Snake-Eyes is dead (spoilers), Channing Tatum hates GI JOE

[Bravo]

Channing Tatum Hates "G.I.JOE"...
Tatum hates the movie, not the franchise/toys. That's fine, I didn't like his Duke.

In the IDW G.I. JOE comic series written my Larry Hama, Snake-Eyes has been killed off. (This isn't the spoiler, since it was the title of the multi-issue story arc)

After Snake-Eyes dies, rookie GI Joe Sean "Throwdown" Collins (who was Kamakura in Devil's Due) gets burnt/disfigured and conveniently loses the ability to talk...is asked by Hawk to become the new Snake-Eyes , so Cobra won't think GI JOE is weakened. This will mean Sean will be declared dead to everyone, even his family. Scarlett also goes along with this.



Even long time Hama apologists are gonna have a tough time defending that shit.

[Felix]

Meh. Snake-Eyes is like Batman, he could be anybody. Nobody really cares about the story anyway, it's all fan fiction. It's the same problem with Star Wars, you can be a big fan, but somebody else has complete control over what happens (now it's in Disneys hands, could be good or bad). Even Harrison Ford feeling like Han Solo should have died shows the extent at which very few people have any control over what goes down.

Yeah, it's hard to be on board with ANY fantasy these days. My college history professor always said she preferred history to fantasy, that the real stories were just so much more interesting that there was no need to be interested in the fake stuff.

G.I. JOE was a great story in the comic, but lost it's way after the Cobra Civil War. It really felt like that was supposed to be the end of the series.

Channing Tatum shouldn't have taken the roll, I don't hear the Rock complaining about his part ;-)

[Bravo]

In the article Tatum acts like he didn't have much choice.

Yeah, all post 90's GI JOE stuff feels like fan fiction. At some point any fan's outrage almost has to turn to apathy, because they whomever owns the stuff can do whatever they want. Only pure fiction is creator-controlled stuff that ended once and for all, like say Calvin and Hobbes.

Reminds me of what I read the Dyson vacuum cleaner inventor said. He disliked fantasy and sci-fi as a kid, because the real science stuff was much more interesting. Sounds kind of dismissive, but he's rich and I'm not.

[Felix]

I still like the stuff, but there's only so far I will dive into it :-)

[Swindle]

So, Snake Eyes is a symbol that leaves Cobra fearing, huh?

I downloaded a big torrent of GIJoe comics, all sorts of stuff from then to now. I haven't had the drive to read any of it. I do feel like eventually this stuff all runs its course. Really good concepts, with really creative people, it can be reinvented. Maybe GIJoe was just supposed to be something that thrived in the 80s. There's nothing wrong with that.