(It's also the comic that inspired the best part of both previous Joe movies - that insanely cool nine-minute, Himalayan ninja fight in G.I. Joe #21, "Silent Interlude," in which no one speaks. Indeed, in the featurette below, Golding remembers the character as always having been the "silent ninja," while noting that Hama helped fully establish that feature of the fan-favorite character in 1984's G.I. And he has remained pretty much silent ever since. Joe #26 and #27, "Snake-Eyes: The Origin, Part I" and "Part II."īefore that though, Hama had established the coolest character in the franchise as the Uzi-carrying ninja, who silently did cool ninja things. He literally wrote the book on the character's ninja business background - which we expect to see some form of in the film - particularly in G.I. So it's especially exciting to see that Hama (who's also responsible for many of those informative file cards from the Hasbro toy line) is helping to promote Paramount's upcoming Henry Golding-starring Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic book writer/artist Larry Hama is the reason fans are still clamoring to hear even more tales about that most daring of highly trained special mission forces. Perhaps more than any other individual, G.I.
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