>>7633368Interview with the author where he explicitly states it's typical IDW, stating the book will be about today's politics and the "rise of fascism all over the globe." He says the quote around 28 minutes in, and he and they joke in the interview about Cobra taking over in the 2020 elections.
According to the interview Hasbro told IDW that they wanted Cobra to be a global power at a world war, with the story to be a more evenly matched war rather than them just being terrorists, with GI Joe recruiting civilians to help in the fight. The writer says that he instead decided to make it that Cobra ran the US and GI Joe was resisting.
Through-out the interview it sounds like maybe it wont be so bad, only to get the occasional statement by the author that'll make you question that belief, such as when he starts to talk about the "rise of fascism" today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BSvJE_P3O0 So Hasbro did have a hand in the new comic in the form of telling IDW some basic things they wanted in the book to promote the toys, but IDW is fully responsible for any of the content in the book.
