G.I.Joe 

Celebrating the Classic GI Joe Episode: ‘Cobra Claws Are Coming to Town’

Story by Mitchell Smith Welcome to The Outpost. Today I’m taking a look at one of my favorite GI Joe episodes “Cobra Claws Are Coming to Town”. Everything about this episode is so great and I don’t only watch it at Christmas time. It starts out with Firefly planting a mini Cobra army in the children’s Christmas toy drive trailer. I love the white trailer in this episode and that they are using the Awe Striker in a snow storm to pull it. Then there is an unlikely crew that…

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G.I.Joe 

A Look Back at the Iconic 1986 GI Joe Episode “Arise, Serpentor, Arise!

Story by Mitchell Smith Welcome to the Outpost. Today I’m taking a look at the the 1986 episode 1 of the 5 part miniseries Arise, Serpentor, Arise! At this point in Gi Joe history there were many great characters established. Even some of smaller characters had action figures with file cards and may have had a larger part in the comics. At the time it was hard to believe there could be a lot of new and exciting characters created. Millions of kids like me had become accustomed to characters…

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