{"id":41875,"date":"2024-03-15T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=41875"},"modified":"2024-03-14T04:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:56:37","slug":"gi-joe-classified-shooter-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/03\/gi-joe-classified-shooter-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"GI Joe Classified Shooter addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, important things first:<\/p>\n

\"Larry<\/p>\n

Larry Hama<\/a> is basically responsible for creating the brand from scratch, and still has to work in his 70s to stay alive? It would be one thing if he was choosing to write, but to have<\/b> to? That's bad. Hasbro, fix your shit.<\/p>\n

Also, comics companies give him a higher page rate. No one should be making the same money in 2024 they did in 1994.<\/p>\n

Now, on to the fun stuff.<\/p>\n

As mentioned in today's review<\/a>, Shooter is based on a joke seen in the first issue of Marvel's A Real American Hero<\/i> comic.<\/p>\n

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Here's a comparison between Herb Trimpe's original pencils and the published page (it's unknown whether he redrew the hand himself, or if it was inker Bob McLeod):<\/p>\n

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That isn't the only change made, for the record. If you compare the penciled page to the final product, there are adjustments both big (redoing an entire panel's layout) and small (toning down what was originally a very \"Jack Kirby\" art style, as seen in the technology and faces).<\/p>\n

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And one final note: although she's technically considered dead, it's possible Shooter lives. Her last stand has been shown in the comics only twice (GI Joe Declassified<\/i> #3 and A Real American Hero<\/i> #228), but both times have shown her radio getting destroyed. That's such a small detail, you have to assume it was specifically called out in Hama's script, and so is something he explicitly wants the story to contain.<\/p>\n

(We can safely guess it's not just a question of SL Gallant looking back at what Joe Dodd had originally drawn, because the particulars of how<\/b> the radio is broken are different).<\/p>\n

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So yes, she was repeatedly shot in the back, and then the castle she was on was blown up, but this is comics: people have survived worse, even in a \"realistic\" book like GI Joe<\/i>. You could easily imagine Shooter being found in the rubble by the locals she'd just saved, badly injured and unable to communicate. Maybe she's in a coma; maybe she's got amnesia; either way, she can't tell them who she is.<\/p>\n

She's shown removing her dog tags before the mission, so she has no identification on her. And as established, her radio is non-functional. So her benefactors have no way to get in touch with whatever group she belongs to, and they take it upon themselves to save her life. <\/p>\n

Larry Hama has said before he doesn't really plan his stories out in advance, but does whatever he feels like at any given moment. With the way Shooter's story was written, he could decide tomorrow that the 14th Original Joe is out there, still alive and just waiting to be reintroduced to the world.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>