 We're live. All right. Hello to everyone who is here. Who do we have here? We have Lester. Hello Lester and Cyclonus and Evan and MCDJACDC and Cobra Island and Matt and Big Gay Dave and Comic Tropes. Hello. Hello everyone. We are here. We are live. Oh yeah I gotta post that. Hold on I gotta post that different places. Otherwise people won't know. There, there and I have a lot for this evening. A lot for tonight. So we'll be busy. Hello Firefly and Gazz. Thanks for being here. Hello Draws. Nice to see you. Hello Sparkster. Always nice to see Sparkster. Hello everyone. So here we are. I've got a lot to do this evening. I've got a lot planned. At least I think, at least I think we're gonna get it all going here. Hello Matt Edwards. I think that's the, yeah we got another Matt. We got two mats in here. Hello Matt. Matt one and Matt two. How about that? Matt one and Matt two. Hello Bows of the Matz. Hello Asian Chuckles. Howdy doodly. Hello other Matz. So Matt one, Matt two, Matt three. Hello all of the Matz and everybody else. So I've got a lot, I've got a lot to show. I've got some stuff to do. We've got a lot to do tonight. Hello Bubblewrapped memories. How do you doodly? And I want to give everybody a minute. Give everybody a minute to come in. Have a seat. Get comfortable. You know. Get a refreshment. And then we'll get started. Hello Daniel. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. I will say a couple of things that I intend to do this evening. Later in the evening I do want to do story time and I believe I'm going to do this G.I. Joe Find Your Fate book. Even though we've already done this one before I wanted to take another crack at it for two reasons. First of all the cover is pink so that fits with our Tiger Force not Tiger Force but Ninja Force theme. Sorry I get the forces mixed up. So the Ninja Force theme with their pink background. Hello JR Howard. How do you do? Welcome and thanks for being here. Who's the best dancer in G.I. Joe? That's a good question. Well hold on. Snake Eyes can break dance. We've established that. So it's got to be Snake Eyes. Hello Iconic Blood. How do you do? Also one thing that I noticed about this is it's Operation Dragon Fire and that's the same name as the Deke animated series the first mini series Operation Dragon Fire. The only difference is for the Deke cartoon it was one word and on this it's two words. I just thought it was funny that this you know came out four years before the Deke series started and it has the same name. Coincidence? Coincidence? Probably. Probably a coincidence. Hello Man of Action. How do you do? Thank you for being here. So I'll do this later you know. Another thing that I think I will do is I'll do another drawing. Now not everybody necessarily sticks around for the live drawing and that's okay. I'll try to do it like after the regular hour and you know for those who want to stick around you can stick around. That's cool. I'll try to look at it as kind of like bonus content. It's not it's not for everybody. Not everybody wants to stick around. Not everybody wants to stay up that like that's fine. That's fine but for those of you who do we'll do a drawing because I've got to stockpile Hello Wilkinson Studios. I wonder if Hazard was thinking of making a dragonfire vehicle. I don't know. That's a good question. What was I saying? Hello Wilkinson Studios. Thank you for joining. Yeah okay so wow I got sorry I got distracted. That happens a lot. It's very easy. I do want to make a couple quick announcements right off the top. First the Kickstarter for Callsign Longbow which is a Kickstarter for O-Ring style GI Joe style figures that has launched and it's already fully funded. That is one that I will be jumping on board for. I haven't yet only because I've been really busy. Hello. Hey there's Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse. How do you do? Yes O-Ring Kickstarter exactly man of action so check out Callsign Longbow definitely check that out although a lot of people have already checked it out but but check it out if you haven't already. Yes the GI Joe fan club is also has also launched. Hello Living Stones. The GI Joe fan club is being spearheaded by James Kavanaugh who is a pretty well-known person in the fan community and he did some. Let's see where's that book? Yeah he's the same guy that did these. These rank-and-file guides to the the four inch modern figures. So yeah so that's another thing. Another thing to remember is that today is Tuesday which means there is a new video from Timmer from Half the Battle and we are in main character May so it's gonna be a really big month covering in depth one of the main characters this month it is Destro. So Tuesday means you can check out a brand new video from Timmer one of my favorite guys so so yes I wanted to make sure we we started out with that got to start with that hello JP thank you for being here I hope I didn't miss anybody I think I get everybody thank you Evan Evan says he enjoys my artwork well that is the next thing I wanted to cover and sort of announce so most recent video I did Nunchuck in fact in fact right here is Nunchuck there he is right there and what I've decided is that for each super chat we get this evening I'm gonna smack that super chatter in the in the head Nunchuck is gonna smack him in the head with a Nunchuck so super chat for Nunchucks to the head you know it's a light concussion it's worth it so anyway so I did Nunchuck Nunchuck with Nunchucks and also I did Nunchuck without Nunchucks see the review to find out what that's about but I did something different with this review I I did the thumbnail drawing hello Exploriso thank you for joining thanks for being here I did the thumbnail drawing for it which you can see on your screen that right right down there is the drawing that I did for it but instead of doing the entire drawing from start to finish in a digital format I started with a physical pencil drawing that I scanned let me take this out of here so it's less shiny that I scanned and then I inked and colored it from the scan so that means that unlike usual I actually have a physical pencil drawing of the Nunchuck thumbnail so that's different and since I have this physical drawing I've decided that I would like for one of you to have this physical drawing of Nunchuck the actual artwork used the actual for real artwork from from the video review and what I've done is I have placed this on eBay and then I figure I'll just let you guys oh there's comic tropes uh comic tropes guess what you get comic tropes gets a nunchucks to the forehead bop there we go I use I used a samurai smash action feature you got it twice thank you thank you comic tropes for that very thank you very much um so I figure if you guys want it you can get it if you don't then I'll just bring it with me to uh to Joe fest and now I'll have it there but uh but there is that and you know you put it side by side see or or top and bottom with the the the pencil artwork and then the the final inked and colored artwork there um so yeah so I did that um it's it's a little bit different but it worked out pretty well in my opinion I think it worked uh yeah screen you there's a thank you sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse take a nunchuck to the face thank you very much uh yeah it's kind of like a screen use prop pretty much um another thing that I did just kind of um as I was preparing to start this uh hello the killer weasel uh thank you for being here uh I was just sitting around kind of waiting for a video to render and I had some time to kill so um I did um I did a second sketch of shipwreck version one because um I wasn't I wasn't thrilled with the one that I did last week um I just felt like I felt like shipwreck should should have a little bit more personality so you know I came came with that kind of sly smile you know gave him a little bit personality he's got kind of long hair the hippie he's um I could I just imagine um shipwreck being just a little uncamped he's got the the unbuttoned shirt he's got his parrot there and uh and yeah he's this guy kind of that that's smirk on his face so so yeah um I did that uh just kind of casually while I was waiting to get this started uh hello Kelvin how do you do thanks for being here um so later this evening kind of after after the kids have gone to bed we'll uh we'll do a little bit um do a little bit more artwork um so yeah but anyway if you're if you have any interest in this at all uh the link is in the description of this very live stream right now uh so so that's that's what we got I'm gonna spend you know maybe the first um half hour 45 minutes whatever uh just hanging out just chilling with you guys hey jump in general how do you do thanks for joining chilling with you guys chilling with the crew um and then after that uh we will we'll give this a a shot this is one I know we've already done this book but we're gonna do it anyway well because it's got a pink cover um and because it's shares the name of a deak um mini series and uh and you know hey who was in the deak animated series none chuck he was not in operation dragon fire but he was in the series so you know that's it makes perfect sense to me right uh hello Michael pytel thank you for joining glad you're here thanks for being here um just designed a firebat in a lego designer program hey that's cool that's very cool uh hey action figure expert is here how do you do um thank you thank you uh for um I'm glad you like the review um yeah okay but uh but thanks thanks for being here thanks um I'm not sure what your comment means but okay thanks thanks for your pointing that out um anyway so um so what am I doing here um the last couple days have been incredibly busy um because I've been trying to get the next video review ready to go and it is in fact ready to go um what that has meant though is that I've had to put off a couple other things hello joe fan thank you for being here hello peter ang thank you also for being here um so like the post office box unboxing the donation unboxing for all the stuff that I got in April that is something that I intended to get to early this week but is going to have to wait for a little