 Okay, we are live early and according to all of my indicators we should have audio and video So I set up the lighting in a way that I was hoping would be easy to look at But I'm a bit washed out. That's because there is a window right here and light is like streaming through this window The Sun will go down Here shortly so that will fade and the lighting will be a bit more normal We have a lot for this evening. Who do we got here? Hello to sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse. Hello to big gay Dave Hello to MC DJ AC DC and Eric Gullinger Hello everyone. Thank you very much for joining. I have a lot a lot to do This let's see last live stream. I did a drawing this time I've got some stuff to open and as you may have As you may have seen Hello, Mac. Hello Josiah or hello toy connections As you may have seen in the video that went up Well, when did it go up on Monday or Wednesday the unboxing video? I got some stuff and I want to open some of that stuff. I'm going to open Let me show you what I'm gonna open Hello, Chris. Nice to see you. I'll open these things these little mini fig things these Yeah, mini figurines the ones that came from the UK, I'm just I'm just super curious about these So I'm gonna open these and let you guys see them and And let's see. I'm going to What Later in the show, we will have story time to read the new find your fate book operation death ray by Megan stein and H. William stein and It says you Are a member of the GI Joe team your mission is simple and vital keep Cobra from blowing up a major U.S. City a major U.S. City like like Wichita. We have to save Wichita Who we got here? Hello Robert long. I Think I said hello to Matt and Chad Chad already, but if not hello again Hello, Yo, Joe Hello, Texas from the United States Excuse me. I should have got some water These livestreams always like dry me out So that this is this is for later in the show. Hello cyclones. Hello woodman I'm going to open this This is the Walmart exclusive retro Destro, there's a reason I'm going to open this it's because it's already open look. I just had this Stored I hadn't touched it. I just put it in storage and look what happened. Look at this It just completely came unsealed. There's no tear Well, there's like a little no, that's not a tear is it? No, that's a scratch. There's no tear It's just the glue around the the blister Just completely so if it if it's like this I figure let's just go ahead and open it You know, let's let's take a look at the retro collection Destro I haven't really taken a close look at that figure yet So that's what I'm going to open and take a look at and And I should have put this closer more within reach. I think I'm going to start by taking a look at the Role-playing game Guide the book here the core rulebook that was sent to me by comic tropes Hello, Wilkinson Studios and Peter Ang and Antonio. Welcome. Thank you Hello Dominican Republic from the United States. Welcome. Thank you very much Hello spaced Cobra So I'm gonna start by opening this. I've still got the I'm gonna go ahead and cut the the plastic Shrink wrap off real quick, but I'll I'm gonna open it and kind of show you guys the inside of it in a few minutes I Don't have a lot of experience with role-playing games, so I don't really know much about them but this Move this Is an important one it is GI Joe's role-playing Wherever there's trouble. Well, you know what that's that that's here. There's there's always trouble here Who we got? Hello Keldon. Hello, that's glory. So Thank you all for being here So, yeah, we're gonna take a look inside of that in just a bit and then Let's set that aside. I'm gonna I'm thinking of doing an extra long live-stream because I Need to do some art artwork. I need to do more or sketches To prepare for Joe Fest. I want to have a good number of sketches and a good amount of art Excuse me to to To to sell at my table at Joe Fest, so I've got to get some more done So at the tail end, hello, Stephen. Thank you very much for joining Have an extra three-pack mini vehicle set from Jada What I like it. I think I already have it. I thank you very For that though. Thank you for thinking of me, but I'm pretty sure I already have that one I'd have to double-check I In fact, I'm almost certain I already have it, but that's that's really cool Thank you for thinking of me So, yeah, I need to I need to have some stuff ready for Joe Fest to to sell at the table, so I might try to do another drawing and I figured out how to do a two-camera setup So you can see my face and see the camera on the drawing So I'm gonna try it. It may have a little bit of a hiccup there when I switch over from this format to the other Usually the webcam that you're looking at right now will freeze But I should be able to fix that and it should work knock on wood So we're gonna try that later And what else? Oh, yeah, Cobra Convergence 6 Is coming soon. We will be Making some announcements. I'm trying to get some of the preliminary work done That has been a challenge with other things that are going on in my life. Hello produce results Glad you caught the live stream. That's awesome Um, the suns are nerding out hard on the rpg rules. Have fun. Thank you. I'm I'm looking forward to it. I'm Obviously, I cannot read the entire book. Uh, you know in this live stream, but we'll flip through it We're gonna we're gonna actually crack it open. You just saw me Take the plastic plastic off. I have not opened this book at all You will join me As I open it and look at it Hello Lester. Thanks for joining So, um, yeah Cobra Convergence. Um, I it's it's a little tricky. I may have to Cut back a little bit on my regular production schedule to Take care of some Cobra Convergence stuff There's just a million little things that have to be done before it launches in July and really Uh, we usually Announced the lineup before July. So I kind of need to have everything ready before then so I haven't been able to focus on that as much as I would like to I really need to like I really have to So, um, I may just have to shift my focus because there's a deadline on that and I got to get it done So, uh, but that's coming up. That's coming up. Uh, progress was made progress has been made. We're gonna get there So, uh, it's still not it's we're still early It's still not even the time we usually start. So, uh, before I start digging into all this stuff I'm gonna give everybody a few minutes. Uh, the the regular folks that usually come in Uh, may not be here yet. So but anyway, hello, uh, hello, thane woods. Nice to see you Uh, thanks everyone for being here. This uh, this should be a good, um, a good live stream I think I feel good about it. There's a lot to do Um, these live streams. Hello, Albert Hello, baltimore from the united states. Thank you very much for joining I I think these are the most fun live streams for me Like when I have stuff to do and stuff to show you and stuff to share, um, and uh, that kind of interaction Uh, based around something that we can kind of share That's a lot of fun for me. So I'm really looking forward to this. Um, I Uh, the live streams where we just kind of sit and uh, interact in the live chat. Those are cool too But I like to give you guys something to, um, you know, to uh, to see, you know, something to interact about Hello, uh, photo viper. Thanks for joining. Hey, there's sparkster. How you doing sparkster? Uh, hello stone gray stone gate creations Uh, hello nyquist Hello produce results. How do you do? so, um Lots of great artwork in there too, including old image stuff life. I didn't notice any marvel stuff though. Okay. Um, that I guess that makes sense But uh, we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna find out for ourselves. We're gonna thumb through there um, and thanks again to Chris from comic tropes for sending that Josiah Josiah sends Um a super chat sounds like comic tropes wants to get an rpg Stream going soon good addition to a marathon stream, especially if he riffs tracks a review too That would be fun. That would be fun. And if I can actually get myself up to speed I would love to do that. I think that would be a great time. Um, I I can't I can't promise that I would be good at it In fact, I can promise that I would not be good at it, but it can still be fun. You know, they can still be fun Uh, so yeah, that's that's what's on the agenda It's it's really tempting to open this first because it's it's halfway open already Well, I look at it. Look at it. Look at this Like you can't you can't even tell you can't even tell that there was glue there. I can't feel anything on there That's that's a little bit of quality control right there Especially, you know, since I think the packaging is the big draw Uh, so You know if the packaging is the big draw for these Then it's got to be it's got to be quality. It's got to be quality. They've got thin um Thin cardboard and the the glue doesn't stick Uh, it is tuesday it is tuesday, which means it is The new half the battle video day from timmer and timmer has started. Hey is comic tropes comic tropes Thank you again for this and we're going to be cracking this open here in just a moment Timmer is starting a review of the animated series mini series revenge of cobra So make sure you check out timmer's video which went up today and Uh, it is still two minutes before seven o'clock by my Clock here, so I'll give it a little bit more time Uh, let's see I I'll just go back over what I mentioned before. I've got some things to show you. We're going to start with the rpg Book that was sent by comic tropes and we're going to open These little mini figs that I got in the uh The p.o. Box unboxing. I'm going to open this retro destro Because the blister is just completely coming off the card there We're going to have story time with the new The new find your fade book And to wrap it up if i'm not just too exhausted I will do another drawing with my new Uh two camera setup which may or may not work. So we'll see knock on wood Anyway, so um comic tropes, um, do you have a fave episode of the joe cartoon? I think, um It was world without end part it was part one wasn't it where um clutch and um And stealer and grunt kind of found their their dead bodies. I always thought that was a really good episode I said i'm also partial to the original mini series just because not not necessarily because it was Better but just because I have a lot of nostalgia tied up into it because I remember it when it was on tv Hello, james clark. Nice to see you. Hello mega tech body. Nice to see you Uh, and hello draws. I didn't see you come in there. Hello. How do you do? Hello evan classified? so Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get started. It is seven o'clock now by my clock In the in the central time zone So let's go ahead and let's take a look at this Let's take a look at this. I've been curious about this. I just moments ago Stripped off the shrink wrap. So let's check it out um, it's the gi joe role playing game it It has that new book smell Uh, let's see. So there's a forward by Luke guy cacks. I don't know who that is Uh, but the authors are ryan costello ben heisler page likeman and alisa teague. So good job guys. Good job guys uh, and Yeah, let's uh, let's kind of peak in here and kind of Okay, so we have a table of contents We've got a table of contents So this will be helpful We've got what have we got introduction character creation, um influences Origin roles Essence sources and skills Essence that's that stuff that the skexies Drain out of the the little guys That's that's what the essence is general perks equipment combat locations threats running a mission So yeah lots of stuff here Here's some artwork this is Hold on a second Hey, we're doing a second. Huh? One second be patient with me. Uh, hello game masters hobby Uh, and who who have I not said hello to yet? Hello dragon ball talk. Uh, thank you very much for joining Hello victor matthews And let's see Uh I guess is this the cover art by steve morris. I'm not sure but anyway, it's it's a really nice spread here Really nice spread nice full color artwork Uh, and we've got Yeah, we've got, um We've got some classified series influence here and uh Yeah, that like that looks like a classified zartan there I'm I'm rather fond of the classified zartan Uh, yeah, um, yes, idw lost the gi joe license is theoretically possible Uh, arih could continue at another publisher. That's all that is possible. I haven't heard any new news on that Hello alberg glass. Thank you for joining I hope I didn't miss anybody So let's see we've got Yeah, we've got some characters some codenames and some brief descriptions I can't I said I wasn't going to go through every single page for you guys So let me let me skip ahead a little bit, but like the these are very much the classified A design and some of that artwork like that artwork on on duke I like that better than the packaging on The classified box. I think that's um I think that's not bad. That's not bad at all Uh, so oh look at this. This is this is fun We we have those crazy symbols that's on the classified packaging the specialty symbols I can't live without those. I'd be totally lost. All right. Let me skip ahead a little bit We've got some uh, some really good classified inspired artwork, which I am in favor of um That's one thing I at least for the most part I can't uh complain about is that I do generally like the um The classified figure designs They, you know, they're not all created equal some are better than others Uh Small town roots thrill seeker Origin, okay, we're in the origin section. Let me find let me find something visual. I can show you guys There's law and order There's law and order watching tv um, so let's uh, um Oh, this must let's see is this Okay, hold on. Uh, let me get a little deeper into it. Yeah, there's There's your gung-ho right there. Hey, there's a coincidence. We have your gung-ho right there Ah, man. I keep getting it backwards there. Yeah, we have your gung-ho right there. We also have Your gung-ho right there. So So there we go So this is I mean, it's very visually Well done. It's laid out in what appears to be A very easy to follow manner So I believe I will be