TALKING JOE 187 - Christmas special with special guests

It's a Talking Joe Christmas Special with a break from our normal comics deep dive. Mark is joined by Tim to talk Christmas Gifts, Traditions and Joe stories with some Musical interludes, with a host of special guests giving their GI Joe Christmas memories and more.

Big thanks to all our contributors; Andrew Swenson, Michael Kelly, GI Jay Cordray, Chris McLeod, Carson "3D Joes" Mataxis, Adam Riches, Matt “Mate Mylar” Miller, Bart Simon, Stephen Jubber, Chuck X Goren, Paddy Lennon, Malcham Zidek (aka UndeadOpFigs / Chad LaForce) and Kirk Bozigian!

Despite not actually being about GI Joe comics I probably spent more time on this episode than any other due to the amount of editing and extra content created!

And there's more- we will be dropping an extra special bonus mini episode on Dec 25th featuring the return of Chief and Ben to Talking joe!

Michael Kelly is the VP, Global Publishing for Hasbro, and Acting Global Franchise Lead – G.I.JOE, starting in 2006 a Senior Publishing Manager, he's been at 16 years at Hasbro including 11 years at the helm of Hasbro's Global Publishing department.

Michael has been the guy at Hasbro working with IDW on their G.I Joe publishing since the very start, and so has many years of experience at Hasbro to draw upon in this fascinating interview with Mark and Tim discussing Michael's career & interests, the IDW era of G.I. joe comics, and looking forward to the future.

We discuss:

What is involved in Michael's job

Some behind the scenes on pivotal IDW books like Cobra, Revolution, World on Fire, Death of Snake Eyes

We touch on the post-IDW world and potential reprint approach for the future

And as always, so much more!

TALKING JOE 185 - Disavowed - G.I. Joe #43 “Dawn of the Red Shadows" Part 2 (2005)

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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.

TALKING JOE 184 - ARAH 300 ALL IN PT5 review

Mark and Tim talk about issue of G.I. Joe ARAH # 300 released 23rd November 2022

- It’s an overlength episode for an overlength issue!

- We look at the many variant covers, and hear direct from one of the artists, Ron Salas!

- What is the latest with the breakout star of this arc, Geoffrey the Technoviper

- Did the issue meet our lofty expectations? What did we make of the big reveals?

- Tim predicted with total confidence that Wade Collins was definitely dying in issue 300, so let’s find out how Wade “Still Alive” Collins is faring.

- And as always, so much more!

TALKING JOE 183 - Disavowed - G.I. Joe #42 “Dawn of the Red Shadows" Part 1 (2005)

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We will be talking about issue 300 of ARAH out this week very soon, but in the meantime, we continuing our look at the Disavowed era with G.I. Joe #42 “Dawn of the red shadows” Part 1 (Devils Due May 2005), the penultimate issue from Brandon Jerwa’s run.

In today's episode mark & Tim Finn are joined by special guest, long suffering listener, Richard Straw (Carol Straw ).

Also, another episode, another new opening song.

CREATIVE TEAM

Story: Brandon Jerwa

Pencils: Tim Seeley (Page 1-22), Emiliano Santalucia (Page 23-44)

Inks: Cory Hamscher

Coloring: Brett R. Smith

Lettering: Steve Seeley

Editor: Mark Powers

Associate Editor: Mike O'Sullivan

Graphic Design: Mike Norton

Production Assistance: Sean Dove

Military Consultation: Andrew Swenson

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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.

Mark and Tim Finn are continuing our look at the Disavowed era with G.I. Joe #40 & 41 “Union of the snake” Part 5 & 6 of 6 (Devils Due March & April 2005)

Highlights include:

· A discussion of the context of the books cancellation announcement in January 2001 and how that might have impacted the book

· We really like the cover to issue 41!

· Tim really has a problem with General Rey’s haircut

· And an even bigger problem with the use of a tactical nuke

· Killing characters and not “putting the toys back in the box of the next kid”

· and as always, so much more!

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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.

TALKING JOE 181 - ARAH 299 ALL IN PT4 review

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Mark and Tim talk about issue of G.I. Joe ARAH # 299 released 19th October 2022

- Do you want to build a clone man? Mark increases his edit work on this podcast by creating another brand new parody song to start the episode (the third in a row).

- We talk about the size of the Joe universe

- How much more can they fit in before the episode 300 conclusion

- Will Wade make it

- “The elephant in the bacta tank”

- The ongoing adventures of Geoffrey the Technoviper

- And as always, so much more!

Larry Hama Interview – Recorded 1st October 2022

Finally – Talking Joe has been able to speak with G.I. Joe legend Larry Hama! At the outset of Talking Joe we always thought picking the brains of the great man would be a show highlight, and he didn’t disappoint! We try our level best to ask some new questions for Larry so we skip past the sort of GI Joe #1 and #21 were created in this talk.

You have the choice of an audio only version (with extra editing to clean up the audio and get rid of some pauses and pops etc and a bonus introductory jingle). Or the video version https://youtu.be/L5hyrQaLPQc

· Early years at Marvel

· New York & Larry’s favourite cup of coffee

· Recent work drawing Breakdowns on DCs books

· The inspiration for the voice of Cobra Commander

· Exploring “what making it up as he goes along” really means, including approaching the IDW finale of issue 300.

· His approach to “writing”

· The origin of the I Ching Hexagram tattoo

· The convention experience

· The issue 21 Silent issue cover and Larry’s 40thAnniversary cover reinterpretation to “fix it”.

· The origin of the Baroness

· Thoughts on the IDW era, Dawn, new characters and representation.

He really needs no introduction… Larry Hama is an American comic-book writer, artist, actor, and musician who has worked in the fields of entertainment and publishing since the 1960s. Most importantly he is the person who has been writing GI Joe comics starting with issue 1 in 1982, and has continued (on and off) to present day.

ALKING JOE 179 - ARAH 298 ALL IN PT3 review

Mark and Tim are still joined by Jason Murrell, host of the Order of Battle Podcast to talk about issue of G.I. Joe ARAH # 298 released 21st September 2022

- There’s a new opening song for all the Wombles fans out there.

- We start things off with a positive

- There’s a new Jingle – “20 Pages or so”

- Some ruminating on Revanche

- More speculation on what we’ll get in 300

- We take a look at the Cobra imp

- And more!

Link to Order of Battle - https://audioboom.com/channels/5017675

TJ178 Order of Battle & Comics news

Mark and Tim are joined by Jason Murrell, host of the Order of Battle Podcast. We discuss the Order of Battle Podcast & some of Jason’s G.I. Joe origin story. We then delve into some of the recent happenings in the world of GI Joe comics, including the 40th anniversary hardback collection, Larry Hama’s recent ask me anything session and discuss the IDW era of comics a little.

Jason will stick around for next week’s episode when we cover G.I. Joe ARAH # 298

Links:

40th Anniversary Hardcover. Click "look inside" for a preview

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711310/gi-joe-a-real-american-hero-40th-anniversary-special-deluxe-edition-by-larry-hama-steve-leialoha-russ-heath-herb-trimpe/

Hasbro at MCM

https://toynewsi.com/news.php?itemid=44653&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Reddit Hama AMA

https://www.reddit.com/r/gijoe/comments/xuq0s9/this_is_larry_hama_ama/

Order of Battle

https://audioboom.com/channels/5017675