bit um just because I had to take had to put that off because I was trying to finish the next video review but now that that's done I can do the unboxing and I intend to do the unboxing really soon I'm gonna I'm really gonna try um so that that'll be coming up um I uh I've got uh preparation for cobra convergence to do um I've been trying to like work ahead on my own stuff to create a little breathing room create a little space hello Greg I think I I don't think I said hello to Greg hello to Greg how do you do thanks for being here um uh the um thank you killer weezer killer weezer gets a smack in the face with uh with a nun chuck whack um uh really couldn't chuck nuns should have used the kung fu action on version two mind bender that's a hey you know I could have it's been a little while since we have uh since we've hit dr mind bender with with anything so uh yeah maybe maybe we need to maybe we need to be testing these on on on mind bender yeah yeah that's the ticket that's the ticket um Toronto Blue Jays are playing the Yankees Leafs are playing Tampa Hoodie Coco is live uh that's right and and basically this show is is better than essentially any sporting event you know if I mean it you've got the Super Bowl Super Bowl's at this level and this this live stream is like up here uh that's why I charge so much for advertising you know Pepsi Cola and your core's beer you know hey it's like half a million dollars for a 30 second ad on this show um so yeah um I've got some prep work that I need to do for Cobra Convergence I've been trying to work ahead on my own stuff to create some space so I can work on that I've got prep stuff that I need to do for uh Joe Fest which is mostly getting some sketches done uh getting some sketches done and I want to try out some of this stuff that that comic tropes sent to me that Chris from Comic Tropes sent now these this is some really nice nice paper and what I'm thinking for these uh these larger pages is doing maybe some action scenes something something bigger something bigger than just individual character sketches I think is this what I'm thinking of for these and bring a few of those along with me uh to Joe Fest uh so yeah so I don't want that to fall stay there thank you very much um so yeah lots lots to do lots to do it's going to be a busy few months absolutely absolutely hello uh Steve thanks for joining glad you're here thank you very much um basically this is the the Super Bowl of the internet um yeah so action scenes so normally I just do individual individual character sketches I've done a few vehicles I need to do more vehicles I need to do more vehicles but for something of that scale of that size I think it needs to be something bigger hello coffee and shame how do you do thanks for being here um I think it's just I just think it needs to be uh bigger so I need to do something I need to come up with with some action scene ideas that I will uh I will put together for those for those uh those pages those larger sketch pages um so anyway so that's that's what's happening that's what's happened in action Jackson um and uh yeah we're we're cruising we're doing pretty good um it was it was a little rough for a couple weeks it was I was really struggling to get content out and I sorry about that uh hello Eric uh Gullinger I don't think I said hello to you but if not then then hello how do you do uh and jump in general picked up the pterodrome that's awesome um uh yeah um about as many nuns as well yeah see um nuns nuns are a varying weight right so it depends on how heavy they are uh as to how many you could chuck uh hello Tommy Tommy Fletcher how do you do thanks for being here uh I think I said hello to James Clark but if I not if I didn't hello to James Clark thank you for being here as well um yeah so uh hey hey so I think I think we've done taking care of all the housekeeping stuff um I hope I hope I haven't forgotten anything I want to make sure um that um yeah that uh I make I want to make sure that I address everything that I should address people have got a lot going on there's a lot of GI Joe and GI Joe adjacent activity hey there's Kujo hey Kujo always nice to see Kujo here thanks for being here there's a lot there's a lot going on um so I'm just trying to keep up it's hard for me to keep up I'm slow and I'm old I'm old and slow so it's hard to keep up but I'm trying I'm trying um could sergeant slaughter take on the entire Canadian army that's a good question the answer is yes obviously I mean sergeant slaughter could take on a whole army of robots in practically indestructible robots all he needed was his fists and and his swagger stick his baton to smash him in the head you know how how do you stop that huh how do you stop that so um let's let's not forget let's not forget the fridge okay let's not forget the fridge um because I think between the fridge and sergeant slaughter you basically have an invincible force because you've got sergeant slaughter on offense who is apparently invulnerable and and unstoppable and then you have the fridge on defense so like anybody like he's just gonna you know the fridge was a big guy I guess he still is a big guy he's still alive uh mr refrigerator parry if you see this hello I know you're still alive uh but he he was a big guy so you know so you've got the fridge on defense you've got sergeant slaughter on offense you know and and essentially um it's a good thing they're they're on the good guy's side because you know if they were on cobra's side then we would all we would all be living under the boot of cobra because they would just be unstoppable unstoppable um sergeant slaughter versus chuck norris that's a that's a now that that's a contest that that I would that I would like to see that I would like to see um um let's see uh made a non-ninja version of dunchuk out of the marauders gun runners made him into a jungle soldier so that would make sense that would look good that would look good hey it's w w jd 85 hello how do you do thank you for being here uh the super bowl shuffle exactly yeah so uh yeah so sergeant slaughter uh gets essentially the entire army in the cobra clutch and then uh and then the fridge does the shoot super bowl shuffle and it's all over hey gray fox how do you do uh hello the pit from the united states nice to see you there um yeah these glasses get a little smudgy but it's really hard to read without them it's like really hard to read um hello stone great stone gate creations uh stone great gate creation says hello and I say hello back um yeah so I mean we've got news uh what was it a couple weeks ago I covered the the new g ijo classified series announcements from hasbro I didn't even get through all of them I I got through like the highlights but they announced a whole bunch of of things a whole bunch of new items they previewed some new character I didn't even get to the the storm shadow they have a version one inspired six inch classified series storm shadow I didn't even get to it in that episode yeah that's what I get for flying by the seat of my pants and not having notes hello lonestar viper nice to see you there lonestar he is the only man who would dare give me the raspberry um yeah so uh so we got uh so we've got um yeah this was the most recent review and this uh this is Ralph say hello Ralph hello Ralph it says hello so yeah this is your your uh secret mysterious ninja Ralph Badoochie from Brooklyn and you know there's probably some dude out there whose name is Ralph Badoochie and he's like hey why are you making fun of my name I'm not making fun of your name there's nothing wrong with the name Ralph Badoochie it's just not the name you expect from a ninja you know a ninja from Brooklyn who made a stop in Denver Colorado because that's where you go lots of the ninjas out of Denver definitely um it's the altitude it's you train in that altitude and you know you you build up your lungs because the air is thinner um last time coincidentally apropos of nothing um last time I was in Denver you know I wasn't really thinking about it I was in a hotel and um I just I just hopped up this the steps to to my floor as you do wasn't really thinking about it and I nearly died I like to died just hopping up a couple flights of stairs to my room I didn't even think about the air being thinner but I like I got to the top of the stairs like oh my god I'm more out of shape than I thought and I realized that I couldn't breathe um so thanks Denver I did get used to it though I got used to it it took a little bit to get used to it ninjas out of Denver that's that's exactly see you got it you got it hey does somebody come in hello uh Joshua how do you do I don't think I saw you come in but uh hello how do you do hello yo joe uh can can can can these be taken apart I they um not easily um I mean you could if you pull there is an o-ring in there but like as you can see like it's got these little stoppers here which sit right in the waist piece so so it doesn't move but it like it doesn't have uh you it does have like it does have the screws in the legs so you could remove those I'm not sure what good that does you but you could remove those and honestly I I have no idea how you replace an o-ring in these guys I don't know I have I actually have two nunchucks and I see uh hello uh Joshua how do you do welcome um this is this is this is the problem with not being able to replace o-rings is that like they're floppy they're they're floppy so this is not the one I used for the for the video review because uh because he can't stand he cannot stand up this is this this is what you get this is why it's important to be able to play replace o-rings I know they didn't think about that back in 1992 but they shoulda they shoulda thought of it um even back in the 80s well before this figure was manufactured we us kids were replacing o-rings I we were usually doing it with with rubber bands but we still I mean we had to replace them these even back then it's even more important now so my my thinking is if you're going to do a figure like this that you can't open up you can't it can't be an o-ring figure you gotta have it held together some other way so that that's my rant that's my rant uh