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Matt L
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Minneapolis. Comics. Cats. Action Figures. Weird bad movies. Weird good movies. Wrestling maybe? I dunno.
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#JoeVember2025 Day 18 Crossover

Being a Sonic Fighter didn't prepare Road Pig for Guile's Sonic Boom.
A photograph of two action figures in front of a building backdrop. On the left side of the screen, Guile, in a green tank top with green camoflage pants, brown boots, and a blonde flattop haircut is in a crouched pose, his arms crossed over his chest throwing his signature "Sonic Boom" move. On the right of the screen, Road Pig, a large tattooed individual wearing black football pads on a bare torso and blue jeans with black leather chaps and armored boots reels back, having been hit by the sonic boom into some barrels which have broken.
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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#Joevember2025 Day 17 Science Fiction

Cornered within a GI Joe base, Zartan activates his holographic image inducers and transforms his appearance into that of General Hawk. He's got the look down, but can he nail the performance well enough to get the files he came for?
A photo of a GI Joe Classified figure. The figure stands in front of a metal wall with a red stripe. Zartan, in brown with blue armor is transforming into General Hawk, who's nametag, helmet and jacket have appeared over Zartan's body, crackling energy at the edges of the visual transformation.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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#Joevember2025 day 16 - Technology

Zartan inspects his Chameleon Swamp Skier prior to infiltrating a Cobra Terrordrome. It’s amateur to risk your escape route for lack of preparation and Zartan is anything but.
On a moonlit night, Zartan wearing a brown leather hood, blue and black armor and gauntlets and brown pants crouches behind a bright green motorcycle like vehicle with dark green skis instead of wheels. A black jet engine is beneath the body and seat of the vehicle. A stylized logo of a black and yellow chameleon on a lightning bolt is on the front of the vehicle below the control bars.
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#JoeVember2025 Day 15 catchup

Merchandising.

Got both of these in the mid 90s, funky backstock I guess? I remember the Woolworth’s had what seemed like hundreds of the Show Case an entire wall really. I got the band-aids at the Cub Foods, my mom indulging my collecting from early on.
A photo of a GI Joe Collectors Show Case, a plastic American flag with the GI Joe logo and “Collectors Show Case” in the blue area where the stars normally would be. Every other red stripe on the flag has a slot behind it into which white plastic clips that fit around a GI Joe figure’s waist can be placed and the flag itself can be hung on a wall or stand on its own using two feet. In front of the flag is a box of GI Joe branded plastic adhesive bandages which uses the art from the Flint hardback. The actual bandages are green with dark green camouflage and the GI Joe logo with red white and blue stripe repeating over the camo at an angle.
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Yeah. Golden really understood the assignment. Tweak a neat real world vehicle, slap on some guns, and give it a cool color scheme. Exactly how Hasbro did it a lot of the time which helps explain its longevity. That, and it filled a minor, but important storytelling role.
November 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Custom Marvel Legends Howard the Duck. Same recipe most people used, Fortnite legs modded to the Legends figure. I did shorten them, maintain the proportions, and now I have both the Quinones and Colan/Brunner versions for my shelf. Waugh!
Custom figure of Howard The Duck. He’s a cartoony duck in a brown suit and pork pie hat. His webbed feet bare below his pant cuffs. Custom figure of Howard The Duck. He’s a cartoony duck in a brown suit. His webbed feet bare below his pant cuffs. Shown from the side, he’s kicking his left leg forward. Custom figure of Howard The Duck. He’s a cartoony duck in a brown suit and pork pie hat. His webbed feet bare below his pant cuffs. He stands next to the original Howard look, a duck looking much like Donald Duck, in a blue sport coat with red tie and a small blue hat. He wears no pants, exposing his orange duck legs and feet.
November 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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#JoeVember2025 day 14, Large Vehicle.

Never had a toy, didn’t have an official name until recently, but the Cobra Aspid, designed by Michael Golden and first appearing in Yearbook #2 is one of the most enduring comic original designs. Love this thing, maybe it’ll get a toy someday.
A panel from GI Joe Yearbook #2 with art by Michael Golden depicting a purple heavy lift helicopter. It has large dual nose cannons, a shark mouth design painted on the nose, and carries a large black cargo command pod.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Dani took (most of) the day off, so after we cleaned the yard up some, we went to the free zoo. 60+ degrees and sunny in mid November meant lots of lazy cats. We have a nice dinner coming up here too (thanks @pjlind.bsky.social ! )

Things are still weird, but nice to take a day together.
A mountain lion laying on his side next to a blue bucket. His front legs tucked against his chest. Poor guy had his eyes removed to prevent infections, but he seemed pretty content. A snow leopard sleeping up against a fence. Another snow leopard melted across some rocks. Our cats Nigel and Haggerty snuggling up last night on the couch, on a blue blanket laying next to a green striped quilt. Haggerty is laying on Nigel’s side, next to his head.
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#JoeVember2025 day 13

For a comic image to recreate, I went for the biggy, the issue best known outside of the Joe world, issue 21, Silent Interlude. Written *and* drawn by the architect of G.I. Joe, Larry Hama.
A toy of GI Joe Snake-Eyes hangs from a rope against a black wall. He wears all black fatigues and gear, and a black mask with small slitted mouth vents and black goggles. He holds the rope above his head in his left hand, and fires an Uzi held in his right.
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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#JoeVember2025 day 12, Joe From Your Birth State.

