GI JOE ORIGINS #7

Review by: BC1

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This was a really good issue of a really good series.  When watching Mainframe connect the dots between seemingly random events, I was impressed with the grasp that Dixon has on global political economics.  Cobra doesn’t really do anything other than play off centuries of history and the study of human nature; all they have to do is exert a tiny bit of force here or there and the dominoes, already neatly lined up, fall on their own.  And yet I can also see why Mainframe’s comrades think he’s going a little “Beautiful Mind” on them, because you really have to sift through piles of data like he did to see what’s happening.  Looking at the little fragments by themselves doesn’t reveal the picture, another factor that Cobra relies on.  I also really like how Snake-Eyes, of everyone, is the only other person that thinks Mainframe’s onto something.  There aren’t two more dichotomous characters in the whole of the G.I. Joe team- Mainframe is the self-proclaimed “techno-geek” immersed in the modern world, while Snakes is a product of ancient methodology and relies on the senses and intuition.  So it makes sense, then, that Snake-Eyes sees what no one else can see.  It’s a great touch. 

I really liked this issue not so much for the story itself, but for what it reveals about Cobra.  This is an organization that really has its stuff together, and the creepy factor of how they’re playing “the long game,” as Mainframe calls it, makes them all the more terrifying.  This is the Cobra that we saw glimpses of in the Marvel run and in the Devil’s Due series, and it’s very similar to Cobra from the DDP series “Reloaded.”  The problem with the way the previous two series handled Cobra was that Cobra always seemed to come out very incompetent when all was said and done, always going for the short term gain or the overly-elaborate scheme.  Based on the dialogue the Cobra soldier had with Baroness in a recent issue of the G.I. Joe main book and the way Mainframe lays out their plots here, these guys are downright scary and they aren’t letting a single detail trip them up. 

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 4 - Very Good

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