comic trope says they get any classified figures lately not lately um I have been looking I've had my eye out but I've not been successful at finding anything that I don't already have I mean I've got these behind me but I got those kind of a while ago not not recently but I got my eye out I got my eye out yeah floppy ninja floppy ninja it's a little real Ralph the floppy ninja uh was the prototype name for this guy you know that they floated around it's like there's a guy at Hasbro he's like uh why don't we call him uh Ralph the floppy ninja uh and somebody somebody's like no no let's let's let's name him something else we can he can be Ralph he can still be Ralph but the floppy ninja you know I don't think that's gonna sell too well you know it's one of those names like like like ice cream soldier why would you ever name a figure that uh hello uh JB and lots of numbers uh how do you thanks for being here uh hey it's Hans chow evening sir evening to you how do you do I hope I didn't miss anybody coming in but hello all um so yeah so they they went with nunchuck even though his name is not Charles his name should have been Charles why not because then then he would be Chuck he would be Chuck so I've no I've got to I've got I've got an idea I've got a brilliant idea this is the best idea ever I'm gonna start a a campaign right I'm gonna uh this is I'm gonna start a lobbying effort um and it's it's gonna be to to have nunchuck's name change to Charles we're gonna change in canon we're gonna change his name from Ralph to Charles and this uh this campaign that I'm starting we will call it up Chuck uh so please join up Chuck we're all upchucking uh for for Chuck um but uh glad to have you here uh Hans chow we're we're just doing ridiculous nonsense as usual uh hello fish geist nice to see you yes the soft maz hard master soft master and the floppy master um the the only virtue is that like since his waist piece doesn't move at least at least he doesn't like get all floppy at that point but his legs his legs his leg I have a ninja force slice that is exactly like this has the same problem and I can't fix it I can't fix it or at least there may be a way to fix it but I I have no idea I have no idea what that would be so sadly my ninja is limp I have a limp ninja how about that fun times hello Tony Jackson thanks for being here uh Charles in charge that's see that's the spirit that's the spirit hello Chad how do you do thanks for being here so yeah see Tony's got the the idea we need Charles in charge so yeah it's a join up Chuck and then let's let's let's put Charles in charge hello JR Howard how do you do nice to see you thanks for being here um so yeah we're we're cruising along in about maybe 10 minutes we will do we will do um uh Operation Dragonfire I know we've done this before I know we have but hey maybe we'll have a different outcome that's the cool thing about these find your fave books you can do them more than once and have a different outcome so yeah oh thank you uh sparkster yellow or blue pills that's see that's much appreciated see that that's that's the kind of help that I hope to get and expect from the live chat hey it's peg warmers hello peg warmers nice to see you there always nice to see you make sure you check out peg warmers peg warmers has a show it's a very good show make sure you don't miss that uh thank you thank you I'm glad you enjoyed the review that's awesome paid it's a big day Dave wants page 34 uh and just by coincidence I opened it to page 34 so if you if you can speed read if you can read really fast here's a preview that's what's on page 34 did you get that did you get that hello expo so yay story yes story time coming up here in a few minutes and then after story time uh for those for those who want to stick around and I know that won't be everybody hello uh Kenessa how do you do uh thank you for joining nice to see you for those who want to stick around kind of after hours you know hoodie hoodie late night if you will um then we'll do some art because I've just got to do art um I've got to get lots of sketches done for joe fest I want to have plenty at my table for people to browse uh and I think I'm going to pick the subject this time we have been having the live chat pick but um there's one that I have in mind that I really want to make sure that I get done so I'm going to pick the the drawing this time uh hello Mitchell bell nice to see you good evening hoodie after dark yeah see that's that's the new show uh it's hoodie after dark hosted by venus flytrap uh yeah so uh we'll just for those who are old enough for if it's not past your bedtime you know we'll hang out after the kids have gone to bed and we'll uh we'll do some artwork we'll we'll we'll art something so yeah so that's the idea that's the idea um I will I have I do have my my other camera here um as we have learned from experience it'll be a pain in the butt for me to to get the other camera the two camera arrangement set up but we'll figure it out we'll do it we'll make it work we'll make it happen um so yeah um on the one hand like uh hello uh dirk how do you do on the one hand my eyes get kind of tired wearing these all the time but on the other hand I can't see without them so yay um uh uh joshua says do I remember playing uh gi joe's after school absolutely absolutely you know I I did that a lot um so yes I definitely remember that and all through the summer in the in the warm weather get out in the backyard build some bases and just have everybody attack everybody good times good times yeah absolutely um gray fox says when will I visit the set of peg warmers that's a fair question that's a fair when I'm invited that that's when I will visit when I'm invited um but do check out the uh peg warmers and by the way check out comic tropes the comic tropes uh a big channel covers comic book uh material uh topics uh chances are you probably already check out comic tropes because a whole lot of more people watch that channel than this one but you know on the off chance that you haven't checked out comic tropes do check out comic tropes as well hello thang wood thang woods how do you do you're late uh you are late and um unfortunately there's there there are late charges late fees you know that don't worry we'll bill you we'll bill you but but glad you're here anyway thanks for joining glad you're here for those who um what happened to sam's gi jose that's a good question uh comic tropes um brings up one of my childhood friends named sam from from the old neighborhood um i have not been able to reach sam i know sam's full name but i haven't been able to find him he if he's on any of the social medias i can't find him um he i don't believe he still lives at the same house that was his grandparents house and i don't think it would be exceptional if his grandparents were still alive they'd be like a hundred but i mean they may be but i don't think they are uh so i don't know how to reach him that's a good question he had tons of them um so my brother and i would would go to uh sam's house uh he he lived just less than a block away from us and uh you know he had a lot of stuff we had a lot of stuff we would put our stuff together and between or among the three of us we had almost everything related to gi joe you know from 1982 to up to about 1986 ish including the uss flag what we did not have was the the mail away stuff none of us sent away for any mail away stuff which is a little bit odd a little bit odd um uh matt rubin thankfully points out absolutely true great content creators you've got your comic tropes sparkster cobra island sergeant slaughter slaughterhouse codename kujo peg warmers and i'm sure there are more in here um there are oh i i miss delmas hello delmas i don't think i saw you come in but hello how do you do chad chad uh oh thank you for the late fee payment for the late fee uh one thing all all superchats get a nunchuck to the face nunchuck to the face uh block what there you go there you go there's your nunchuck to the face um as as a as a minor thank you for your for your super chat have a concussion whack there you go there you go um uh so yes yes uh that that is absolutely true there are a lot of great content creators uh doing gi joe stuff and like not not always specifically gi joe stuff but gi joe adjacent stuff there's so much great stuff out there now um i mean i don't know if you can keep up with it all i have a hard time keeping up with it all but because there's just so much really good stuff um because there's so much really good stuff there will be uh a lot for cobra convergence this year in july so stick it out for cobra convergence in july um it's almost time it's almost time uh to do story time um so but before you do story time let me recap the stuff that we talked about just so i make sure everyone who wasn't here can uh uh can get caught up hello ivan i saw ivan right uh there's ivan hello ivan uh hello samuel how do you do um uh review the hammerhead next samuel samuel thinks i'm going to review the hammerhead i would love i would love to review the hammerhead i cannot review the hammerhead because i do not have the hammerhead complete i wish i did that's one of the items that i do not have ready to review i wish i did wish i did don't have it but hopefully hopefully sometime in the future i can get to that because the hammerhead very very uh interesting vehicle very unique vehicle very intriguing very intriguing i would like to take a closer look at it but not ready not ready yet not ready yet um so to recap before we before we start story time because we're gonna we're gonna do story time we're gonna do story time here in just a minute um stone gate says um stone gate says uh who is your favorite female gi or female joe figure um um i think i have to go back to the original uh to the first um well the question is favorite gi joe figure if it were character uh my favorite female gi joe character would definitely be scarlet absolutely but in favorite figure that's a different story because that first scarlet figure left a bit to be desired the second scarlet figure was the ninja force figure um so my favorite figure was i guess the bareness the bareness was a