able to figure this out I believe Um, here we've got some Yeah, we've got We've got recondo and stalker. That looks really good Ah, there we go recondo and stalker Um, let's see. What do we got here? We got environmental expertise ranger ranger focus options Renegades, hey, we got some artwork of the renegades. We don't get that too often Sergeant slaughter's renegades Let's see. Let's let's skip ahead. Let's skip ahead. Is that is this supposed to be sparse? I don't know. It kind of looks like sparse Uh, who uh, who we got? Um, it looks like we got the same folks, but I think I missed uh, david Del cues. Hello. Thank you very much for joining Um, so there there is a lot of text here, but uh, the text I believe will be helpful in, um, actually playing the game Uh, yeah, listen Now that that is this looks like Ah This looks like artwork from the comic book here. I assume that's what that is Uh, but you know, it's you're pretty good. You've got it looks like Looks like, um snow job and cover girl and uh snow serpent Yeah, I mean it's good artwork Um, let's see. What else we got? Uh, yeah, we've got we've got some idw Uh, some artwork from the idw series I I'm sorry. I really should be speed reading this so that I can have everything in uh, completely memorized by the time We are done flipping through here. Uh, hello, dr. Skella stein greetings to you. Thank you very much for joining Uh, let's see step forward determine difficulty Um, I I need things not very difficult. It's gotta be gotta be really easy. Let's make it make it easy, please um Let's see. Yeah, uh produce results was talking about Um IDW stuff, uh, something like, uh, haman galant continue their march to number 300. Yeah, I I believe they should at least be able to get to 300. Um, since Unless somebody knows something that that nobody else is aware of if they're not sure That's really good. I like that the The artwork for equipment if they're not sure if they're going to There we go If they're not sure if they're going to be able to continue the series with another publisher Then I would hope they would Leave it on a good exit point And maybe they can pick it back up again later but Uh, but I think it would be nice if they left it on a good exit point in case it doesn't you know In case it doesn't carry on Let's see got Got uh deep six here pretty good artwork of deep six. I like that Uh, this is I mean, this is really For you rpg Uh gamers. Hello, uh jenna. Thank you for joining. Nice to see you. Hey, it's codename new or it's codename kujo Um, almost said the other guy who's uh, uh goes by codename, but hello kujo. Uh, how you doing? Hello diosoth. Nice to see you. Thank sorry. I missed you. Um Yes, I will I will need to learn the rules I must learn the rules. Can I can I learn the rules just by looking at the pictures? Uh, yeah, we got the jump jetpack. I I do kind of like this I like this kind of style of sort of, um Blueprint blueprint diagram style for uh for equipment artwork It's just a little bit of a throwback to the to the classic stuff So and they've got like They've got some pretty good Some pretty good layouts for the equipment to the vehicles combat combat And as as much respect I as I have for scarlet. I I think she would have a tough time with storm shadow Uh, he uh, he may I mean she's an excellent fighter. I think he may be better, but let's not forget at one point Scarlet did stab storm shadow in the back that that did happen um So Let's see What do we got here? See knowing is half the battle multi weapon attacks example. I need examples Examples are helpful Uh, let's see a several roll attack skill test Uh, yeah, let's see there's let's find let's see Discuss defeat with your table Look, my table never talks to me. Oh, hello small town machine shop. Thank you very much for the super chat He says hi everyone. Hi to small town machine shop. Uh, thank you very much for being here Uh, what we are doing right now is we are going through the Uh gi jo role playing game um core Core rule book I'm just going through this kind of checking it out. Obviously. I cannot read the entire thing Like this is this is from a cover from Um one of the idw comics a really good cover I like that So, you know, eventually I will need to go into some more depth To actually learn how to play this Um, let's uh There's bomb strike there So, uh, we will we will give this a More thorough going over I thought I saw something I recognized. Yeah it's the it's the cobra island artwork from the back of the, uh The classified target exclusive toys. It's that it's that same cobra island poster artwork I would I say poster artwork because it is kind of in a poster style But I don't think they've ever actually produced it as a poster Uh, it would be nice if they did though. I would consider getting that Um And yeah, see and more more of that classified art style Uh, and I don't I really don't have a problem with that. Uh, I I do like the classified series I don't think I will ever like the classified series as much as The vintage series, but There is still a lot A lot to like about it. Now. They have the cobra high command structure here and Um, I'm really I may read this with some care because I'm curious at how They set this up how closely they followed other examples other story lines Um And how much they kind of added for themselves. So yeah, I'm curious about that This is the major blood artwork from From classified and I I do dig that that's This is really good. It's uh, that's a great rendering of major blood and a great update of his uniform So yeah, we've got we've got vipers I'm curious. Let's see. Do they even do they have Yeah, they've got They've got your cobra officers and I assume they also have the other blue shirts Uh, there's a looks like a a female televiper there The artwork and this is really good. It's um The pages are really crisply printed very sharp mercenaries crimson guard Everybody likes the crimson guard. There's the crimson guard Um So, yeah, I want to see how the wait, why would that be under? Uh, okay, so this right off the bat. This is different crimson guard under mercenaries Uh, whatever else they are. I I don't think they're usually depicted as that But they have a separate in entry for crimson guard immortal I'm very curious about how they uh interpreted that Uh, they've got the dread knocks. They've got the dread knocks There's zartan zirana Oh, well, I mean They don't have like All of the dread knocks. Hello, uh, yo joe oc. Nice to see you. Thanks for being here. Hello rustle or samuel rustle Sorry about that. Hey, it's jls comics. Thank you for joining jls comics um and Yeah, so they have well, okay, they have some of the dread knocks They have a few of the dread knocks Uh, let's see. They have they have the red ninjas that makes sense Uh, and classified has been aligning storm shadow with cobra, which kind of makes sense Uh, we've got some cobra equipment Like the like the moray And that's that. I mean, that's that's not it. That's not nearly all of it But um, I wanted to just crack it open and take a look at it. Hello the killer weasher Thank you for the super chat classified cobra island map reminds me of the vintage male away insert, um Cobra island map from 86 or 87. Um, yeah, if let's see what year was it what year was the The cobra civil war was I think in 87 it had to be 87 and at the Uh, like at the back of the issues in the cobra civil war story arc They usually included a map of cobra island and I like that. I really like that. Hey guys, thanks for joining Anyway, so, uh, thank you very much for this Comic tropes. Thank you very much. I will be reading this And getting more into it so that we can actually play the game I'm going to put it someplace safe right now. So it will not be forgotten or misplaced or anything Um, in fact, it should go It'll go on the it's a book Books go on the bookshelf. That's where books go. So that that's where I'll put it That's a good way to put it someplace where I can find it. That's that's smart me am smart Anyway Where okay, so we have looked at the Uh role-playing book briefly we spun through it. Just that's just a quick brief overview There's a lot more depth like a lot a lot more depth to go into there But for now, I'm going to carry on Opening some stuff and I am I'm gonna open this for those of you who missed it. I am opening this Um, this gi jo retro series wal-mart exclusive Destro Because the the blister is is coming right off of the card And it's I know it may be hard to tell but you can't even tell that there was any Any glue there or any any seal at all Um And I haven't done anything to this I haven't done anything to it. It was just in a box. Hello matt I think I said hello, but anyway hello again if I didn't already but hello, uh, and uh, hello gray fox. Thank you very much for joining so Yeah, I'm just gonna since it's like halfway open already I'm just I don't even have to like cut anything or peel anything It's mostly open already. I think I can just like Just slide the The figure right out Uh, so there's the There's the card and I set this up in any any way I can kind of Out whatever Anyway, so there's this no, I can't I can't see the live chat with it that way I can kind of see it that way. All right, we'll work with that. So here's this these these retro figures Are in the 25th anniversary style. They are modern figures. They are not o-ring figures I think that's something that kind of disappointed a lot of us when they announced they would have Uh a retro series But now we are actually getting some Uh some o-ring figures So let's let's do this it looks like he has a a modular rifle We've got a scope there and we've got a whatever that is And those are taped in So before I try to take those out, let me let me take the figure out All right, so there there's that Um, I'll take a I'll put all of his stuff on and we'll take a closer look at it Um, lots of plastic on this one lots of plastic holding this guy in place so Sorry about the plastic crinkling, but there's figure stand It's it says destro Now I gotta take these little bits out the the main rifle piece I was going to say it will just pop out on the stone, but it won't I gotta cut that tape I got to cut the tape There we go and while I'm at it there's this really Really tiny scope That is microscopic I mentioned earlier that when the sun went down there wouldn't be much as much glare on this side that is already happening The sun is staying up much later at this time of the year so Now when I start the live stream if I sit in this chair in this position I have to think about The glare from the sun Okay, so this okay, this is a stock And I believe that will go yes that attaches to the back end like that and then This this, uh This is the the scope I'm not sure which way it goes. It's hard to tell it is really tiny I'm putting it on that way though. Well, we're going to give it a shot that way We'll we'll see see how that works. See how that tickles your fancy. Hey, it's Rob. It was airy. Thank you for joining Rob Thanks for being here Anybody else come in that I missed I'll see you. I see Rob diecast nick Um, let's see james matt you guys have been here and chad but hello anyway If I missed anybody, sorry. Thank you for joining. So there's the destros rifle And let's see Here's the other accessory his briefcase. I assume this opens up Oh, yeah, it opens up and there are more parts So like some of the rifle parts are In the plastic and some are just inside the case So there's this this, uh Really tiny Bipod that's about the size of one molecule a hello, loyed Hello, loyed crazy. Sorry. I can't talk. Uh, hello canine. Hello intergalactic classics. Thank you very much for joining Hello, dr. No good. Thank you very much for joining. Uh, there's also what looks like to be oh, okay I'm gonna have to kind of pop these out. Yes, that's a magazine. It looks like Or is it? Um, what does that go to? Okay This looks okay this Oh the killer weasor lived the adventure invade cobra island map 1986. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, I remember that I remember exactly. In fact, I I'm pretty sure I have it somewhere Um, there's this tiny thing that looks like it's like a double magazine For the rifle, but I don't it doesn't look like it fits in there But there is also let's see if this pops out. Yeah Now what is what the hell is that? I thought this was a suppressor, but it's not it's like some kind No, okay Hasbro, uh Hasbro is definitely watching, you know, I'm sure that they follow every Uh, you know every episode of the live stream. So we got to talk about something guys um instructions You know all all you got to do you don't have to you don't have to do it in any language We just need a a diagram Right right here a diagram right right here for how this stuff fits together because I can figure some of it out I can figure it like the bipod obviously goes here Like so So that that obviously works um Not that I could trying to just prop it up there But like what the heck does this stuff do like it pegs in Um I was thinking maybe I'm mistaking it for something else, but that sure looks like a double magazine For some kind of weapon Uh, and then there's this piece It does not have a hole at either end it has Holes on the side to peg into the or on the edge to peg into the suitcase So who knows I I don't know. Uh, let's see. So here's the figure itself. Let me put This figure does not have a removable pistol On the leg a lot of modern figures will have Uh Extra pieces are supposed to look like a suppressor and magazine But they really are there just to fill the space in the attache case Um, I I guess that sort of makes sense This thing is Is square with a texture though And I I when I looked at it at first I thought yeah, that's supposed to be a suppressor But then when I took it out, it's like that doesn't doesn't look like one Uh, let me I'm just gonna put it back. I'm gonna put it back in the attache case If I can get it back, that's really tiny I need like tweezers to put that back in isn't this exciting because you can't see what I'm doing Because it's I'm doing it on my table Uh, and I can't really get the camera down low enough to actually see it. Uh, hello