Dixon and Gulacy Declassify G.I. JOE: SPECIAL MISSIONS!
Friday, Dec 14th, 2012
The new series goes undercover
this March!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
San Diego, CA (December 14, 2012) - As part of the re-launch of G.I. JOE comics, based on the iconic brand from Hasbro, IDW Publishing is thrilled to announce G.I. JOE: SPECIAL MISSIONS! A new ongoing series helmed by comics legends Chuck Dixon and Paul Gulacy, G.I. JOE SPECIAL MISSIONS chronicles the G.I. JOE team members still operating undercover in the wake of many of their identities being exposed to the public. Tying directly into the story of Fred Van Lente and Steve Kurth's G.I. JOE, Special Missions' first arc shows how the evil BARONESS ends up high and dry in the eponymous G.I. JOE book.
As the raven-haired saboteur extraordinaire martials her forces
and attempts to find her way back into the fold of multi-national
terror organization COBRA, SCARLETT must put together an elite team
to covertly de-fang the storied villainess! Calling on the best
covert operators the G.I. JOE team has to offer, readers will be
treated to adventures starring beloved characters like BEACH HEAD,
MAINFRAME, TRIPWIRE, HARD DRIVE, ICE BERG, and STALKER, just to
name a few!
"Special Missions was always my favorite of all the
original, classic G.I. JOE comics," said an
enthusiastic Dixon. "Larry Hama and Herb
Trimpe did an amazing comic as well as monthly tutorials on comic
book storytelling. I'm knocked out to get a shot at this title and
having Paul Gulacy work with me is one
of those too-good-to-be-true scenarios!"
"I could read Chuck Dixon writing hard
military stories all day long," said series
editor Carlos Guzman. "Nobody's better at
telling covert action stories than Chuck
and Special Missions is him at
his best, telling the most action-packed stories of his
distinguished career. And when he's paired up with his longtime
collaborator Paul Gulacy? You can't ask for
more than that."
An espionage-fueled counterpoint to the explosive media madness of
the ongoing G.I.
JOE title, G.I. JOE: SPECIAL
MISSIONS is a must-read for all G.I. JOE fans.
If all that weren't enough, the inaugural issue will feature a
cover by Brandon Peterson, a wraparound cover
by Jamal Igle, and a specialUntold Tales
of G.I. JOE cover by Jim Rugg!
Harkening back to the classic Special
Missions and featuring one of the most battle-tested
creative teams in comics, G.I. JOE: SPECIAL
MISSIONS promises to be an instant classic!
G.I. JOE: SPECIAL
MISSIONS #1 - (FC, 32
pages, $3.99) is in stores March 20th, 2013.
Diamond Code: JAN130356
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