G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode : 11 "Wake Up Call (Part 2)"

Part 2 of "Wake Up Call" is here and now we get to finally interact with brand new Joes for Captain Grid-Iron's team.

As usual, click the photos to enlarge them for easier viewing and check after the last photo for some more Director's commentary!

This is a really good episode to have on the blog versus Instagram because there are so many figures and angles that get cut out due to the square photo sizes on Instagram.

I did have to crop panel 3 because the gray text box at the bottom is Stretcher speaking to Hot Seat off camera BUT with Updraft right there, the reader could could have gotten mixed up as to who was talking.

Seen for the first time in these past 3 episodes is Stretcher's Med Bay. This was made from an old 3.5" Floppy Disk storage case that I had, but was broken. I felt it makes sense for living toys to scavenge and build equipment they don't have on hand and having a medical bay is 110% useful as living toy medic.

If you look in panels 5 and 6 you will see little digital readouts on the table part of the Med Bay. These are listed as follows:

Life: How many points of imagination energy are within the living toy on the med bay table.

Years: This is how many years the toy on the table has been animated. Hot Seat and Updraft were JUST animated so they have a reading of 0.001 which may or may not be a real unit of measuring this- I admit I didn't do alot of work on that one.

Sickness: If a toy has some sort of living toy ailment, the scanner bed would pick this up and display the name of the illness here.

Lastly, I drew the same medic symbol Stretcher has on his left arm on the floor of the Med Bay to sort of tie the two together a bit more.

Lastly, the final 2 panels of this episode were shot a week or two after I shot the majority of this episode when I realized I was a few photos short. I try to keep every episode on Instagram at 10 panels per episode, and I take enough photos to fill that out- unless some photos are junk or cut for time/continuity purposes. If you look, the lighting is just slightly "off" from the previous panels.

Onto Episode 12!

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