Larry Hama, who seemingly got the job because no one else wanted it, was still mostly known as an editor (apparently giving young Christopher Priest the valued advice “never let the white man take advantage of you”) and an occasional artist. 1 It was a war comic, of sort, at time when the genre didn’t really exist anymore. Interference was sure to come from two corporations (Marvel and Hasbro) instead of one. It’s a toy-based comic, and those are mostly awful. Joe was some of the best of the 1980s adventure team comics, right alongside the Claremont-written Uncanny X-Men, the Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire Justice League International and the Ostrander/Yale/McDonnell Suicide Squad. It was simply that the zeitgeist had passed the title by.
You can’t even blame any particular artist the last three issues had three different pencilers.
The art side going stereotypically 1990s didn’t help much either. Oh, the Marvel run takes a while to find its legs, and gets really shaggy towards the end - too many characters, too many plotlines, too many damn ninjas. What is surprising is that it’s a lot of good comics. That’s a lot of comics, which shouldn’t be surprising if Marvel is good at anything it’s milking a successful idea until it’s bone dry. Hama also wrote around 40 issues of various spin-off titles. and that Marvel run was anything but lower-tier Hama.īetween June 1982 and December 1994, Hama wrote almost all of the 155-issue run of Marvel’s A Real American Hero - there were less than 10 fill-in issues. But still, even lower-tier Hama is something worth your time. I haven't been following the IDW run too closely too much of the art is on the wrong side of 'medium' and it sometimes feels like the writing is indebted to old ideas and storylines. Joe: A Real American Hero title for IDW since May 2010, starting from issue #155.5 (ah, comics numbering), which picked up from when Hama finished his Marvel run on the same title with issue #155 in December of 1994 - so, he gets the rare pleasure of doing a big epic ending twice. To clarify, Hama has been writing the G.I. This might be the end of Larry Hama’s run on the series, right around issue #300. If the news is to be believed, IDW will lose its G.I.
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