G.I. Joe: 3.75 Division Prelude

This was the mini episode that started it all, and was shot entirely in my parent's attic. Director's commentary after the last photo below and click the pictures for a clearer view of the text.

The main point of this episode was to quickly establish how (for lack of a better term) screwed my G.I. Joe toys were- and inadvertently it was all my fault! Over the years I had gotten out of G.I. Joe and sold off stuff to local collectibles stores or to my friend Dave (and that was to basically help him build his army for "The War" he had with his friend Rich). This really depleted the number of G.I. Joe toys I had, but Cobra always seemed to hang on to more stuff.

Then I started following @ToysAndTomfoolery over on Instagram and saw he began a series of posts covering old 1990's 3.75" G.I. Joe figures. I don't know if it was the poses, the comedy, the excellent photos of the figures or a combination of all that, but in April of 2021 something *clicked* in my head and I had realized selling off so many of my Joe toys was a HUGE mistake.

This prompted me to start rebuilding my collection and from April of 2021 to about September 2021 my Instagram page became hyper focused on 3.75," vintage G.I. Joe toys. I did whatever I had to in order to get them. I traded away toys I no longer used or wanted to put towards the purchases of vehicles and figures, and in doing so really learned what toys I truly enjoyed, and which ones I was just holding onto out of fear of never seeing them again.

After that, the idea for the comic came into being and I tied it into my role-playing game, The Secret World of Toyeboxia as a way to help promote the game and explain alot of the lore through the filter of G.I. Joe action figures.

So between May 23rd 2021 and September 18th 2021, I cranked out thirty two, 10-panel episodes- that's over three hundred photographs of content in a roughly 4 month period.

Needless to say I was a bit obsessed. I took a long hiatus and didn't post the 33rd episode until July of 2022 and the 34th episode on the very last day of 2022- a mere 30 minutes before the bells chimed midnight. This year I am hoping to put more episodes up as I have enough photos to make at least 6 more before I need to start doing photo shoots again.

Stay tuned here often as I get all the episodes transferred over and I love talking about it, so feel free to comment below with any questions.

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G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode 35: "To go boldly..."

Man a LOT of time has lapsed between putting new episodes of the comic up hasn't it? Episode 34 debuted on July 7th 2022 and episode 35 wouldn't debut until December 31st 2022- and exactly thirty minutes from midnight to boot! Alot of insanity has cropped up in my personal life prohibiting me from doing more photo shoots and progressing the story as I wanted it to, but from chaos comes order (so to speak). Episode 35 is monumental because it's the start of a new concurrent story arc that will be taking place parallel to the " The Rescue of Deep Six " story arc I've been showing since 2021. I'm really enjoying this other story arc and I hope you all well too. As usual, click the photos to enlarge them for easier viewing and check after the last photo for some more Director's commentary! Okay fun Fact? I totally didn't remember that the first episode of this series was titled "To bodly go...", so it's rather appropriate that this ne...

G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode 39: "Escape- Part 1"

It's taken over a year but we're finally getting close to wrapping up " The Search for Deep Six " story arc that's been under the surface for the entire series. We are just one episode away from hitting 40 of these photo comics I've created and it blows my mind just thinking about it. I really think keeping to a 10-panel format works extremely well at keeping me from going to extreme and making 25+ panel photo comics like I used to do. This episode kicks off our 2-part season finale ending with episode #40 next week. More G.I. Joe: 3.75 Division episodes will be coming, but closer to November as I have to shoot more episodes starring Rock 'n Roll, Dial Tone and Pathfinder ( that I hinted at back in episodes 35 and 36 ). The series will follow them for a while but touch back on the core 3.75 Division team periodically until I have time to set up and shoot those episodes. Okay enough of me jabbering, as per the usual, click the photos below to enlarge the...

G.I. Joe- 3.75 Division Episode 37: "The Lab"

Okay we're back people ( I have no idea how many people read these here, but welcome if you do! ), it's been almost 5 months since our last episode but I really wanted to get moving on this photo comic again as I really do enjoy writing and shooting photos for it. As of this writing I have enough photos to probably get to episode 40 before I need to set up more scenes to photograph, maybe enough to get to episode 41 ( I haven't story boarded past Episode 38 so I presently can't say ). Episode 37 marks our return to the "Search for Deep Six" story arc that's been going on behind the scenes since this photo comic began almost 2 and a half years ago ( holy crap where did the time go?? ) and the photos in this episode were all shot on September 11th 2021. What's crazier? I put Episode 37 up on Instagram on September 11th 2023- two YEARS later to the day. Totally unintentional as I just looked at the dates on the original photos while writing this introduct...

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