 Hello everybody hooded Cobra Commander 788 here welcome back to another GI Joe comic book review this time We were picking up the series with issue number 30. This issue promises some good action I'm looking forward to it. We're coming off a pretty good issue in issue number 29 Recapping the previous issue. We had a battle on the Florida coast Destro and Firefly hijacked the GI Joe hovercraft the killer whale It was an epic battle involving sea and air vehicles But Destro and Firefly escaped when we last saw them They were on a fishing boat headed to the secret Cobra base in Springfield on the cover of issue number 30 We have the dread knocks demolishing a GI Joe sky striker. It's the dread knocks being the dread knocks This is a cover by Mike Zack. It has his dynamic style. It looks really good on the splash page We have a title darkness. We have a creative team of Larry Hama script Frank Springer pencils and Andy Muschinsky inks However pages two through six were inked by Pat Redding on that splash page We see Zartan and the dread knocks hanging around the perimeter fence of Maguire Air Force Base in New Jersey They are watching the GI Joe Dragonfly helicopter flying overhead. There is a real Maguire Air Force Base in New Jersey It's about an hour and a half drive from Fort Wadsworth in New York That's where GI Joe's secret headquarters is. This is a well-drawn page and it's very promising for this issue Even though the dread knocks are not Cobra agents They are mercenaries that just sometimes work for Cobra torch has taken the step of getting the Cobra emblem on his motorcycle And getting a Cobra tattoo on his arm. That is commitment In fact, I also have a Cobra tattoo torch and I are of the same mind Cobra for life The dread knocks recognized the Dragonfly helicopter from the battle in the Florida Everglades and Zartan decides to check it out He disguises himself as Colonel Hawk the leader of the GI Joe team and walks right past the guards at the gate Inside the Air Force Base dock and an unnamed medic are taking Wild Bill off the skid of the Dragonfly to place him in an ambulance I am confused about one thing the dread knocks recognized some battle damage on the Dragonfly But the Dragonfly that was in the Florida battle was wrecked on the GI Jane I don't think this could be the same Dragonfly in fact Wild Bill acknowledges They lost a helicopter. Maybe I'm just losing track of Dragonflies. That's possible Docs suspicion is raised when Hawks seemingly can't remember Wild Bill's name. Of course, this is not really Hawk. This is Zartan in disguise Meanwhile on Staten Island right outside Fort Wadsworth, which again is the location of GI Joe's secret headquarters Fred Broca and his family are purchasing a new home We first met Fred in issue number 29 as the Crimson Guardsman whose code name was Smith He was the secret Cobra agent with the mission to infiltrate American society back at the Cobra headquarters in Springfield Cobra commander is taking a phone call from Zartan and getting a report about the GI Joe Dragonfly Helicopter being at McWire Air Force Base in New Jersey the dread knocks have some time to kill and they're hanging out at what appears to be an Abandoned gas station. This is the first time they mentioned grape soda and chocolate covered donuts who appease the dread knocks Zartan uses his holographic projector to transform the appearance of the gas station into the swamp shack They occupied in Florida back on Staten Island The Brocas are moving into their new home and unloading electronic surveillance equipment and assault rifles their mission at this location is to observe Fort Wadsworth for any sign GI Joe is occupying that base the two ambulances carrying Wild Bill and Deep Six go right by their home And they are none the wiser the two ambulances roll into the motor pool Which is the location of GI Joe's underground base? But wouldn't it arouse suspicion for ambulances to be taking patients into the motor pool while bill says cut that siren We don't want to get the chaplain's assistance in an uproar You ever have to mess with an angry chaplain's assistant got a duck all those guided missiles guided missiles you get it I definitely did not get it the first time I read this but now I get it and it's kind of funny Doc and Wild Bill are shocked to see Hawke is at the pit even though they just saw him at McGuire I have to point out Hawke's uniform here is almost identical to Duke only the shirt color is different Cobra commander is convinced GI Joe headquarters is at McGuire Air Force Base So he is taking action He is moving Cobra equipment in our co-brothers circus trucks to the Air Force Base so he can stage an attack What he doesn't know is back in Springfield the boy we met before Billy is going through secret files He is discovered by the Baroness and major blood the Baroness knows him and implies Cobra did something to his father The Baroness and major blood have their own agenda against Cobra commander and Billy may play into that Fred gets a call with orders from Cobra commander All the Crimson guardsmen have been recalled because Cobra commander is convinced GI Joe headquarters is at the Air Force Base That means they have to break down all the equipment They just installed Fred and his wife throw a