really good figure um even though it was 84 it didn't it had the swivel neck it didn't have the ball jointed neck so it didn't have the updated articulation it's just a really good looking figure um and i do like the bareness character is uh bareness is probably not my favorite character i like scarlet more just because scarlet had a lot to do with with the well the bareness did too uh the bareness had a lot to do with gi joe lore as well but scarlet was i think more integrated um into the story of of snake eyes and you know everything that surrounded that so um yeah good question good question um uh hon's chow says fun fact the original hammerhead design didn't have wheels it was supposed to be a submarine management made the designers attach wheels due to uh water-based mold worries well you don't want water-based mold so i can yeah that may have been a good choice um anyway anyway um anyway so uh where you're going to do we're going to do story time um oh but i haven't finished recapping i got a hello hosey thank you for joining um uh does anyone still have the gi joe membership card i do not have the gi joe membership card but there is a new gi joe fan um a fan page fan group uh so that that is a thing um also what also what is the thing is um the kickstarter for call sign longbow has launched and has already funded but you can still get in on it i will get on i just haven't yet um it is tuesday which means there is a new episode of half the battle from timmer so make sure you check that out and the um the other announcement was um the the pencil drawing from the nun chuck um video review thumbnail uh is on ebay and the link is in the description of this very live stream video so if you have any interest in that you can pick up this uh this original artwork that is uh that is nun chuck right nun chuck what's that nun chuck says right um anyway so i i guess it's about story time are we ready for story time it's been a little while since we've done this and we're going with we're going with operation dragon fire um this is number two in the find your fate series this is written by william snow and the way this works is when you reach certain pages you get choices you get to make choices you have options and um the way we do this is when we reach one of those pages the live chat gets to decide what choice we will make so essentially when we get i will read to you the pages that are the options and you'll type that page number in the live chat um and i will very unscientifically guesstimate the number uh you know which which has the most votes in the live chat and um and we will we will decide that way um i would recommend not flooding the live chat just vote once uh because if youtube thinks you are spamming the live chat the youtube could take action and kick you out and i don't want that to happen so so just vote once vote vote once for for your own self-interest just vote once um and uh and yeah yeah we'll see we will see sometimes we win and we complete the mission and sometimes we die sometimes we die we have died in these stories numerous times it is surprising how violent these stories are there's gore there is gore sometimes death and violence in these books you know for kids so let's let's get this started um i'm gonna um i'm gonna read this now in the past in the past i have wanted i have wanted to uh to do the voices for the characters because you know it's got the characters in here uh and they they say things i would like to do the voices for the characters but i i've i've given up on that because i i i get going and i forget which voice i've given to which character and then it gets all inconsistent so anyway so we'll we'll see we'll see how it goes so let's do story time and then after story time we will uh we'll do a sketch we'll do do a drawing um yeah comic tropes refers to one of these stories where uh duke throws a grenade at our character and we have to disarm the grenade before it goes off which is impossible by the way but but it's in the book it's in the book so all right everybody ready all right let's get started let's start with page one um i do have i do have some water to sip i don't drink alcohol anymore i haven't drank alcohol in like a year and a half so we're just we're just doing water just doing water now um now that doesn't necessarily um uh sorry sorry small tangent small tangent so i am going to joe fest um and joe fest usually there is a gathering in the hotel bar that i will be there um and even though you know i don't really drink anymore i have been uh thinking of like having a beer haven't done that for quite some time so i could have a beer i'm not gonna go overboard but uh but i will not be drinking to excess i might have a beer with you guys my main purpose for being there is to hang out with you guys i want to i want to hang out with you yes pinky out exactly so i mainly just want to hang out with with with with with my friends with people that i care about so that's what i'm really there for i will be there um even though that you know drinking is not my regular thing so all right anyway okay ready sorry enough stalling enough stalling page one all right ready it says you are in the monitoring room of the pit the underground command center of the gi joe team on the computer screen in front of you is a satellite display of the united states suddenly the warning panel lights up the geokinetic sensor is flashing red alert quickly you hit a few keys and zero in on the hot spot uh according to the central computer a large part of south dakota has just been blown up i remember this one now south dakota gets blown up uh we have an illustration there's the illustration that's great great artwork i could not compete with that no siri um so uh apologies apologies to south dakota someone apparently thought that we don't really need two dakotas one is just enough so south dakota has to go um so we're starting the the story with the death of millions of people in south dakota who just got blown up immediately you alert hawk your commanding officer and leader of the of the team you give him a quick rundown of the situation i'll try to do the hawk boy i'll try to i'll try to do a voice for hawk collect all the available data he orders and meet me in the briefing room in five minutes that's hawk right yeah um back at your station you start punching away at the computer keyboard it's playing to everyone in the monitoring room that this is not a simu assimilation uh uh yeah it's it's not a simulation or a test it's the real thing sorry i got plastered there for a second behind you the high speed printer spits out readings from the blast site it's probably a dot matrix printer just doing it as fast as it'll go high speed those little tracks the holes on the sides to feed the the paper through um but i got a high speed printer at the machine as the machine clatters away i knew sound effects too uh it's uh you prepare yourself for action the training for the gi for the joe team was intense so even though somebody has just turned up the flame in the dakotas you know that you can stand the heat you're ready for anything when the printout is finished you fold it under your arm and hop the elevator down to the to level four that we're dealing with eighties technology here so um so south dakota has blown up and we need an immediate briefing but we'll have to wait a minute while the printer goes nye nye nye nye nye page two when you reach the briefing room you find a gi joe team already assembled they're waiting on you with the printout uh hawk introduces each member and details his or her military specialty to his right is duke an airborne infantryman and acting for a sergeant next is lady j covert operations expert with a specialty in intelligence rock and roll is a rock steady infantryman bazooka is a missile specialist and barbeque is a firefighter leaning against the back wall are thunder an artillery specialist and roadblock a heavy machine gunner everybody got that you are introduced as spider an electronics expert and a skilled martial artist martial artist um file name ralph um who has trained with snake eyes the hand-to-hand combat instructor of the joe team okay and spiders uh so our name is spider it's not a bad name it's not a bad name there are worse code names i can live with spider uh this says hawk abruptly is the situation he activates a satellite film on a wall-sized monitor the black hills of south dakota uh come into view you all watch as the hills are ripped apart and a deep gash is opened in the earth if you could if you could look at that on the monitor then then why did you need the print out it doesn't matter doesn't matter it doesn't matter uh let's see um as you can see hawk continues our country has absorbed an attack by some explosive power the source is unknown we already have advanced intelligence reports but they offer no explanation for the maximum duty access surface at the center of the blast site okay you turn to the guy next to you and ask what is he talking about what what's he okay we we're a little slow on the uptake page three that means there's a road leading into the blast site rock and roll i'm sorry i should do rock and roll boys that means there's a road leading into the blast site rock and roll whispers and no one knows how it got there um let's see this is the work of the international terrorist group cobra hawk continues our mission is simple we investigate the area around the blast site we uncover the cobra plot then we take the necessary steps to foil the plot are there any questions how does he know it's cobra he never explains how he knows it's cobra and what the heck kind of plan is that so our plan is to investigate uncover the cobra plot and foil the plot it's a great plan plus i have no idea how we're gonna do it the room is silent no kidding all right uh we check uh all right check over your gear we lift off at 0600 hours i think that was hawk that said that it doesn't say as the team members start to file out of the room hawk calls out spider has the latest technical printouts i want everyone to pick up a copy and study the data we didn't say to make copies we only have one copy it's gonna take like 45 minutes