous return of the great Sneek Peak

 

http://generalsjoes.com/2011/03/16/generalsjoes-reviews-g-i-joe-a-real-american-hero-164/#more-10716

 

 

@pow@

[jjlecaros]

can it be diff guy in same costume?

[CaptainTriumph]

can it be diff guy in same costume?

I would say it is.

[CLAM]

when I was little I had a hamster that died.. my parents didn't tell me and just put another one in the same cage.....

 

just sayin

[CLAM]

and oye.. that is some pretty bad artwork in that book

[yojoebro82]

can it be diff guy in same costume?

 

That will most likely be their spin on it when they try to explain it away. And while comparing Sneek Peak to a hamster IS a valid comparison, they and the fans will still know it's an F-up.

 

Boooooo!

 

 

 

@rambo@

[majik40]

I seem to remember reading somewhere awhile back that there was a new Sneak Peek. I wanna say his file name started with a "B" and that he used be in the FBI

[yojoebro82]

I seem to remember reading somewhere awhile back that there was a new Sneak Peek. I wanna say his file name started with a "B" and that he used be in the FBI

 

Yeah, he was part of the Devil's Due continuity, it also followed from the Marvel continuity but is now abandoned and all but meaningless. But I can understand the confusion. It'll happen when no one in charge of doing the comics wants to choose one continuity and stick with it.

 

 

@comehere@

[xhairs]

there was another SP in the comics i think he died too. hama is just out for a paycheck he has even said so a bunch of times that the joe comic was just a job and he didnt care about the line.

[RecklessEndangerment]

When did SP die in the original series? Was he one of the joes killed by the Saw Viper? Sorry, it's all a blur to me now.

 

 

[xhairs]

When did SP die in the original series? Was he one of the joes killed by the Saw Viper? Sorry, it's all a blur to me now.

 

no he was killed saving a kid from the cross fire.

[yojoebro82]

hama is just out for a paycheck he has even said so a bunch of times that the joe comic was just a job and he didnt care about the line.

 

It shows.

 

 

@hammerhead#

[revsears]

hama is just out for a paycheck he has even said so a bunch of times that the joe comic was just a job and he didnt care about the line.

 

It shows.

 

 

@hammerhead#

 

I don't think it was this forum, but i remember posting somewhere my thoughts on him when the new books came out. Everyone blamed the frontline DDP stuff on Blaylock (which was probably part true) and the bad marvel stuff on Hasbro (very true, and still a problem to this day) but consistently the main has written a worthwhile Joe comic when given a chance. It can't always be everyone elses fault. I thank him for his contribution, which was huge! but he got tired of it,gave he all he had on the subject, whatever. He just needs to let it go now.

[hamsterboy]

I never understood how he was killed in the first place with the padding on his outfit.

[xhairs]

I never understood how he was killed in the first place with the padding on his outfit.

 

i think it was a head shot.

[yojoebro82]

Here's an aparent quote from Lary Hama's Facebook page about the situation. Probably not something you want to hear the writer of your favorite comic book say:

 

"I was never big on continuity or plot. The whole RAH storyline was retcon in motion."

 

Uuummmmmm.....if he's not "big" on continuity or plot, why should fans be "big" on reading his stories?

 

 

@onthecan@

[CobraKhan]

I havent read any of the new issues but is there a possibility that this was a flashback of sorts?

[xhairs]

Here's an aparent quote from Lary Hama's Facebook page about the situation. Probably not something you want to hear the writer of your favorite comic book say:

 

"I was never big on continuity or plot. The whole RAH storyline was retcon in motion."

 

Uuummmmmm.....if he's not "big" on continuity or plot, why should fans be "big" on reading his stories?

 

 

@onthecan@

 

that is the statement that made me dislike hama and call him a sell out. then he said it was just a paycheck.

[cmderinchief]

Been a long time since I posted here...

 

Yeah, this is a big gaff by IDW. Very disappointing on all levels.