G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode 5: "New Recruits (Part 4)"

The finale of the "New Recruits" 4-Part Story Arc is here! I had fun with this shoot, if it's not evident by the stuff from the Director's commentary at the end of last post.

Be sure to click the photos to view them clearer and check after the last photo for some more Director's commentary!

This was one of those episodes that I ended up with an uneven amount of photos/videos and went "DAMN- I'm 2 panels short!". So I had to improvise. The shot with Raptor was supposed to be in this episode, but I totally fudged it and shot 2 quickie photos of Dr. Mindbender and Cobra Commander inside the mini-sub from the Cobra Bugg vehicle. This worked out because we had only heard about Cobra Commander up until this point and I felt it was a good way to tease him and also about what happened to Deep Six and some other missing G.I. Joe. You can't notice on the Instagram posts, but here in the photos original wider format, you can juuuust about make out a shelf

with other joes in the top left corners.

There was also an alternative second panel for this episode that was the exact same photo used as the last panel in Episode 4.

It's funny, because what I did instead of reusing that photo, was to reuse a photo from Episode 5 instead LoL. I told you guys I had run out of photos for the final part, I was desperate.

Another noteworthy thing is this is the first episode since the Prelude episode where there is not one video clip. Initially there was supposed to be a scene when Countdown and Fast Draw (or maybe Fast Draw was just there as a gag? I can't remember) "float down" from their look out posts to see the new vehicles.

Needless to say, none of these worked quite right and I scrapped them in favor of just using an un-used photo of Countdown from Episode 2 (which was just a different angle of how he was shot in that episode) and that worked just fine.

Next episode switches the focus to the Cobra side of things for a 3-part story arc that turned this entire comic series on its ear. If you are a fan of other 80's Hasbro toys, you have to check them out!

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