TJ 135 - Disavowed – G.I. Joe Frontline #5-8 “ICEBOUND” (Devils Due 2003)

Mark & Tim are talking G.I. Joe Frontline #5-8 “Icebound” in our ongoing look at the “Disavowed” Devils Due era.

This week our special guest is non other than writer of this arc, Dan Jolley!

https://youtu.be/a5nOnPhH9AE

Dan started writing professionally at age 19 and has worked in comics for most of the major American publishers, such as DC (Firestorm), Marvel (Dr. Strange), Dark Horse (Aliens, branching out into licensed-property and film novelizations (Star Trek & Iron Man), and original novels, including the Middle Grade Urban Fantasy series Five Elements and the Urban Sci-Fi Gray Widow Trilogy. Dan started writing for video games in 2007, on titles such as Transformers: War for Cybertron, Prototype 2, and Dying Light. He lives in northwest Georgia.

Questions asked include

- What’s it like being the first writer of GI Joe comic that is not Larry Hama or Josh Blaylock

- Are guns the same as flashlights?

- What is “Checkov’s Pen”

- What sort of influence was “The Thing” on this

Plus we have the glorious return of the segment “Devils Due or Devils Poo?”

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Talking Joe is a weekly podcast in which Mark, Tim & Jay and a revolving set of guests co-hosts review and discuss the ever evolving, always entertaining world of G.I. Joe comics. The journey began with Marvel's epic 155 issue run and continues through to present day IDW and Devil's Due eras.