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'''As late-1930s Earth teeters on the brink of global war, the forces of Cobra use Decepticon technology to ravage Europe. America deploys a new rag-tag special operations team to stop them - GI Joe.'' | '''As late-1930s Earth teeters on the brink of global war, the forces of Cobra use Decepticon technology to ravage Europe. America deploys a new rag-tag special operations team to stop them - GI Joe.''' | ||
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As late-1930s Earth teeters on the brink of global war, the forces of Cobra use Decepticon technology to ravage Europe. America deploys a new rag-tag special operations team to stop them - GI Joe.
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Transformers/G.I. Joe is six-part miniseries written by John Ney Reiber. The book is set in its own mini-continuity, placing Transformers and G.I. Joe characters in a World War II setting, with alternate modes based on the period. New alternate forms were designed for many characters by Don Figueroa, with the Autobots assuming the forms of Allied vehicles and the Decepticons taking Axis forms. Sadly, most of these new forms were largely obscured by the art of the finished series.
The series' art is drawn by Jae Lee, in a stylized fashion that could be described as gritty, evocative, and beautiful... and to an equal extent, murky, underlit, and incomprehensible. The art makes the entire story seem to happen at dusk or night, in a world filled with clouds, fog, dust, smoke and shadow.
Narrative compression and expansion likewise adds both drama and obscurity to the story. Important events such as Major Bludd actually seizing the Matrix, or the downing in battle of Mirage, Wheeljack and Hound, are vaguely implied between panels or mentioned only in dialogue, while splash pages such as an entire two-page spread sans dialogue in issue #5 does almost nothing to advance the plot. While this series is hardly alone in making such choices, combined with the heavily inked art, the end result is a story that is difficult to comprehend at times.