Todd Todd loves Destro if you love Destro, why so much? Why don't you marry him? All right, so I'm just sticking these back I'm sticking these back so So but I one thing I do like about this attache look at that That that metal rod dowel For the hinge that's nice That's That's quality right there. They could have just done, you know a flexible Plastic piece for that, but no they actually used a metal dowel to uh For the hinge like this this metal pin that runs right through there. That's nice. That's nice. That's good Uh, so now now I'm curious. Uh, well, okay first things first first things first. Let's put these items in Destro's hand and see how he looks After that I'm going to um See if I can fit the rifle in The attache case, but first things first. Let's give this a try Oh, see that's what I was worried about the the little stock came off and went flying. I found I got it though I got it though, but I'm afraid by putting it back on I'm going to knock off the bipod Okay, it's on it's on it's on now. Let me get let me get them on the stand. Let me get them on the stand This is this is riveting stuff and isn't it this this is excitement. This is what you tune in to for this is must see tv Uh, let's see Get on there, please The pegs on modern figures. I I've I struggle with Okay Okay, so here we have it here. We have Destro With rifle An attache case that is a serious attache case that is big Check that out. So so there there's the figure all together Um It looked I mean the the figure itself looks fine. I think I think it looks okay Definitely looks like Destro A bit exaggerated collar there, but you know you get that on Destro figures now Uh, am I army building bats? I you know what I actually am army building bats sort of in a A minimal way because I ran into more cobra bats classified bats at target last time I was there Uh, and I I never actually thought I would see them in person in the wild So since I actually saw them I had to get them So there is uh Destro all together the figure Now now that now that we've had a look at Destro and Destro has had a look at us look look this look at this Destro is has is having a look at us and And he is judging us look how judgy he is that that's a very condescending expression on his face Destro You think you're better than us, huh? Okay, so now that now that Destro has had a good look at us Um Let's I'm gonna take this rifle apart. Can I put him up here? Can you even see him there? No Of course not That would just be to what if I hey, what if I do this? Can you see him this way? Uh, no, he's still just a he's still just below camera. That doesn't really help Uh, oh well, so anyway, Destro is right here. Just take my word for it But I'm I'm gonna take this Off and I want to see if the rifle Will fit In the case. I don't know. Maybe it will maybe it won't Let's find out there looks it looks like there's a space for everything So the yeah, it should fit I'm gonna try to show this to you without dropping anything out The stuff does fit it doesn't peg in though All right, only the two pieces that don't actually fit on the rifle actually peg in so Check that out the rifle breaks down and fits In the case this is reminiscent of the attaché case backpack on vintage destro Which had just stuff sculpted in it was just molded in Uh, my two-camera option hopefully I'll be able to show that off here in uh in a little bit I will see if it works knock on wood Uh, and if it does work, I've got to do I want to do one more sketch Maybe a quick one But that means we we may be doing an extra long we will definitely be doing an extra long live stream Hey, it's peg warmers. Thank you for joining peg warmers. It's always nice to see you So there's that there's there's destro and now I can put This in his right hand and uh Yeah, he's he's walking in With his weapon for an assassination job nobody will suspect him. Look he looks totally normal Like you saw this guy walking Through an airport or something Yeah, who would who is it who would suspect such an innocent looking guy? Uh, so there's destro that uh wrist thing is just a little off, but there we go Oh, the wrist rockets are also a little askew So, yeah, we have done it. We have open. Well, it came out of his hand. We've uh Intergalactic classics. Thank you very much. Did you see the PSA theme super seven? Roadblock and mutt. I haven't taken a very close look at it. I saw that some folks posted about it But I have not had a chance to Uh, actually look at it. That's uh That's another one of my issues that Don't get me started. I'm having it's it's been a challenge the last couple weeks to Keep up with the news And to keep up with my schedule. I don't want to make excuses. I don't want to make excuses. I need to do better Um, but it has been a challenge. Uh, but I'll I'll take a look at them. I will try to Uh, have I'll try to be more informed next time and we can talk more about it for now though Let's uh Let's take a look at these i'ma open all of them I I shouldn't probably but i'm going to anyway I'm gonna Carefully open these hopefully without Slashing myself Wouldn't that be nice? Look At this point not slashing myself is Is a a bonus. That's a good day If I just don't slash myself That's where we are right now Uh, let's see come on Okay, um Hey, it's brandon. Hello brandon. Thanks for joining Uh, did I miss anybody? Looks like we've got the same crowd in here, but but thanks everyone for being here. Anyway Okay, so the first one i'm opening. I don't know why it just happened to be the first one I reached for is The red ninja And so here he is. This is the red ninja He is clearly based on the classified red ninja, which don't I have it handy? No, of course, of course, I don't have it handy. Why would I have why would I have handy? No, it's not even up there Uh, no No No, so of course, I don't have it handy that that would be too convenient Uh, this like the the detailing is Really amazing. It's totally unarticulated. It seems yeah, it's kind of a it's a softer plastic So it does bend a little bit, but it's otherwise unarticulated The paint applications though are still pretty good The uh, yeah, it even has like the texture pattern It has the texture pattern on the cloth That's impressive. It's really impressive that they can get That kind of detail at this scale And let's see. Where's that desk throw? Hold on Yeah, so like this is um, essentially a modern gijo action figure Uh, basically like the 25th anniversary figure um And this has some pretty good detail, but this kind of has More minute detail than this figure and I have a desk throw. Hey, why don't I open the desk throw next? And put the desk throws side by side. I had a desk throw. Where is he? Oh, there he is. I found him found him I found him Um, let's see. I'm sorry. I'm I'm missing a lot of the the live chat. I hope everybody's having a good time Sorry about that Wow, I the knife was open. I could have slashed myself right there I am so Smart I am the smartest man alive Okay, all right All right, we got okay. So now I should be able to get desk throw out of here. Oh, uh, thank you dave e Uh, they look like they could be used in a board game. Yes. Actually, that's That's a good point. They they could actually be used on a board game. I think and they look pretty good Uh, how did they stand up? Do they stand up on their own pretty well? Pretty well. He stands, um I can't show you but yeah, he stands on his own pretty well. So here is a desk throw Okay, yeah, maybe this isn't the best example. So here's a desk throw that is based on the classified desk throw design And I was gonna try to you know stack up the detailing on this figure Next to the 25th anniversary figure, but on this one on this one the 25th anniversary figure is actually way better So, yeah, maybe not the best example and This desk throw is like missing a bunch of paint applications That's that's uh I mean some of the detailing is there like the lines and the uniforms and Like the pistol holster on the belt and stuff like that But there's no Yeah, there's there's no red on his collar. There's no silver on The Arm bands no red on the rim. There's no like it looks like the head is basically the only paint application that I can see So that is sure something looks like knick-knack from rocky horror. That's funny um So, yeah, that's um, I was I was I was hoping to show you a good side-by-side comparison here I was thinking I was thinking because this one's pretty good. This figure's really not bad So I was thinking all right. I'm gonna open up desk throw and I'm gonna be like Hey, maybe this desk throw is not as nicely detailed as the uh As the retro figure, but no no no that that's that's a negative That's that's a big fat negative Um So that yeah, there's that Um Let's stack him here. All right. Let's let's who we're gonna open next Let's open roadblock next since we we looked at classified roadblock not that long ago This is of course based on the first classified roadblock release not the second one So here we go And again, I'm sorry. I'm not keeping up with the live chat Super well, but I'm trying to I'm trying to get this stuff out so So you guys can see it All right, so there's roadblock. Let me take a look at this guy. Um I think the figure overall is actually pretty good. It's like it's better than that desk throw You know, it's got he's got the appropriate paint applications on the arms the head the vest Uh, the colors are a bit off from the classified figure, but that's not necessarily a bad thing either because those dark gray Pants the dark gray trousers actually work pretty well Um, he he he does not have his his tattoo He does not have his lion king tattoo um He does like one detail that I think is really nice is the knife the knife is like The knife handle is like sticking out as it would On the classified figure. It looks very realistic Um, so overall this is not bad this one Like this this was way better than desk throw like that's that desk throw figure. That's That's something else. That's a little freaky Uh, so except he's not standing up as well. Oh, thank you, Dave. E. Uh, how much do those cost? I don't know is the answer these were sent to me I have seen them around but I hadn't picked up any so I don't know is is the answer The only answer I can give you okay downside to roadblock Downside to roadblock coming out of the package the the legs are kind of bent together So he's not standing up. I was hoping that I maybe I could bend them out a little bit And get him to stand but that's not working. Okay downside for roadblock. He he cannot stand up Next I think let's see This is what we got left. We've got duke and we've got snake eyes What should we do next? I think who's the more or more impressive one? I think duke has more paint on him. So I think I'm gonna open snake eyes and save duke for last Uh, the snake eyes blister is kind of peeling up there, but not enough to take it off without Without ripping it So let's uh Let's finish an opening this guy up Let's I'm trying to cut away from me, you know as they tell you to do in all of the The the safety rules Okay, well, okay Now that's nice Okay, this this is snake eyes he has almost no paint applications the only it's It's hard to tell but I think the only paint application is the gray on the visor Uh, no, no, he's got some gray on the uh on the pads too. Okay, so uh, but still minimal paint applications That's to be expected on Uh on snake eyes That's That's okay. One thing I like about this figure a lot is They included the backpack check that out That's really nice Not the kind of detail you would expect on such a tiny figure. He does not have his sword. I guess that's all right But just the fact that they bothered to put the backpack on is pretty impressive I got no problem with that at all And if you're gonna have a figure with minimal paint applications, this is the one to do it I know that destro is still mostly Black but he needs some additional colors other than the the really sloppy silver paint on his head that that is That is freaky, isn't it? That is that is That is slightly terrifying. That's so anyway Snake eyes Here we go snake eyes definitely superior to To destro. So one more one more. Yeah, absolutely no articulation. That's correct. Uh, comic tropes. Yeah, no articulation on these guys They're static figures Okay, so last one Last one is duke Here we go Now I can actually close. Hey, it's what's on joe mine. What in the world of wide world of sports is going on here? I am opening things. It is an an opening things extravaganza Uh, and I'm opening the last of these little mini figures Uh, which is duke So let's take duke out of there and Here we go. Last one. Oh, and thank you. Uh, what's on joe mind? Let's let's all remember to watch what's on joe mind their show is on friday Make sure you subscribe to what's on joe mind a really great and important show that you must not miss They have a lot of stuff that they show off on there lots of guests and uh, just a lot of really good gi joe talk that you Don't not want to miss Another thing you might not want to miss is duke here. There's a little mini figure. Um And this is let's see It's not bad. I have to say so his his eyes and eyebrows At this scale, it it's hard to get the paint right and that's a little thick So his eyes look a bit black and his eyebrows look a bit You know wide a bit thick. He's got some thick eyebrows. Oh, thank you matt rubin. Dester looks weird because of the Um eye paint apps being misaligned. Yeah, that's uh, I mean that that's definitely That that's definitely part of it But um Anyway, yeah, that's that that's definitely part of it Um, I don't think that's as much of a problem the eye Paint it looks pretty well aligned on duke here. It's just it's kind of It's kind of a blop. You know, it's This is really small scale to try to get that kind of detail on the eyes, but it's still it's not bad So he's got his bandolier not the best paint application on the bandolier a little bit sloppy, but still not too bad and He has his backpack like uh, like snake eyes. He includes the backpack. I like that detail a lot I just like that little extra touch They don't come with any of the other accessories snake