Written by: Aubrey Sitterson
Art by: Nelson Daniel
Colours by: Ryan Hill
Letters by: Taylor Esposito
Editors: Tom Waltz & Chase Marotz
Publisher: Greg Goldstein
Plot
The Joes in the North Pole Jungle are surrounded by various dinosaurs, but are forced to use non-lethal force due to them being extinct/endangered creatures (I think, it's not really explained). Cover Girl's new vehicle is damaged in the process, rendering it useless, but the team are soon rescued when a caveman appears from nowhere and scolds the dinosaurs, like dogs, making them leave.
Nearby at the Cobra Temple, Crystal Ball is preparing for the next stage in his Cobra-La ritual, when Destro arrives to inform Cobra Commander about the Joes being in the Jungle, and how he believes Cesspool betrayed their location to them. She is angry at Destro since Cesspool was HIS business contact and sends out the new recruits, Croc Master and Raptor out to deal with the Joes.
At the Lemuria base, Spectrum is looking over Grand Slam's wheelchair and commends him on the work he did with it, but has some ideas on how to adapt it with some MASK technology. Skywarp enters the lab to ask them about fixing his teleport drive again. Grand Slam immediately rejects it as they don't have the technology available to fix it, however Spectrum points out that they could use some of the Ore-13 from the newly opened mine to fix him, before being interrupted by Grand Slam who says that all the shipments are reserved from Cybertron right now. Disappointed, Skywarp leaves, but not before he overhears Grand Slam shout at Spectrum for telling Skywarp he can be fixed, since they don't want a "killer robot" at full power again.
Elsewhere on the ship, Shipwreck shows Scarlett a newly found hydrothermal vent that the Lemuria is set upon, which will give them a source of renewable energy, however Gung-Ho just wants to use it for a hot tub. Scarlett leaves, after making what Shipwreck takes as a fat joke about him as Gung-Ho starts stripping to use the "hot tub".
Back in the Jungle, Salvo watches as Quick Kick has started training the caveman, nicknamed "Friday", in martial arts, which Salvo points out seems to be so he has someone to help him fight Storm Shadow with, which Quick Kick immediately dismisses, just claiming to be aiming to train him to be master himself, as that itself is a great skill to master.
Spirit and Roadblock locate Raptor and Croc Master in the jungle, so they set up an ambush for them at their camp-site. Once the two Cobras arrive at the camp, they are surrounded by the Joes in the trees, and are ordered to take them to the Cobra Temple, however the two Cobras summon a pair of dinosaurs, that they use to attack the Joes.
In the fight, Friday is almost immediately eaten by one of them, but is vomited up after Quick Kick punches it in the gut. The fight itself doesn't last much longer as Spirit finds some mind-control devices on the giant creatures and destroys them, freeing the dinosaurs from their control. The two Cobras escape via another flying creature and the Joes proceed to chase them.
In Dukes office, he receives a call from who he assumes is Roadblock, changing his mind on breaking off his spy role, but is shocked to find Skywarp on the other end, offering to join forces with him in exchange for some Or-13, and to bring Duke some "valuable assets"
Characters
GI Joe
Scarlett
Roadblock
Salvo
Cover Girl
Quick Kick
Spirit
Spitfire
Skywarp - Fighter Jet
Grand Slam
Spectrum
Rock 'n Roll
Shipwreck
Polly the Parrot
Gung-Ho
Cobra
Cobra Commander
Destro
Crystal Ball
Raptor
Raptor's Falcon
Croc Master
Celeste the Gator
Vipers
Cesspool (Mentioned)
Male Storm Shadow (Mentioned)
Other Human
Duke
Earth Defense Command (Mentioned) Defunct
Other
Multiple Dinosaurs
"Friday" Partially Digested by Dinosaur, Vomited back up
Notes
- Oh wow...Cover Girl's new and amazing MASK-tech type vehicle is disabled from just one hit from an Ankylosaur's tail...what great endurance!
- "Friday" is designed after the "Intruder" action figures, though they were originally designed as villains, so maybe this guy will turn out to betray the team?
- Crystal Ball doesn't state it outright, but he is clearly intending to capture Rock 'n Roll to use his blood for his Cobra-La ritual.
- It's implied in this issue that the reason there is a lush prehistoric jungle in the North Pole because Cesspool's businesses have been polluting the air and melting the ice caps, seemingly meaning that "Friday" and the Dinosaurs were revived at the same time.
- So according to Spectrum and Grand Slam, the latter's wheelchair is actually very hi-tech, has been cobbled together from several other designs and even incorporates some Cybertronian technology....yet it still leaves him pretty much unable to do anything but roll around....
- I'm actually shocked! They referenced that Skywarp is a known killer, and even state that that is the reason they haven't repaired his teleport drive is because they don't fully trust him...pity this is only being brought up in the PENULTIMATE ISSUE!
- Also shockingly, this series actually references other events in the Hasbroverse rather than just playing by itself, it mentions how Skywarp was originally under the EDC's watch to get repaired, and also references the new Ore-13 mine opened in Optimus Prime #15.
- I have no idea why the scene with Shipwreck and Gung-Ho showing Scarlett the new hydrothermal vent /hot tub exists...I just guess they wanted a page with Scarlett in it in her own title series maybe?
- So turns out that Croc Master and Raptor have been arguing about the genealogy of dinosaurs and not crocodiles like we all thought in the MASK First Strike one-shot
- Skywarp was shown last issue to be spying on Roadblock when he called Duke, this issue we see that he was acquiring the contact information too
- Gee it would be a real pity if next issue was the final issue and all these lingering plot threads would be left incomplete....oh wait....
- My guess would be at the "valuable assets" that Skywarp refers to are going to be the two Docs, being Dire Wraiths.
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