On paper, the plot points seem interesting. Cobra won. GI Joe are the underground resistance group. The main character is an untrained new recruit to give the readers an introductory narrative.

However, the writing is so boring that when Duke dies I didn't even care. The writer and artist didn't care either because they killed Duke in a 1/3 single page panel. Iconic characters die on splash pages or they don't die at all.

The main character is boring. Normally Joes are defined by their specialty but this character's specialty is, I guess, riding a motorcycle?

I'm not expecting anything as good as Costa, Gage, and Fuso's Cobra series but this is subpar.

If they were planning on turning G.I.Joe into a "V" series, they should have leaned into it. Cobra should have been the main character. Besides some martial law, we only know of Cobra through Joe dialog. The phrase, "Show, don't tell" can be overrated but in comics it should be doubled down on.

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