Bazooka and Tripwire don’t have much in common. That said, and despite Tripwire mostly growing up in Japan, they’re both Hibbing MN boys, and as such, have fishing *opinions*. Bazooka uses Tripwire’s detector to demonstrate his casting technique.
A photo of two GI Joe Classified figures. Tripwire on the left wears brown fatigues with gray and green armor, his chest armor has a yellow, brown and black tiger stripe camouflage and he stands, holding his helmet in his left hand. Next to him stands Bazooka, in a white sports jersey with red stripes and a large red number 14. He also wears green combat pants with yellow tiger stripes. He holds a mine detector in both hands, back over his shoulder as if it were a fishing rod he were casting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Flint in the back of the command center as the team reports in on Cobra's movements while also talking about his goofy ass beret with safari flaps.
A screenshot from I Think You Should Leave of Tim Robinson in a fedora with safari flaps on the back. Text at the bottom reads "What the hell?"
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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#JoeVember2025 day 11, Veterans Day.

Hasbro has yet to do any of the Joe pilots or other characters from the Air Force in Classified so War Machine gets to represent that branch for now.
A picture of 4 action figures. GI Joe Classified Grunt, an Army soldier in green fatigues and helmet with brown boots, gloves and gear, Shipwreck, a Navy sailor in a light blue short sleeve shirt, sailor cap, and jeans, Marvel Legends War Machine, an Air Force Colonel in black and silver armor with a silver faceplate, and Classified Leatherneck, a Marine, in green fatigues with brown camo and a tan vest.
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#JoeVember 2025 day 10. Recruitment.

In the back room of a Sportsman’s Club a Fred series Crimson Guard and a Trooper talk with likely recruits, former and current military and law enforcement and those “concerned with the direction of their country”.
A Cobra Trooper in blue fatigues with black gear, armor, and mask sits at a folding table in front of a laptop. Next to her stands a Cobra Crimson Guard with his helmet off, in a red dress uniform. At the left of the scene , in front of the table, stands a man in a military jacket and green hat, holding a clipboard. At the right side of the table stands a man in a green tank top and camo pants, in sunglasses with a backwards baseball cap. He holds a cup of soda and gestures at the man on the left. Behind him stands another man in a grey jacket and genes talking to the Crimson Guardsman.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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#JoeVember2025 Day 9, Strike a Pose
A photo of an action figure of Flint from GI Joe. He wears a black buttoned shirt with the sleeves rolled up, a black beret, green combat pants with brown camoflage, black boots with green sides, and a brown belt and holster attached to a green harness with shotgun shells running down straps over his chest. He holds a green and black shotgun in his left hand, held across his torso. His right arm is raised, bent at the elbow with his hand in a fist.
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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#JoeVember2025 day 8, Firefight.

That dumpster isn’t gonna hold for long, but Wreckage thinks he might have something that’ll get them outta this jam.
A photo of action figures. They are in an alley, brick walls on two sides. Three GI Joes, Doc, Shockwave and Wreckage hide behind a green dumpster on the left of the image. They are flanked by pallets of cinderblocks and bricks. Shockwave, in blue camo fires blind over his shoulder while Doc, in brown fatigues checks on him and Wreckage, in black fatigues and a brown mask, reloads his submachine gun. On the right hand side, three Cobra SAW vipers, in purple and magenta armor and carrying low slung heavy machine guns fire towards the dumpster. An Alley-Viper, in neon orange with blue angular camo, carries a shield and a submachine gun and trails the SAW Vipers.
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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#JoeVember day #7 Sneaky.
A photo of some action figures. In a tech looking warehouse 3 men in black and gray fatigues with black armor, helmets and gas masks search for an intruder. Behind the three of them, Storm Shadow, Cobra ninja, clad in a white martial arts outfit with wrapped calves and wrists and a white mask that exposes only his eyes, holds a sword to the throat of the man at the rear, his head pulled back to expose his neck.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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#JoeVember2025 day 6 Leadership.

