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Chris Sims, senior writer for ComicsAlliance, co-writer of Awesome Hospital, writer of Dracula the Unconquered, and the Teen Tycoon of Rock.

That blue-hooded hell-raiser, Cobra Commander.
An ad for the G.I. Joe NES game, spotted in Amazing Spider-Man #347 (1991). View high resolution

That blue-hooded hell-raiser, Cobra Commander.

An ad for the G.I. Joe NES game, spotted in Amazing Spider-Man #347 (1991).

Today at ComicsAlliance, Bethany and I teamed up to take on the fashions of G.I. Joe! 

Chris: Here’s something that may surprise you, and by “may,” I mean “definitely will not: Tomax and Xamot used to be in the circus.Bethany: Dare I ask what their act was?Chris: I believe they were tumblers. The kind that do acrobatics, not the kind that post online about how Sherlock and Watson are totally doing it.

Today at ComicsAlliance, Bethany and I teamed up to take on the fashions of G.I. Joe

Chris: Here’s something that may surprise you, and by “may,” I mean “definitely will not: Tomax and Xamot used to be in the circus.

Bethany: Dare I ask what their act was?

Chris: I believe they were tumblers. The kind that do acrobatics, not the kind that post online about how Sherlock and Watson are totally doing it.

Metalhead sees a giant missile, says “Playin’ tricks like that always gives me a big… big… BANG!” and then bends his leg so that a missile shoots out of his crotch and blows up a tank.
Yup.
GI Joe Series 2 - “United We Stand”

Metalhead sees a giant missile, says “Playin’ tricks like that always gives me a big… big… BANG!” and then bends his leg so that a missile shoots out of his crotch and blows up a tank.

Yup.

GI Joe Series 2 - “United We Stand”

Oh my God, how did COBRA JANITOR VIPER not get an action figure release?
GI Joe Series 2 - “Operation Dragonfire, Part 3”

Oh my God, how did COBRA JANITOR VIPER not get an action figure release?

GI Joe Series 2 - “Operation Dragonfire, Part 3”

I don’t want to bag on the religious traditions of other cultures, but maybe don’t place the throne somewhere that it will look like a gigantic dong.
GI Joe Series 2 - “Operation Dragonfire, Part 1”

I don’t want to bag on the religious traditions of other cultures, but maybe don’t place the throne somewhere that it will look like a gigantic dong.

GI Joe Series 2 - “Operation Dragonfire, Part 1”