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Thread: G.I. Joe News from HissTank.com
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Old 01-17-2013, 11:30 PM   #4642
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Originally posted by: Shin Densetsu @ Hisstank.com

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USA Today recently talked with GI Joe Cobra Files writer Mike Costa about his upcoming book. This book is the spiritual successor to the popular COBRA comic by IDW. While the GI Joe book by Fred Van Lente takes on a more public persona, GI Joe Special Missions and GI Joe Cobra Files focus on clandestine operations.

Antonio Fuso is sticking around as artist for G.I. Joe: The Cobra Files (debuting April 24) and the retooled series is keeping the same noir-ish espionage bent that it's had since Costa, Fuso and writer Christos Gage rolled out their first Cobra miniseries in 2009.

And Costa carries over the aspect that has made Cobra one of the more popular G.I. Joe comics in recent memory: "The stakes being much more emotional than physical, though there are physical stakes, and always dealing with the moral question of what it is they're doing," the writer says. "If you can be a good guy doing bad things and still stay a good guy, that's really the whole theme of the book."


Cobra Files will feature a small cast:
  • Ronin
  • Chameleon
  • Flint
  • Lady Jaye
"They're not a rock 'n' roll team like the main book or even the Special Missions book. The only real warriors on the team are Flint, Lady Jaye and Ronin. Chameleon really isn't a field agent and she's the star," says Costa, who adds that not only is the first issue of The Cobra Files a great jumping-on point for new readers but it's arguably the best G.I. Joe issue he's written.

"It's basically what I had always wanted the book to be: smart, fun, dark action."


More on Chameleon by Costa:

"She sort of switched sides to survive, and came to find out that working for G.I. Joe was only slightly better," Costa explains. "She's trying to navigate that moral landscape and really create a moral identity for herself and figure out if it's too late for her to maybe do some good and whether or not that's who she's going to be."

Also not helping matters is that she's not a trained soldier, yet she's continuously put in life-or-death situations and not handling it well.

"That's something I don't know if we've really seen explored very often in books like this, the real trauma of violence on someone who is just not prepared for it," the writer says. "Chameleon's a really interesting character because she's so broken, basically."


Also a classic Cobra character will be debuting soon...

The Cobra Files No. 1 will introduce somebody new from the classic Cobra roster, and the first arc, which starts with issue 2, brings in a whole group of characters readers haven't seen yet. (It won't be the Dreadnoks, although they'll be making an appearance in the second story line of Dixon's Special Missions.)

While the article does talk about Raptor, Costa said the new guy is not him. So who could it be?... [Read More]
Read More: Mike Costa Talks GI Joe Cobra Files @ G.I. Joe - HissTank.com.
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