eyes does not have the sword or anything like that but Um duke just crossed over with little orphan Annie. Thank you rob. Yeah, see right on Little orphan duke But yeah, no, I dig that backpack. I do like that I like that a lot Uh, so that's all I have to show you on these. Let's uh, let's go through them one more time We had the uh, the red ninja, which I thought was actually remarkably good Really excellent detail, especially for a figure of this size Very well done we had Oh, thank you, Dave. E. Destro looks like batista on the new dune movie. That's a Yeah, thank you. That's uh, that's not too bad Uh, maybe if he's dead Uh That's that. Yeah, that looks like a halloween mask there. That's so then we had Destro In desperate need of some additional paint apps And and cleaner paint on the head So there was Destro, then we had roadblock Which I really liked I thought was well done, but he came out of the package With his legs a little bit warped so he will not stand up Other than that though that the actual detail in the color itself is is really well done Like that one, uh, then we had snake eyes Very very minimal paint, but if you're gonna do a figure with minimal paint snake eyes is the one to do it on and Um, really really good detail on it and The backpack I approve of that. I dig that very much very well done Do like the snake eyes one and then finally Duke which is also pretty good Eyes are a little bit, you know He's got the shark eyes But he has that backpack, which also I think is pretty good. So Those are our guys. Those are our guys, uh, and a little earlier we looked at the retro Destro We liked that pretty well. I thought that was done pretty well. I liked the rifle that breaks down and fits in the app tash a and before that we looked at the gi joe core rulebook for the Role-playing game So we went through that. So I think that's all I have to show you right now Uh, normally. Oh, yeah Just just recapping the reason I opened the retro. Destro Uh, hello, wwg jd 85 nice to see you. Thank you and welcome The reason I opened this one is because the Uh, the blister was coming right off the card Like I all I did was put this in a box for safekeeping Uh, and I pulled it. I was well I was pulling other things out and I pulled this out too and I saw that like it's not ripped It's not ripped. It's just completely come undone as if there was no Adhesive there at all as if it was never attached Uh, so I figured if it if it's open this much I might as well just take it out and look at it. So So we have done that And we are almost ready for story time. Now. I am going to take a One minute like a 60 second break Uh, do I own it? Oh, let's see ww jd says do I only have the gi joe story books with tapes? I have I think one of the story books and I have Uh, some of the tapes. I think I have some here Uh, what I am lacking right now is a cassette player I have some of the Some of the audio cassettes here Um, the cassette player that I had Uh, it it broke And I haven't replaced it yet. So I've got these but I can't listen to them. I would like to Um, and I will eventually replace that thing Ah I dropped roadblock. Oh no, let's put them back Let's try to put them back. Come on Uh, there we go. Okay, uh, so I'm gonna take oh, hey, hello, Jonathan Ulrich. Thank you for joining I'm gonna take about a 60 second break and I will be right back mainly I just want to get some water because my my voice gives out when we do this but we are going to read the new GI Joe find your find your fate Book operation death raid We haven't done this one. It's a new one story time. So, uh, time out talk amongst yourselves I'll be right back for story time. I just want to make sure I have some water to drink So my voice doesn't die, uh, right back time out Okay, just getting something to use as a coaster and I think I think we're ready. I think we're ready No whiskey for me. Just just actual water Okay, I think I can survive now. I think I can survive Okay, so here here we're doing it. So, um, I will explain for for the uninitiated how this works This is a find your fate book meaning at Certain pages we will be given options We will have choices to make and those choices will affect the outcome of the story When we get to one of those pages, I will tell you what the options are Uh, and you will help choose which option we take by typing your choice the page number Uh into the live chat And I will very Unscientifically guess at which one gets the most votes. It's not it's not an exact science Not an exact process, but I will just guess at which one gets the most So let's let's give it a shot. This is a new one. I'm excited. I'm excited. I wonder what our code name will be What what do you think our code name will be? all right, so Operation desperate by by megan stein and h william stein live the adventure All right, ready here we go. Oh, I thank you. Dave. E love the artwork on the cover. Yeah, let's let's uh Let's admire the artwork on the cover for a moment. We've got we've got gung ho, but we've got gung ho without his tattoo Oh, thank you. Josiah wants on joe mine podcast where you can get Uh definitive year by year rankings that are somehow both Debatable and definitive at the same time. Yes, that's uh, it's that's magical You know what else is a whole little cobra island. Nice to see you. Thank you for joining You know what else is magical? um the the tattoo on On gung ho it's it's gone Tattoos in gi joe are magical Sometimes they disappear Sometimes they move places. Sometimes they change size Sometimes there's a different tattoo all together But in this case it is gung ho with no tattoo at all Uh comic tropes unless the story starts with a duke throwing a grenade at me I won't be won't be my favorite find your fate. Yeah, that's uh That one's pretty special. I like that one as well Okay, so here we go page one and and I uh, we have some artwork We have an illustration here There's no choice at the bottom of page one. So I'll just keep reading All right It's oh 800 hours when you near the briefing room on the second level of the gi joe secret headquarters the pit The corridor is filled with low ranking military clerks gi joe personnel and top ranking pentagon officials all talking at once Suddenly a voice calls to you loud and clear break in What is that you old buddy gung ho shouts from the other end of the long hall? I thought you were stuck in a revolving door somewhere Is that our codename? I think that's our codename. Uh, davie is that hector garydo artwork. I don't know is the I don't know But it seems to be based on hector garydo artwork artwork It's definitely in the same style. Check out those crimson guard. Uh, check out the cgs Yeah, dig it um But I think I think that's our codename. I think our codename in this book is break in I do not approve. That's terrible I see we all got an invitation to attend the intelligence briefing this morning You say you must be important. They dragged me five. I'm sorry. Must be important. They dragged me 5000 miles to To get me here Sure, it's important gung ho says you're our number one security system specialists Um, I'll bet you I'll bet they called you in to fix the soft drink machine. Ha ha They black the black that blasted things been short changing everyone gung ho pounds you on the back and laughs because it's really funny Morning deep six you say seeing the sad-eyed scuba diver You and he enter the briefing room together, but he doesn't look up answer you or even smile He just takes a seat by himself off to the side. That does sound like deep six That's probably something deep six would do Uh deep six recently lost a personality contest a competition with howard cosel Uh gung ho says sitting down next to howard cosel's got personality. That's root had i'm sorry rest is soul howard cosel He had personality um anyway, so Next page page two. There's no there. There's no option for us at the end of page two. We got to keep reading Within a few minutes the room is full and the doors have been closed as the briefing is about to start lady jay drops herself into the empty chair on your right Listen up guys. No snoring. Lady jay says under her breath in a perfect imitation of hawk's voice Lady jay can do hawk's voice. That's impressive. That's impressive Listen up guys. No snoring hawk says so now it's Hawks that's that. All right. That was pretty funny. Listen up guys. No snoring hawk says you and gung ho Uh stifle a laugh hawk otherwise known as general clade and m evernathy Head honcho of the gi joe team is standing flagpole straight in the front of the room But the smile on his face is half masked It's kind of anyway Yesterday the united states government received a threat and a new demand from cobra What do they want this time colonel sanders secret recipe rock and roll cracks? Hey Colonel sanders secret recipe that that would be worth some money That is something cobra should go for That was rock and roll making that crack rubbing a hand over his bushy blonde beard They want the u.s. To open its gold vaults and hand over everything hawk says Cobra claims they've got a weapon something like a death ray hooked up to one of our communication satellites If we don't pay up they're going to demolish 10 u.s. Cities at one time Colonel this sounds like a crazy sci-fi story futlou says A look of disbelief on his boyish face Next page the intelligence boys are piecing it together hawk says But everything's checking out affirmative. What kind of death ray gung-ho asks It goes back to 1979 and a russian scientist named alexander turkey chev alexander turkey chev turkey chev hawk explains turkey chev defected to the united states so he could finish his research Without having someone looking over his shoulder. Oh, thank you comic tropes. Hector garido is illustrated books five through 20 And this is book number eight So that should indeed be his artwork there. That's cool. Thank you. Thank you very much comic tropes Good good research skills a good good quick on the draw there Uh, so turkey chev Didn't want anyone looking over his shoulder because lord knows that never happens in the us of a Isn't 35 a strange name for what? I'm sorry. I skipped a part in the united states could finish He he invented a synthetic gas-like element that he named Leukinium 35 after his grandfather isn't 35 a strange name for an old man's no job whispers to you. They've got the jokes Everybody's a comedian in this Everybody's a a weisenheimer I keep your shirts on here comes to uh, here comes the death ray hawk says He unrolls a chart that shows a simple in simple terms how the leukinem Leukinium lens works. See when you focus the sun's rays through a lens of the leukinium you get a molecular Reaction on at the target end It's an explosion with a force many times that of any known missile or bomb And you're saying there's a leukinium lens attached to one of our communication satellite flint asks So it's a magnifying glass So cobra is threatening to Hold a big magnifying glass Over us cities So that's the sun beam Just just it burns that city Like an ant You know how a cobra could be foiled here if it's a cloudy day, you know There's no sun no sunlight. It's a cloudy day death ray foiled next page page four Why don't we get a choice was there's still no choice on this? We're on page four and there's still no option. It looks like there is one on page five. Here we go I'm I want to get to the part where we can actually make an option. Davey. Thank you for the super chat and comic tropes Thanks for clearing that up. Yes. Thank you very much comic tropes um Yeah, a death ray for ants Yes, turkachev Secretly installed the lens just before a group of satellites were launched. We all how did he do that? We also built a computer system to control the lens and Uh, determine the target. We thought he was working for us The russians thought he was secretly working for them The truth is turkachev was working for cobra at the time They got the computer and they've built a fortress around it uh On one of the smaller hawaiian islands. We just found out which one so All right, so the u.s government Built this death ray This is not cobra's death ray. They they hired the russian guy That defected and they said go ahead and build your death ray We will put it on our communication satellite And somehow that didn't turn out well somehow It did it went poorly So now cobra cobra has control of the u.s death ray Uh and is going to use it against them And and honestly the u.s was going to use that for completely peaceful purposes It was going to use it, you know So you could have a warmer day at the beach like you ever hate going to the beach and you know, you just don't get any sun It just has to be overcast well This this would have solved that problem that was that's what the u.s was going to use this death ray for It was a a beach sunshine ray And and then cobra just went and just made something bad out of it Uh The the security for that cobra fortress must be wrapped tighter than a golf ball Um now, you know why you've been called to the pit break in Great. I guess we get to break in Where's that traitor turkachev gung-ho cries. I'd like to pound him into russian dressing huh He disappeared hawk says mentioning for gung-ho to uh Motioning for gung-ho to restrain himself. It's possible. He went back to russia on his own My guess is the soviet kgb dragged him back and bounced him Into a syberian prison if he is in syberia He might be eager to deal with us his freedom in exchange for the information we need to locate and disable the lens Assuming we can get him out of prison, of course The so the the u.s. government installed this thing on one of its communication satellites. They don't know how it works Uh, but it sounds as if turkachev may not even be in russia lady j says syberia might be a dead end shouldn't the team Concentrate on a seek and destroy mission against cobra's hawaiian headquarters page five Maybe hawk says but the hawaiian location is secure some say impenetrable That's why we're letting the team decide the operation plan We're not making a decision. Look just because i'm the general doesn't make doesn't mean i make the decisions here I'm we're gonna do this by committee. You