G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode 3: "New Recruits (Part 2)"

Part 2 of "New Recruits" starts right now, so get into it! Also: be sure to click each image to expand it for easier reading, and I'll see you below the last photo for some more Director's commentary!

The Trader Toy is just a Lanard C.O.R.P.S. space figure when it was first brought to life, but over the past 30 years, he upgraded his armor with a ton of hi-tech enhancements, with the main one being teleportation. This tech is so sophisticated that Trader can mentally activate it by just making some gestures and thinking about what he wants to teleport and from where. He still has to have seen or touched it for this ability to work, so while it is very powerful- it does have some limitations.

This was a fun episode in particular for me, because I started to talk more about the lore of a living toy as talked about in The Secret World of Toyeboxia RPG that I created. I had made a photo comic series on Instagram before called "The Adventures of the Insideoutsiders" or something to that effect, but it never really got that much interaction. So using something more approachable that people already know, i.e. G.I. Joe figures, it enabled me to reach a much wider audience.

Unlike in other stories, in The Secret World of Toyeboxia RPG not all toys are automatically alive and just pretending not to be. In this universe, toys must be brought to life and only in certain ways (more on that when we get to Episode 10). Stretcher as the team's medic is able to heal injured toys and detect their life force, so he's an invaluable member of the team for that reason alone.

I found this Raider vehicle at Time Warp Toys in Lake Grove NY and traded a bunch of old Transformers for it. I was excited to get it as I've wanted one for years and the driver, Hot Seat, was never removed from his blister bubble despite the vehicle already having been assembled. Once I was able to score this awesome vehicle, I knew I had to put it into the comic ASAP.

One last thing. I rarely talk or do voice work in the little video segments as I prefer to use word bubbles, and that feeling was shot home even more with this episode. I do NOT like how I sound in it and given another chance I would probably just put a text bubble in there LoL.

On to part 3!

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