DW - Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front #1

Staff

Title: Targets of Opportunity

Dedicated to: Larry Hama

Writers: James McDonough and Adam Patyk

Pencils: Pat Lee (Hiiiisssssss)

Breakdowns: Nick Kilislian

Background: Edwin Garcia

Inks: Rob Armstrong

Colours: Anthony Washington and Alan Wang

Letters: Ben Lee

Plot

At a harbor in New York City, GI Joe attack a Cobra team, led by Destro, raiding the harbor for some reason, it seems to be going well until Cobra starts using their high tech weapons and vehicles against the Joes and start chasing them off. Destro starts to retreat but one of the troopers tries to take his place in a flight pod. Scrap-Iron kills the trooper and allows himself and Destro to escape, leaving a missile for the Joes to deal with.

The next day, Flint is back at the Utah Joe HQ where he has a talk with Duke about his recent run of bad missions, and he's told to go to The Pit for some R&R. Later a small spaceship crashes into a forest near Mount St. Hilary in Oregon, which Cobra detects and has a local team look into the crash./

Over Cobra Island, Starscream, in a new F015 Jet mode is flying around watching the Cobras move out to the crash-site, and he plans to use the ship as a means to escape Earth in his energy depleted state, when they bring it back to base.

Flint is working out in the weight room, when he gets a call in about the crash and is called out to lead a team to Oregon, along with a new team led by Spirit, who were training in the area at the time.

The two groups meet up in the forest and immediately start attacking the Cobras, who have something under a tarp being airlifted away. The Joes cause the helicopter to explode, and the cargo falls, unveiling two robots, Perceptor and Blaster, unconscious.

Later the Joes return to base with their cargo, where Flint and Spirit are taken to meet with Duke, Scarlett and Stalker, who were all in the team from the Fera Islands in 1939, and they're told about the Transformers and about how Cobra was formed....

and then the company went down, and the series was cancelled.....FUN!!!

Characters

G.I. Joe

Duke

Scarlett

Stalker

Flint

Spirit

Shipwreck

Snake-Eyes

Cover Girl

Gung-Ho

Clutch

Rock 'N' Roll

Blowtorch

Grand Slam

Quick Kick

Airtight

Bazooka

Doc

Wild Bill

Alpine

Barbecue

Mutt

Junkyard

Cobra

Cobra Commander

Destro

Scrap-Iron

Agent Smith

Cobra Troops

Autobot

Perceptor Unconscious from Crash

Blaster Unconscious from Crash

Optimus Prime (Footage Only)

Decepticon

Starscream - F-15 Jet

Megatron - Gun (Footage Only)

Notes

• Yeah...there was only one issue of this series due to Dreamwave imploding in on itself
• Most likely characters like Flint, Destro and Snake Eyes are related in some way to the characters in the first G.I. Joe crossover from Dreamwave
• Whilst the artwork in this comic is nicer than that of the previous series...it's still not very nice...most of the human characters look like they're melting or something
• Pretty much every time they show a reflection of something it's just a reprinting of an image seen elsewhere in the comic...it just seems lazy to me
• Starscream being the only Decepticon shown active in this comic may have been because he was disabled before the Matrix blast...but of course there's no way to find out now...
• Yeah...the scene in the weight room is just weird.....(see above picture for most of it)
• Flint doesn't seem to be as good as the Flint from the first crossover
• It seems that one of the Joes on the Fera Islands must have had a camera since they have footage of Optimus and Megatron fighting.