know you you guys work it out amongst yourselves Uh, let's see flint and break in you two are in no Are in no matter what the rest of the team will be chosen depending on what you decide to do You can go to the hawaiian islands and find cobra's secret headquarters or you can go to syberia and uh to find turkachev It's a coin toss You know I'm i'm just the general right And why We've got these options here. It's pretty much a coin coin toss. Why why don't we make it a coin coin coin toss? Why don't why don't we just decide it that way? You know there's just no other way no other way to decide what to do Uh, okay, we're almost at the bottom of the page. Here we go All we know is that there's a deadly piece of synthetic glass attached to the satellite that keeps circling the earth Once every four hours. We don't Know which satellite and we don't know which cities are the primary targets All we know is that cobra won't wait long before giving us a little demonstration of what the lukanim lens can do lukanim lens Okay, so we have options. Okay, you guys ready get you get your keyboards ready get get get ready. Um, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you the options and the page numbers for each options and You will make your choice by typing in The page number I would I would recommend that you not flood the Live chat with the same thing. Just don't don't repeat it That is something that youtube could identify as spam and they could they could block you so It's not me doing it. It's a youtube thing So try to just vote once that would that's in your own best interest to vote once but here are the options If you'd like the gi joe team I'm sorry. If you think the gi joe team should go to hawaii Turn to page seven if you think the team should go to cyberia turn to page 13 So in your live chat type seven if you want to go to hawaii Type 1313 if you want to go to cyberia and go let's see see what we got Let's let's start the Very unscientific counting of the votes Let's see. What's it gonna be? What's it gonna be? I see no votes so far I I guess, you know, it may have to be a coin. Okay. Here we go. Here we go Uh, see photo hyper says 13 gas says seven. We got 13s and seven they're pretty evenly matched right now pretty evenly matched Uh seven is pulling out a little bit ahead Not by much though. It's still pretty close. It's still pretty close. We've got more sevens We've got more sevens. Yeah seven is definitely pulling ahead 13 got a few more 13s sevens I think it looks like sevens gonna win, but I'll I'll give it a few more seconds I know there's a little bit of lag here. So I'll give it a few more seconds just in case anybody else has some input We've got another 13 We've got another seven. Okay. Okay Dial nine if you'd like Jason, uh, Todd, uh, robin to die. That's yeah, that's that's pretty funny Um, I think I think seven is ahead Give I'll give it just a few more seconds And and unless unless there's a whole bunch of 13s that come in in a few more seconds I think seven is going to win this one It's reasonably close But like think about it Your options are go to or to go to Hawaii or Siberia All right Think about this think carefully about this Uh, I think I think we're going with seven. I think seven one it was it was not too It was it's fairly close. It was fairly close, but I think I think seven one by a comfortable margin um I think uh hawk would decide just like hoody is an unscientific counting of hands Yeah, everybody just throws up a hand and like I'll guess which ones which hands Which side has more hands up? Okay, so we're going to page seven. We're on page seven Here we go page seven. Here we go Welcome to hawaii Come on. I want to laya gung ho says as you step into the shark flying submarine He drops a necklace around your neck. Oh, he really he really we are really are getting laid But it's not exactly the traditional Hawaiian flower lay. It's made out of hand grenades. Well, that's Yeah, that's fine That's regulation equipment for a tourist on a gi show excursion A hand grenade necklace, you know your standard issue hand grenade necklace Flint deep six torpedo and tripwire Are already on board you are still a little shaky from your supersonic jet ride in the hidden Hawaiian port Are to the hidden Hawaiian port when you hit the deck Deep six revs the motor and sends the shark flying over the blue pacific waters at top speed How many people are supposed to fit in the shark? Hey, we've got company flint shouts He's got his eyes glued on the eyepiece of his electronic zoom binoculars kill the engines He shouts to deep six at the wheel. How many people do they think fit in the shark? I don't know how many you guys Have seen the the gi joe shark It doesn't fit many people in fact fits only one person But somehow somehow this team of what five Are fitting in the shark whatever. Okay, it's fine. Let's just go with it. Let's just go with it From out of nowhere a sleek air a sea plane dips from the clouds and circles you something tells me It's a cobra plane tripwire says those guys catch on fast says torpedo scooping water Into his scuba mask and dumping it out just in case he has to make a quick exit into the pacific option Yes a quick exit from inside the shark Watch me blast him out of the ballpark gung-ho shouts as he sets up his grenade launcher Yes, a grenade launcher be very effective against a sea plane. That's that can't fail Negative gung-ho flint says his voice calm as always. He's still looking through Uh his binoculars. It's not cobra. It's the coast guard. They almost blasted the coast guard That that would have made headlines page 11 Thanks for blowing our cover guys gung-ho shouts into a megaphone as the coast guard plane dips lower Now go rescue a lobster. It got no respect for the coast guard Flint laughs and gives gung-ho a playful pound on the shoulder. Yeah, everybody hates the coast guard What's that? What's what their problem? What's the problem with the coast guard? The plane pauses over the shark again this time dropping a small canister into the water flint quickly scoops it up With a net and opens it. This is what we've been waiting for aerial photography of the islands. Take a look at this one guys Flint passes one of the photos around. Wow That's that's an amazingly inefficient way to deliver photos, but we'll go with it Passes the photos around it's photos of lady j. Everybody is shocked It's not I made that part up. It's a picture of an un Populated jungle island complete with an extinct volcano rising from the center It's called spider island. Wasn't that a like a b movie title? Wasn't there like a b movie like escape from spider island or some crap like that? Flint says reading the message that came down from the photos, but don't get nervous break in there are no tarantulas there The island got its name because years ago when the volcano erupted hot lava cut eight small streams down The mountain side. Okay, so it's like looks like a spider sure enough The aerial photo makes the volcano look like an enormous black widow spider with its leg Legs spread out through the green greenery of the jungle page 22 uh 22 Okay, uh, and by the way, they were complaining about the coast guard But apparently that plane was part of their plan, right? It was supposed to do aerial photography Did they not know that? And if they didn't know that Why would they open the canister? Why'd we like? Oh, it just dropped a canister out there No, no harm can come from that. That's got to be totally safe Anyway, okay at the bottom of page 22 we have Choices we have options just so that just so that volcano is the only spider we have to deal with you say shuttering The others don't laugh at your phobia. They know it's no joke to you That's very sensitive of them. That's very sensitive of the team To not laugh at our uh our arachnophobia You take a long look at the foot and by the way, we're supposed to infiltrate this base So if there were spiders will we just run away screaming is is that is that what we would do is that is it that important to us? We take a long look at the photographs then toss it down and pick up your Uh, especially designed scanner binoculars to get a better look at the real thing So that's spider island. We've been Circling you say cobra is there. All right. I can make out landmines booby traps pitfalls everything triggered by electronic sensors I can tell exactly where their headquarters is Oh, I'm sorry. I can't tell exactly where their headquarters is But security tightens up the closer you get to the volcano. It's going to be tricky. Of course the bad guys Are gonna have their headquarters in a volcano If there's a volcano involved That's where the you know Hey governments of the world Do you want to know where the you want to find the terrorists? Just go around to all the volcanoes. Just search those You'll you'll find them In fact, don't worry, but just attack the volcanoes just bomb the volcanoes from the air wipe them all out The world is a safer place. You're welcome Where the hell was I okay? Um, it's going to be tricky. The beach will take too long. Let's hit them underwater torpedo says This shark has enough firepower to blast through their security How how big do they think the shark is? Uh, you can be sure that they've got A security system underwater too. You say you come uh, come on guys flint says We've got a loaded satellite passing over our heads Four times a day and the detonator button is somewhere on that island. Now. Let's decide how do we get in? We have choices. We have choices. You guys ready? All right, get get your fingers ready. Hey adam verwolf. Nice to see you. Thanks for joining Thank you for joining. We got some choices to make so flex your fingers and get ready to type here are the choices option one If you want to invade by land Turn to page 85 if you want to invade by sea Turn to page 33. So Type 85 if you want to invade by land Type 33 33 if you want to invade by sea 85 by land 33 by sea Uh, so tie so type in the live chat either 85 if you want to attack by land or 33 if you want to invade by sea Now we are at sea So to get to the land We've got to go through the sea. I'm not really sure what that means. I didn't write the book. Okay. I didn't write it Uh, so we've got 85 plus it's on land. So even if we attack by sea We're gonna be on land at some point, right? Uh, see so we've got some 85s. We've got lots of 85s. We got lots of 33s too That is really very evenly matched. This is gonna be a tough one This one's gonna be tough I've got some more 33s. I thought I thought 85 was getting an edge, but then we got some more 33s Oh, this is this is gonna be this is gonna be a tough one I think 85 has a very slight edge, but not very much not very much. This is this one's Why do you guys got to make it so hard on me? That what why can't you just make it easy? Why can't you guys just get together discuss this in advance and all vote the same way? That that would make it easy for me, but no everybody's got to be different Uh, so, uh, we got we got another 33 Coin toss that that's how we make decisions in gijo is with the coin coin toss. Why can't I say coin toss? Why do I keep saying toying costs? anyway, so Gijo makes all of his decisions by coin toss. That's really the scientific way Um, I don't I don't actually have a coin to toss. I would actually do a coin toss, but I don't have one Um, okay. This one this one is too close to call I don't have a coin. I don't have a coin what I have Uh, still sitting here from my my cobra bat review as I have this cobra bat File card, so I'm gonna flip this I'm gonna flip this because it's just too close to call So like heads tails. Okay heads tails This is we're making this decision the general hawk way, right ready? um, so heads 85 Tails 33 heads 85 tails 33. Let's let's flip it. Let's flip it tails All right tails wins 33 may have actually won Anyway, but what we're going with we're we're attacking by c we are at c so I think we would be attacking by c anyway But let's attack by c page 33 You and tripwire agree that cobra security system on the island looks awesome, but breakable The only problem is that it would take a lot of time to deactivate it And time is the one thing you don't carry an extra supply of in your equipment belt Be handy if you did though Yeah Deep six takes the shark below water and then suits up to join the beautiful tropical fish In the clear pacific So he suits up while he's what's he wearing? If he's not wearing his suit in the shark I don't know. It doesn't matter Uh, you and the rest of your teammates huddle around the monitor keeping track of deep six's every move What's he doing gung-ho asks adjusting the focus looks like a crawl stroke uh tripwire jokes Do you see anything that looks like a way into cobra headquarters? You ask flint not yet. Hey look, he's playing with an octopus Uh deep six gets along with anything that swims and doesn't Talk back to him torpedo says But hush falls over the team when they see what happens next suddenly deep six turns away from the octopus and starts Swimming toward the base of the volcanic mountain when he gets back I'm sorry when his back is turned Someone peers out from behind the underwater Coral rock and fires a dart into the octopus's head They just killed an octopus page 12 They just murdered an octopus That's well, that's it's Yeah, well, you know, it's it's sushi. It's fine Something's going on out there. You say something just hit the octopus with a laser beam. I think As flint and gung-ho crowd in toward the view screen The picture gets fuzzy and goes black that octopus is spitting so much ink into the water He can't see a thing. Uh, we can't see a thing. You say deep six has company guys torpedo says I'm picking up a dozen blips on the sonar eels Flint shouts cobras scuba saboteurs the miserable They zap that octopus to make a smokescreen so deep six wouldn't see them coming That's rude and and very unkind the octopus But it's again, it's sushi so I can't complain too much flint. Let me suit up scuba diving is my secondary specialty you say so Break in us our secondary specialty Scuba diving sure Uh, you know that I know that break in flint says but we can't afford to lose you