Classic G.I. Joe, Vol. 8 [Paperback]

Larry Hama (Author), Marshall Rogers (Author), Ron Wagner (Author), Fred Fredericks (Author), Rod Whigham (Author), Randy Emberlin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2010

The adventures of America's elite soldiers continue in issues #71-80 of G.I. JOE: A Real American Hero! Completely remastered and collected into trade paperback for the first time!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 14 and up
  
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: IDW Publishing (June 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600106552
• ISBN-13: 978-1600106552
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Cobra Civil War and GI Joe's high water mark, June 2, 2010

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This review is from: Classic G.I. Joe, Vol. 8 (Paperback)

This volume covers issues 71-80 of the Marvel GI Joe series (mostly from 1988). It includes the entire Cobra Civil War story (Cobra Commander vs Serpantor vs Destro vs the GI Joe team), the aftermath where the Joes are betrayed by their own government and several entertaining one-issue stories. The only things missing are the maps of Cobra Island showing the battlelines but the story is easy enough to follow without them.

While the two prior volumes had serious production issues with bad scans and misspelled words this one was fairly high quality. The art was a little flatter than I would like, I think some detail was lost in the reproduction, but it looks fine. I see another reviewer had a peeling cover but mine is holding up, it may have been an isolated problem.

The book has everything you'd expect from Larry Hama's classic GI Joe run. There's military jargon, blazing battles, betrayal, historical references and humor. The art, mainly by Ron Wagner and Marshall Rogers, is some of the best we would see in the Marvel series. There are some minor art issues, at the time GI Joe was so popular it was running biweekly with the artists trading off each issue. So you get things like Hawk taking time out of a fight to change uniforms between issues. It's irking but not too terrible given the deadlines they had.

So, if you like GI Joe, this is a fantastic book to pick up.

4.0 out of 5 stars A great title!, November 27, 2011

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Gman992 "gman992" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Classic G.I. Joe, Vol. 8 (Paperback)

Having bought the originals in the 1980s, I was astonished about how incredible the reprints work...now I keep the originals and wait for the prices to rise!

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cool collected edition marred by poor production, May 26, 2010

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RandA "RandA" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classic G.I. Joe, Vol. 8 (Paperback)

This review is more reflective of the quality of this collected edition than of the issues--if you're a fan of the '80s Joes, then you'll most likely enjoy the stories contained within.

The problem I have with this volume, and why I only gave it 2 stars: I received one copy of this volume I had to return for an exchange (not due to Amazon or any production fault--the shipping company had obviously used the package for an impromptu game of scrimmage football, which bend the crud out of the book within). When I received my replacement copy (with the package in great shape from a different shipping company), I found the top varnish layer on the front and back cover were peeling off the corners of the cover. I mentioned the copy I had to return because I noticed--beyond the shipping damage--that copy also had the varnish peeling from the corners. I had thought the varnish peeling, like the massive bend in the book, was due to the beating it had taken during shipping. No such luck.

I know a thing or two about printing, having worked at a print shop for several years...and it's plain to me, looking at the cover, that this was just a shoddy varnish job.

After last volume's rampant misspellings throughout the book, and some of the previous volumes' poor scans of the original art, you would have thought IDW would have stepped up quality control on their Classic G.I. Joe volumes. If they did a simple press check, they should have been able to see the poor quality of the vanish layer for this volume and fixed this problem. Instead, I'm stuck with a volume whose cover is peeling varnish...even though it's brand new.

I generally like IDW, and I've been extremely pleased with their efforts to reprint these issues. But, come on guys--if you're reading this, please show the fans and purchasers of your merchandise a bit more respect by producing merchandise worthy of their price.