 Hey, okay, okay. There we go. It says we are alive. Hello everyone. Let's see. Range. One half meter. Elevation. Two degrees. Bang. Fire, bang, bang, fire. Hello everyone. Who got here? Wow, you know what? You know what's even worse than my two bad eyes is covering up one of them. I can, you know, this is complicated to read like this. Hello Lester and Matt. And hey, Sergeant Slaughterhouse. Nice to see you there, sir. Thank you very much for being here. Michael Fleming says he's missing due to family from out of town. We'll listen at work tomorrow. Well, thanks for being here anyway. I hope you enjoyed the show. Hello, Bader Ray Bob and Matt. And hey, Marianne is here. How do you do? She got here just in time. Hello Ratface and David and Ratface again. Metal. So here's what I'm gonna do. Hello, draws. Hello, Guy Franzi. Thank you very much for being here. Hello, Stonegate creations. Here's the thing. I'm finding it very difficult to read with this on. So while this is, I think, a hilarious gag, you weren't expecting this, were you? I gotta take this off. I can't, I can't see. And now do I have crap on my lens? I don't have crap on my lens. It looks good. Hey, well, look at that. I can see. Hello, draws and David and Space Cobra. Hello, everybody. There is so much to do. There is so much to do. So much to talk about. And I'm starting early, not because I have any real good reason. I could probably do all this in an hour, but just because I was sitting here and I'm ready, so I felt like starting early. So I will start early. Hello, Ryan. Topic to short, we got several. We got several. Hang with me. Hello, Matt. Kelden, how do you do? How do you do? We'll try. Okay, I just remembered we got a gung-ho up here that we haven't opened yet. Haven't opened yet. Maybe since I'm starting early today, maybe since I'm starting early, I can actually get to this thing. I'm very curious about classified gung-ho, but there's a lot to cover. And I want to make sure that we cover all of it. Big things and small things. Big things and small things. Did GI Joe have regular guards? Well, they have MPs if that's what you're applying. Hello, Jeffrey. Hello, Craig. Hello, Eric and Evan. Thank you guys for being here. It's always really nice to see everyone. I appreciate everybody showing up every week. I really, really appreciate it. We'll start by, well, you can see the graphic right there. Most recent video was Metalhead. I hope everyone enjoyed that one. I enjoyed putting it together. Hello, Craig, thanks for being here. I enjoyed putting it together. It was a lot of fun. It was a challenge. It was a challenge because as I was preparing, Guy Franzi says, I've ordered Tiger Force Flint, Chinese version, aka Latin Falcon. Okay, cool. I know which one you're talking about. That's a very cool one. Anyway, yes, Metalhead. As I was preparing and as I was writing the episode, I was thinking, you know, I do have version two. I could just do both. And I just, I made the command decision that let's just do it. Let's do both. Let's do versions one and two. Hello, Jeff. Good evening to you. So I decided, okay, why not? How much more work can it be to just throw version two in there? Because a lot of the information is the same. Like all the preliminary information, like the general information about the character and the figure and the versions and stuff, that's the same for both. So like the first section of the video, it would be the same for both. So is it really gonna be that big a deal to just look at another figure and look at another file card? Well, it was, it was a challenge. It was a challenge, but it was a fun challenge. It was a fun challenge. Marianne was here, I smashed a Hello Kitty guitar. So I went out and purchased specifically for this purpose a plastic Hello Kitty ukulele toy guitar, you know, the kind with plastic strings. So I bought that thing. I brought it home here and I smashed it on this table. You know, rock and roll style. Rock and roll style, smashing the guitar on the table. That thing did not wanna break. That was surprisingly sturdy for a cheap plastic toy. Thank you very much, Eric. Thanks for watching. The guitar was rigged. One reason that was difficult to break is that I couldn't swing very well because I've got this lamp here. I've got the light fixture here and I've got the shelves back there and I can't move too far forward or too far back or else the camera won't be, it won't be in frame. So I had to swing like kind of diagonally to avoid hitting either hitting this or hitting that. So I couldn't like get the full force into that. And I did end up busting out the back of it. Like the back of it totally busted out. Rugged is just, I rigged it. Maybe it was rigged too. It was a rugged, it was, it had sturdy construction for rugged play. I did end up busting out the back of it, but like you couldn't see it because it was the backside. So that was, it was fun, you know, I felt good. I really let out some frustration, just cracking that thing that was a good time. Hello, Robert Olson, wasn't Hasbro quality plastic. Yeah, that's it. It took a while and I was banging on that thing for a bit. I was really trying to smash it. And in the end I was just able to bust the back out of it. That's all I was able to do. I think maybe if I could have like really brought it down like a hammer, like a sledgehammer, I think I could have done it. But this position here, like I couldn't do that. I would have hit either hit this thing or hit that thing. So I had to kind of angle it. I had to angle it and that's the best I could do. Hello, Joefan84, nice to see you, sir. Yes, I did start early. If anybody's asking, yes, I started early. Why did I start early? Because I felt like it. I was just sitting here and I'm like, I'm here. Let's just start. Probably would have broken over. Possibly. We'll try that next time. We'll just try it over my head next time. I will also add that I shot more of the Beavis and Butthead parody segments. And I thought I really thought I had something there. I thought I had something that would be pretty funny. And Marianne was there and she was giggling while I was doing it. So I thought, hey, this might work. This might really work with these Beavis and Butthead cut-ins. Hello, Christian. Hello, Denmark from the United States. Hello, fitness friend. Thanks for being here. But once I actually started editing those segments and plugging them into the video where they were gonna go, I was thinking, you know what? This isn't funny. It seems funny. It seems like it ought to be funny, but it's not funny. It's like, it just, it doesn't work. And not only is it not funny, it breaks up the flow of the video. So if I'm gonna break up the flow of the video, it's better for a good purpose. And I just, it sounded like a good idea. It seemed like a good idea all the way through the shooting process until I actually edited it. And when I edited it, it was like, eh, no, it's not working. It's not working. So I ended up trimming those out. Comic tropes love the Beavis and Butthead. I'm really glad. Thank you, Chris. And also thank you for being here Comic Tropes. