Exploring G.I. Joe's New Energon Universe with Writer Joshua Williamson
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Skybound is rebooting Transformers and G.I. Joe in a new shared universe alongside Robert Kirkman's Void Rivals. In this interview, I discuss with writer Joshua Williamson his introduction to comics, a bit about his other Image comic, Dark Ride, and his approach to G.I. Joe. We talk about how Joshua chose the characters for G.I. Joe and Cobra, what he wants to do with the book that's new, and why it's starting with two separate books, Duke and Cobra Commander. - บันเทิง
A little late, but I just finished this. I really like how it doesn't feel like a question and answer interview, just a conversation between two creatives/comic lovers.
Josh is pretty good at doing that, he does a show with Sal from comicpop once a month and it’s just them shooting the breeze and talking industry stuff casually. Check it out sometime!
Skybound definitely needs to print omnis of the original and IDW series. Take my money now.
Love that Joshua is sourcing the file cards.
Great interview, Chris.
This is the most I've liked Williamson I an interview; I've found he can overwhelm the host and talk over them but you are a consumate professional.
Great work!
Great interview Chris! Thank you for exposing us Joshua's work.
This was so freakin enjoyable as a listen. Would love to have a convo with these two! So much love for the source, im excited for the new books otw
Issue 24 is one of my favorites due to the art by the great Russ Heath. And then there are issues 26 and 27, the origin of Snake Eyes. Issue 22 was my first Joe comic but I became a comic collector with issue 23.
Joshua has quietly become one of my favorite creators. Love his take on Damian Wayne. I love .G.I. Joe and Transformers but have never liked the crossovers. I will absolutely pick these up though because I think Josh can make believe it and care. Thanks for this!
"Dive in with Duke" is my new favorite slogan.
Great interview Chris. I've been reading Josh's stories for years starting with Ghosted & Nailbiter. He's a great horror writer for sure. I'm checking out the Energon universe as well, it's been fun so far.
My first Marvel Subscription came in sleeves of brown paper bag material. Not sealed or taped, just slid in. I think they were X-Men/X-Factor/New Mutants from the Inferno event. Within a year they switched to thin sealed plastic bags (maybe as thick as a bread bag) with thin cardpaper backs (a bit thinner than frozen food box cardpaper). Never rolled up but often folded in half. But they were SOO much cheaper than newsstand when you got multiple titles.
This was an awesome interview! Just what i was looking for. Sounds like the comics are in good hands
Josh is so great! Looking forward to his new GI Joe stuff!
Man, that interview rocked, Chris! Love your interview style. Keep em coming!
It's always nice to hang out with a fellow enthusiast isn't it? So cool that Josh's parents were comic book lovers. ❤️
Oh wow, that's a great interview!
Great interview ! Gi Joe 63 -66 are some of my favorite issues as well. The scene were Stalker breaks down emotionally still hits hard. The White clown and his missing wife, the ninjas going rogue, the stakes of the mission, etc..Hama is such a great underrated writer.
Just found your show! Love it. Thanks paul Shiple for guiding me here.
Great interview. Love Joshua’s enthusiasm. It comes through in his writing. I loved in Birthright how Joshua “fanned out” about making the map of his world. I sold Joshua (online) a piece of OA from DC Rebirth.
10:59 omg! He just mentioned my two favorite X-Men story arcs: X-cutioner Song, and X-tinction Agenda. In that order too. Then I'd say next on my list would be Dark Phoenix Saga. Anyways, his "window" was the best! I'd go all the way to 1997, when Marvel died... it was killed by Onslaught 😉 However X-Men did a lot of great stuff throughout the 80s and 70s too! From what I would call the Chris Claremont era to 1997 was a fortunate time for comics readers.
He created some of the most enjoyably memorable creations of my youth and early adulthood, but I think you hit the nail square on the head. The latter part of some of his more creative runs i.e., X-men, Fantastic Four, seemed more of a caricature of his earlier brilliance when he started them.
Yes, loved the Larry Hama writing in the early/mid 80s. gold. i was sucked in as an 8-year old and beyond.
Agreed (of course) and I have an interview with Larry on the channel.
As someone who’s not a huge of either property I can’t wait for these books! I’ve always been marginally interested and these look like a good place to start.
1st comic I ever bought was GIJOE #35. And the Dreadnoks stole Zartans bike with a holographic projector and caused all kinds of havoc for the joes. Was a great issue.
classified is a flawless line that only gets better
You always look polished in the 3 stripes jacket :) Hope you're doing well!
I gotta take a minute to plug the 3D Joes omnibus. It is the ultimate Joe source
YO JOE! Great interview Chris! I’m very hyped for the Energon Universe and I’m super pumped to see what Joshua Williamson has planned for the Joe side of the EU.
