Coooooobbbbrrrrrrraaaaaaaaa!!!

So I've been reviewing and posting lots of G.I. Joe figures lately, but no mention of Cobra figures. We all know that a hero is only as good as his villains. Luckily the Joe's had a great villain in Cobra Commander. Yeah he was portrayed as wacky and over the top in animated series, but anyone who read the comics knows he was really a badass. He was a trained ninja just slightly below th elevel of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow. Yeah his plots for world domination were usually absurd and over the top, but he was still a pretty fierce villain.



While most people tend to gravitate towards the Cobra Commander figures that have the blue and gold (or silver) color scheme I've always thought that this version (the 6th version of CC from 1993) with the black and silver color scheme was better. It made Cobra Commander seem serious and more like a threat. This was one of the later series of Joe's that didn't have a very detailed file card, but described all the weapons that CC carried. This figure came with a ridiculous red Cobra cannon. That seemed to be the downfall of the later Joes, as they all had to have ridiculously large missle firing weapons. I guess America was over the ridiculous kids who shot themselves in the eye with the Boba Fett with the rocket-firing jet pack. None of these weapons were very interesting. What I really like about this figure was the color scheme and how different it was. Most people are such purists and can only see CC in blue and gold... I think this figure in black worked a lot better.