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the small and obscure YouTube channel, Comic Tropes, make sure you check out the Comic Tropes channel for tropes about comics. I'm kidding, of course. Comic Tropes is a huge channel. And Chris is a great guy. But I, and I'm glad you liked them. I don't know that if you, that you would have liked the other segments that I did. It just, some ideas seem, seem great. Some ideas seem like an excellent idea until you actually put them in a practice and they just, if they don't work, they don't work. And that was one that just didn't work. So I took that out. Most of them. I kept, obviously I kept a couple of things in, but I took the rest of them out. I only kept the ones in that I thought actually worked pretty well. And then the music, I really wanted to keep that in. Because that's the whole point. Like the video is supposed to show you the best rock song in G.I. Joe. Oh yeah, maybe use them as extra content for pages. That's an excellent idea, Marian. This is why I have your, it's an excellent idea. Hey, Rob Vegas. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here, Rob. That's an excellent idea. That's an excellent idea. I may do that. I think I have most of them already edited. That's a good idea. You make a good idea. I'll try to do that. At any rate, so when I first uploaded the video and when I gave early access to the video, of the video to patrons, hello, WWJD85. When I gave early access to the videos for, to the, I can't talk. When I gave early access for the video to patrons Hasbro had put a copyright claim on it, just like they did with the Cobra Commander video. But this time I decided I was just gonna go ahead and issue a challenge on it. So I did. I issued a challenge on it because I felt like my use was legitimate. I felt like my use squarely fell into square use, square use, fair use. Wow, I've totally lost the ability to talk. Thank you, Danny. Thank you, Danny, for the super chat. I still remember when Cobra Commander teamed up with Skeletor, but Megatron got jealous. That's hilarious. And thank you for the super chat, Danny. And hopefully your super chat will allow my brain to reset so I can actually use human words. Anyway, so I did challenge that copyright claim from Hasbro and I was successful. They released the claim. I did it. Hello, Big Gay Dave. Hello, Cyclonus. Hello, Peter Ong. They released the claim and so I'm like, hey, cool. So I did note in Patreon that there was a copyright claim, but since then it's been lifted. So I am going to get the ad revenue from that video. I also challenged the Cobra Commander video because I feel the same way about that. That one was not lifted. And so I would have to appeal. And this is exactly what I was worried about with the Cobra Commander videos. Like the challenge process is gonna be protracted and tedious and I don't know if I have the patience for it. And that's exactly what it's turning out to be. So I have to decide if I want to appeal this. I still think I'm right. But another thing I have to keep in mind is that the video's already got 95% of the views that it will ever get, right? So it's a little bit late to probably expect to get very much out of it, but I'm still thinking about it. I just don't know if I wanna go through the hassle of it, but at least I won one of those. At least I won one of those. At least I won one and I should have won because I'm right about that. I think I'm right about both of them. Oh, hello, Robbie Razzieri. Thanks for being here. Hello, Dustin. So thank you, Craig. I'm really glad that you liked that. I'm really glad you liked the Cobra Commander video. Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse says hello from Australia. Hello, Australia from the United States. Got to talk with, actually I got to talk with Sergeant Slaughter Slaughterhouse and I got to talk with Rob Vegas recently. So nice talking with you guys. That was really cool. The Curse of Knowing Too Much. Yeah, that's, I don't know. Sometimes I have the Curse of Knowing Too Little. Oh, hello, Sparkster. I don't know if I said hello to Sparkster, but hello, Sparkster. Thanks for being here. What was I doing? So yeah, the copyright claim on the Cobra Commander video not lifted, at least not yet. And like, on one hand, I feel like as a matter of principle, I should go after it, fight it to the hilt. But on the other hand, I'm also aware of how tedious and time consuming that could be and how little I'm likely to get out of it. And I don't know if that's a, I don't know if that's a wise use of my time. It may be just better to move on. So that may be what I'll do. I'm still thinking about it. Hello, Ken now. Nice to see you. Thank you for being here. Hello, J.R. Howard. Evening, J.R. Howard. Ratface just finished work. Well, congratulations. Welcome to freedom. We have a lot to talk about. We have a lot to talk about. And now is the actual normal start time for the show. So now that we're at the normal actual start time. Oh, thank you, Comic Tropes. Hoodie doesn't chew his own horn, but he is now the most subscribed GI Joe related channel. Let's congratulate him by hitting the like on this video. Thank you very much, Comic Tropes. That is true. The previous number one was FormBX257, even though he hasn't been around for, geez, almost a couple of years now. He's still, you know, because he's good, he accumulates subscribers anyway. But I just recently surpassed his subscriber count. But in truth, if Kevin were still here and if he were still active, he would, I probably would never catch up to him. So thank you for that. But also let's use this as an opportunity. I know we do this every once in a while to say we missed Kevin. We missed FormBX257. We sincerely hope that he is okay. Nobody's heard from him in quite a while. Oh, thank you, Danny. I remember when He-Man slept with Scarlett and Voltron and said, get, you can't do that. And He-Man said, go away. And Voltron told Lionel and Duke and Snake Eyes found out and then Scarlett had a