IDW's G.I.Joe #12 (Cobra Command)

Mainframe · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:40 am

got to read a copy earlier...

on the first few pages of the "dead" roll call...

* Muzzlebrake
* Crackshot
* Musketoon
* Gun Daddy
* Brasstack
* Tripletap
* Triggerpull

who are these? in what issues did they appear in?

Redmao · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 10:43 am

That's what I don't like about what's going on in the Joe comics.
They introduce a whole bunch of random new Joes to have them die a few panels later.
They're like red shirts, new character that you know won't be there for long.

MJTanner · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:38 pm

Redmao wrote:

That's what I don't like about what's going on in the Joe comics.
They introduce a whole bunch of random new Joes to have them die a few panels later.
They're like red shirts, new character that you know won't be there for long.

The flipside is that fans have a conniption if a "classic" character is killed. So thems the breaks.

Jay · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 4:46 pm

How about writing issues where no Joes die?
Larry Hama wrote a big bunch of those!

Mysterious Stranger · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:23 pm

Jay wrote:

How about writing issues where no Joes die?
Larry Hama wrote a big bunch of those!

And he's writing more in the ARAH title.

pluv · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:58 pm

Mysterious Stranger wrote:

Jay wrote:

How about writing issues where no Joes die?
Larry Hama wrote a big bunch of those!

And he's writing more in the ARAH title.

Larry killed important charctera in both runs.

Jay · **Posted:** Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:18 pm

pluv wrote:

Mysterious Stranger wrote:

Jay wrote:

How about writing issues where no Joes die?
Larry Hama wrote a big bunch of those!

And he's writing more in the ARAH title.

Larry killed important charctera in both runs.

Yes but they tended to be more isolated incidents, out of all the characters introduced between 1982 and 1994 I think fewer than 20 died overall.

MobileBattleBunker · **Posted:** Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:50 am

Are they Joes or Cobra? Is there a list of dead cobra?

LeeMarvin80 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:59 am

I think all those characters actually died off panel and never appeared beyond having their names listed.

MobileBattleBunker · **Posted:** Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:18 am

were thery considered to be joes or cobra?

Sean_C · **Joined:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:43 pm

Those codenames are a good reason why old guys shouldn't be allowed to write comics.

"New Joe names. Army guys use guns. Let's just look up gun terminology."

HypnoHustler · **Posted:** Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:32 pm

I think it's less a lack of creativity than it is that most of the good names have been used multiple times. Also, assuming Chuck Dixon did come up with those names, he's probably in his 60s by now, which puts him in Larry Hama's generation.

Though if I were going to make up a bunch of cannon fodder characters, I wouldn't spend a lot of effort on cool names for them either.

Sean_C · **Joined:** Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:43 pm

The other name listed was Wratchet, not a misspelling of a tool but another gun term. Also Hotwire, which was used for a Cobra character. Good names taken, indeed.

They still didn't mostly have to be gun jargon, though.

Quote:

Though if I were going to make up a bunch of cannon fodder characters, I wouldn't spend a lot of effort on cool names for them either.

Sorry, couldn't help it.

HypnoHustler · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:07 am

Well, the solution would be to not create characters just to die. That's way lazier than the names, but then that's why I don't read that book.

DarkJedi · **Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2012 12:17 am

Where is the link with all these characters?

I think it had the death list...

IDW's G.I.Joe #12 (Cobra Command)

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