Every week, we send out our amazing newsletter1 that outlines everything coming in to our store, some exciting comic news, and any important information the Swap needs to let you know. Additionally, every week, we highlight some of the incoming items that we are particularly excited about. These are usually items we love, though sometimes they're just items we're excited about or items we think our customers will be excited about.2 Every now and then, someone asks us why we recommend what we recommend. This new addition to the Comic Swap blog will provide exactly that service.
We highlight and recommend a lot of comics each week, but to be honest, the one that pops out to me as potentially surprising from this week's newsletter is:
GI Joe Cobra Special #1 from IDW comics, written by Mike Costa with art by Antonio Fuso. You may not realize this3, but the GI Joe Cobra miniseries was the secret best comic of the summer. Reading more like Queen & Country or Sleeper than a typical GI Joe comic, the book featured spies, hidden motives, sleeper agents, and tricky decisions. Over the course of the five issue miniseries, we become acquainted with Chuckles, a member of the GI Joe who has gone deep undercover to infiltrate a criminal, terrorist organization called Cobra that no one really knows anything about.
I don't really know anything about GI Joe. I imagine if I did, I'd be excited by the in-references present throughout the series. These things are not the point of the comic. The point of the comic is awesome.
The special is a follow-up to the series, a comic supposedly focusing on the villain4 as secretly revealed in issue 4 or so of the original mini. So I wouldn't necessarily recommend picking up the special if you haven't read the original series.
What I would recommend doing is pre-ordering5 the trade paperback collection, which should come out sometime in the next month or so. It'll have the whole series in one book, including the special that is coming out this week. It's your chance to read the whole thing in one go.
I couldn't find a picture of the GI Joe Cobra TP cover, so here's a cute puppy.
2 That's why we highlight the porn, you perverts!
3 And let's be honest, why would you? It's GI Joe, after all.
4 The villain was John Secreto, hater of all GI Joe and Transformers comics. Spoiler alert.
5 At your local Comic Swap, of course.
Aww... puppy!
ReplyDeleteSo I am just going through these old blog post and even though this is months past I just wanted to reinforce Secretos hate of all things Transformers. He scoffed at me when I asked about them. Even reminding him that "A. They are Transformers and are thusly awesome (outside the hands of Michael Bay) B. They are giant robots and thusly awesome" still elicted the patened Secreto "Harumph". Heathen.
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