reputation of sleeping with everybody. That's, you know, I don't remember that episode. I'll ask Buzz Dixon about that. That's, you know, if that's in the mainline cartoon series, sounds like it may have been a deep episode. Could have been a deep episode. I'll check on that. But nonetheless, thank you. Thank you very much, Danny. So, oh, hello, Victor. Thanks for being here. What was I talking about? So, okay, it's the regular start time for the video or for the live stream. So I want to remind everybody it's Tuesday, which means there's a new episode of Half the Battle. It's still main character May, so it's still Lady J. He's covering Lady J all this month. And this particular episode is focusing on Lady J's appearances in the animated series and the comic book, the Marvel Comics era comic book. So make sure you check out Timmer's video on Half the Battle. Thank you, Joefan84 for the Super Chat. Mr. S is watching at his mom's and says, hi, hello, Mr. S. He wants to go to JoeFest, but he just can't make it. Unfortunately, he wants me to sign the card for him. Okay, thank you. Actually, I have on my list of things to talk about. I do have JoeFest. So thank you for reminding me. I will talk about JoeFest. I want to talk about JoeFest. First, I want to remind everybody to check out Half the Battle and What's On JoeMind. Their episode should start right after this episode finishes. So after we're done here, there is a link in the description of this video so you can roll right over there to check out What's On JoeMind. Their new episode is coming soon. Item C, that was item B. Item C, yes, JoeFest. Marianne, we're going to talk about JoeFest. We have significant things to talk about with JoeFest. Power Comics is doing a Super Joe comic, which I think is really cool. Super Joe was kind of an era of G.I. Joe after the end of the adventure team 12 inch line, but before the beginning of the real American hero three and three quarter inch line. So there were like eight inch figures like me go size. It's often forgotten, but it was an era that deserves to be remembered. And Power Comics now has the rights to Super Joe. And they're doing a Super Joe comic. And I have to apologize to those guys for a couple of weeks we have been trying to connect. And it's my fault. I've not been able to do it. I did a double review last week and I'm trying to do a fairly sizable review this week. And I don't want to make excuses, but I've been very, very bad about getting back with people. And I'm sorry, but I did want to say anyway, that make sure you check out Power Comics. There's a link for that as well. They should, they're supposed to have a crowdfunding link. A crowdfunding project for the Super Joe comic. I think in early June, so they may not have that link up yet, but there is a link to their Facebook page so you can read about them and you can learn about it. So make sure you check out Power Comics. And again, apologies to you guys. I've been bad about getting back with people. That's just, that's the truth. And I take responsibility for that. Thank you. What's on JoeMind for the Super Chats says, where the hell are the singing cats? This is an extremely original one. I was not prepared for this question. The singing cat, hello? Hello? They were just here. I'll get back to you, I'll get back to you on that. Hello from the Hilt. Thank you very much for being here. Nice to see you. Okay, so we've got some important things out of the way. One thing that I want to talk about, some good news. So this is some excellent news. So the guys at After Action Report, their new project, Command Files, which basically is like a collection of profiles of GI Joe characters in book form. They had their Kickstarter suspended because an attorney working for Hasbro had made a copyright, I guess an intellectual property claim on it with Kickstarter. If you've been following the Facebook pages for After Action Force and Command Files, you will know, you will have learned today that they challenged that claim and they have succeeded. At least at this stage, Kickstarter has reinstated their project, Command Files is cruising, it is on the way, it is grooving. There's a link for that as well. And I've talked with the Command Files, the After Action Report guys before met up with, well, mainly with Josh, Josh Egabine, who I met at last year's Joe Fest and also hung out with him at Assembly Required. And I just, I really want those guys to succeed and I'm glad they challenged that intellectual property claim. I felt like they had a good argument. I obviously, I can't give advice because I can't, but I do know a little bit about it. And so I did feel like they had a good argument for fair use in that case and they challenged it and they won. Kickstarter has reinstated their crowdfunding project. Now it's always possible that there could be another claim raised down the road, but at least for the time being, that one is cleared. This was just a little bit of background off the top of my head. So the intellectual property claim was issued by an attorney, it was Hasbro's intellectual property that was being claimed. So this is not something that an attorney not working for Hasbro could do. So this is something that, this is a policy, I guess, that Hasbro has in place that this law firm will issue these claims. So as far as what their policy is, I have no idea. All I know is that they issued that claim. It was challenged and at least for the time being, Kickstarter has restarted the command file. So check out command files and support these guys if you can. I really like GI Joe print reference material. Print reference material is so helpful and I would just, I love it and I want more of it. So support the command files project if you can, if you can. Oh yeah, I mean, I know something about copyrights. I have studied it. I've not worked in copyrights, okay? I've not practiced in copyrights, but like one of my law school professors was, I mean, he taught it, but he also practiced and he wrote books about it. He was involved in a dispute with the estate of James Joyce over intellectual property. So I know something about it. I know something about it. So that's why I'm a little bit annoyed, okay? With Hasbro in this respect, in this respect, I do think Hasbro should protect its intellectual property. That's not the question. The question is beyond that. Using IP claims to do things that are not protecting their intellectual property. Going after things that really are likely to be fair use. Mattel, Mattel has been notoriously litigious when it comes to copyright