Okay, I meant to get around to this several weeks ago. But, you know, working for a living, etc.

So I wrote what we call a "micro-series" called GI JOE: RESOLUTE. (This has been misreported elsewhere as GI JOE ABSOLUTE, which may give aid and comfort to the people at Hasbro who weren’t wild about the title!) It’s an hour long, broken into ten 5-minute episodes and one 10-minute final episode.

It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, we’d really like you to write a GI JOE animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer. I said, I’ve never seen a GI JOE cartoon in my life. The closest I got to a GI JOE comic was drinking with Larry Hama. I’ve never even seen a GI JOE. Couldn’t tell you what they look like if you paid me. I know nothing about GI JOE. It is meaningless in my world.

Excellent, Sam said. Just the guy we need.

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Okay hold on. They showed us images of both Lady Jay and Scarlett at the con.

Moscow - you're dead

Cobra Commander isn’t very funny any more. Although, really, given that his uniform includes wearing a bag over his head, there are limits to how unfunny he can be at any given time.

Two probably-beloved characters die in the first five minutes.

RESOLUTE will be screened on the web first, I believe, sometime in 2009.

Sad...but with what, now 300 different Joes not everyone can get equal time.

As long as hasbro doesn't bring back that stupid "if they're dead in media, they're dead in the toyline" rule, I'm a-ok with that. Really, that was just a stupid policy to begin with.