General Flagg dismisses Colonel Hawk after a meeting at Fort Wadsworth
A photo of two action figures. In the foreground stands GI Joe Classified Col. Hawk. He has blond hair with a military haircut, green fatigues, and black armor and belt. He salutes General Flagg in front of a brick wall. Flagg wears a green dress uniform, peaked cap, and gold rimmed black lensed sunglasses.
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Missed yesterday, so catching up. #JoeVember2025 Favorite Cobra. This’ll change next time I’m asked I’m sure, but I have *always* liked Raptor, and I’ve liked his goofy ass more the more I got to know him. Joe isn’t the only place an accountant in a bird suit could happen, but it’s one of the few.
A photo of a GI Joe Classified figure of Raptor, kneeling on the edge of a building roof. He’s lit in red, and wears brown pants, no shirt, a feathered vest and cowl in the appearance of a falcon and a technological wing pack with feather-like elements.
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Almost certainly due to the fact that the rights to story and art for Bizarre Adventures work was retained by the creators (Tom DeFalco and Herb Trimpe here) and Joe was *already* a licensed book Marvel and Hasbro rejected the original # 3. The Patrol was reworked into the Oktober Guard 2/3
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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#JoeVember2025 Day 4: Sub Team

As is my wont, going weird again with the Pravda Patrol. Did these figures for a Joecustoms Group Project. For those not in the know, The Pravda Patrol were originally going to appear in GI Joe #3 having shown up in an 8 pager in Bizarre Adventures prior. 1/3
A picture of 5 custom action figures of the Pravda Patrol. Most of them are wearing gray-green fatigues with lighter green helmets and gear with a red star on the brow. Sachi, the lone female has a quilted dark green jacket and Big Bear, the team's radio operator wears a bulky gray outfit with large brown straps and a traditional Russian hat.
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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#JoeVember2025 day 3, Favorite Joe

This is a tough one, but I think I’m gonna go for Lightfoot. His first appearance in Special Missons 13 really established him as a dedicated member of the team, and his second (and pretty much last) in 82, having to go through training again, stuck with me.
An Impel trading card of GI Joe character Lightfoot. He’s hunched over holding a green radio control device and commanding a red blob disposal robot. He wears a yellow jumpsuit with a black armor pad on the front and a blue helmet with red magnifying lenses.
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Christ I’m internet poisoned, because even with the full version of the abbreviation appearing twice prior, I absolutely didn’t take JO Day as they intended.
A LinkedIn screenshot of a post from Johnson Outdoors. The image shows a red canoe filled with donations below a lighted Johnson Outdoors sign with Loon logo. The post text reads “Since 2006, Johnson Outdoors has continued the tradition of gathering for our annual JO Day celebration.”
November 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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#JoeVember2025 Day 2, Troop Builder! I only got into Joe in ‘92 so finding old stock at KayBee was great. The Frag Viper grabbed me hard, and while I understood the idea of the gear, I didn’t actually learn what Jai Alai was for years. Now enjoy this brainworm for days.

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A photo of a GI Joe Classified Frag Viper figure. He wears a baggy orange jumpsuit with black boots and gloves. He has a blue harness and sash along with other blue gear. He wears a silver helmet with a mouth plate like an old radiator or car grille with big black lensed eyes. In his left hand he wields a submachine gun, and in his right stretched back, he carries a jai alai cesta launching a grenade. The cesta is connected via a large tube to his backpack to feed additional grenades to the cesta.
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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My collection is mostly Classified now, but this should be fun! Off the bat though, let’s get wild! For #Joevember2025 day 1, we’re going with the Locust, kinda. This is a vac molded sheet made with the original wooden form for the Hasbro presentation model of the Locust, and there’s a story . . 1/
A white vacuum molded plastic sheet, two sort of egg shaped forms are raised in the center, and the sheet is signed in black Sharpie A photo of the GI Joe Locust helicopter. It’s a brown, one seat helicopter with silver skids, large silver cannons on both sides and a silver tail rotor.
November 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I needed this today.
A page from Absolute Batman Annual number one. Top panel: various people fearfully emerge from their tents in the encampment they built outside of a town abandoned by capitalism. Second panel: a white guy in a blue shirt and jeans, Deejay, along with his cronies, another white guy and a white cop in a balaclava descend on the people in the camp, beating them with bats and billy clubs. Deejay says “Do you see us? Do you see me?!” Third panel: Deejay continues swinging his bat. In the foreground a mother and child huddle in fear. Deejay: “I am the new truth! I am power!” 4th panel: encampment denizens flee towards the reader. Deejay stands, his right hand over his chest, left arm outstretched holding his bat. Deejay: “PURE POWER!” 5th panel: Deejay, seen from below under a red and black sky throws a Seig Heil, right arm outstretched. Deejay: “ WHITE POW - -“ Continued from the prior page, a double page splash of Batman grabbing Deejay’s hand in his right hand, and bringing the heel of his left hand up into Deejay’s elbow, breaking his arm with a massive “KRAKK!” Deejay’s face distorted in pain and surprise.
October 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM