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Originally posted by: DESTRO @ Hisstank.com

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Thanks to HISS TANK.com boards member ndb for letting us know that CBR News has just posted up a new interview with Fred Van Lente to further explain the upcoming GIJOE #1 relaunch.

CBR News: Fred, what's the concept behind this new "G.I. Joe" series that starts with a fresh #1.... is it a reboot, a relaunch or something completely different?

Fred Van Lente: It's a relaunch, assuming I understand these terms correctly. It's a new #1 that very much grows out of and builds on recent developments in the Joeverse, but at the same time it's a perfect jumping on point for anyone who hasn't picked up the IDW books yet, or, for that matter, people who don't anything about the Joes at all.

What kind of situation do the G.I. Joes find themselves in when your series begins? How, if at all, does Cobra come into play?


Fred Van Lente and Steve Kurt usher in a new, more public era for "G.I. Joe" in a new volume of the series The Joes, previously a covert terrorism counter-response team, have been "outed," WikiLeaks style, by Cobra to the press. Rather than deny it until they're blue in the face, the Pentagon takes the exact opposite tack: They make the Joes 100% public, relocate to New York City -- to the formerly abandoned army base on Governors Island in the middle of the harbor, in fact -- begin to carry along embedded journalists (well, bloggers), the whole nine yards.

Cobra, on the other hand, thinking they seriously crippled the Joes by exposing them, have taken more incursions on US soil than ever before -- they're bringing the fight with the Joes to their own backyard. There's a reason the first arc is called "Homefront."

Van Lente Recruits "G.I. Joe" For IDW - Comic Book Resources

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