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The year is 1939 and a twisted alliance between a hate-crazed dictator and a ruthless general has left Europe in flames, in chains. The world's only hope against the threat-the creation of an elite counterstrike force. Code name: G.I. Joe. But are even the Joes tough enough to take down this evil empire when it enlists the aid of a merciless army of alien war machines known as the Decepticons?

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great re-imagining, 4 May 2005

By	A. Clifford "Spectre" (England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

When Dreamwave decided to do a crossover between the popular Transformers and GI Joe lines, they could quite easily have gone for a rehashing of one of the old 1980's marvel crossover stories - instead they have created a whole new world to explore, featuring excelent art work and a truly revolutionary take on the two properties. Worth 5 stars for the snake-eyes / storm-shadow subplot alone.

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1.0 out of 5 stars The worst GI Joe & Transformer title to date, 4 Sep 2004

By	Chris (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews

This is the worst GI Joe/Transformers story I've read todate, and I include in that appearences as seperate entities, not just cross overs. Frist the art work: dire. The transformers in particular are appalingly drawn and the colouring consists almost entirely of blacks, browns and greens (including the sky). This may have been an attempt to create a 30s photograph look but it fails. Then there's the story - the resurection of the Transformers is basically one unanswered question but has something to do with a monastery I think. The concept of an organisation such as Cobra operating in the era doesn't work and then we are led to believe that Cobra and their robot allies have decimated Europe and enslaved the population overnight (leveling Paris, Berlin, Roem and the Maginot line in one swoop. Not bad going even by Decepticon standards!). To make things worse, when the action gets going there's a ratehr boring series of fights between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow. I admit I'm not too big a fan of this rivalry being over used in any version of the Joes but in this case there is just no dynamic to the art work and also bizar twists - one moment Storm Shadow is on a battlement, next frame he's fighting a shark - and the artist apepars to have been incapable of conveying the dynamics of such a fight (and the art work was so bad I didn't know ol'Storm Shadow was udnerwater till the shark appeared!).
The appeal of this story for me was seeing Transformers in different modes. I won't spoil the story for you (the Dreamweave team have proved quite capable of that) but just to say little is made of this great opportunity (guess what, the art work doesn't help). That said the tarnsformation of Shockwave is one of the more inspired parts of this lack lustre story (as for other transformations, I'll just take the artist's word on it as they either don't transform (despite lengthy discussions on the subject in the designer's notes) or their vehcile modes are too badly drawn to tell). In short, don't buy this book! See Dreaweaves other TF works or Devil's Due far superior crossover. By far my worst purchase from Amazon to date!

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2.0 out of 5 stars confused and let down, 15 Oct 2005

By	Jonathan King (bo'ness, scotland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought the first issue of the comic series then couldnt find it again so after about a year I decided to buy this book just to satisfy my curiosity. THIS IS AWFUL!!! the story is hard to follow the art is too dark, never allowing a full look at the transformer in question. The story is just absurd, how could an organisation like COBRA appear out of nowhere. I regret ever buying this book.

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