G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode : 15 "Arise, Destro, Arise!"

For some reason, self-contained episodes of G.I. Joe: 3.75 Division are fewer in number for me. I guess I just like telling larger stories and getting hampered with less photo space forces me to break them into multiple parts.

This episode was really rough for me to write and basically it just exists to provide some backstory to a future story arc idea that I had.

Check it out below and be sure to click each image to expand it for easier reading and then look at the director's commentary after the last photo.

Okay so here is the history with this episode. I shot all these photos on May 24th 2021, only a day after I shot Episode #1 of this series.

At that time, the plan was a very G.I.Joe centered photo comic set in the Secret World of Toyeboxia RPG universe with very little non-Joe toys showing up at all.

I had no real plans for these photos, just a loose story with a group of roughly 10 Iron Grenadiers figures led by Darklon. They were hunting for an Iron Grenadiers Destro to lead them and finally found one.

The idea to make them kind of crazy came from me having NO IDEA what I wanted the dialgoue to be, so having them quote the old Iron Grenadiers toy commercial in a an almost insane and "cult-like" way was an easy fix.

Below is an alternate Panel 2 that for some reason I opted to change the dialgoue for some reason.

There were also another 5 panels that were cut for space. Alot of the dialgoue was easily mashed into a "Narrator's box" to keep the panel count below 11 panels. They are perfectly good shots, they just made it too long.

All those above shots were pretty consecutive too, basically it was Darklon talking to Destro after he was animated but still trapped inside the blister bubble. Darklon orders the Nullifier to get Destro out, he rushes to get a razor blade to free him. Like I said, 5 panels compressed into one narrative text bubble can save a LOT of space.

These next three short videos were shot within the universe but, again, they were cut for space and "run time". All of them are perfectly fine, it would have just made it too long.

Between all these cut photos and videos, there are about 18 panels worth of content. But using these would have meant trying to shoot 2 more panels for two even-numbered 10-panel episodes and I honestly had no use for a 3rd faction in the mix of this photo comic series.

This series was always intended to be about Captain Grid-Iron's team of Joes trying to survive and defeat Cobra Commander once and for all. Adding in Destro and his Iron Grenadiers was going to make it too messy, so these photos sat unused for months.

Then I had a great idea for them, but only needed 10 panels worth to set up who these toys are (stay tuned for the pay out on that).

Onto more uploads!

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