2012 has started off with a bang after a solid week of some great books. TopCow/Image jumped out front with Witchblade #151 and Artifacts #13 which I will point out were two extraordinary books in themselves. But Chuck Dixon scribes a story that would stand up with some of the best Larry Hama issues of G.I. Joe A Real American Hero in the late 80's at Marvel. Alex Cal is the right pick for the art duties on this book by far, he gets better issue after issue of G.I. Joe. I usually hold any G.I. Joe, Transformers and other pop culture 80's books at a higher standard than your normal run of the mill comic, the reason behind that mindset is that most pop culture books are frowned upon and not put in the same bracket as your run of the mill super hero book from one of the major companies. But I must say that these books have had there staying power for almost three decades. This issue is just awesome and has a major re-read factor, I went through this book three times. Also a great jumping on point with this new nine part story arc beginning. IDW has stepped up there game with there G.I. Joe line, Marvel is the original series and IDW is in a close second place.
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