for that printer to kick out more copies roadblock groans hey thunder pick up a copy for me all right how do we do roadblocks voice um it's the rocket road was like this so roadblock roadblock will be like this hey thunder pick up a copy for me all right i've got to go clean my weapon if you know what i mean reading technical reports is not very popular with some of the team page 10 we don't have any options yet we'll we'll get some options we'll get some choices oh we've got some choices at the bottom of page 10 plus we have an illustration we have some artwork now this look this this artwork my my stupid drawings is nothing compared in fact maybe maybe what i should do with with these giant pages is to illustrate some of the the intense action scenes from the find your fate book that that's what we should do um all right page 10 at 0600 sharp the gi tow team lifts off a few hours later the c-130 transport plane touches down at an abandoned airstrip in the hills of south dakota you climb into the lead jeep with hawk barbecue and lady jay and rumble down a barren dirt road to the edge of the blast site the other jeeps follow you are not going to sell a lot of postcards of this place says hawk why are they making fun of south dakota that's rude and i'm sorry i haven't been able to keep uh uh uh up with the live chat because i've got my eyes on this i'm i'm hopefully everybody's doing well all right uh yeah roadblock ironically roadblock is canadian i can't i cannot remember what voice i use for roadblocks i'll have to make this is the problem i just did the voice for roadblock i don't remember what it was and uh so next time i read roadblock i'll have to make up a new voice you look out over four square miles of jagged rock in the center a deep split uh is slashed through the earth's crust just visible is a smooth gravel road it looks like an earthquake says lady jay but the rock structure is all wrong it couldn't have happened naturally cobra isn't natural says hawk lord knows cobras are not natural uh he scans the terrain with his binoculars i see a route down the western edge where we can gain access to that road but i want a lead patrol to check out things or check things out for the main column any volunteers roadblock barbecue and lady jay step forward i i do remember this i remember this from last time we did it this i've we've done this story a couple times so i do need to point something out so this this is the giant gash in the ground that has been described in this story and yeah that that's a big gash in the ground but but south dakota is bigger than that this is this is not cutting a giant slash through south dakota it is it is larger than that anyway here are our options okay get ready get ready okay get ready to type your choice in the live chat and we will very unscientifically decide which one wins if you want to volunteer to join the lead patrol turn to page five if you decide to stay with the main column turn to page six so in the live chat type five if you want to volunteer for the lead patrol type six if you want to stay with the main column five or six five or six five or six so go ahead and and start typing here we go uh i we don't know if a bomb went off yeah this this is it's a west dakota so we have we have a six we have a couple of fives five is is taken off five is taken off five is way ahead five is way way ahead it looks like five may win it looks like five may win it get i'll give it a few more seconds give it a few more seconds couple six is in there but lots of fives i'm very unscientifically counting the fives versus the sixes um matt says which did we i don't remember what i i think i think we joined the lead patrol last time i think uh and it looks like we're going to join the lead patrol this time because five is way out ahead a few more seconds a few more seconds i'll get a get a few more seconds to see if six catches up but i don't think six is going to catch up i will remind everybody uh do do vote just once i'm not going to judge you but if if you if youtube thinks that you're spamming youtube may ban you so you know don't don't spam for your own self-interest but it looks like it looks like five is one okay okay i'm calling it i'm calling it five is one we're gonna turn to page five uh herald says going to joe fest um yes yes i am going to joe fest but first i'm going to page five in operation dragon fire here we go here we go let's we gotta stretch we gotta we gotta flex you know we don't want we don't want to dislocate a shoulder you know turning the pages here page five you decide to join the lead patrol you jump out of the jeep after lady jay and convert the covert operation an expert roadblock the machine gunner and barbecue the firefighter at least that means i won't have to do roadblocks voice again at least not right now because i can't remember what voice i gave him gave him uh crouching at the entrance lady jay looks around i don't get it she says this area was blasted sky high but the road is still in good shape um who we got oh no it is row okay so no i said i don't have to do a lot roadblock is right there uh so um it's a road let's do roadblock roadblock says well i don't care about this it's condition roadblock says roadblock why is it here the first place i tell you it looks like a set up and smells like a trap um that's why hawk sent us ahead you say but we're not going to learn anything out here right roadblock says you take the lead you're the best one here with the ground scope lady jay and barbecue will back you up and we'll i'll be watching your tails so roadblock is going to be checking out our bums all right let's go you creep down the rock ledge if i see anything harry you tell the others i'm going to radio you on the calm channel 47 k then you head for the dark can cavern so while we're checking out every everybody's bums if we see a harry one you know 47 k page 20 page 20 this is exciting you know so roadblock is woody allen now who knows what he's going to sound like next time i read roadblock um this is why i don't normally do the voices it's terrible oh we got we have some artwork we have an illustration this this is a good path to go on because we get lots of illustrations we've got generic guy i guess this is supposed to be our character spider um and uh and that's some very exciting artwork there um that there are some small pebbles raining down on him that's very dangerous you know he could he could you know catch one in the eye or inhale one and by the way so we're supposed to be kind of a generic character but why does the the generic character have to be a white dude not everybody reading this book is going to be caucasian but the the default is always a caucasian dude that's a little odd but anyway so let's let's read page 20 you crawl 40 feet down the cavern and lure yourself off the rock ledge and onto the road that's that's what's happening here um oh we have three choices at the bottom of this page uh you switch on your infrared goggles for a better view with them you can see that this cavern opens up into a huge underground world to the right the terrain rises in a series of cliffs to the left it falls away from the road you unstrap the ground scope from your battle pack you when properly used it's reading uh will help you to detect troop movements and mechanized activity really what device does that just as you switch it on the ground begins to shake a terrifying roar fills the cavern rocks and debris fly through the air the dust um is so thick that your infrared goggles are useless but the ground scope picks up no sign of life you switch your radar to calm channel 47k and try to raise roadblock or barbeque or lady j nothing but static next you try hawk and the main column silence should you search for the rest of the lead patrol or remain uh i'm sorry or try to rejoin the main column or continue deeper into cobra territory so we have three options three options you ready um the first option if you lie if you decide to search for roadblock lady j and barbeque turn to page 36 if you decide to rejoin the main column turn to page 86 if you choose to go into cobra territory alone turn to page 13 so in your live chat type 3636 if you'd like to search for roadblock lady j and barbeque type 8686 if you'd like to rejoin the main column or type 1313 if you'd like to go into cobra territory alone so 36 86 or 13 so start typing let's see let's see what we got let's see what we got uh let's see we've got um lots of 36s we have an 86 86 but lots of 36s lots of 36 does seem like the prudent move uh we got a 13 we got a couple 13s now sometimes in the past the move that seemed prudent turned out to be the wrong one but but we'll we'll see it looks like 36 is still winning by a long shot let's but let's let's give it a another minute or so to see if anybody has some other choices hopefully choices that don't require me to do too many voices uh let's see but 36 36 is uh is looks like 36 has won now let's give it a few more seconds a few more seconds just to see if 86 or 13 managed to catch up catch up uh that by the way that was the punchline if anybody remembers that was the punchline to Mia Wallace's fox force five joke catch up so let's see 86 or 13 so it doesn't look like 86 or 13 is gonna catch up so let's let's roll with 36 36 okay 36 turn it turning 36 no one left behind yeah thank you Joshua yes let's let's turn to 36 all right all right no options at the bottom of of page 36 so no new options for a minute also no illustrations either here we go you begin to search for roadblock barbecue and Lady J the readings from the ground scope are being fouled up by all the dust that's hanging in the air so you can't use it to help locate the lead patrol is the is this ground scope just dowsing rods is that what we're using luckily the scope does show the direction you were walking before the blast if you're if you retrace your steps maybe you'll find the lead patrol you give it a try suddenly you hear something in front of you was it a rock falling off the cliff could it be the rubble shifting and settling 10 feet away you two large forms appear out of the dust it's roadblock and barbecue if you were cobra you'd be dead meat