and they've gotten in trouble for that. I mean, they've had cases not go their way. Because they tried to use their rights under intellectual property in an improper way. They misused intellectual property to kind of bully people. So Hasbro, who is not listening, my request to you is don't be Mattel, okay? Do protect your intellectual property, but do it properly. Do it properly. Don't go after people for just doing regular fan stuff. You know that that's not a bundle in your stick of rights with your intellectual property. So don't use that as a weapon to stop people from doing regular fan stuff. Anyway, I digress. First, I mainly I just wanted to congratulate command files for being back on the air, for being back live. Yeah, copyright is, I understand it's a controversial topic because it's not, there aren't necessarily bright lines. I heard the rumor that we could hear who has G.I. Joe comics by the end of June. Well, it's about time. Thank you, thank you, Chris. We would like to, in fact, we had kind of expected to hear about it before now. So, oh, hello Yorktown Joe, nice to see you. Watching on my phone and TV, I am like, I'm in stereo. Hey, check this out. I'm over here on Yorktown's TV. I'm over here on Yorktown's phone. Yorktown's TV, Yorktown's phone. Yorktown's TV, Yorktown's phone. Stereo. So thanks, thanks for watching twice. You know, if I could get everybody to watch twice at the same time, the numbers would just be off the charts. But anyway, yeah, my point was, congratulations to After Action Reporting Command Files for getting reinstated on Kickstarter. Now, oh, hello Lester, thanks for being here. Matchbox being, still being $1 is kind of crazy. Well, matchboxes are really small, you know. You know, one box of matches should last you for a while, I would think. Yo Joe June, that's right. What's on Joe Mind, at least their thumbnail for today's episode is rumbling into Yo Joe June. Now, I haven't seen the episode yet because it hasn't been made, because it's live. So I couldn't have seen it without a time machine. But Yo Joe June, Yo Joe June, June is gonna be Yo Joey. June is gonna be fairly on the Yo Joe side. And you know, I think June needs to be very Yo Joe because July is very Cobra. Cobra Convergence coming up in July, the entire month of July, we have a ton of presenters. Because I decided to overload myself with beefy reviews for two weeks in a row, I have not done as much as I, excuse me, I've done as much as I want to do on Cobra Convergence, but things are already taken shape. I have specific tasks for Cobra Convergence that I need to take care of so we can get that thing launched on time so we can get the announcements made. It's not really behind. I'm not exactly running behind, but I'm not running as far ahead as I would like. Now, if I could just review something simple. Now I did kind of review something simple a couple of weeks ago with the Cobra Imp. Beefy, absolutely Chris, it's beefy. Beefy and girthy. It's, yeah, so last, I mean, metalhead. I did two, oh hello JLS Comics, I don't think I saw you come in. Hello JLS Comics, thanks for being here. JLS Comics, a Cobra Convergence veteran. Yeah, embrace the dark side. Not sure I should take my birth months being Cobra Convergence months. Yes, well Matt, it's a celebration of you. Like, it's a great, big, freaking happy birthday to Matt, you know? Hello, Tony Jackson. So yes, Cobra Convergence, it is coming up. It will be in July. We have the roster. I think I need to tweak it a little bit because I think a couple of people asked to be on the calendar, but I haven't put them on there yet, so I apologize, but I'm pretty, the roster is pretty much set by now. Oh, hello Firefly. And a little uncomfortable. Any plans for Class of Friday? Sort of. Actually, Comic Tropes, that's one of the reasons why this upcoming review is a little bit extra work. Had to do a little bit extra work on it today. And it's sort of a little bit related to Class of Friday, but I can't say anymore. I can't say anymore because it'll spoil it. I'm trying not to spoil it, but yes, the short answer is, yes, plans for Class of Friday. The long answer is yes, plans for Class of Friday is the long answer. Matt was saying that Cobra Convergence is in his birth month. It's not his birthday yet. It's not his birthday yet, but nonetheless, early happy birthday and a special celebration of Matt for Cobra Convergence. That should have been the theme. That should have been the theme, Matt's birthday. Okay, so I have some stuff to do. I got some things to do. I got a box from the PO box that I will open. This is from Frank, and so I wanted to open this. I have, as you can see, I have cut the box open, but I haven't looked in the box. I do not want to know what it is. I have asked in the past to don't send too much stuff to the PO box. I'm not able to check it as much as I used to. So please take that into account that if you send something to the PO box, I may not be able to get it for a bit, but I did check, I did check over the weekend, and I've got this. This is from Frank. That's what it says there. I am going to open this, and I'm going to see what it is with my thanks to Frank, and it is interesting. It is a blanket. Oh, and a letter, there's a letter. There's a letter, and it's in an envelope, so hold on, it has my, it's not literally my name. That's not on my birth certificate, but it's my nom de pum. Is it from the Game Master? Probably, it's probably a Jack-in-the-Box robot that's going to jump out and kidnap me. Okay, so, letter, let me, I got to read over this just to make sure that it's okay. I don't want to reveal any personal information, so time out, let me read this letter real quick. Once again, I do keep all of these, any letters that are written to me, I have all of them, I keep all of them. Let's see, okay, okay. Okay, so Frank, thank you. There's not anything really personal in here, but it does spoil what the package is, and I don't want to spoil it, so I will say thank you, Frank, I'm keeping your letter, my sincere thanks, and thank you for thinking of me. So, hello, G.I. Gary, bang, bang. Bang, bang, so let's, I'm opening this item wrapped in a very cozy blanket. It's summertime now, but a couple months ago, I might get some use out of this blanket. Okay, so this, oh, I want to be careful. Yeah, this, it needs a little bit of TLC, but you will recognize this. I'll, it really, actually, it just needs a bit of cleaning. Except I got to put the power spec on. It just needs a bit of cleaning. It doesn't look broken, although like some things will