and we've got more firepower in the shark Then you can carry Hand to hand That's that is that is true. That is an accurate statement about the shark They're closing in on deep six torpedo says looking at the sonar screen quick What do we do here are the choices? We got choices. Okay We got choices. So get get your typing fingers ready get your typing fingers ready. You ready here we go If you want to get into a wetsuit and go into the water and to help deep six turn to page 45 If you want to stay inside the shark and fire weapons at the cobra eels turn to page 58 so 45 if you want to get out of the shark and help deep six 58 If you want to stay in the shark and shoot at the cobra eels. So type in your live Your live, whatever Your live chat type 45 if you want to exit the shark 58 if you want to stay in the shark and shoot at the cobra eels. What what's it gonna be? What? It Pop quiz hot shot. Do you stay in the shark? Or or you do you get out of the shark? Lots of 45s lots of 45s. Okay, okay A few 58s a few 58s, but lots of 45s. There's 58. Good night. Oh 58 is catching up 58 is catching up lots on Joe. Mine is a few pages behind. That's okay That's okay 50. Oh wow 58 is really shooting up there. All right Uh, you know, I thought 45 Got out to a pretty good lead, but 58 is really Really ramping up there Um, what's engine? I think we already read page 12. What's on Joe mine? I can read it again. I suppose We got another 45, but we got lots of 58s. I'll give it a few more seconds Give you guys some time to sort it out some time to figure it out Uh, just to see if 45 catches up, but I think 58 won this one I think 58 won this one pretty handily. That's that's pretty impressive. It's it's not often that we have one of the options Jump out that far ahead a couple more seconds just to make sure just making sure and then we will uh We will uh Unless they're like it unless there's a miracle we're going to turn to page 58 Uh, which is stay in the shark Apparently the very large shark that has all of the team members in it And and shoot at the cobra eels not not necessarily a bad plan. Not a bad plan. You know So, um, I I'm taking that as 58 wins. So 58 let's turn page 58 Let's see what happens Hey, we get we get another option at the bottom of 58. How about that? Hello, rob vigas? Hello and welcome. I don't think I saw you in here earlier. Uh, so hello. Thanks for joining Uh, let's see suddenly the shark moves toward the inky black water where the eels are closing in on deep six They don't know it, but cobra Attackers are about to become attacked gung-ho says We're in range of the target torpedo says from the shark controls From the driver's seat of the shark. I guess Uh, turn on the front floodlights. Let's warn them turn on the front of floodlights Flint shouts the ocean lights up like a birthday cake Okay, uh and They really stretched for the for the colorful metaphors in here Uh Eels realized that the surprise party is for them They quickly switch on their propulsion backpacks and zip through the water in the opposite direction Let them go tripwire says falling over a stool in the control room the control room of the shark Uh tripwire, um Fell off a stool in the control room of the gi joe shark But gung-ho disagrees loudly keep after him deep six can find the cobra hq entrance free and clear now Uh, he won't need us for at least 20 minutes. He says and if we capture those swimming snakes We'll not uh, we'll knock out a whole line of cobra defense. Keep on their tails torpedo. My boy Uh, thank you dave for the super chat. Uh deep six likes to be by himself. Anyway, that's a good point See dave raises a good point. Yeah, that that's very true Keep on their tails torpedo. My boy Flint turns to you and says break in what do you think we should do? We have to make another decision We have to make another decision. Oh My decider is getting worn out My my decider is just uh It's I don't know if we can take much more of this, but here we go get get ready Get your get your type in fingers ready. My knuckles are cracking get your typing fingers ready And uh, here are your options If you want to stay with deep six and let the eels go turn to page 61 if you want to pursue them Turn to page 65. So it's 64 61 If you want to stay with deep six let the eels go 65 if you want to Follow the eels and let deep six go So 61 Follow deep six 65 Yeah, 65 follow the eels. So what's what's it gonna be 61 stick with deep six 65 Follow the eels. Yes, it's a TARDIS shark. That's all right. So comma trope says 65 photo viper says 61 We got some more 65s 65 is out to a solid lead It's a six 65 is out to a solid lead So some of you guys are saying let's let's let deep six go out on his own He does like to be on his own. That's a good point And and go after those cobra eels 65 is well ahead. There are some 61's though There are some 61's But 65 is Has jumped off to an early lead. Let's give it a just give it a little bit more time. Give it a little more time Let's see Yeah, I uh Yo-jo says 65 is a trap. That's that's possible. It could be we that has happened to us before that has happened to us before But we'll see this is a new book. You never know. We could we could be making the right decision here Uh 60 barring some miracle within the next few seconds. I'm gonna say that 65 has won Going once Going twice 65 it is 65 it is here we go 65 65. We'll see if we die um, here we go A net full of eels would be a fine catch you decide So torpedo aims the shark in the direction of the fleeing cobra scuba assassins Uh when we're finished with those fish gungho says they'll tell us where the underwater entrance to cobra headquarters is Then they'll march us right into the computer room so we can pull the plug on the this Look in him satellite after after him torpedo You've come to expect that kind of attitude from gungho and in the same way You've come to expect one dirty trick after another from cobra. What's that? You forgot to expect it That was a costly mistake. Uh-oh as it turns out the eels were not fleeing from you They were luring you into a trap a trap that makes a very loud boom When it shuts However, even though Powerful depth charges blow you and your companions to smithereens small smithereens at that deep sex remains unharmed he finds the cobra headquarters And makes their lives miserable Until a second gi joe team arrives to dismantle the computer detonator and save the good us a good old usa in the end That's it That's it Good news Good news. Look, let's look at the bright side here deep six was fine They captured him But he was so annoying that that he just kept them busy until A better gi joe team came along and uh And actually accomplished the mission, but the usa is safe. That that's good. I'm in fact I live in the usa so i'm kind of glad that it's safe You know, i'm kind of glad that I was not in a city that was blown up Uh, but uh, but unfortunately what was blown up was all of us. So uh, that's uh So we died You know, I think I think that's okay. That's a good we can read this book again in the future We can give it another shot make some different choices and have a different outcome But you know, I think it's almost a tradition here to die The first time we try one of these find your fate books So, you know, that's that that keeps in with uh The typical thing that we do that's that's that's it. So that's that's it for story time Thank you very much for participating. I do have one other thing that i'm going to try to do But i'm going to take a brief comfort break before I do it. I'm going to attempt to Do another Sketch here. So let me try my My two camera setup Let's see if we can do this Um And let's be real we probably can't do it probably won't work at all Um, but let me and let me get it set up now uh, and then take a break because if um If it doesn't work, I'd rather know if it's not gonna work then then we'll just we'll just uh, this would be a good, uh time to end the live stream But if it does work Then this is a good time for me to take a break and then draw something Uh, so hey, I think that was that was all right. That was okay. We had a good time Uh, the find your fate books are are surprisingly violent for Children's media Uh, what lots more death and destruction in them than than you would expect Okay, all right. All right. Uh, i'm gonna test this Most likely this camera will freeze for a second, but if this works, I should be able to bring it back All right, here we go trying out the different setup Okay, uh that camera does look like it froze Let's fix it I think Okay, all right, so Here we go. Um See if we can get the page in camera here Uh, all right. Oh, yeah, we move this stuff because I also set up a A lamp So I can have a little extra light Like so Um, okay, so that's that it's not the best setup in the world But it's good enough for the girls. I go out with There we go. All right, so we're gonna give this a shot. Um, try to get that in frame a little better There we go. All right, so time out Um, is it working by the way? Can you see me? I can see me. It looks like it's working on my end Uh, if it's not working though, uh, just just let me know. Okay, so, um Time I'll be right back talk amongst yourselves And then we will draw something and we'll have a little bit more fun We're having an extra long live stream and I'll just keep it going until this sketch is finished So, uh, hang loose with me and I'll be right back All right guys, I'm almost back. I just want to get more water I'm here. I still exist. I just I just want to get more water. I'll be right back Okay, and we're back We are back. Okay I can see the lag on here. I can tell that it's like Um, 20 seconds or so Uh, lagged from real time for me So here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna draw Uh, a gi joe guy. Okay, I'm gonna draw a gi joe character of some kind and I am going to Um, oh, thank you chad. Uh, till the sketch is finished. This isn't, um, going to be a stick figure. Is it? Well, actually I I did draw a stick figure kind of a test run to see make sure the camera worked But no, I'll I'll draw a real figure. I'll draw a real figure. Hello jump in general. Thank you very much for joining And thanks you too. Oh, I see this the figure six pack. Thank you for joining. I don't think I saw you come in Um, and to anybody else who came in that I missed. Thank you for being here Uh, so I've I've got to decide which gi joe character to draw and I'm going to decide this in also a very unscientific way, um And a totally unfair way too. I'm going to let somebody in the live chat decide um, basically type in the live chat Whichever gi joe character you want me to draw just type it in there. I know that's not fair I will just pick the first one. I see I know that's not fair because some people will be lagging more than others Uh, but I got to decide somehow. So this is just how we're gonna do it So just type whichever gi joe character you would like for me to draw at the first one. I see the first one I see uh, that's what I'm going with Uh, hello chad Uh torch. Okay. Um Comic trope says torch um that and that's the first one I saw so That's that's how we're designing it this time. Hang on a second I'm gonna go get the figure for reference and I'll be right back. Hold on. All right. Fortunately. I had torch handy I had torch nearby so We're going with torch the dreadnought chad draw Break in from the book break in from the book. Hey, that's not a bad idea Maybe we do that uh as a second one if there if there's time Uh, did they have a picture of break in? Which one of these is supposed to be break in is that like is that supposed to be Is that supposed to be break in? It's very, you know non-descript guy and by the way like why does all the generic characters have to be Caucasian? That's that's not reality um So I don't know that's it's not a not a terrible idea, but I'm going with But just because it was the first one I saw I'm going with torch here So this is something I've been wanting to do for some time is um Uh is have a two camera setup so I can draw. Oh, thank you Dave e again valor versus venom torch I don't have valor versus versus venom torch Um, I would draw one if I had one, but I don't have one Uh, so I'm gonna go with a version one torch Um I kept thinking like I want to do a two camera setup so I can do some live art I just need a second camera. I was like I Why can't I I've got to pick up a separate camera the second camera? I kept forgetting and then I realized hold on a minute I've got a second camera. I own one. It's in a box. I know where it is I haven't used it in years But but why am I why do I keep thinking I've got to buy a second camera when I have a second camera? So so here we go. So now we got this one. It's old. You know, it's it's not the best Uh, eventually I'll get a better one But um, but this is this is gonna do for now Uh, so let's think of a pose for torch. I mean this is That's a pretty generic, you know kind of standing pose um, but Let's uh, let's make him a little more dread knocking. Let's let's think of um Think of a way to pose him I want him like leaning forward a little bit and kind of leaning this way a little bit um And like I'm gonna have his He's got the uh, a settling torch. It's not a blow torch It's an unsettling torch and we're gonna we're gonna illustrate it as it as it actually is right They'd be very tempting to illustrate it as a blow torch because that's a little more exciting A little more exciting than a cutting or welding torch but We're just gonna be we're gonna be figure and accessory accurate here So let's do that Let's do that. There's the backpack So he's gonna be kind of Twisting his upper body this direction But his legs are gonna be kind of going that way So this is the pose That I think I'm gonna be working with I'm gonna I'm gonna attempt something like that Uh, and I've got the figure. I'm just gonna set the figure right Right there for reference I'm gonna sit this over here for reference. All right. Let's let's get it started. Let's figure it out Uh, let's see. Let's kind of try to position this in the uh in the Page pretty well one problem that I struggled with a little bit when I started drawing again is like The