barbecue says uh if you if you were cobra you'd be in more pieces than a jigsaw puzzle you reply with the grin where's lady j back here her voice comes through the dust i was following roadblock and barbecue to make sure they didn't get lost i never get lost what roadblock says but i wish i knew where the enemy was come on says lady j a little thing like that never stopped us she strides ahead into the gloom page 29 page 29 it could be satan we are getting closer to hell the farther we go down uh let's see what did i say uh page 29 that's now a lost track yes page 29 29 29 okay we do have options at the bottom of page 29 so get get limber up your fingers limber up your fingers and get ready get ready to type in into the live chat the thing there we go uh 29 without any real idea of where you're going the four of you feel your way deeper into the cavern that's always a good uh decision right that that's what you want to do when you're in hostile teller territory is to keep pushing on with no idea where you're going every few minutes you check the scanning equipment but it doesn't seem any better than it doesn't see any better than you can it's dowsing rods it's dowsing rods isn't it uh hey spider roadblock whispers when was the last time you ate why is roadblock concerned with with our food intake why do you want to know you asked are you playing a cook a gourmet meal for us i just wondered if what i heard was your stomach rumbling he turns to the others what about your stomachs rock and rock and roll is very concerned with with our with our well-being thank you uh they're quiet roadblock they were quiet they reply our stomachs are quiet so why don't you be quiet we're kind of in enemy territory here well then that rumbling can only be one thing there's an armored column closing in and i guarantee that it's cobra now that he mentioned it you can just barely hear the distance sounds of half-track uh troop carriers um they are still a few minutes away uh calculates lady j just enough time to get ready if we climb a little way up the those cliffs will have a direct shot at them when they come into view roadblock considers the plan and then says or we could wait for them in the ravine and then uh and when they pass by jump them what do you think spider okay so here are our options here are our ridiculous options if you want to take uh them from the cliffs turn to page 55 if you want to jump them from the ravine turn to page 22 so in your live chat in your live chat uh type 55 or 55 uh if you would like to attack them from the cliffs type 22 to 2 if you would like to attack them from the ravine so those are your options and go let's let's see let's see what you choose let's see what you choose um let's see 22 22 lots of 22 22 was the ravine uh 22 was the ravine now the cliffs would be the high ground and that is how anakin was defeated but but 22 is is still edging ahead now it's getting closer it's getting closer that's very close now it's very close i think 55 may be catching up 55 may be catching up i think 55 is catching up oh 55 55 is ahead by this point we've had a whole bunch of 55s there without very many 22s so i think 55 is ahead um that essentially when you have the high ground it's over anakin um but we've had a few more 22s it's pretty even it's pretty close it's very close um yeah we've got another 22 there i'll give it a few more seconds it's really close i think 55 is ahead by like this much this much but i'll see uh i'll give it a few more seconds just to see if there are any more votes going once going twice we got another 55 um and i i think 55 won but that was really close that was our closest one yet that was our closest one yet um uh uh fish guys correctly points out that darth mall also had the high ground that that is true that is true so this could be a mistake i'm going with 55 that was a very close one this could be a mistake though so are we going to be obi-wan kenobi or are we going to be darth mall in this situation page 55 55 uh you lead lady j roadblock and barbeque to a position about 20 feet above the road you drop down into a deep uh crevasse the others follow you safety uh safely protected the four of you wait the rumble of the cobra column is getting closer a few seconds later the first tank comes into view it passes right below your position the second one appears get i'm sorry barbecue get ready uh says our whisper is barbecue the third tank passes by um get ready for what says roadblock those tanks have us outnumbered outgunned and outclutched the fourth tank passes by you turn to roadblock and ask what are we going to do the fifth tank passes by it stops the main gun turret rotates slowly the tank fires and the cliff explodes around you roadblock yells right now we're not going to do a whole lot lej and roadblock dive behind an outcropping of rock you and barbecue follow you open fire on the cobra tanks but it's no good you're not only outnumbered outgunned and outclutched you're out of time a cobra missile screams through the air aimed directly at your location gi joe mission over but not accomplished the end we are darth mall we have failed we have failed 22 i should have gone with 22 that's it that's it i think we have died in this we have died in this book more than once but i think this is the first time we've died in that way this is a tough one this one's hard this one have we ever succeeded in this book i don't remember i don't remember uh how did they know we were there we have a snitch i think we have a snitch that that was it was an inside job it was it it was an inside job that was it you ralph did you do it was was it the floppy master it's probably his fault look at him look at him can't even stand up for himself that's i'm blaming this guy yeah the the books never they don't reward you necessarily for making smart choices that that is true that is true but you know what that war can be that way sometimes in war it's not i mean you can make all the right choices but the bullet goes here instead of here and you dead so essentially the essentially this is hyper realistic you know this is this could be nonfiction yeah um so uh thanks again william snow for killing us you know william snow has killed more joes than the saw viper in fact you know well let's let's see if we can get the saw vipers personnel file it is is the saw vipers file name william snow could be could be because william snow here he's killed a lot of joes so anyway there's that um uh codename new to vero too ralph uh ralph bedouche the the the ninja from from brooklyn by way of denver colorado um we think he gave away our position to cobra in in in this book because it doesn't say how cobra knew where we were you know okay but hold on hold on a second we can probably figure it out though okay so let's think about this it's barbecues fault i'm just laying this out there it's barbecues fault why uh a spider you know our character um it doesn't show the color of what we're wearing but we're obviously wearing like some some uh some bdus we're wearing some some army fatigues probably in green what's roadblock wearing camouflage what's lady j wearing green all good army colors what's barbecue wearing orange how did cobra know where we were they just looked for the orange look there's an orange guy up there blow them away that's how we lost it's barbecues fault barbecues fault all right so that was story time now i i know that the that a lot of you folks will will will call it a night uh super happy you were here thank you to all who were here very much appreciated um harold says i have some special figures for hoody do you want them mailed or given to you at joe fest good question i will leave that up to you i will leave that up to you your choice your choice that's awesome thank you thank you uh now now let's try uh let's draw let's draw a picture let's draw a picture sorry i'm leaning into the microphone whenever like i don't i don't project like this necessarily when i'm talking in a conversation but is when when i'm on the internets and i'm talking in a microphone i feel like i've got to project to to the the back row so i'm sorry if i'm yelling in the microphone that's not my intention your volume may have to go down a bit on your end i'm sorry my i think my reason is that this is the internet and people are are watching this from all over the world different countries and everything very far away uh so if i don't speak loudly enough you may not be able to hear me you know all that distance away so sorry about that sorry about that so what i'm gonna do here's what i'm gonna do uh i'm going to move this microphone over here uh still picking up audio we're good um i've got my second camera plugged in um i am going to grab my sketch pad and i'm going to put it here i'm gonna go ahead peel a page off um and you know what i'm gonna use this i'm gonna use this uh to uh do uh a couple thumbnails on um and i'm going to switch i'm gonna switch over to the two camera format now as we have discovered previously this always causes my camera to lock up so uh so it'll freeze for a second but i'll fix it so be patient with me for a couple minutes while i do something technical here hang on one second so i gotta select that there's that and then uh there's this there okay so there's that there's that here there's my arm there's my cup of water uh let's see we need to angle that better need to angle this better all right so there's the page so we can see the page such as it is and this is so difficult okay so it'll the yeah the page only sideways fine whatever there okay now this other camera is screwed up so there we go that should fix that there we go now we need to put the chat on screen like so there we go all right that was only moderately painful okay so now um what i'm going to draw this evening is i'm going to draw a cobra bat and i do want to get the vintage bat figure for reference so if you'll pardon me just for a minute i'm gonna run over to my uh my single figures grab the cobra bat bring him back here and we are going to draw a cobra bat so right back with you talk amongst yourselves i shall return in just a moment okay see i said i said it back that didn't take long yes hoodie