need to be reattached. Can I do this? It's the Cobra Adder, and Frank said that he was cleaning G.I. Joe's stuff and thought of me because I haven't reviewed the Adder yet. Oh, thank you, Danny. That's your Tina with, oh, I got jealous of her. That at least people like you, everybody hates me. Well, you know what? I can relate to that. Thank you, Danny, and thank you for the additional super chat. It's much appreciated. So yeah, it looks intact. I mean, I need to do a better job of putting it together, really. Cause this little support bar goes, trying to remember how it goes. I believe, well, see, I think I should have put that in before clipping it off. Let's see if I can pop that off. But it looks like all it really needs is a good cleaning. It looks intact and it looks fine. And it probably, like the stickers appear to be on it. So clean this guy up and we've got a really nice looking Cobra Adder. Adder versus Imp, I'd have to go with Imp. The Imp is a bit more substantial than the Adder. In fact, you can kinda look at, you can kinda look at the Adder as a downscaled Imp, but with the missiles are close to the same size, but these are regular missiles, not the mind dispersal missiles. So Dustin says, I asked Magic Gate Ball of Hoodie will open retro classified gung-ho this week. Sources say no. I'm trying to. Like I said, we got a lot to do. I wanted to open this, but thank you very much for this, Frank. I'm going to, I'm setting it back in the box so I don't lose it. I already put it back together. I already reassembled it. It just needs a good cleaning. If you are a collector of vintage toys, you know that cleaning those things is just, that's a part of the hobby. So thank you very much and thank you for thinking of me. It's very much appreciated. Now, what is the next thing I needed to talk about? Let's talk about Joe Fest. There's a side note. Well, okay, time out. How much time you got? Before we talk about Joe Fest, let's wrap up the live stream talking about Joe Fest or let's talk about Joe Fest and then wrap up the live stream by opening gung-ho here. So I was digging for something. Somebody suggested doing videos about the GI Joe magazine and I'm like, hey, that's a really good idea. I thought I had a GI Joe magazine, so I was looking for it and I knew I would have to get more. I feel like I only have like one issue is my recollection. So I was looking for it. I was trying to dig it up. I didn't find it. I didn't find it, but I did find this. I did know that I have this, but it's been a long time since I've seen it. This is from Blackthorn Publishing and it is How to Draw GI Joe and this, I don't even know why you need art classes when you got this. Oh, thank you for a JLS notice. My ancient nine inch nails t-shirt. This thing is so old, it's got like holes in it. I don't really wear it anymore because I'm afraid if I keep wearing it, it'll just fall apart. But for a special occasion for metal head, I thought nine inch nails is not heavy metal, but whatever, it's close enough. So I broke out the classic band shirt that I've had for, jeez, like, I don't know, 20 years. And there it is, there it goes. So anyway, How to Draw GI Joe and this is great. First of all, for the ladies, for the ladies, there's this illustration, this illustration of a man in his skivvies. So that's just a little beefcake. That's, I think that's beefy and girthy. We've got beefy and girthy. And then yeah, it shows us How to Draw two GI Joe characters. It shows us How to Draw Hawk and Major Blood. And it shows us How to Draw the Sky Striker. Now, you know, that's a challenge. You know, that's a challenge. WJGC, Metal Head was awesome in Boston, the arcade game. Yes, Metal Head was in the arcade game as well. So here are some instructions for drawing Hawk's head. And as you can see, I haven't read the text, but as you can see, Hawk is generic white dude. So that's how you draw Hawk, just draw generic white dude. And here it's got the method of drawing like the full body. And this really isn't very different from my method. It's pretty basic. This is, I mean, this is how you do it, you know? You start with your stick that you're there with the frame and the joints and the ribcage and stuff. And you start flushing that out and then adding detail. So that's, I mean, that's it. Yeah, that's how you do it. Let's see what else it's got. So this, okay, it shows a few different ways to draw Hawk. But this is the best part. Drawing, oh, hello, peg warmers. It's okay to be late peg warmers. We are just happy that you're here. Nice to see you, peg warmers. So look here, since you're late peg warmers, I'm teaching everyone the official, how to draw G.I. Joe. You know, any comic book artist who has drawn G.I. Joe in any way other than this has not used the official method. So I think they should be just thrown right out. This one, it's official. It says it right in the title. So drawing the sky striker, you know, that's a challenge. So what you need to do is start with this triangle here. That's in good perspective. And then add some additional lines, another triangle there. And then just, you know, add the some circles for the fuselage, get that shape figured out there. And then boom, you have a sky striker. Four steps, four steps only to draw a sky striker. To draw a sky striker. So yeah, this is Blackthorne Publishing and, let's see, it has some credits. It says written by Dennis M. Francis and Andrea LaFrance, artwork copyright 1987 by Hasbro Inc. So these are the people responsible. And I like that it has like sort of like rewritten file cards for Hawk and Major Blood. It's like based on their file cards, but it's paraphrased a little bit. This is, see, this is a bit of ephemera that is fascinating. Also, on the page opposite of Beefy Man, it says that if you draw something, they'd really like to get a copy of it. They want you to send a copy to their address. Now, this address probably doesn't, they're probably not there anymore. Don't send anything to that address because you will just annoy whoever the poor, innocent people are who occupy that address now, which is almost certainly not Blackthorne Publishing. But look at this. Now, this is, oh, hello, Bart. Nice to see you. Bart says he needs to know how to draw the Baroness in Bikini book. I'll look for that one. I'll look for that one. It's probably just four easy steps. It's probably four easy steps. But look, check this out. Check this out. This is a two-step sky striker. So first, you just simply draw those lines. And boom, you have a sky striker. Boom! Step one. Step two. Bang! I