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[fontesdev]

Work done for @arbco's Mutant series! Commission info: https://fabiofontes.com/Commissions/

[readingtext]

I am a Chicken Tender.

When I bought my condo at Arboretum Co-Housing (Arbco), my intention was to live the co-housing life. I wanted to get involved with the community, pull my weight, and not be a bystander. I took a look at chores to volunteer to do.There is an amazingly long list of things that make life at Arbco special. One of those things is that we have a chicken coop with 15 hens. There’s a group of seven of…

[o-haw-clan]

G.I. Joevember . Special Missions: Cobra . . #gijoevember #gijoevember2021 #gijoe25thanniversary #cobracommander #cobra #joevember #gijoe #gijoephotography #arbco #actionfigurephotography #toyphotography #acba #actionfiguresasart #ohawclan #acemarkenphotography #acemarken https://www.instagram.com/p/CWf-_kyrdFu/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fortressofdorkness]

Cliff Notes is foraying into a family feud with Marvel Comics’ created G.I. Joe character, Billy: off-spring of Cobra Commander!

This young lad is a central part of the G.I. Joe mythology, who never made it to the silver screen. 

What led to the rocky and often violent relationship between him and his father? We jump from Marvel to Image to IDW to find out!

[unseenphil]

So an old friend is making a game that’s in a surprisingly underserved niche in retroclone market, namely, trying to recreate the feel of Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, now long out of license and print. If you’ve got an interest in mutants and or animals or combinations of the two, or in your pool of mutant animal design points being called “GOOP” you should definitely check it out.

[retrokinetics]

a character design/ sheet commission for @arbco!

[thebibliomancer]

50 More Days of Comics! 27/50: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero! #30 (1984)

Somehow I forgot that Marvel had the license to make G.I. Joe comics.

Marvel sure handled a lot of licenses back in the day! Doctor Who, Transformers, GI Joe, Star Wars, ElfQuest, Groo the Wanderer, 2001 Space Odyssey, Micronauts, ROM Space Knight.

And people have fond memories of a lot of these. I guess Marvel licensed good and then probably crossed the license over with X-Men for good measure.

Interestingly, Marvel basically created the premise that G.I. Joe became known for. Writer Larry Hama took an unused pitch for a special anti-Hydra SHIELD team called Fury Force and repurposed it. Hydra became Cobra. And G.I. Joe became at one point Marvel’s best selling comic.

Its both super easy and weirdly unsettling imagining G.I. Joe existing in the Marvel universe though. Cobra would fit in with a lot of their weirdo evil groups like AIM and Hydra. But, I dunno, I can’t as easily see the Joes co-existing with SHIELD for some reason. I try to imagine them existing as separate entities and they just glorrrrrp together into the Venture Bros OSI in my brainmeats.

But look at me trying to talk around the book. Which has a cover where three shirtless dudes in vests beat up an airplane.

Are we sure this isn’t a Street Fighter comic? Street Fighters love beating up parked vehicles. Its inexplicable.

The three airplane dudes from the cover (apparently motorcycle riding henchmen called Dreadnoks?) and master of disguise Zartan are loitering outside McGuire airforce base for reasons I’m sure would be perfectly reasonable if I had read G.I.JOE: A Real American Hero! #29 when they spot a familiar helicopter landing.

It is a helicopter that raided their lair in Florida. And is now landing at McGuire. In New Jersey.

Goddamn the Joes are uneconomical.

Anyways, yes, it’s a Joecoptor (sold separately) and Zartan disguises himself as boss-Joe Hawk to investigate. He finds that the helicopter is unloading a wounded Wild Bill to place on an ambulance. Wild Bill reports that they lost a copter but also burned Cobra’s Florida operation off the map.

Zartan as Hawk awkwardly salutes Wild Bill, trying to cover that he doesn’t actually know the man’s name.

Zartan calls Cobra Commander and tells him about this choice intel and Cobra Commander is faiiiirly sure that G.I. Joequarters are hidden somewhere in McGuire so he cobra commands Zartan and the Dreadnoks to keep an eye on the place.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, on Staten Island, some Cobra operatives (Cobratives?) under cover of being a Normal Family purchase a house near Fort Wadsworth and fill it with an excessive amount of surveillance gear.

“It’ll be set up and operational by midnight. We’re not going to miss anything!”