I loved GI Joe as a kid but I haven't ever really read the comics. I was all about the cartoon and the toys. As an adult I stayed away from GI Joe until the movies came out and I loved some parts of it but hated others. Absolutely Love the G.I. Joe: Resolute cartoon film.
I've loved Joshua Williamsons witting since I randomly decided to pick up Nailbiter, and he might be the reason I give GI Joe a chance in comics.
Drink everytime Josh says the world "Like."
Geeking out. Love JWs work hut had no idea he was such a huge GI Joe guy. My comic tastes are DC. Great find on on Sunday morning.
I enjoy your interviewing style Chris.
I loved Birthright and want deluxe hardcovers!
Open your figures, man!
Hey Chris. Just a little feedback for posterity, maybe pass it on to Josh:
I'm such a one as has gotten their first G.I. Joe toy in 1987. I watched the cartoon when I was little, but not religiously. I know the faces and names more from the back of the card than the show. I never invested in the comic. I recently bought the Skybound Transformers since issue #1. Love it's grittiness. Of course I detected the cameo of Duke. Given Transformers is turning out to be a story that is grown-up and not as disgustingly vapid as the 80s cartoon, I'm excited to read it. And of course, today, as I watch the GI Joe cartoon from the 80s, there isn't one episode that isn't insulting to one's intelligence. Again, idk about the comic, but I'm apprehensive to retrospectively read them for they would surely result in being too simple minded for an audience of today, let alone an adult. SO, I say all this to say that I'm excited to read about these characters in a way that is respectful of source material and yet geared towards today's audience. Very excited to be here at another start! I also am collecting what I can of GI Joe Classified series action figures. Beautiful pieces of art they turned out to be.
Well the original comics are surprisingly grounded. That’s a separate continuity with the subtitle A Real American Hero. All written even up to today by Larry Hama, a Vietnam vet who served in country.
@@ComicTropes good looking out. I see if I find a trade of old GI Joe comics and give it a try.
Never heard of him before and he surprised me SO MUCH and he was SO GOOD in his Batman run, so I'm DEFINITELY gonna read his GI Joe, although I'm more of an Action Man kid since that was the shyt when I was young here, and don't know anything about that whole concept.
Thank you. Big Dark Ride fan here.
Finally. It sounds like the stories I've thought about for years where we live in the alternate universe of the old cartoon two-parter "Worlds Without End." The building of the teams with alternate paths is a fun playground for the mind. Nothing stands out more to me in the old stories than those two episodes. Nothing since has made me think about the characters so much either.
I'm looking forward to reading what you've worked on dude. Thanks for keeping it old school with Lary Hamma's inspirations. I've been honored to meet him and get his Captain America book signed.
I haven’t read much of his work, but he’s making a banger Superman series so I can’t wait to see what he brings to Joe
Joshua is asking questions I didn't know I wanted answers to. ❤
Great interview! GI Joe comics and Larry Hama got me into comics seriously back in the 80s. Plus I’m all in on the classified line, so I’m looking forward to this new energon universe and Larry’s continued universe.
Always fun to see a creator being a fan of what they're adapting. Reminds me of the interview with dwj on comicpop.
Check out the interview with DWJ here! But Sal is a nice guy, so I’m glad it was a good one.
@ComicTropes Did you do one? I'll definitely have to check it out then.
Nice get, Chris!
great interview, chris. i am loving the new energon universe. also, if you are going to play with your gi joes, take them out of the box first. lol.
You're a maestro on the mic as always, sir! You should be Larry King's successor.
I love that Book. I got it from the Library and checked it out a million times.
GRUNT!!!
Damn Joshua's room be cool as hell
ComicTropes has been a supporter and inspiration for my channel as we’ve been covering the IDW Run of GIJOE since 2014 …while the Larry Hama verse is MY cannon GIJoe … I am excited about the new Energon Universe ( which we will be covering) .. Thee GOAL is for GIJOE and it’s amazing values of Diversity, Working together, and honor to be passed down to a younger generation… I’ve always felt GIJoe is needed in todays world 🌎 and that today kids WiLL enjoy it .. if it was presented to them correctly 😊
Read TF #1. Feels like the real TF again.
What a great guy.. Absolutely loved his Do a Powerbomb, that's where I found him and have been loving all his works ever since.. He's so fun!! 😁👍🏻
I think you’re thinking of Daniel Warren Johnson. He is fun, I agree.
The comics at Toys R us is the first time I saw the Silver Centurion Iron Man. I remember being blown away by the armor. Still my favorite to this day.
Yo Joe!
