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Spirit and Mutt continue to battle Cobra in Millville. The Joes and the Guard hook up with the tribal Tucaros against the Iron Grenadiers led by Darklon in Sierra Gordo. Scarlett's sister shows up to have her life-support disconnected.


Detailed summary

The Joes and Oktober Guard continue their flight from the Cobra forces at the air strip. Darklon manages to renew his pursuit and sends out a call for any D.E.M.O.N. or Razorback still operational to join him. He has realised that the infiltrators landed on a Russian plane but is unaware there are Joes involved. The Guards' BMP is damaged and has to halt. Flint initially drives past, but after an attack of conscience and nagging from the others, he returns and lets the Guards aboard the already crowded Desert Fox.


Lady Jaye instructs Muskrat to reverse the main gun to fire at their pursuers. The nearest Razorback realises it's a GI Joe vehicle and drives closer to see who is on board...only to forget to fire at them and get blown apart. Darklon orders the remaining Razorback to destroy them but Flint manages to jump a ravine while the pursuing Razorback falls into it. Wild Boar assures a furious Darklon that they're as good as dead: They just entered the territory of the Tucaro, the baddest headhunters in the valley.

In Milville, Cobra Commander boasts to Fred XIII that he has created a workers' paradise: The factory workers on his production line are fed, clothed, warm and brainwashed into being docile. A call to Uncle Jeff is routed through to a nearby booth: It's Law, wondering if Order could speak to Junkyard. Jeff angrily tells him that Mutt and Spirit have gone out and signs off. Just as Cobra Commander is celebrating this success, there is an explosion from outside and Fred XIII reports that the garage containing their vehicles has been blown up, their police headquarters raided for weapons and the brainwave scanner trailers have been bombed. Cobra Commander is furious that there's already an organised resistance against him.

Downtown, Mutt and Spike are in the cab of a truck with members of Spike's gang firing on the Bugg following them. They head into a blind alley but Spirit and other gang members are waiting on the roof and drop a safe full of scrap metal on the vehicle, wrecking it. They strip it of everything of use and leave the Secto-Vipers tied up. Back at the garage, Russ notes the gang members performed well, but seeing the combination of reactions from them to their first combat, Spirit notes they can't ever go back to being kids again.

Back in Sierra Gordo, the Joes and Guards find the path blocked by a cut-down tree and are surrounded by Tucaros. Roadblock's mention of Recondo, who lived among them for some time, gets a reaction and the English-speaking Anibal asks for his real name and birthplace, which Roadblock provides, as evidence that they know him. In the capital, Destro (still unmasked) and Baroness have arrived, partly for a holiday and partly to check on Darklon. Destro reminds him that he made a deal with El Jefe, leaving him as president but reporting to the Mars Corporation. Darklon says he's just licensed the timber rights to the rain forest to a multi-national corporation: Soon the Tucaros won't have any trees to hide behind.

In New York, the hospital staff are following the court order and refusing to let Snake-Eyes in to see Scarlett. Storm Shadow argues with a doctor who said Scarlett wasn't brain dead, but the doctor says Siobhan found doctors who said she was. Siobhan arrives and threatens to call the police but Snake-Eyes pushes her out of the way and Storm Shadow tells her to leave them be. Snake-Eyes rips the bandages off his face and kneels by Scarlett's bedside, stammering her name.

Appearances

Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

G.I. Joe Cobra Oktober Guard Millville Misc
  • Uncle Jeff (13)
  • Russ (22)
  • Delinquents (27)
    • Raggedy Mouf (24)
    • Spike (20)
    • Tiny (23)
  • Sioban O'Hara (35)
  • Tucaros (29)
    • Anibal (30)


Featured Vehicles & Equipment

G.I. Joe Cobra Oktober Guard
  • Desert Fox
  • AN-24 Condor
  • BMP tank



Memorable quotes

"Sc-Sc-- Sc-Scarlett!"

--Never let anyone tell you that Snake-Eyes couldn't speak.

Other Notes

Errors

  • Though the cover calls the team the "October Guard," inside it's spelt "Oktober."
  • In the truck, the balloon with the slurred speech - presumably belonging to "Raggedy Mouf" - points at a kid with black hair. When Raggedy Mouf is later shown in closeup, he's blonde.

Items of note

  • First Appearances: Anibal
  • The corner box changes again - this time it's Hawk and Snake-Eyes - and they're the only Joes seen on the cover.
  • It seems that Cobra Commander wanted to take over Millville simply for manufacturing purposes.
  • The options on the Cobra Mood-Matic device include:
    • Joined a cult
    • Old grudge
    • Whining
    • and at least two others obscured by the Techno-Viper's hand.
  • Snake-Eyes' new face is revealed.
  • The letters page mentions Snake-Eyes' empty word balloons from issue #1 and how it's possible Snakes could speak, but it was always inaudible and extremely difficult for him.
  • Additionally, the letters page contains a poignant letter from a young man who had no father, and whose father figure, a Vietnam vet, had killed himself. In trying to overcome his grief, the boy was drawn to Snake-Eyes for comfort. He ends his letter talking about organizing a peace rally after witnessing the Tienamen Square massacre on tv. G.I. Joe may have been a lot of things, but it was never a pointless tie-in book.
    • Yo, Joe!

Real-world references

Footnotes and References





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