after dark it's it's now it's we're now in the late night portion of the show late night be meaning after eight o'clock central time zone okay so here is this this camera sucks by the way this is an old old webcam i do need to upgrade it i know that um but it's it'll serve for now so here's the cobra bat this is what we will be drawing and i just wanted this for reference so i'm going to put this here um and i think we want i want the uh i think i do like i am gonna have the bat holding his uh his flamethrower here having it with his flamethrower arm on um and i think i want let's see uh let's see we got gonna do like um flamethrower arm and then i'm gonna have him kind of in a running forward pose kind of thing uh something like something like that so just just really basic but i mean the the cool thing about the the cobra bat is all of the the wicked details that we get to put on it so um the the head is gonna be really tricky that is an odd shaped head yeah that's an odd shaped head it's got like a little a subtle little fin there that's tapered drawing that at you know at a at anything but a straight on angle is going to be a challenge but we're gonna figure it out we're gonna figure it out okay so um i will have to tilt this up for a second so i can kind of get the get the proportions done and move this out of the way so here we go this is another um another drawing for joe fest and i immediately screw it up well so let's try to fix that uh so it's gonna be in like a running forward kind of too much of a top down angle uh let's see let's kind of dummy it out here see if i'm gonna draw it that big it's gotta be up higher on the page where i'm gonna run out of room something like that um and so the bat is going to have more or less human proportions but like maybe not exactly because it's not flesh and blood under that uniform it's like gears and motors and stuff so let's see but i i do think i do think it makes sense if you're gonna do a robot army of robot soldiers i do think it kind of makes sense to make one that is more or less human shaped because i mean think about think about the practicality of that so your robot army would be able to uh to drive all of the vehicles that that your regular troops drive it would be able to wear a regular human uniform so if you wanted to change the colors or add some camouflage you could just put a new uniform on him uh he could carry all of the small arms that a regular troop could carry okay so let's see i'm sorry i know this is out of frame but i'm gonna i'm gonna fix it i'm gonna fix it i just want to get the proportions right and by right i just mean close enough let's get the proportions right that that maybe that may be a little bit optimistic but let's just try to get it close enough okay okay okay there we go there we go so he's got gonna have his backpack and that's gonna have like his claw in it okay and then i'm gonna give him a submachine gun i'm gonna give him like a uh something similar to uh dial tones submachine gun the reason is that uh i think i mentioned this in my review of the cobra bat is that i have a false memory i have a false memory of the cobra bat because i in my memory i seem to remember the bat including a submachine gun essentially uh a submachine gun like like dial tones but i know that was a false memory because the cobra bat never came with any such accessory all right so we've kind of dummied it out there and i want to clean this up just a little bit i know it's a sketch and i don't have to clean up all the guidelines but it just makes me feel better uh now um if you want to see some real drawing some real drawing um chris from comic tropes does a weekly live stream in which he does some some drawing and uh and his are generally a lot better so um i will just dummy things out the best i can how's everybody doing hey we still got a few people in here thanks for being here um how many uh comic tropes says how many drawings do you think uh you'll take i don't know exactly but i'd like to have like a really good stockpile of them i'd like to have at least 50 i do have some left over from last time so i'll bring those i think i probably have like 20 of them uh and i've done like 20 of them so i need to do at least um um i need to do at least 10 more but if i could if i could bring like 60 or 70 that would be a good variety i could do like lots of the main characters maybe in more than one pose okay pencil is sharpened uh and maybe i can do some second tier characters as well um uh comic tropes says my own art but i can't uh sketch and talk uh the way you can well that well thanks i i don't know that i'm necessarily the best at it but you know i try okay so let's uh let's kind of sort this out uh by plotting in some of the details here it will help figure out where everything goes there belt that the details on the cobra bat are just really cool they're just lots of little little bobs and just like the the crisscross pattern on the straps and and uh just this little little touches that add some bulk um to the figure and just make it feel more substantial i really do like it um and i'm not a sci-fi kind of guy i do very much prefer the more military elements of gi joe and the cobra bat is definitely not that but i have to give credit where it's due and it's a really really nicely designed figure nicely designed and sculpted so he has a grenade there he also has this little little whatever it is on the side so let's let's give him that uh let's see something like that and then let's see oh he's got a pistol there like so uh and then oh he's got like a band around his left his right leg okay and he's got well yeah he's got a band around the left leg too so yeah okay like so okay uh let's let's try to tackle that head for a second i know this is uh really drawn in lightly but um it will be easier to see as i go okay so man that is tricky so he's got a a face like a looks kind of like that that is a challenge that is not easy it's a it's a it's a very contoured head it's got like these contours on the sides yeah and that's totally wrong hold on it's got these contours on the sides it goes kind of like kind of like this and then it goes up like this and then it's got then it's got a fin like so um that is not great but we're it's a start we can work with it we can work with it uh i think the jaw line needs to come down a bit more more like that and then like that okay so we're it's taking shape it's not a good shape but it's taking some kind of shape yeah okay so like so okay so wow okay this was clearly not the best choice and i apologize i'm i'm not keeping up with the live chat at all and i would like to but this is a challenge drawing this stupid head for this stupid cobra bat okay see and that now the head is a little too oversized i have the head a good proportion for the head and then i screwed it up all right this is uh kind of like that i think okay all right we're getting there we're getting there it's a little better a little better okay all right that that's that's a fine placeholder for now so let's uh let's move on uh it's like i could i could tell that the head wasn't gonna work because the neck was just horribly out of proportion but we'll just make it work the best we can make it work the best we can he's got a like a silver collar around the neck like so and then he's got man those are some very fine details so he's got a frame around his chest piece okay there we go and then he's got i don't even know what that is let's see it's like some kind of like thing that goes up here and then this needs to be a little thicker like so and then let's see wow this is this is a challenge but i i didn't know it was gonna be a challenge i knew that but but the the cobra bat is is pretty popular and i don't want to not have a bat drawing uh i've done a few of these in the past some have turned out better than others okay and then his belt buckle looks like an old school bat logo just kind of funny and he's got these diddly-dos uh diddly-do is a technical term for a thingamajig okay taking shape taking shape taking shape so there we go there we go and uh the bat features rolled up sleeves um so um the people design uh involved with the design of the bat specifically Ron Rudat at least in what i have read does not recall the bat being like a cyborg but some of the early sketches um um kind of looks cyborg like so maybe that was an idea that um that uh was scrapped early on but maybe maybe the cobra bat before he was an android trooper was going to be a cyborg trooper okay so let's see he's gonna have like a little protruding elbow there and he's gonna have some hinged elbows hinged um hinged wrists like so how are we doing hey we still got like uh what the number uh that i have in uh in uh that are watching keeps fluctuating right now it says 39 uh that's pretty cool if there are almost 40 people still in here that's awesome uh do you think you'll do multiples of popular characters like snake eyes and cobra commander definitely comic tropes absolutely um but i also want to do some some of the other guys too uh because i mean the some people have favorite characters that are not you know not the main characters so i want i want to have you know have those represented too um and what i will do i think is you know what i did last time and that is um if you if you come to my table um and you you want to commission something uh i can i can draw there i can draw at the show uh what i what i did last time was like just get up a little early and uh scratch out some commissions for a couple people there is one dude and i don't remember who it was and i apologize for it um but he uh he wanted me to do all of night force and that was a cool idea but just because of the timing of it i never got around to it and felt kind of bad about that so sorry dude who if you happen to be here uh to whoever it was who asked for night force but i never got around to it um sorry about that okay so one thing about the bat is there gonna there's gonna be a lot of technical detail i've got to make sure to get that that can be represented a few different ways but just lots i know i know it's hard to see but it's it's gonna it's gonna be more defined as we