should say bang. Bang! Sky striker. So then, this is amazing. You know, if you can draw with this level of skill, I think you should, like the comic book industry should just pick you right up. Here's MajorBlood, here's MajorBlood, his face. So MajorBlood is a little bit different. He is not generic white dude, like Hawk. He is a generic white dude, dark hair mustache, eye patch. So you can tell the difference, you know. Absolutely vastly different from our generic Hawk guy. And here he's got his mushroom head. And when I see it, when I see his helmet like this, it makes me, I just imagine him saying, thank you, Mario, but the princess is in another castle. It's like, that's a large mushroom-shaped helmet there. But same basic idea, you know, step one, two, three, and you have a MajorBlood. So, yeah, I found this. I just found it, you know. While I was looking for the G.I. Joe magazine, I was looking for the G.I. Joe magazine. Yeah, oversized helmet. You know who needs an oversized helmet? Like, I think this guy needs an oversized helmet. Oh, thank you, Danny Funfack, Regent over here on my face shield is reflected so he kills an enemy at close range. The last thing they will see is himself dying. That's a cool, that's actually a pretty cool thought. I like that thought. He is just, you know, devious enough and evil enough to think in those terms. And thank you, thank you for the super chat, Danny. But yeah, like, get him an oversized helmet. But yeah, no, this is great. I was looking for the G.I. Joe magazine, which I thought I had somewhere. I can't seem to find it, but I found this. And like I said, I did know that I had this, but I had forgotten. I had forgotten that I had it. But yeah, it's a cool thought, isn't it, Joe? So here, and Blackthorn, you may know Blackthorn Publishing for doing the 3D comics. This is one that was recently pointed out. So yeah, they did the G.I. Joe 3D comic. And actually, like when I first saw this, like look at how far the colors are off. Look at the colors. And how much that is off of the plate for the line art there. It's so bad. You know how like when they do 3D comics, they have like a red and the blue that are just shifted and you put the glasses on? Because this is so shifted, when I first saw it, I thought, oh, it's a 3D comic. No, it's not a 3D comic. It's an official how to draw G.I. Joe, but with the coloring so bad that it looks like it's off-centered for the purpose of 3D, but no, it's just off. So yeah, extremely quality work. That's why it's the official. And this is another thing you could get if you're so inclined. The official how to draw transformers from the same publisher. So you get your hands on that, learn how to draw transformers. You know, everybody's into the transformers. But yeah, so I believe like these guys went through the trouble of getting an official license for this thing. And so if they're gonna pay for a license, you better believe they're gonna slap official on the cover that officially licensed. That is, you know, if I paid for it, I would. Bankrupt 1989, when they paid a massive license for the Michael Jackson Moonwalker rights movie bombed and so did their comic. Yeah, that, that is a, that's a downside. That's a downside with just doing license stuff because the value of your product is tied to the success of the thing that you're licensing. Yeah, I wouldn't be interested, like comic tropes, I know that you've got a lot of topics to talk about. I like the odd stuff like that. I like stuff like these odd little publishers or like you did Lost Media this week and the golden age stuff. I know that that's not what most people watch. Those are probably not well watched videos, but I like them because they're weird and I like weird stuff. Looks like they used the box art as the model for the transformers book. Yeah, that's what it looks like. And on the other hand, like this is original art. This is like, and it shows you, it shows you how to draw it, you know? Like, check this out. Step one, step two, now you've seen both steps, you don't need to buy the book. You don't need to buy it. You now know everything. Yeah, the Lost Media, see that's the kind of stuff that I dig. I know that it's kind of a bit off the beaten track. Maybe the less popular stuff, but I'm a less popular guy. So that's what I go for. Oh, thank you Articulated Chad, Hill Hoodie. We're getting close to Augusta. Yes, okay, now let's talk about Joe Fest. Thank you, Chad. Thank you, Chad, whom I also had a chance to talk to recently. Thank you, Chad, for the segue. I'm not talking about the little two-wheel scooter, but the other segue to Joe Fest. So Joe Fest is coming up very soon. We are just a few weeks away, and I'm really excited. Nervous but excited, mostly excited, a little bit nervous, but mostly excited. It's the first long journey, the first long road trip that Marianne and I will be taking together. I think that's gonna go well. I really think that's gonna go great. We're gonna film it. We're gonna do an actual convention travel log and do a whole video profile of it. That's something that I promised to folks when I started the GoFundMe. Oh, thank you, James. I like weird stuff and I cannot lie. Yes, me too. And to the tune of the Big Butt song. It was in Kung Pao, and be careful when he plays the song about Big Bucks. He beats you up while he's playing it. But yes. Oh, thank you, Danny. Cobra Commander Face Shield idea is actually canon. That's cool, that's cool. So Joe Fest. Augusta, Georgia, June 9th through the 11th. I went last year. I'm looking forward to going this year. It's a little intimidating. It is so much, first of all, it's so much travel to get there in the first place. Second of all, once we get there, it's so much activity. And I really want to make sure to see everybody and say hi. It's, now that it's like just around the corner, it's really kind of, it's looming, it's looming. So Terrence has five skystrikers, eight rattlers. That's a pretty good dogfight. So for those of you who don't know, Joe Fest, I did start the GoFundMe. Thank you to everyone who contributed to that. You guys have helped tremendously. It would be very difficult to do that without your help. And I'm very grateful. As I said, I will do a video of the trip and the convention and I will have some help with it. So that is, the help is helpful. So did I get my blue headband? I don't have my blue headband, but I got an idea for what I'm gonna do with it. It's just, it's blue, right? It's a, where is it? This is what I'm doing. This is what I'm doing. I know what I'm going