Here are two scenes from a dio-comic story I’ve been working on the past months. It might take several more months before the final shape takes place, but the basic story is that a GIJoe base is infiltrated by Cobra, and only Shipwreck, Cover Girl, Sgt. Stone, and a handful of Pit Commandos (those generic GIJoe support troops also known as Green Shirts in another incarnation) plus MPs are there to repel the enemy.
Cover Girl and Shipwreck respond to an alarm (in the film version, Cover Girl dies at the hand of Zartan, but in my Joe-verse, she lives).
Who would have thought the legendary Firefly would be caught in the act by MPs and second-tier troops?
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For these shoots, I found that the Rise of Cobra (ROC) figures blend well with the mostly-gray color of the vintage playset, Transportable Tactical Battle Platform. I don’t intend the story to happen entirely in the TTBP as I can’t shoot outdoors. I used the TTBP as a backdrop to create the illusion (hopefully) of the interior of an older and bigger base, complete with a dark atmosphere.
I still can’t believe that Cover Girl was dispatched so easily in the movie. Nice use of the TTBP, that was always one of the coolest playsets. It wasn’t until decades later that I realized it’s basically a semi-submersible oil rig without a drill. LOL.
Yes, it was disappointing to see Cover Girl as just a cannon fodder. I only got the TTBP only two years ago; I’m making up for lost time!