positioning of the actually I'm gonna move him the positioning of the character on the page Like I would start too low on the page and I would run out of room at the bottom Um, I'm tilting this up a little bit just so I can get the proportions a little better. Um, this would be a lot easier with a Drawing table, but we work with what we got The poor artist that blames his tools uh That's why I draw with a stick and uh Mud on a rock Okay, I mean it's it's a fair it's it's a fair adage that it's the poor artist that blames his tools. That's that's the old Uh idiom, but You do have to have you know at least some basic tools And if you're gonna pencil draw you gotta at least have a pencil and paper Uh, so he's gonna be like kind of like this I know this is light, but it's gonna I will darken it in a little bit. I'm just kind of trying to basically Sort out where everything is going to be for now I don't want the character to seem off balance So and he's gonna have his torch Like this Like so Um, where's the okay, hold on. Where's the accessory? The accessory like I was gonna have him holding it like a Like a rifle, but there isn't a lot of space on that accessory to Hold it with the the left hand To like stabilize it with the left hand, but we're we're gonna make it work Anyway, so the torch is gonna come out like this With a flame like that Okay, I promise you will be able to see this better I'm going to it very lightly because I don't want to have to erase all a lot of this crap He's got some super tall boots He's actually pretty fashionable as a dreadnought goes Okay, so let me check out those proportions a little bit Uh, it's not the best, but you know what it's gonna be good Keeping in mind that I am not a pro Uh I must uh Tempor my expectations a little bit We all must we all must temper our expectations a little bit Okay boots boots Like So I think that's not too bad. That's not too bad Okay All right, so that's kind of what we're working with here. It's going to look Uh, it's going to look a little off because it's going to be flat So the perspective is going to be a little skewed on your camera, but I'll try to get I'll try to get a good angle every once in a while to Show you where it is So I'm going to do the technique that I use some time to prevent Pencil smudges. I'm going to use this to kind of cover The lower half of the page as I draw on the upper half Let's let's get uh, let's get torch drawn here So he has kind of he has his hair parted in the center He's got kind of long hair Kind of flows down He's got a red bandana and how how popular were red bandanas in the 80s Like Rambo wore a red bandana and then all of a sudden like it was just It was just a normal piece of men's fashion In fact, I don't think you could be qualified as a tough guy if you were not wearing a red bandana So then he's got his like mutton chops there Chin Mustache All right, so we're getting it. We're getting it. Let's see I'm going to kind of extend his uh His chops a little bit Gonna see a little bit of ear there, but it's kind of a hairy guy Almost got a wolverine thing going on here Okay And it's hard for me to get it in perspective with it sitting flat like that I kind of wish I had something to prop it up on but I don't think I do Nothing that's handy anyway Okay, so head he's got like a A dog collar and look I'm not going to kink shame the guy um I'm not I'm not going to criticize his lifestyle But he's got a he's got a collar on him With some studs He's got his um His open chest leather vest Hey, that's no judgments here. No judgments Well, you know what whatever clubs or bars torch wants to go to In in his own time is nobody's business I guess as long as they serve grape soda and chocolate covered donuts So he's got chains going around kind of Around his arms across his chest around his arms and he has this skull Necklace I'm going to do that a little bit oversized so I can kind of get the detail a little bit in it like so Okay Yeah, I know this isn't coming out super good on camera, but we're gonna get there. I promise I promise it's gonna It's you'll be able to see it more clearly as I start to flesh it out, but he's got He's got his arms and I'm gonna add something I'm gonna add the hint of a cobra tattoo here on the right shoulder because in What was it issue number 30? He was drawn with a tattoo. I think it was frank springer who did that issue He was drawn with a cobra tattoo I don't think he ever appeared with that cobra tattoo and any later issues but But I I like the tattoo. In fact, I like the tattoo enough that that I have the same tattoo So we're gonna do it this way And I apologize again I can't really keep up with the live chat while I've got my eyes down here So I'm just trying to make sure that I Keep communicating and conversing as much as I can So that's gonna be like that I like that That's gonna be Well, see that's gonna cover part of the skull necklace, but that's okay. That's okay That's how objects interact with space sometimes I I need a new needed. I need a new needed eraser. I needed eraser is needed so i'm using this uh This block eraser in the meantime until I can replace my Crappy dried out kneaded eraser Really gotta use this stuff more often is one thing Okay, so there's the torch And then see like the vest comes to here and then he's got See that's I can already tell the proportions need to be a little bit different But not too bad. Not too bad Not too bad. All right, so let me see if I can get this But you see this a little bit. So it's sort of coming together Man that lighting sucks, huh? Okay, there we go. It's sort of coming together Sort of coming together Let's see. So I'm gonna have him kind of stabilizing the torch with the left hand like so Thumb like sort of like that Okay, he's got these gloves and bands around his wrists And then let's see the I'm gonna have the leather vest kind of hanging down here and like so and then like he's gonna have He's gonna have some blue jeans and um And then he's got a belt buckle like a round belt buckle and he's got a chain belt so Torches all about the leather and chains Which hey is fine fine with me Of all the of all the things the dreadlocks do to earn disdain and and scorn Wearing leather and chains is pretty low on the list Not not an issue not an issue Their wanton destruction of property though is that's that's a bit of an issue, you know Bit of a no-no, but but uh, yeah But but fashion is not a crime Some sometimes it should be but but usually though Fashion is not a crime Let's see All right, so i'm kind of blocking out where this chain is going to be the chain on the vest It kind of goes around the arms This is going to be fleshed out I do kind of hate drawing chains. It's kind of a pain in the butt, but We're gonna try to do a good one here like so I will get some more detail in that Asettling torch All right, so let's get his legs Let me give him like pockets And uh, what does he have on his what do you have on his legs here? He's got uh A pistol does that mean he's left-handed pistol on his left side? I don't know maybe maybe not necessarily but Nothing else on torch indicates that he's left-handed on the package art. He holds his torch right-handed So we're gonna do a pistol here And there is a strap that goes around like this Straps on the legs are kind of nice Kind of handy because they give you an opportunity to add some some curvature to the legs Which helps add some depth. I forgot the band around his His left arm there. So we're gonna put this band here Like so and that is a studded band so we're gonna put some studs on it and See There we go. And then there's this other band Around the right leg for his Knife and it's a wide band All right, there's a buckle here on this one and then there's uh Let's see. There's like a a buckle here On that one It was kind of Kind of dummy out a little fake buckle there We'll take it too seriously Okay, so we've got some folds at the knees because his knees are bent and then we've got these really tall Super tall boots. It's like these almost knee pads so Sometimes when I'm drawing the boots When I when I get to the boots, that's where I can get kind of lazy That's where I can get kind of lazy. So I'm gonna try not to do that Sometimes I can just get kind of tired of going. It's like, all right. I want this thing to be done And uh, I usually try to do the boots last because Uh, I want I don't want the that pencil work to smudge so it's more desirable to me to do the top of the sketch first and then come back and Finish out the the bottom part of it. So let's see. How's How are those boots the boots have like these? This I don't know like shin guard things and they have these bands that go around The shin or around the calf Something like that. Okay. We have about got this fleshed out except for the backpack We've about got it fleshed out except for the backpack. Man that lighting sucks. Sorry about that. I'm trying to get this So you can actually see it. Okay, so his but he's got the backpack. I guess that's attached to that that chain Uh, we won't see very much of the backpack because it's on his back and it's going to be covered mostly by his body, but there is a Looks like a metal rack Kind of a thick one like so and then behind that there is I want to draw the tank a little bigger So we can at least see some of it like that and like that Something like that. So and then oh, yeah, I almost got we've got coming from here. We've got this hose That connects to the backpack. I'm gonna well, I don't want to do it that way I want to do it that way because it kind of encircles the The arm and that just doesn't create enough tension. So we're gonna have it go like up this way Like that Okay, all right. I think we're ready to start working in the details here and getting this done I'm gonna take the accessory out of the hand Because I want to kind of get some of the accessory details And now for those of you who have stuck around. Thank you Um, it should start to actually take some shape now. Let me sharpen this pencil a little bit This lead is a little bit soft So, um It does need to be Sharpened a bit from time to time make sure I don't get any lead on my fingers that I then Transfer to the page Okay How's everybody doing, uh, who we got left in here we got, uh, james Uh, we've got who else We got dave we got brandon We got rob. We got shad. We got matt. Thank you guys We got iven. Hello, iven. I don't think I saw you come in but thank you and welcome Uh, and we got comic tropes Thank you. Thank you for sticking around comic tropes. I feel bad because I haven't been able to Uh be fully engaged with other people's live streams um Because I've been like way way way behind on my own stuff um, so But i'm trying to i'm really really trying to so let's let's give him some hair All right, so he's got that part down the middle And he's got The kind of longish hair that kind of hangs down in the front there and it kind of flares out Farrah faucet style He's got the red bandana uh, okay Let's see here Okay, okay All right, i'm gonna I will kind of Darken in those glasses a little bit. I'm gonna clean up that just a touch nose Torches just a little too pretty so i'm gonna give him kind of an ugly nose. How about that? He's just not ugly enough. He's not as ugly as as ripper for example Ripper looks like a truck driver ran over his face Okay, so I'm giving him a kind of longer mutton chops than the than he has on the figure, but It'll work and then His sideburns covering most of his ears Got his chin Kind of working out Okay, and then we got a little bit of hair in the back of his head that's also gonna flare out He's got like long ish hair But like not long enough hair to like put in a ponytail like uh like buzzer so Something like that something like that it's it's coming It's coming together it's coming together. So let's um, let's give some Reflection and Darken in those sunglasses a bit like so Coming along coming along. Okay. So now let's get some detail on On the chest and the neck let's draw in that collar This is a studded collar except this is going to have a A chain for the skull necklace is going to cover a little bit of the collar, but You can do that Like so Like so. Okay, so he's got the studded collar Got his collar bone there now. Um, I need to I need to See he's got the skull necklace, but I've got the The torch partially covering it So before I sketch in those details and in fact before I attack any more of the chest, I think I need to Draw in that that torch Something like this Okay, so the torch has like a Little extension there and then it goes like that So if I were doing this properly, I would be I would have a straight edge out. I would be properly measuring and Blocking out the perspective on this So that it actually looks Truly three-dimensional But instead I am eyeballing the perspective Which by the way, if you're a professional artist, that's that's that's not a good idea You can't you cannot really eyeball perspective. You can You can fake it in some cases But But if anybody like really looks too closely at it, it won't look right This however is supposed to be a sketch though. It's not really supposed to be a fully rendered illustration. So We are going with Just Just enough just enough Something like that something like that. Okay. Okay Um, so this part of the torch is partially obscured by Uh torch's hand and I'm I'm gonna have to change the detail on the torch just a little bit Because it just isn't quite working the way I want it to Wow, that that's okay. That's actually pretty bad. Hold on. Let me fix this a little bit so the the horizontal line is going to go like that and then the The vertical line is going to be like there ish and we're gonna Kind of block that out Something like that. Okay Wow, okay. Yeah, that's pretty rough, but I've I've done I've got enough of it Done that I can sort of finish out that skull necklace At least what the bit of it that we can see Skull necklace is going to be mostly obscured We've got we still have 45 people Hanging out watching me do this. That's pretty cool. Thank you very much. Thanks to everyone who stayed This is the after school stuff. This is staying after class you know