to do for it. I know what I'm going to do for it. But I haven't done it yet. I got ideas, I got ideas. Don't worry, don't worry. There's still some time. There's not a lot of time, but there's still some time. So Joe Fest, for those who aren't aware, back in the olden days, way back in the year 2018, in ancient times, there was an official GI Joe convention we call JoeCon. It was a traveling convention. They would do it in different cities each year. I went to all of them from 2014 to the one that finished it up in 2018 in Chattanooga. So I went to the last five of them. It was discontinued. There is no longer an official GI Joe convention. There are some really great regional conventions and I'll have to plug assembly required in Des Moines, Iowa. They do their thing in November and I've been to a couple of those now and I really love it. It's a great show. It's a smaller show, but it's a great show. It's a lot of fun and I get to see some people that otherwise I would only see at Joe Fest. Joe Fest, however, has sort of become a rallying point for those of us who used to meet up at JoeCon. It is, it's bigger than a lot of the regional shows. It's not as focused on GI Joe as the original show, or if not, sorry, it's not as focused on GI Joe as the regional shows, but it still has quite a few GI Joe stuff. I mean, Larry Hama will be there. Sergeant Slaughter will be there. People related to GI Joe will be there. There's still plenty of GI Joe there, but there's also a bunch of comic book stuff, wrestling stuff, so they have more than GI Joe, and they're attracting an audience other than just GI Joe fans, but there's enough GI Joe there that it's kind of become not a replacement JoeCon, but kind of a substitute JoeCon. Like I said, it's not official. There's some things that it can't do. There's some things that it can't do. This is something that Hasbro is likely to never show up for, and sometimes Hasbro did show up for JoeCon. Sometimes they would have a panel at JoeCon. They're not likely to do that at any unofficial convention. I mean, this is not licensed, and if they're gonna show up in an official capacity, they would probably want to do that for somebody who is licensing the rights to the convention. To my knowledge, there has not been any rumors of re-licensing that convention and starting up JoeCon again. Bart will be at JoeFest. So anyway, in the meantime, if you have a chance to go to any GI Joe show, a regional show, a big show, a small show, it doesn't matter, I recommend going. It is an experience that you will enjoy. WWD says 2018 when I discovered the thing. Well, thank you. Thank you for discovering me, and thanks for still being here. But yeah, go to a show. If you can. If it's not within your range, if you can't for some reason, if it's too far or too expensive, don't over-stress yourself just to go to a show. But if you can go to a show, I do recommend it. There are other GI Joe-focused shows around the country at different times of the year. So Marianne, thank you for stopping by Marianne. I will talk to you later. And see you later. If you wanna meet Marianne, meet me at Joe Fest. But go to a show if you can. Go to a show if you can. Go to any show if you can. If you're able to go to Joe Fest, that is the one where I usually am. Now, I skipped a couple of years because of the pandemic. You're aware of that, it was in the news. It was in the news. There's this whole disease all around. So I skipped a couple of years for that, but I went back last year, and I'm going back this year. And last year, it really was like picking up where we left off. I really missed all these people that I used to see on an annual basis. So yeah, as much as possible, I'm going to make that a regular annual thing. Now, affording the trip is a challenge. We're already committed to going. If this is something that you can help with, there is a link for the GoFundMe in the description of this video. I would request that if you are wanting to help, if you have to make a choice between helping me and helping somebody else, then help somebody else before me. I do not want any funds to go to me that could go to getting somebody else there. But it definitely would help. It is, it's a fairly expensive trip, especially coming from where I'm coming, which is really far away. So I do appreciate the help. I appreciate everybody who's already helped. So thank you very much. And like I said, I will be doing a video for the whole show. HCC7 at ACON 2024, that's right. Well, it should be. I have the slightest idea how to put on a convention. I wouldn't even know where to start. Extra money behind the Waffle House, I could. Thank you for the suggestion, Comic Troops. Always here with the helpful suggestions. Thank you so much. But what was I saying? Joe Fest, yeah, if you can make it, please do. And if it's your first time going to a show, if your first time interacting with the G.I. Joe fan community, please don't feel like an outsider. A lot of us there will already know each other, but that doesn't mean that we don't want to know you. So find me there, come and say hi to me. Let's hang out. We'll just hang out. We'll talk about G.I. Joe. There are panels to go to, people to meet. So please don't feel like an outsider. I will admit that I did feel like an outsider for the first two or three years that I went to JoeCon. And I don't want anybody to feel like that way. So please do find me. I will not have a table this year. I did have a table last year and in 2009, but I decided I wanted the freedom to get out and wander. And the table is just too much of an anchor. I wanted to mingle. I wanted to be mobile. So I decided I opted to not do a table this year, but I will not be difficult to find. I will not be difficult to find. Thursdays at JoeFest are pants optional. I'm not, that's for the after hour stuff. But at least for part of the time, I should be cosplaying our friend Tiger Force out back. So, that involves wearing a bright orange shirt that I'm not difficult to spot. So yeah, that's all I really wanted to say about JoeFest. I will need to talk about it more as it gets closer just because it's a big event that is right in the middle of my schedule. And it's important. It's gonna take more time, concentration, and focus. Turd says, thanks for the flag assembly. Oh, you're welcome. I used it this last week to put mine together for the first time. Oh, thank you. I'm really glad that it's helpful. Thank you very much. I appreciate that very much. Anyway, yes, so that's what I wanted to talk about JoeFest. It's coming up. It's