G.I. Joe #5 (2024) review

Creators: Joshua Williamson (writer), Tom Reilly (artist), Jordie Bellaire (colorist), Rus Wooton (letterer)

Story: The Joe team is now captured and suffering under the hands of Destro and Cobra. However, some quick thinking and their inside man helps them escape. Meanwhile, the Brainwave Scanner is completed as Destro gives chase to the escaping Joe team.

Writing: A fairly straightforward issue, with the bulk of it being the Joe's fight with Cobra and Destro. However, Williamson is able to lay down hints at what's going to happen to finish off this first arc of the series as well as leaving us on a cliffhanger. The only downside is that Cover Girl and Stalker don't really get a lot of time to shine and no dialogue as well. Mercer continues to be a favorite character as he's explored more and we realize he's more than just a hired gun for Destro.

Artwork: Reilly continues to do a great job with the art. He does some fine details when Duke is getting beat up and showing us he's getting hurt. A great panel is when Destro looks up at the imposing HISS tank behind him. This issue has a lot of darker colors and the fights are given an orange background.

Overall: A good second-to-last issue for the current story arc, this one has a lot of action scenes and ends on a good cliffhanger. We get our ever classic "Yo Joe!" yelled for the first time. While I wish Stalker and Cover Girl got a bit more time in the issue, overall, it was a good issue.

Void Rivals #17 review

Void Rivals Has Secrets To Reveal! It does and it continues here with issue # 17! Void Rivals is Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici’s sci-fi comic that tells the tale of two crumbling planets linked by a “Sacred Ring” (it’s not Halo), their peoples at war for generations. When a member of each culture are stranded together, the two find they must put aside their differences if they want to survive. This story takes place in the so-called “Energon Universe”, Skybound Entertainment’s initiative to relaunch properties like Transformers and G.I. Joe within a shared universe that also happens to include the original characters and setting of Void Rivals. In this seventeenth issue, the secret of Zerta Trion is revealed, Darak has a “friendly” chat with his father, and Proximus is on the rampage! Proximus? He was cool. He was! And that continues here as him and his new kid sidekick go on a quest together. It’s unclear exactly what Proximus wishes to get out of it, but he’s clearly no longer...

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Transformers #18 (2023) review

Is Shredhead totally in my face? Yup! With Robert Kirkman’s Void Rivals having launched Skybound’s Energon Universe, noted writer/artist rolled-into-one Daniel Warren Johnson takes the reins on the linchpin of this initiative, the flagship Transformers comic series! Well, he maintains the reins on the writing of this series at least, as does Mike Spicer on colors. Jorge Corona has taken over regular penciling duties with a style all his own. In this eighteenth issue, Shredhead kills some guys you may have liked, Ultra Magnus boxes a helicopter, and the Decepticon civil war comes to an end with the return of… well, c’mon, you know. Does Shredhead arrive at the fireworks factory? There’s actually relatively little to do with Shredhead here, aside from an opening fight scene where he showcases how badazz he is by killing some name characters. One of the victims in particular I was kind of annoyed by, considering he just got his first new toy in decades and has always been a fan favorite f...

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