for the for the the extra credit So there's the progress There's the progress which again is hard to see in perspective from your angle But I'll try let me see if I can do it this way There's there's the progress This I also got a really cheap sketch pad and this paper is kind of terrible. I You know, I well, you know what? I am the poor artist. So I'm blaming my tools I it's the tools fault I did I did I you know at the time though. I just had to get the cheapest stuff that I could I didn't really have any choice But uh, yeah, it turns out that that's it turns out that cheap paper and Well, the pencils are nice the pencils good, but you know cheap paper is cheap Who would have thought? All right, so let's draw in the the chain Drawing in the individual links in the chain Like so, okay, so that's all right. That's the chain more or less And we got to do the same on this side Let's clean that up a little bit Okay, so We're gonna have a chain that goes kind of like that I always think, you know when I'm drawing a chain, it's it's not that bad You know you draw some links one way and some links the other way make them about the same size Not a big deal, right? but It always turns out to be harder Then I'm expecting It almost always turns out not looking right Okay Something more or less like that that's That is really not great, but let's try to let's try to help it out a little bit Give it a little bit of depth Giving it a little bit of three dimension there Something along those lines So it's something anyway, so now Now we can kind of start to attack that uh leather vest that he's wearing Oh, we forgot something. We've got the line that comes out of the back of the torch This line Let's so let's uh, I need a different angle on that All right, so this has got to come like out like this and like This and it's super not easy to get The same width on that curve without using a tool We are too cool for tools uh the The hose is like It's got actually like two hoses that are That are kind of bound together because I believe one hose goes to the The fuel for the torch and the other hose goes to an oxygen tank Which makes the the flame hotter So we're gonna we're gonna draw in Those two connected hoses We are going to clean that up a little bit. We are going to kind of Now uh sketch in the little fasteners That kind of bind those two holes hoses together Like that And we're gonna we're gonna add just that little detail which hopefully will make it Make it just feel a little bit more real So that also gives us an opportunity to add some depth By having adding a little bit of a curvature to those To those sections like so Okay progress Trying not to knock my My camera off uh comic tropes does Does a two camera setup and a live drawing all the time makes it look easy But it's not easy. Okay. We got the cobra tattoo. We've got kind of a Oh, okay. Yep. See that's exactly what I was worried about. Hold on fix the camera. Hold on fix the camera It's fine. It's fine. Don't panic. Don't panic. That is not your tv. Your tv didn't fall over Your your your electronic device did not fall over. That was in fact my camera. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. We're back We're kind of back We are not back. Hold on now. I gotta I gotta fix the angle Okay, things I don't have to worry about when I'm not drawing with a camera Let's see if do we need to fix the focus? How's the focus? It not great, but you know, this is not a this is not a nice camera this so this is as good as it gets Hold on. Yeah I'll I'll fix this I'll fix it Don't don't think I can't fix this I can fix it. I had it work in a second ago before I knocked it off Okay, so that's that's kind of it But not really Uh, okay All right, how are we doing? How are we doing? How are we doing? Can we see anything? Can we see anything? Not not a great deal. We've got to turn this back. Okay All right. I think I think we're back. I think we're back Sorry for the technical difficulties Okay, so All right, there's that I'm gonna kind of connect those I'm gonna clean up this arm a little bit Actually before we do that I'm gonna draw in this The tank that's on the backpack Like so like so and then there's he's got this kind of other tank That goes on the rack Like so It's not super clean, but we're gonna Live with it Gonna live with it. We're gonna I'm trying to give the details that deserve attention the actual attention And not get caught up in details that are not vital Um So he's got bands around his wrist, but then he has like the bands are around Gloves and the gloves are actually a little bit longer Uh and come out past the bands And then he's got hands which will be gripping The torch so there's the the right hand Let's kind of draw in the knuckles That helps kind of mean helps me figure out where the fingers are going to be placed Yeah, that I can live with that I can live with that like so It's actually it's actually kind of hard for me to see at this angle. It's a little awkward Okay We still we have 53 people in here by my count so that's awesome Um Thank you for your patience and just hanging out watching me draw Um, this is a draw ring that I will be taking with me to joe fest To sell at my table in artist alley Much to the chagrin of the real artists probably So there's there's his glove now, how did we have this going? I have erased some of my guidelines I will have to figure that back out So, let's see. Here's the vest vest goes kind of down like that. So there's going to be like a a buckle here And then the vest will come down. Well, let me let me just sketch in This hand a little bit Left hand Like I had a pretty good shape for the hand there, but I hadn't defined it very well So let's just fix that, huh? So like that like that And then that pinky finger is going to be like there There There something like that And then it's going to have a thumb On the other side of that torch nozzle Like that Okay, we've about got it. We've about got this this left hand here In an acceptable way Okay, so the torch nozzle is going to come up like this And then I guess we can kind of fit that second Little knob at just above it like so I feel like I feel like I'm You know, I try to do this smoothly Especially when I'm doing it live But if anything, I think I'm I'm like doing it less smoothly than I would be if I were just doing it by myself So I'm failing at making a an easy and smooth Drawing to watch live Okay, so now we're going to define that left arm a bit more Got some muscle coming up On the shoulder we've got a band around The bicep Which we can partially see It is a studded band. So let's put some studs on it Like so All right, like so I can live with that I can live with that That's sometimes that's that's where we have to that that has to be our target Just what what can I live with? Is it good? Is it great arch? Yeah, let's let's let's not set the bar too high right? Let's let's uh Let's work with what we can live with Here's progress And again the proportions seem off because of the angle Here it makes it look like his legs are really tiny, but But it's like it's more like more like that kind of His legs may still be a little bit undersized. So Try to clean those up a little bit Give myself a little breathing room on the legs to adjust them as we go okay, so Let's move on to what is this belt? What does buckle look like? It's kind of a just a round Let's do the chain belt first And then we'll worry about the buckle the buckle will be like here Just a lot of errant pencil lines Lots of errant pencil lines Like that Like that Like that. Okay, we have a chain belt On one side now the other side that man, this is gonna I this uh Drawing is gonna feel really dirty when it's finished But I guess that's okay for a dreadknock, right like so okay, so let's Finish out that chain belt. Actually, let's Let's define both sides of it a bit better This has got to be like watching paint dry I I have the the greatest Uh respect and admiration for anyone who has actually stuck around Thank you so much. It really does mean a lot to me Uh for the 50 people in Uh watching live watching me try to dummy out this drawing of torch And well, you know, I've got to do more of these so, you know as just sort of maybe bonus content I may I may do more live drawings. I don't know if I'll necessarily do that every Week or every live stream, but I've got to get more done. I'm gonna I need to have a significant Um inventory For he's got a pocket there For joe fest, right? So So I've got to have more I've got to have more stock. I've got to have more completed completed sketches And what I don't want to do but probably what exactly what will happen is um Wait until like the week before And then have to scramble and do as many sketches as I can at the last minute. That's what I don't want to do So let's try not to And do some here and there And the lead up time like so Like so He's got kind of angled Uh divots there on his holster Very unique looking holster. I don't know if you can see that. It's very unique looking holster and a pistol Like so. All right, we're we're making progress here. So we've got he's gonna have some folds in his blue jeans his leave eyes Gotta have a A buckle on the Strap for the holster Let's kind of get that to find out that won't move. That's in a good spot. So that's okay like so pockets so So yeah, that that I think I do have the proportions a little bit off on the uh bottom half of the The body, but we're just gonna roll with it I'll try to Compensate a little bit when and where possible But Yeah, it'll it'll be all right. It'll be all right. I'm not worried. I'm not worried and you have no reason to be worried either Okay, there's that buckle and then this We'll go kind of down here There All right, and let's kind of Feather that out a little bit got a knee here Got uh, let's see. Let's kind of do a little bit of definition there. Okay, so progress progress up Yes, I dropped my page Progress we have torch coming through. Hey comic tropes is very is still here. Thank you very much Who else we got? We got uh brandon's still here. Uh joe fan 84. Thanks for sticking with us Uh clint cobra. Thanks for sticking with us. Uh photo viper chewing bubblegum. Hello. How you doing? I don't think I recall seeing you uh here earlier chewing bubblegum, but thank you for being here Hey, JJ's toy room. Nice to see you as well Yeah, we've got some newcomers in here. So uh, albert, uh, albert glass is still here Uh, yeah, so thanks everyone. Thanks for sticking around. Hey, Ivan. Ivan's still here. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you uh, so Now, uh, I have committed Uh to making that Right leg a little bigger, but the left leg is more Uh, as closer to camera. So I I have to keep the proportions right By making that Left leg just ever so slightly Bigger than The right leg Okay, clean that up a little bit like so and oh, yeah, the the boots have the little the sort of knee pads to them Like so, uh, okay one thing about um like, uh Blue jeans denim is that usually make some pretty thick kind of deep folds When the leg bends And where the leg creases Uh, and yep, absolutely did forget to sketch in that That knee pad on the boots So let's add that now So that's the this perspective on that is going to be a little bit forward Because this knee is tilted toward camera Uh, okay, hold on. Can we get a little better angle on that? Hey, this is a me we're talking about which means probably not um, okay All right, so that's sort of better or not a lot. Okay. Um, all right It is a challenge to do this and keep everything in frame I have to admire those who do this on a regular basis Okay, let me see those boots again Okay The foot part of the boot is actually pretty plain But I think I've drawn them a little bit undersized. So let's kind of expand that a little bit And then he has these uh, I don't know it's these bands or straps around the back of his boots So let's try to get some definition and Depth and detail on those So let's see it's gonna go It's gonna go like that we're gonna Make them look like they have some depth like that And we got the basically the same thing on this side Just at a different angle. We're almost done. We're almost ready to sign this sketch And and then sign off because then I think it will be time to end the live stream Okay, so it's gonna have like a heel here toe here Uh, that needs to be cleaned up significantly like so Okay A little bit of a crease at the toe on the boot Okay, uh the boots I mean the boots on the figure are a little short on detail. So That makes it a little bit challenging doing a sketch based on the figure Because like most of the detail is going to be on the The upper half of the figure, but we're gonna we're doing our best. We're doing the best Let's just kind of Block that out a little bit more And I need to draw I need to clean up this nozzle On the the torch He's going to have a flame coming Straight out. It's gonna be a hot focused flame we're gonna do some Some sunbursts All right, you know what I think I think that's about it. I think I don't if I keep going I don't think it's gonna get any better Um, so there is our torch Let me see if I can show it here There is our torch Completed let's uh, hold on at least I should have detached this from the Drawing pad before I started but there we go There we go Let's let's sign it Right here, uh, hcc 788 April 2022, okay, there we go We are done guys. We did it We did it it is it is whatever it is Um As as old sandy used to say it's good enough for the girls I go out with Um, there we have it. Uh, thank you very much for watching I am going to wrap this up. It's been a pretty long day for me Um, I have not made nearly the progress that I wanted to make on my next review video So I've got to make some progress on that even though I'm tired Um, so, uh, thank you everyone. Uh, thanks for watching. I'm going to wrap it up We will do this again next week. I don't know that I will do all of this again next week But we'll do a lot We'll have a lot next uh lined up for next week But thanks and thanks everyone buddy again for the extra long live stream I will see you next time and for now I will say Good night. Good night, everybody