RON: Another cool gadget that the Joes have to help them in the war against Cobra.  I was pleasantly surprised by its use.  It just goes to show that technology saves lives ( Joes lives, that is).  The Joes raid was precise and professional thanks to the cube cam.

ROGER: Not much was really wrong with this issue as I've already said. So I'm going to have to get a little nitpicky here. First of all, I didn't care for the flow of the story. It opens fine, then jumps to earlier in the day then back to the end. Flashing back wasn't so much the problem, they just never told you when it came back to the present. So it was a little hard to follow, and caused more page flipping that usual.

RON: I agree 100%.  The story jumping was my biggest complaint.  It was not too terrible.  As a matter of fact, understand why it was done.  A book should open and shut with a good action fighting scene.  But this could have been avoided by putting the Destro/Commander conflict first, and then telling the Joe/Russian conflict in order.  This would have kept the story  flow consistent.  Perhaps limit the story jumping to flashback memories.  It keeps time going in the same direction.  Unfortunately, this method is limited to a personal viewpoint and not a complete story.

ROGER: I would think that in this day and age, Zartan's camouflage effect would be much better illustrated with a computer generated image. The two panels with him appearing, look fairly cheesy. I'm very strongly reminded of comics from the '70's. Unfortunately, I do not have fond memories of comics from that era.

RON: I was ok with it.  But the next panel gets kinda ugly.  See the appropriate section for the panel. :-)

ROGER: This part isn't so much from this issue, but it does relate. Storm Shadow, is indeed Storm Shadow (not Firefly as an imposter). I'm disappointed. I wanted so much to preserve Storm Shadows honor, and have a really cool way of reintroducing Firefly. But, both G.I. Joe Battle Files #2, and what learned at the convention confirm it. On the plus side though, that does mean there are plans in the works for Firefly. And you have to bet there will eventually be a story line dealing with Snake Eyes attempting to save his sword brother.

RON: With the toys release of Firefly coming next month, I am sure we will be seeing Firefly soon enough in the comic.  He is another character the public demands to see.