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Originally Posted by Sunred

What does said subsect of the G.I.Joe fandom think of the IDW comics? Cause those seem like the thing that would satisfy their preferences, and as much as I love the Sunbow and Dic cartoons for all its goofyness, I am also a fan of those comics.

From an outside observer's perspective, they are characteristically unhappy.

If a series tries to be inclusive or progressive there's a backlash, which is what's happening with the current GI Joe comic. (HissTank chased Paul Allor off the boards! The guy who writes the GI Joe comic was made to feel unwelcome on a GI Joe fan forum!)

However, they also don't care much for the current ARAH run, which is written by the guy who wrote all of the classic comics. They think it's gotten too goofy and unrealistic, which, amazing to me!

Literally the only IDW thing I've ever seen that fanbase appreciate is the (generally well-regarded even outside the fandom!) Mike Costa stuff, specifically his Chuckles stories. Everything else just bugs them.

I think it's a mix of wanting an unapologetically might-makes-right military adventure series that would have an incredibly narrow audience in 2020, so media companies ain't exactly bending over backwards to accommodate them; and an inability to realize how much their nostalgia means that they're trying to recapture a specific childhood experience that is gone forever.

It's sad! I'm honestly sad for them as fans! They're a dwindling audience clinging to an unpopular franchise, and yet every attempt by Hasbro (or IDW) to grow the fanbase with new ideas is greeted with hostility. Some of them got real real mad at Hasbro making new Joe figures because the designs were modern and the figures were in a more popular scale! NEW FIGURES made them yell at each other! Exclamation marks!!!