>>10489376When I said i have read the series over decades, I mean I read it when i was a kid and re-read what i had for years. I re-read it when i was a teen. I've re-read it in my 20s. When i bought IDW's trades for it, i re-read it again in trade form, but i still kept my singles. I've re-read it in my 30s.
I've burned a lot of this shit into my memory and discussed it with other GI Joe nerds since the internet became a thing in the 90s
Whereas
>>10487782 seems to have forgotten shit he read only a month ago
>this story posted here >>10487782 the Vipers shown were behaving like low end newbiesEver watched a war movie? There's jokes like that all the time. Supposed tough guys who act like girls over minor shit. Here's real hardass ukrainian soldiers who got trained by western hardasses hopping away from a beaver.
So in that story, those Vipers are storming the headquarters (very marine/shocktrooper like, huh?) of the most elite forces America has. These door kicking macho Viper are expecting a firefight with biggest badasses in the world and instead a bird scratches one guy in the face and they run away in terror. A juxtapositioned joke.
OF course, they mean business, as Vipers marched to their deaths through a murderholed corridor to get at those pesky GI Joes, because they're big tough guys who'll get rewarded with riches and promoted for being the first to break open a hatch, kill a joe, or blow something important up. Because almost everyone who joined Cobra is doing it for money, fame, and a better life.
That's how Hama wrote how Cobra worked, instead of evil terrorists who just want to do evil things like some cartoon. So when
>>10487782 mentioned that the Alley Vipers balked at taking orders from Zarana, it's because they know she's just some nepo biker bitch who's not in their chain of command. And yes, that's very much like mercenaries and that's literally how Cobra is portrayed multiple times in the comics
So what did
>>10487782 even read?