Aaaaaaaaas the ambulances carrying the wounded Joes drive into Fort Wadworth and take a secret elevator from the motor pool down into Joequarters.

Waa waa waaaaa~

Cobra comedy.

Of course, the Joes have their own moment when Wild Bill sees Hawk in the Joequarters and wonders how he got here from the airport so fast. But Hawk has been in the base all day! So who did Wild Bill see at McGuire?? (It was Zartan)

Meanwhile some more, in Springfield, at the offices of the Arbco Brothers Circus, a young boy or maybe a teen boy named Billy is snooping at the circus records because under guise of circus is how Cobra has been moving troops and tanks around the country!

In fact, a contingent of circus trucks driven by Cobra Commander is on its way to McGuire right now. God forbid he get pulled over because he is wearing the full reflective visor while driving.

Anyway, Billy gets caught by the Baroness but she seemingly wants Billy to join her against Cobra? I dunno, maybe she was splinter factioning.

Meanwhile, back at Staten Island, Cobra Fred finally finishes setting up all the surveillance equipment just to receive a call recalling him back to Springfield because Cobra Commander believes that he’s found the GI Joe headquarters and doesn’t need spies all over the place anymore.

And as Fred and his wife or maybe the person undercover as his wife smash the surveillance equipment in rage at the ten hours wasted setting up the equipment, Fred bemoans.

Fred: “Ten hours it took to set up this gear – and I didn’t even get a chance to turn it on for one minute!”

As a convoy of GI Joe vehicles pass his house and his now broken surveillance equipment that would have revealed a heavy Joe presence at Fort Wadsworth.

Waa waa waaaaaa~

In the intervening hours, the Joes contacted the McGuire sentries who saw ‘Hawk’ come onto the base and they reported a glowing and shimmering. Which clues the Joes in that the ‘Hawk’ was actually Zartan under holographic disguise.

Better safe than sorry, they mobilize a few tanks and assorted vehicles (sold separately) to McGuire.

Meanwhile, AGAIN, the Dreadnoks have finished cutting a hole in the McGuire fence so that when Cobra arrives they can just drive on in. But they’re dumb and bored so against Zartan’s orders, they decide to sneak onto the base to break stuff just for the sake of breaking stuff.

So a rare occasion: the cover of a comic being 100% truthful! Some dudes break a plane just because!

A Dreadnok: “Zartan said Cobra Commander was a stickler for detail! I’ve just de-tailed this plane!”

Another Dreadnok: “Detail? De-tail! I get it! Har!!”

These guys have fun.

The circus trucks arrive and start unloading Cobra Hiss Tanks and Snap Helicopters (sold separately). Cobra Commander wants this done clever and quiet. The tanks and helicopters are to stand by to cover withdrawal by the insertion unit.

But here’s something: Dreadnok Buzzer accidentally caused a loud, obvious explosion while vandalizing a plane cuing the control tower that something is going on. Obviously, they signal the alarm.

With stealth kaput, Cobra Commander makes an ehxecutive decision and goes eh whatever, full frontal assault and has the tanks and helicopters charge the control tower.

Cobra Commander also spots the Dreadnoks fleeing the mess they made and realizes that they’re the ones that botched his plan. But he’ll Deal With Them Later.

As for the Dreadnoks, they run right into the Joes. But since the Joes just got the alert from the tower, they let the Dreadnoks go so they can deal with the more obvious problem.

The control tower blinds the Hiss tanks with the searchlights but the Snap copters shoot out the lights.

Speaking of the Snap Helicopters. Nothing looks quite so blatantly toylike as them. They’re ridiculously small for a helicopter and the blades are right above the pilot’s head in the OPEN COCKPIT. It looks like the slightest turbulence would lead to chunky salsa.

Anyway, after all this meanwhiles and goof and counter goof, the actual battle is over quickly. The Joes quickly take out the Cobra attack force and the last Snap copter swoops down so Cobra Commander can escape under cover of explosion.

The next morning, Hawk jokes to Ace that Uncle Sam will buy him a new Sky Striker while Ace grouses that he had just broken in this one.

And in a tiny boat, Destro and another silhouette plot revenge against Cobra Commander’s treachery in Florida by rejoining him in Springfield and pretending they suspect nothing. And then when he least suspects it: revenge probably!

