What's especially daft is that (IIRC) no one actually knows what Firefly looks like, so he could just be standing there in plain sight without anyone realising. And why would he even bother posing for a picture anyway (or at least pose without not doing his blur thing)?Cliffjumper wrote:Now, never you mind about Firefly previously only being shown to be Just Some Guy only slightly more competent than a blueshirt trooper.
How the hell did Snake Eyes and the Blind Master get in touch with one another to sort out their plot on such short notice when they're in different countries and one can't talk and the other's, well, blind. Isn't that the plot of an old Richard Prior movie as well?
And why does Scarlet go along when she seems entirely genuine in her "Orders is orders" speech before, considering no one but Snake Eyes could hear what she was saying anyway?
I've always got the impression he never thought much of the movie characters (possibly because they were created by Sunbow rather than him). Factor in his fairly obvious disdain for the Targetmasters as well (how many spoke more than "I am X" style lines?) and I don't think Hot Rod and company did anything on the American book till Furman came on board.Personally I always thought Bob got away with Grimlock/Ratbat etc. thanks to the cartoon covering the Movie characters, allowing the comic to promote the still-shipping 1985 figures and the odd 1986 one (Ratbat was the same year as Rodimus, remember) that wasn't getting covered on the telly, and it worked out nicely because they could then have sensible intros when the line switched back to more present-day stuff.
I've read suggestions over the years that there was some sort of reciprocal deal between the comic and cartoon to share the characters out evenly, so Skids got a couple of big issues to himself to make up for only having two lines in the show. It's possible there was the same on the Joe book as well, though Bob interviews have never suggested this was true (he seems to have done the Ratbat thing for a laugh more than anything else).
To go back a bit, the issue where one of the Joe's bring a "Jetfire" toy in must have been not long after the Transformers crossover. Considering that (unlike the token mention in the TF book) it was totally ignored was this Larry's way of saying it never happened? I also loved the oversized Megatron drawn in Jetfire's place (so large in fact I could buy Jetfire originally being drawn there until someone realised it would be odd to have his toy in the Joe comic where they were legally required to make the actual character look as different as possible).
Well, considering we were told that anyone going on a rescue mission would be finished absolutely guaranteed no doubt Snake Eyes will be sacked when he comes back.You do wonder why exactly Snake-Eyes and Scarlett are in the military, rather than just being, I dunno, vigilantes or something. The "Snake-Eyes goes off on an unauthorised mission while all the other Joes are tied up in red tape" thing will crop up a bit more.