Gotta love Joes. ☺︎ Along with Masters of the Universe and Transformers and ThunderCats too. They were great days.
My favorite issue is a tie between yearbook 2 and issues 5,6 and 8 and maybe 30. Dont do a silent issue. Every silent issue besides 21 has been terrible. Since they killed bumblebee, I wonder who gets killed in Duke?
Is this the guy that decided out of an 8- Joe team, Three of them should be snake eyes? As the trope guy, you should be tearing him apart
I’m afraid I don’t know what you’re talking about?
Wait. "Energon" is a TRANSFORMERS thing. Have the two lines combined "universes"? Since when?
They tried it in IDW, prior to that it only briefly happened in Marvel and then alternate continuity miniseries.
fave GI issue that isn't #21?
issue #22 is a great over looked issue that has a silent section, a comedy bit, and 3 parallel funerals... it also intros Duke and Roadblock
which run is this? i'm new to joe comics
@@CallMeZayyuh that issue #22 is from the Marvel 80s run of GI Joe A Real American Hero.
Real interesting, I grew up in the 80s on G.I Joe, But I'm confused. is Skybound going to publish 2 continuities? The 'Hama-Verse' and a new Kirkman-verse simultaniously?
Yes, there will be the Energon Universe and the A Real American Hero versions published.
oh! I just left my LCS today. I thought Duke came out last week, but then saw it was the G.I, Joe Real American Hero Fascimile that came out and I was confused. So the Real American Hero series will continue straight from the IDW series? That is awesome! Thanks Chris! (Love the Channel)@@ComicTropes
We need a Classifieds fumetti issue where the comic is completely photographed from the toyline. Not just the cover. Build the sets!
Birthright was cool, man.
Cooobbbrrraaa !!! 💀 🐍 💀 🐍
Man, I had a subscription to GI Joe back in the day and the wrappers they came in were garbage. I would get them all warped all the time. My fix to flatten them back out was putting them under a stack of encyclopedias for a week.
Hmmm I wonder if in his book Flint and Jaye have a young Marisa Fairborne as a daughter. Guess I will have to read it to find out...
Why is Baroness standing with the Joes? Isn't Baroness a member of Cobra? What's going on here?
That alone has me curious to read this new take.
GIJOE Classified Series!
You skipped over Devils Due and the New sculpt error.
Favorite GI Joe issue is #11
I’m not a GI Joe fan. I’ve never had a toy, read a comic or watched the animated series, I’ve only watched the first two of those dumb live-action movies that were as stupid as the Michael Bay’s Transformers movies.
But you’re tempting me to grab some of those new books.
I know its a property centered in the 80's to modern times, but I would make some stories as early as the feudal age, and would go threw from that time to modern times, and I would make it so from the start they had a dimension (in modern times they have a number of them) and the dimension was a normal (just like earth). Like they have specialized forces (eco warriors) they could have small detachments that fought in dimensions against threats outside of earth that effect earth directly (infiltration) or indirectly (manipulation threw others) though most of the characters would still be in the real world, periodically they may be called to fight in these dimensions when the special forces know they can't handle it. P.S. - G.I. initially stood for "galvanized iron" and that is what it could mean until the 20th century when the organization changed it to mean government issue.
GI Joe and Transformers are like pizza and ice cream...amazing on their own, but combined? :/ Also, Hama killed off Snake Eyes and wrote in Dawn Moreno. This was his dumbest idea until signing off on the terrible origins movie that needlessly race swapped the main character. Hopefully Mr. Williamson doesn't go down that route, and keeps the character, if introduced, true to comics continuity.
As a big fan of both properties, but especially Joe, I don’t like them mixed. The Joes take a backseat by default, and IDW just tried this and it failed. I wish you well if you enjoy it, but I will pass.
Had to get rid of half ur comics - I'd be like "can i get rid of half my clothes"
Where are GI Jane?
GI Joe should NOT be in the Transformers Universe. Kids in the 80s always thought that was stupid anyway. GI Joe is based on Delta Force, they’re the best of Special Forces. The accident that made Snake Eyes is based on the real failed hostage rescue in Iran back in 1979-80. It’s universe is full of Ninja Clans and the Corsican Mafia and corporate security groups and all that stuff that made it rad. Putting them in the Transformers Universe minimizes all of that stuff for them to play second fiddle to Alien Robots. It’s crap. stop it. You’d be better off mixing MASK and Transformers.
The original Larry Hama run was one of the best universes ever created. Send the Constructocons to go fight He Man or something.
Carson book
All of them?! And repaints?! You guys are out of control
I honestly have not been interested in GI Joe since Marvel and the one where Chuckles smokes cobra commander. Gritty.