get closer to being done look at all this clean it up okay okay so let's not forget let's not forget his his backpack let me get this all right so the pack backpack is going to be like nirp nirp nirp nirp and then nirp nirp something like that and then nirp nirp you know if i were doing this for uh for like a an art job or for a comic book or something i would have the straight edge out and i would be uh you know drawing these straight lines actually straight but uh for a sketch a sketch is supposed to be a little more loose so we can be a little sketchier with our sketches so okay so he's got his claw there in the backpack uh except i'm not satisfied with that claw so let's fix it let's fix it now better to fix it now okay now that's that's that's not better that's worse thanks everyone for sticking around um for my my misery as i try to draw this i certainly do like to share my misery with others that is ever so slightly better but not very much okay sometimes i wish i was ambidextrous there we go there all right claw in the backpack okay so there it's coming together it's coming together okay let's keep going let's keep going let's finish this guy let's finish this guy i have been working all day i uh i recorded video this morning i edited video this afternoon uh and then i got ready for this here live show and i've just been going all day and all day yesterday too so uh i'm a little gassed and i don't want to do a bad drawing just because i'm tired that would not be super cool okay so something like that more or less okay now we got a cobra uh emblem on that arm okay all right now let's fix this leg we've about got it dummied out we've about got it dummied out big proportions are going to be a little off from what i originally sketched but not too far not too bad so it's going to be like yeah yeah and let's give some thickness to this leg thing uh no knee pads on this guy but that's okay you know he's got so many other cool things on him that you know i can i can forgive him not having knee pads can't have everything okay okay so close so close so close so close all right so okay so he's got like some all right hang on hang on it's coming together coming together okay okay okay so there's leg number one he's in kind of a forward running pose so the back leg will be back here you just guys you guys just gotta trust me i know this is really light on the camera but it's going to uh be much more defined here in just a few minutes uh i am not yoken i am totally serial uh also yeah there's a little like thing on the on the boot whatever that is uh let's kind of sketch it in there too and then okay i think i think that's not terrible i may be terrible but for me it's okay all right so here's so here's everything as it stands right now and now let's uh let's start let's start really defining these things let me sharpen my pencil one more time wanna i want to nail these details one more pencil sharpen how's everybody doing he's um uh chewing bubblegum how you doing we're doing a drawing we're drawing hello nester nice to see you hello zim man nice to see you there uh anybody else i'm sorry i probably missed a lot in the live chat i apologize um right um uh dur uh diruti uh can see nothing but you will you will because it's about to take shape we are about to take this onto a new level it is hard to see but it's going to be easy to see here in just a moment so let's get that head trust me trust me have i ever let you down i mean lately over here okay i don't keep it there is no reason to make these curves harder to draw when i can just turn the page okay all right there's the head let's get this neck and the kind of ring collar thing that he has okay there's that he's got these shoulder doodaws like so like so all right right there and get ourselves a rolled up sleeve here so do you think there's a like a cobra trooper whose job it is to like put these uniforms on the cobra bat and roll up the sleeves is that like a punishment job because you know these cobra bats are not like rolling up these sleeves by themselves there's some poor cobra trooper or lab assistant or something who has to put all these shirts on these robots and roll up their sleeves no no we can't have the sleeves roll down you know because he's got to switch his arm pieces out right he's got to like switch out the hand for the claw or the the flamethrower or whatever so you know we can't um can't have the sleeves rolled up okay all right we are getting it and you're about to see a much more defined drawing here in a moment okay okay okay there there there okay all right it's coming together it's coming together all right there this grenade on his chest on the strap is a very particular shape and I'm trying to capture that shape okay then he's got this kind of whatever it is let's kind of give that a some definition and he's got this yellow strap that goes over his shoulder I don't know there's going to be a texture pattern but let's give it a like a little seam on the edges like that and then there's this like crisscross pattern there okay okay okay see now that I did all the preliminary work the rest of this is a lot easier I know where my lines need to go so I just put them there except that wasn't wasn't very good hold on easy fix all right all right coming together all right we almost have ourselves a cobra bat we just got to finish this guy out okay there let me go ahead and actually let me do this backpack and try to work from top to bottom as much as I can there so yeah this is the the deep mystery of artwork it's watching a guy scribble on paper while saying there there this is what you this is the entertainment you tune in for every week so you've got your Super Bowl but does the Super Bowl have an artist sketching something that you can barely see while saying there there I don't think so I've watched a couple Super Bowls and I haven't seen that I'm doing it again there let me get this and I'll uh I'll hold it up to the big camera again man this can't this second camera is pretty crappy I probably should just stop using it and uh wait to do this again until I can get a better second camera uh I'll probably do that I mean sometimes it doesn't look that bad but that's pretty bad okay all right here's here's progress progress okay okay so let's I haven't like very I don't want to do that yet let's work on this belt first let's give him the like old school Batman belt buckle little utility belt doohickeys okay okay okay now I think I can draw this well no let me let me get this leg a little bit more and then we'll draw in the uh submachine gun I'll just sort of do a from memory version of dial tones submachine gun because I don't have it in front of me and I I really don't feel like going to get it okay but this is a good time to do it so it's gonna be like there something along those lines okay that line just a little bit better I say get it better and then I immediately make it worse okay all right okay show the progress there's the progress right getting there getting there uh thanks uh to all who have stuck around like I mentioned before I knew this this section of the segment of the show is not gonna be everybody's bag but for those who do want to stick around you just get a little extra bonus so thanks there okay somebody has to put all these boots on these cobra bats too I assume they all have the same boot size okay so there okay coming together coming together uh let's see now I need to uh okay no now is the time and I need to define this these details in the lenticular chest I hope everybody's doing well tonight hope everybody is having a nice time you may not necessarily be having a nice time watching this video but if you're doing anything else at the same time I hope you're having a nice time doing it okay let's just kind of let's give it a little light that'll do those lines I think that can be just a little better okay uh let's let's finish this out I don't always like to do um the weapons on a straight side view because they tend to look two-dimensional but we're gonna live with it this time here we go we're actually fairly close to being done there okay now let's see let's give him some kind of wicked cool hands some like terminator hands because that's basically what they are right they're they're terminators like so okay so that's got some decent technical detail there okay looks like a robot arm to me okay uh the grip of the pistol should come out here like so okay all right uh progress progress man I'm tired I am definitely crashing as soon as this live stream is over uh I am one tired dude let's see his pistol holster has this little let's see if we can kind of add that like that and then the pistol grip there let's add like a crisscross texture pattern to that okay and then the strap around the there we go almost almost done we are in the final stretch here okay there okay next the boots are are kind of tall they're not quite all the way up to the knee but they have these silver bands around them that extend the boot a little bit all right then they also have let's see let's kind of define that a little bit like that okay you know I think might be about done yeah all right I'm declaring that done ah I almost dropped it there we go there is our cobra bat there we go there we go there he is attacking with his uh flamethrower arm and such all right let's sign it and then we are done I'm gonna sign it over here and let's see we are in May 2022 all right that's it guys I am done I see Chris is here hello Chris sorry I didn't see you come in Rob Vegas I don't think I saw you come in either hello guys I am exhausted thank you for sticking around for the the drawing and sketch part of it I am I'm gonna replace this camera before I do this again this this this image quality is just really poor sorry about that but anyway I will see you guys fiery flames maybe he should have fiery flames let's let's give him a let's give him a small flame huh there now he has a small flame there we go all right anyway thank you guys I can now like barely even read the the live chat because I am quite exhausted so thanks everyone for watching I'll see you again next week I'm gonna say good night for now and I will see you later