coming up. It's coming up. I know I'm repeating myself because it's a big thing. It's a big trip. It's a big step. Like I said, the first long range road trip that I'm taking with Marianne, I feel that, you know, we've been around each other long enough. I feel like that's gonna go fine. I feel like that's gonna go really well. But nonetheless, it's big. And it's gonna be on my mind more and more as we get closer. So I'll probably talk about it a bit more as we run up to it. Get a helium balloon that says HCC with a down arrow and tie it to your waist. That's fantastic. Great idea. So that everybody, even like, even the guys way over there, just look for the balloon. Look for the balloon. Marianne is my girlfriend, Terrence. That's Marianne. Now, I did wanna show you something. I wanna show you something. There was something that was posted on the social medias. I have to give credit for it. It was Alan Belk who posted it and Larry Hama shared it, which is how I saw it. So order of battle. This is something that you probably knew about and I probably knew about, but I haven't looked at it in a long time. Oh, thank you, Joe Fan. You should do a review on helium. A review on helium. So I need to find some way for helium to tie in to a G.I. Joe review. So I'll have some reason to do the helium voice. So these order of battle issues, there's four issue miniseries. The first three issues, basically reprint G.I. Joe file cards with some new artwork by Herb Trimpey. And of course, I turned to the page that has Rocky Balboa who, well, that's a famous story, we won't go into that. But something that I probably knew but had forgotten is that some of these file, some of these entries have information additional to the file card. So here we go. So this is the entry for rock and roll. 1982 machine gunner. This is the file card for rock and roll. That's the entire text on the file card from 1982. All right. This has a whole bunch more text on it than that 1982 file card. And I find this interesting. I haven't looked at, to be truthful, I haven't looked at rock and roll in a while. But this refreshed my desire to look at this again. It has not one but two psychological profiles. The first one is from Colonel D. O'Neill USA, USA MC. And the second one is Sergeant E5 John Doe identity classified and based on the information here, this second profile has got to, must have been written by snake eyes. It has to be. The following is not a transcript of a taped interview as the other profiles, but was submitted typed on Army stationery because it's from snake eyes, right? It's from snake eyes. So yeah, I just thought this was fun. I don't believe I touched on this in my rock and roll review. I should have. You know, this is the kind of thing that I, I'd like to go back and update because I feel like this should be included. So there's a, it adds a lot of text that is not in the original file card. And this is something that is a little bit special about these order of battle comics. Now, most of them copy the, copy the file cards verbatim. Most of them add nothing, but here's another one. Steeler with two, two psychological profiles. Now this, this is, this is very interesting. And I think like I haven't looked at this for a while because I haven't covered these early figures in a while. And I need to do that. You know, I will admit that I've been looking at a lot of 90s stuff because, well, I need to get through some of the 90s stuff and so I'm trying to pick out some of the 90s stuff that is tolerable and that, that I can deal with, that I can get through. But I need to get back and look at some of those earlier 80s figures that I haven't in a while. And that just, that's what reminded me of that. That's what that made me think of. And I did want to, I was thinking about this too. I was thinking about this too. So, I, last week I went back and I was looking through my old videos. I was trying to find something that I did. I couldn't remember what it was, or where it was. But I was trying to find it. This required me to watch some of my old videos. And I tell you, some of the old ones are pretty rough. Hello, Kujo. Thanks for being here, Kujo. Some of my early videos, man, I have a hard time watching them. And I thank you for everyone who watches them. I have a hard time watching myself, especially in those early videos. But that's not the only thing. Sometimes in those early videos, I have incorrect information and I hate that. Now, I know that everybody makes mistakes and I will make mistakes. I make mistakes all the time. But I don't like to make mistakes. And unfortunately, the format of a video review is not very conducive to going back and correcting later. Right? I need to, you know, I basically need to re-edit the video and re-upload it. And then what do I do? Do I take the old one down? If I take the old one down, then, you know, all the comments are gone, you know, any conversations that were happening in the comments, that's wiped away. But if I keep both of them, then somebody might stumble on the old uncorrected video instead of the new corrected video. So what do I do about that? In the past, I have tried doing like a pinned comment at the top, but not everybody reads that. Not even everybody watches the video in a format where they can easily look at the comments. So some people won't even see it. So I don't know exactly what to do about that, but I do know that there are things about earlier videos that I'd really like to correct. But doing so is not, is not so easy. But anyway, anyway. What was the, let's see, picked up European missions. Oh, that's cool. Michael, what about Herb Trimpy? Oh, Herb Trimpy, that is how his name is pronounced. And believe me, I said it wrong for a long time until I heard it spoken by people who actually knew him. So this artwork is by Herb Trimpy, who has passed away a while back. It's unfortunate that we'll not be able to meet him. But, oh, you know what? It's time, look at the time. It is time to go. I don't wanna overstep Watson Joe Mine. Their show is coming up next. And I have got to set up. I've got to set up to record the next video. I've gotta do a set up real quick as soon as I'm done here. I can't go over, go over to Watson Joe Mine. I just realized that I didn't get to the gung-ho. We'll get the gung-ho next time. We'll open gung-ho next time. But thank you, everyone, for being here. Thank you for watching The Metalhead Review. Thank you for your support for JoeFast. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I will see you all next week. Bye, everybody. See you later.