From: rjung@phakt.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.animation
Subject: Re: Gi Joe/Transformers Crossover, guest appearance
Date: 22 Nov 1992 15:20:02 -0800
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In article <By53s5.74s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn ) writes:
>In article <kennehra.722460361@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> kennehra@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Rich"TheMan"Kennehan) writes:
>>By the way, how did cobra commander come
>>back to life after the GI Joe movie that had Nemises Enforcer in it?
>
>There was a badly animated mini-series that came out after the movie. ...
>Baroness is ticked off at everybody's lack of leadership and discovers
>this goofy ancient mystical energy called "Dragonfire". This stuff can
>be used to transform creatures into other forms or something like that. 
>Frustrated with Serpentor, Baroness uses it to bring CC back to life-- [etc.]

  The fact that this series continues where the last one ended off leads me to
think it may have been a Marvel Productions cartoon. MP did the original G.I.
JOE cartoon, and the Serpentor movie was one of the last things they did
before fading into obscurity (yeah, I know they're now back with X-MEN, but
back then, there was more style and better animation). See below.

  As I mentioned before, the Serpentor JOE movie was not the original movie
idea that was created. The original JOE movie concept had the Cobras out to
kill a political science professor at a major university, because he had
devised a philosophical rationale refuting the existence of Cobra. The Joes
are then out to save this man, who they dub "the most dangerous man in the
world" because of all the Cobra effort spent hunting him down. All this got
sold down the tubes when Serpentor came into the picture -- the writer (Buzz
Dixon?) went "Whaddayamean there's a new Cobra leader?" and had to crank out
an entirely new story. Too bad, too, since "The Most Dangerous Man In the
World" sounds MUCH more interesting than the Cobra-La garbage.

>Later, a new GI Joe season was made but it seemed to
>be aimed at a much younger audience. CC was more of a buffoon than a leader
>and a lot of the characters were either gone, drawn differently, or had
>their voices changed.

  This was the new series, done by DIC. Ick. It has no relationship to the
original JOE series, which explains the total lack of continuity. I believe
Hasbro wanted to keep a JOE cartoon going even though Marvel Productions
disappeared in the late '80s, so they got DIC instead.

>Cobra Commander: "If we have the courage to be ruthless, the world can
>			belong to us!"
>			       GI Joe, #99

  The comic book G.I. JOE, however, has been a fairly consistent model of
quality writing and interesting plots. Kudos to Larry Hama.

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