G.I. Joe Movie Prequel #1 Duke
Posted: Friday, March 13, 2009
By: Stephen Joyce
Chuck Dixon
S. L. Gallant, Art Lyon (c)
IDW Publishing
Basically this is not a G.I. JOE story. The story itself is very much a generic military story. There is no point in this issue that I really seem to care for these characters. Sergeant Hauser, the man that will one day be the hero Duke, doesn’t seem to be the same character we know and love. I understand that this is a story that takes place before he would be the hero we all remember, but there should be some resemblance, after all it’s the same character essentially. I was really expecting more from Chuck Dixon. He’s doing such a great job on the real G.I. JOE series I figured that would bleed over to this movie prequel. I obviously figured wrong.
The art for this book has some issues as well. The art isn’t horrible, but at the same time it does not feel consistent. I also get the feeling that S. L. Gallant doesn’t like to draw eyes very much, because most of the time his characters’ eyes are just black holes. I understand that there are a lot of shadowy scenes in this issue, but I don’t want all the characters I’m looking at to be without eyes. This is really sad, because the times that Gallant does draw eyes on his characters they are very much alive. Another problem with the art is with how Duke is presented. Sometimes the character seems to be an older commander who has been through a lot. Other times it looks like he’s a younger commander.
Final Word: This book isn’t worth getting. Like I said earlier I really wanted to find something in this book that would get me excited for the upcoming movie, but there was nothing there to get me excited at all. They could have put any war comic title on this book and it might have been a mediocre book, but with G.I. JOE you expect certain things and this doesn’t deliver. Don’t waste your time with this book.
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