Captivating Cover: Never Give Up!
Is that in reference to Heavy Duty or the Cobra CLAWS here? Regardless–never give up on that chokehold, kkds!
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Captivating Cover: GI Joe Digest #1
Just a few days ago I covered issue 7 of the GI Joe digest series. I waxed nostalgic about picking up old stories I had missed in the 80s, and I doubted finding something other than Archie in this format nowadays was a wish. Well, it turns out that Marvel is going back to supermarkets with a Spider-Man digest, which
Read moreCaptivating Cover: GI Joe 3-D #5
If I had still been into GI Joe in 1988, and knew that a 3D comic existed featuring Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow together back-to-back, I would have dropped my most recent X-Men comic faster than you could say Claremont and Silvestri. Alas I had no idea the three-dimensional adventures of the post-1986 Joes had continued beyond issue number one,
Read moreCaptivating Cover: GI Joe Digest #7
I miss the old digest format. Before the days of trade paperback collections, and especially before I’d discovered a local comic shop, these bite-sized compendiums of back issues were the only way I could read adventures I had missed thanks to spotty distribution at 7-11 and QuikTrip newsstands. This cover was definitely have sold me back in the day. Originally
Read moreCaptivating Cover: Action Force Monthly 14
The cover of the UK’s Action Force Monthly features Falcon in a wet suit. How can we tell that’s Falcon? Well, his name is handily printed on the leg of his suit. Convenient. I don’t mean to sound snarky, in fact this sort of thing is necessary in a comic, especially when a character’s identifying features are obscured. The best
Read moreCaptivating (VHS) Cover: El Dorado
I have fond memories of bygone days of VHS randomness at Mom & Pop video stores and Blockbuster, when you could find both the latest releases as well as archaic giant clamshell boxes. Seems like GI Joe was everpresent, particularly the early Sunbow releases. The DIC show wasn’t as plentiful, and it was only in the 2000s that I spotted
Read moreCaptivating Cover: Secret of the Mummy’s Tomb
I miss the days of Book and Record sets.I had my fair share of Peter Pan records as a toddler, including nursery rhymes and the like. I was a bit too young to have had any of the Adventure Team sets, though I did experience the wonders of the 1980s’ spate of movie tie-in records during my grade school years.
Read moreCaptivating Cover: Dark Horse GI Joe Issue #3
In comics, a talented artist can elevate the material on which they’re working. Such is the case with this cover from the first comic series based on the GI Joe Extreme toy line. A quick aside–the series didn’t have the word extreme in its title (though it appears twice in the tagline). Did Hasbro already have a feeling for the
Read moreCaptivating Cover: Marvel GI Joe #16
When I was a kid reader of Marvel comics, my main source of comics were newsstands at 7-11 and QuickTrip. Because of the often spotty distribution of some titles, I often missed several issue stretches of my favorite series. My early GI Joe comic collection skipped from issues 2, to 7, then to 17. I narrowly missed the events in
Read moreCaptivating Cover: GI Joe Issue #2
I still remember reading issue #2 of the GI Joe comic, when the team first ran afoul of Kwinn, who would go on to become an early favorite character in the comic–wait, oh this the second issue of the DC GI Joe series. Oops, sorry for the mix-up. Once again, we’re treated to wonderful Joe Kubert art, and who else
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