FIGHTING OVER LAND, SEA AND FINANCES! A “GI JOE:DEVIATIONS” (REVIEW)

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GI Joe: Deviations
IDW

Writer: Paul Allor
Artist: Corey Lewis

As is read during the post-comic essay, this comic is a goofy love letter to the GI Joe franchise. For a moment, just think back to all the advanced tech Cobra has used; weather machines, lasers and earthquake doomsday devices, just to name a few. Every step of the way, the Joes have stopped Cobra left and right. Sure an arc will leave us with a cliffhanger that just maybe this once, just maybe Cobra actually wins. Only to be foiled an issue later. There have been universe where Cobra has won before but each of them shows us a destroyed and ruined world in the wake of the GI Joe/Cobra war. This one-shot shows us the world where the superior tech of Cobra wins the war and sets up an infrastructure to run a co-existing and competent society governed by Cobra. That is the world Cobra envisions right? Well as the story unfolds here, it turns out not everyone in Cobra wanted to just rule the world. To borrow a phrase, “Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

The story is goofy as admitted by the writer Allor. But it’s clearly being scripted and illustrated to make sure the reader has no illusions of this one-shot being anything but a deviation from what the main story. For a comic series based on warfare and strong iconic call signs, the artwork in GI: Joe Deviations is fun and colorful. It goes along well with the dialogue of the “villains” about how tacky and hideous their uniforms are, the colors and art really accentuate what they invoke. The models for the characters are all perfect, while having the flare and relaxed lines to keep the mindset that this is just a “What if” book.

The book comes full circle starting with the end of the feud between Cobra and the GI Joes, to showing how the advanced communications systems are making the world actually a great place to live in. Of course this is the problem, as Cobra Commander narrates how this wasn’t his intended purpose for leading Cobra. Fans of the GI Joe property should get a kick out of this book, including a clear head nod with emphasis to a fan favorite villain. Once again IDW has impressed me with their Deviation titles, and I can’t wait to read more! This book makes sense, dumb and goofy sense.

By Cory Anderson

Born in Boston MA, raised in NH. Fully functioning adult who happens to read any and every comic under the (yellow)sun. Of course there are the favorite comics I must read when they're released, but any comic is fair game in my eyes. Of course my love for pop culture doesn't end with comics, but branches out to movies, toys, video games and most importantly Dungeons and Dragons (which I withheld this last hobby from my Fiancée until she said "Yes"). Point of Origin for my nerdy condition may have been in '93 when I got slimed at Nickelodeon(now closed), and a teenage accident or two(collapsed lungs) landing me in the hospital around the same time the Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies started coming out. When my dad stopped at the local comic store and brought me the essential comics for Spiderman and the X-Men, I stood no chance. (Which also created a secret aspiration to start a fundraiser of sorts to bring comic books to kids in hospitals to keep their spirits up(nothing has come of this to date)) Add in a heavy dose of trip to Disney World, upcoming Disney themed wedding and a career aspiration to become a Disney Imagineer, I think it's safe to say I never want to grow up. Xbox Live Gamertag: AllusiveReaper7 (If you notice my xbox achievement score, you might assume I game a bit) Twitter: @AllusiveReaper7 Recent comic addictions(Non "Big Two"): Saga, Crossed, Coffin Hill, Rat Queens, Pathfinder and Rover Red Charlie Collects: Old Comics (Green Lama), Miniatures (D&D, Heroclix, Star Wars), Action Figures preferably 90s and older, and comic book themed hats Systems Owned: NES (though it was my sister's), Game Boy(The gray brick), Sega Genesis, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Game Boy Advanced, Nintendo DS, Xbox, Xbox360, Wii, Xbox One, Junk PC

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