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

This was a mini 5-panel episode I threw together once inspiration struck on or around January 13th of this year (2023). I was packing up our Christmas tree ornaments and saw my old 1983 Rock 'n Roll figure amongst the decorations. This was the first real time I had a few minutes to fiddle around with him in years and, since the core G.I. Joe: 3.75 Division was in storage...he was a member of that team that was not. This meant I had a character tie back to the core storyline and he would allow me to go into a "spin-off" of sorts. Enter this episode. As per usual, click the photos to enlarge them for easier viewing and check afterwards for more Director's commentary! My cousin Johnny who is a good 10 years my senior, got into G.I. Joe waaaay back in 1982 when it first came out. Then, as far as I can remember, around 1985 or early 1986 he got "to old for it" and gave his entire 1982-to-1985, Joe collection to me.  I found a random photo in my parent's photo

Okay this episode, aside from the mini episode with Rock 'n Roll is the most up to date episode of G.I. Joe: 3.75 Division that exists. Which means...we are just about all caught up! Dive right in and as usual, click the photos to enlarge them for easier viewing and check afterwards for Director's commentary and behind the scenes information!! This episode was pieced together entirely from random groups of photos I shot almost a year before putting this episode together. Normally during a photo shoot, I will shoot sequentially where each photo typically happens in the order it was shot. This episode is a Frankensteined amalgamation of photos from Episode 26 and extra shots during episode 31 and 32. I knew there might come a time when I couldn't shoot more scenes for episodes, especially of Dr. Mindbender's laboratory, so I made sure to bank lots of pictures that can be useful down the road.  I think it turned out pretty awesome, it continues where Episode 26 and 32 left

This episode was a long time coming honestly. Mainly because it took me 10 months to get time to shoot these photos and also because we ( the audience/readers ) have been aware of Deep Six being missing for the entire run of the series. Today, with this episode, we finally  start getting some closure on that arc with Splashdown, Captain Grid-Iron and Banzai diving down to The Deep  to actively rescue their lost teammate. Stuff is going to get nuts as we go forward the next few episodes, so buckle up people! As usual, click the photos to enlarge them for easier viewing and check after the last photo for some more Director's commentary! The Deep, or at least the entrance from the pool, is a cardboard backdrop created by the fine folks over at Extreme-Sets  and this episode would not look as large and grandiose without it.  As these are the stories of living toys, making a base out of cardboard, especially very nice cardboard like this, totally fits within the confines of the Secret

Okay the thrilling cliffhanger to "Season 1" of G.I. Joe: 3.75 Division  is here!  Well it wasn't supposed to be a cliffhanger, it's more just the ending to Year 1 of the photo comic series. Year 2 on the other hand...that was just 2 episodes long so I' going to mash those episodes into "Season 1" with "Season 2" starting here in 2023. Onto the episode! As usual, click the photos to enlarge them for easier viewing and check after the last panel for Director's commentary and behind the scenes information! No deleted scenes in this episode, aside from some alternate blurry photos, I was luckily able to extract everything I needed for the story of this one with what I had. I really do love re-vamping characters like Raptor  because, for so many die hard 1982 G.I. Joe kids, '87 is the year the Joe line started to "Jump the Shark". There was an inkling if it in '86, but by '87 things had gotten way less militaristic then th

Okay, this is the 2nd to last episode that went up in 2021. We are back in Dr. Mindbender's laboratory where he is showing Cobra Commander how he drains the ambient Kreateium energy from toys.  If you look at the first panel, you can see the fate befallen the poor Lego Fabuland mini figures from back in Episode 14. As per the norm, click the photos to enlarge them for easier viewing and check after the last panel for Director's commentary and behind the scenes information!  With this 2-part episode, I really wanted to showcase Dr. Mindbender's laboratory as a real set piece that I could resist for future episodes. So I shot a BUNCH of photos in there before dismantling it. Again I figured toys would use whatever building materials they could find, so they got a hold of some alluminum foil, cardboard and tape and made his laboratory that way. Since this happened, I got a hold of some Extreme-Sets and as they are cardboard AND designed to be set up and broken down easily, I o