Kylo Ren hissy fit at this electronic equipment while they are doing this They miss GI Joe vehicles rolling right past their front door We see the APC the Wolverine the Moab at the vamp and the Ram all rolling out of Fort Wadsworth Toward McGuire Air Force Base to investigate the possible infiltration by Zartan These vehicles look pretty good The artwork captures a lot of the details that are on the toys the Ram motorcycle is way off model though But we can forgive that because the others look really good The dread knocks are supposed to recon the perimeter fence outside the base But dread knocks being dread knocks they cut the fence open and ride onto the base there They find lots of expensive vehicles they can destroy which is their favorite thing to do Cobra his tanks and faying helicopters are Unloaded from the circus trucks and these vehicles are also pretty well on model The his tanks seem to be missing their canopies, but other than that they are toy accurate We also get a toy accurate his driver, which did not happen often in the comic book Unfortunately for Cobra the element of surprise is ruined by the dread knocks buzzer cuts through the landing gear of a sky striker Which causes the sky striker to explode somehow buzzer survives this alerts the tower of the security breach somehow They didn't notice the three weirdos smashing vehicles until something actually caught fire This prompts Cobra to take the direct approach and just launch the attack They seem to only have two his tanks and two fang helicopters if they do think this is gijo headquarters They don't plan to take it down the dread knocks roll right past the cobras and they are headed out of there They have no intention of assisting Cobra commander, but that leads them right into the joes who have just arrived It's really nice to see all these gijo vehicles in action I don't know what's happening with that motorcycle But the rest of this is great the joes pursue the dread knocks for a moment But decide to let them go because the main force is attacking the base The his tanks are lining up the control tower with their cannons So the control tower operators blind them with spotlights the fangs are piloted by his tank drivers But that makes sense because on their file cards the his tank drivers are qualified on the fang helicopter A fang takes out a spotlight then lines up the tower for a missile shot Then is suddenly blown out of the sky by clutch who is manning the machine gun on the vamp Of course, you can't really do that with the toy. There's no seat in the back to man the gun That's always been a problem for the vamp though So I can forgive the comic book for taking this liberty the joes continue to fight against cobra and now i'm confused again Rock and roll appears to be riding the motorcycle But there is another person that may be rock and roll on the mobat Are there two rock and rolls is somebody just using rock and rolls machine gun The mobat blows up cobra commanders his tank and cobra commander barely survives Here's something kind of funny the his tank is so on model It includes the foot pegs for the action figures the remaining fang helicopter rescues cobra commander under cover of smoke The ammunition on the flaming his tank explodes dramatically The next morning ace has the sadds because his sky striker was blown up on the very last panel of the issue We see the silhouettes of firefly and destro in the fishing boat as they roll past the statue of liberty Their plan is to get back to cobra headquarters in springfield and convince cobra commander that nothing is wrong When he lets his guard down they will strike so they have to go from florida to new york to get to springfield Where is springfield located exactly never mind? We don't know where springfield is located. That's the point next issue Six will fall that sounds ominous overall. This was a really good issue We got our first real good look at the dread knocks and we learned more about zartan's disguise powers We got a little deeper into the fred series crimson guardsmen and what their role is We saw billy again. So he will play more into the story Almost everyone has an axe to grind with cobra commander the baroness major blood firefly Destro they all have it out for him. The art was pretty good in this issue I have complained about frank springer's art in previous issues, but this was an improvement There were a few places where it fell apart a little bit, but mostly it was solid even though we got a battle in this issue I still see it as a transitional issue the major plot points didn't move forward very much We mostly moved the pieces into place. Do I recommend this issue? I do mainly for the development of the dread knocks the overall plot didn't move forward very much That was my review of gi joe number 30. I hope you enjoyed it If you did, please give this channel a thumbs up on youtube and subscribe to the youtube channel You can find me on social media on facebook and twitter and I have a website htc788.com I can only continue doing these reviews with the support of my friends on patreon if you'd like to support the channel That's a great way to do it. Thank you for watching. I'll be back soon with a gi joe toy review I'll see you then and until then remember only gi joe is gi joe