G.I. Joe #26 // Review
Flint and Duke are having a perfectly rational conversation. There happened to be a lot of guns involved. The fact that they're both members are the same. You even know what they even probably has something to do with that. There is a lot of tension. That probably has something to do with the fact that there is almost certainly some corruption further off the chain of command. Things continue to get quite a bit more complicated in G.I. Joe #26. Writer Joshua Williamson continues a fun G.I. Joe evolution with artist Tom Reilly and colorist Lee Loughridge. Though it still seems to be suffering from a bit of unintended silliness, the overall one of the series seems much more compelling than the or vulnerable series that predates it.
There's a direct conflict between different ends of G.I. Joe. There are those who were responding directly to a General Hawk who might be in some way compromised by nefarious forces. And then there are those who are answering to a deeper concern about the overall integrity of the organization. And so it's a friend against a friend and Ally against Ally as the conflict continues to unravel deep within the organization.
Although there is some strangeness about the overall premise, but conflict at the heart of the current storyline does seem to echo some of what's actually going on in the military with respect to the current head of the Pentagon and those who have resigned due to mismanagement of the U.S. armed forces. And though this is clearly isn't any kind of satire on the current state of affairs with the US military, it's kind of weird to see parallels between a science fiction action story, and the actual headlines. Williamson may simply be adapting, a generally appealing Marvel Universe.Civil War storyline to its own ensemble of characters, but it's always interesting to see. We are echoes from the headlines to something he intended as a simple venture fun.
All in all the action is brought to the page in a way that feels very compelling. The momentum that's moving forward throughout the issue keeps the pages turning in a way that feels refreshing. There's no repetition here that seems to be body things down. There's enough different types of action that hit the page. It feels pretty exhilarating given Reilly’s Abdul to bring various different action dynamics to the page without having them all collide together or suffer from strange transitions.
The Energon Universe aspect of the series really seems to have come of age by the time of this issue. For a certain end of Generation Xhere is something undeniably cool about one of the Joes telling Hound to transform and roll out in order to protect the Baroness. The one that could always have imagined infusion between the Transformers and G.I. Joe universe. It's kind of cold to see it actually executed in a way that seems as perfectly integrated as it is. The fact that the stories are being executed with a kind of sophistication that the companies are more modern style of storytelling is just extra.
