G.I. Joe: Special Missions #3 - Video Review by 80s Comics

GI Joe Special Missions issue number three here on 80sComics.com. This book is intense and the cover speaks for itself. For starters, we’ve got a custom van driven by GI Joe crushing enemies while Leatherneck and Stalker machine‑gun them. At the same time, on the back cover, we have Gumby. Gumdinger Adventures. That’s nice. Burnout. From February 1987 in a Middle Eastern country, the Joes are meeting with this burned‑out ex‑Vietnam pilot who’s drinking and smoking in that shot. Ah, love the 80s. In the children’s comic book with Gumby on the back cover.

So there’s this map of importance. He’s slipping that to the Joes, but then he gets captured in front of the laser tag statue and is almost tortured by the enemies until he breaks free and smashes a chair over their head. While Spider‑Man watches. Wait, no, that’s the next page, sorry. Free the Captain Mystery, Captain Crunch. That stuff was terrible. Why would anyone eat Captain Crunch when Froot Loops exists. It doesn’t even make sense. The most overrated cereal ever.

So the guy breaks free. There’s lots of machine‑gunning and explosions and a custom van chase with missile launchers. It’s like Navy SEALs in comic book form. But at the very end here, we’re getting near the end of the book, and I recommend that you read this one because it’s a lot of fun when you sit down and actually admire the artwork and the storytelling.

The Joes have to invade this enemy air base, right. And there are SAM missile launchers all over the place. The map we saw earlier in the issue showed the location of all of these SAM missile launchers, which of course the Joes alerted the Air Force about. So the Air Force planes are coming and they know where all the missiles are. But there’s one SAM missile base they did not know about, the one the guy who was being tortured earlier with the screwdriver in front of Gumby or whatever, he knew about.

So lots of explosions, awesomeness. Make a long story short, the Joes are here to steal this thing, a futuristic 1980s Yak‑38, but they can’t take off. So they have to push it into a giant cargo plane. That’s what they do here. They push it into a cargo plane and they take off, but there’s that one SAM missile installation they don’t know about. So the Joes are about to get blown up, but at the very end, I feel like I have to show you this because it’s touching.

Their friend, the guy who was drinking and smoking earlier, he crashes his plane into the enemies and blows them up, all while the Care Bears, Lion‑O, and He‑Man watch. It’s actually touching. This one’s intense. I told you this one was intense. I’ve got a tear in my eye right now. To know that Lion‑O stood by and watched shows courage. 80sComics.com. If anything, He‑Man could have stepped in there and done something.