Geez this is a very continuity dense book. Gotta give it to Larry Hama because this is a book in which a lot of things happened. Hence the meanwhiles meanwhiles meanwhiles. But because it was all leading up to one event: the Cobra attacking McGuire and getting repelled by the Joes, its all condensed into one book instead of drawing it out. Probably for the best. We know that the Cobras are operating under false assumptions so imagine waiting several months for the farce to fully pay off.

But it was a very dense book and it doesn’t really have a recap page or a character page or remind you who is who and why and what they’re about so its very dense and very impenetrable to the poor idiot that jumps on at issue 30. Why would you do that?

I dunno. The box willed it.

[rppr-podcast]

Mutants in the Now: The Russian Job

Mutants in the Now: The Russian Job

Sponsor: ARBCo, the creator of Mutants in the Now, is currently Kickstarting its first supplement, Mutants in the Next. This book adds a lot of new options to the game, including human mutants, wild mutations, and more exciting player options like new species, weird psionics, fighting styles, and more! You can get both books by backing this Kickstarter. Check out the campaign now to learn…

[fontesdev]

Work done for @arbco's Mutants series 🦀 Commission info: https://fabiofontes.com/Commissions/

[level99games]

Fan Stuff: Fan-Made Lore Cyclopedia (by ARBco)

We love showing off the cool stuff our community has done. Here we have an awesome lore cyclopedia that was compiled by community member ARBco!

If you're a lore buff, want to know more about the world, or wondered why Pendros can keep eating ghost peppers without feeling a thing, this is the thing for you!

Download it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uWBFMOz_dBRbbVUF6G7BamabnInZADWR/view?usp=sharing

Have something awesome YOU want to share? Send an email to mechanicritic@gmail.com and you may just see your stuff on our sites! :)

[rainbeau-rogue-blog]

"...for National Superhero Day." A newscaster speaks into the camera, as the broadcast continues. "We're here outside the Flash Museum, whe--" She's interrupted mid-word by the sound of a screamer firework firing from the museum's roof!

As the firework goes off, a long banner unfurls from the roof. The main image on the banner is a well-drawn picture of Wonder Woman, about 25' tall. There is black block text under the image, and the camera pans down to show it:

WHERE IS HER MUSEUM? SHE'S JUST AS MUCH OF A HERO AS THE FLASH! REMEMBER THE WOMEN WHO PROTECT AND HELP US, ON THIS AND EVERY DAY! -- RAINBEAU

As the rainbow-riding figure flies off, the newscaster tries to recover. "This seems to be the same 'Rainbeau' who assaulted Arbco previously. His purpose, and his connection to the Rainbow Raider are still unknown..."

[o-haw-clan]

Lump of Coal Awards, 2020 . Target Division of Arbco . Crimson Guard Scalper Division . Tomax and Xamot would be proud . Steel Brigade and Green Shirt recruits acting in a manner unbecoming of the collector community . Here’s to a better 2021. Yo Joe! . . #lumpofcoal #targetexclusive #targetexclusives #gijoeclassifiedseries #gijoecobraisland #dontfeedthescalpers #leaveoneforthenextcollector #bekinderthannecessary #target #hasbro #tomaxxamot #arbco #ohawclan #acemarken #knowingishalfthebattle #yojoe https://www.instagram.com/p/CJe6tHUgGqb/?igshid=hjix78uyixf5

[coronerz]

#fazeonerok #visionvanson #arbco #cobracoronerz

[o-haw-clan]

Beach Head, 2020 . Finally managed to get this guy for retail price. Target trooper and Baroness, where are you? Oh yeah, in the slithering mitts of the Cobra Scalpers. Is Target a division of Arbco? 🤔🤷‍♂️🐍🤬😁 . Even though these are simply toys, I admit as a lifelong G.I. Joe collector, I am struggling to stay positive about the Target/Joe/resellers situation. 🤘🤟 . . #photography #toyphotography #actionfigurephotography #cobraisland #dontfeedthescalpers #arbco #targetsucks #staypositive #ohawclan #acemarken https://www.instagram.com/p/CGCw2v9gvpX/?igshid=1fzy20nqa7adl

[retrokinetics]

a character sheet for @arbco !

[retrokinetics]

commissions from last night! no longer running the fundraising deal so feel free to donate but I can’t do any more art!

these are for @arbco, Captaincube@twitter, @narplebutts and rogueviolets@twitter