You've Been Sleeping On This Comic?! | Junkyard Joe
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- Comics are an ever evolving landscape and the 2020s sees the attempted rise of a new comic universe, The Unnamed Universe. We're taking a break from Marvel Comics and DC Comics to visit an indie comics outing being published through image. Meet Junkyard Joe a robot who fought in the Vietnam war. What is his place in the Unknown War? Is he interesting? Is the universe? We explore here on Casually Comics!
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What's your favorite War movie?
MASH
FMJ
84 Charlie MoPic
Forest Gump
Does Major Pain count?
What was that one with Clint Eastwood as the drill instructor? Hamburger Hill?
Maybe Soldier or even Starship Troopers, which has almost nothing to do with the book(typical).
"Go outside touch some grass. I can't, there's too much pollen."
I feel very seen.
Junkyard Joe feels like a reverse Dr. Manhattan, a emotionless being who was in Vietnam, but he is gaining more emotions
More like The Zeta Project. A robot design for combat refuses to kill.
It's always nice to get a reminder that companies outside the Big 2 are putting out quality content.
Didn't really get the Iron Giant vibe but I did get a Pixar's up vibe since Muddy is a old bitter widower who befriends a kid and starts to soften because of it. Good comic though
"It's 'Iron Giant' meets 'Up'."
Junkyard Joe sounds like Platoon meets GI Robot. I don't really have a favorite war movie but I loved the film Kelly's Heroes.
You loved Kelly's Heroes? I guess that makes us besties now.
I’m thinking this could be a rejected G.I. Robot pitch that Johns didn’t want to go to waste.
@@BoSmith7045 Thanks!
@@renomaniquis4008 You maybe on to something a story like this shouldn't go to waste.
Casually Comics+ afternoon Blueberry pancakes 🥞 = Perfection
*at the time of this recordings
Pretty clever on using Joe as a name for the robot, being that in the US Army the name Joe (Snuffy) is used for your run of the mil soldier it is used both in singular and plural when referring to a bunch of soldiers. It is usually mostly for lower enlisted, a term that is used by the higher ups. Captain/1SG : "make sure Joe (soldiers) gets to eat because it's gonna be a long day"
Junkyard Joe feels a lot like Atomic Robo. The idea of a mute protagonist is interesting though.
He looks a lot like GI Robot
Love that you are covering Ghost Machine. Would love to see more.
One of my favorite things about the channel is learning about comics outside DC and Marvel! I never heard about these books, but they look interesting! I don't think tropes are bad as long as they're done well, that's what separates good writers and artists from the rest.
I love Junkyard Joe and can't wait for Redcoat and more from the Unknown War setting. I found it particularly interesting that when I got Junkyard Joe I also got a Creepshow graphic novel containing a very violent story about a comic strip icon.This was shortly after the Peanuts creator's passing. I had to ask: "What hath Charles Shultz wrought?"
Redcoat has been out since 2 months ago. 2 issues in now.
@@alexphillips4644 I read the trades. I'm not a huge fan of periodicals. No shade to people who do, of course.
I still remember when I first heard of Junkyard Joe. It was in 2022 and from Geoff Johns himself. He came to my city's local Comic book convention, which is unusual since comic book artist often go to the Comic Con here in Argentina. But anyways, he talked about Junkyard Joe and his other upcoming projects for Image, even showing us some preview pages which was awesome, but I didn't think about it until now when I saw it had already come out. I'll have to check it out it seems.
I'm so glad Junkyard Joe is getting some love, very underrated! And by one of my faves - Gary Frank :)
Junkyard Joe looks heavily based on GI Robot. Which would not be a surprise, given Geoff John's love of old comic characters that haven't been used in a while.
I'm curious about your opinion about Void Rivals and the larger Energon Universe.
Geiger is giving me Blight vibes visually. It was westerns with me and my father.
All I can see is Richard Nixon from Black Dynamite.
I honestly thought Junkyard Joe was G.I. Robot with Dr. Phosphorous and The Privateer in a new outfit. When I saw this was from Geoff Johns, I though...oh, I get the DC connection.
Looks like you've introduced me to a series I'll have to actually check out. Thanks for that. As an aside you look really pretty with this particular look. I think you did a really good job with the eye makeup.
I am so glad that this series is getting covered! Thank you so much!
[fortunate son intensifies]
Love the Iron Giant! And Joe is definitely one of my favourite parts of the Ghost Machine co-op project, comrade. But I didn't see much similarity between the two! Joe felt very grounded in the politics of war/peacetime. If anything, it reminded me of that Star Trek Next Gen episode where the genetically programmed superwarriors have to fight for their right to be deprogrammed and rehabilitated into society.
I was beyond stoked when I saw Joe show up in a recent issue of Geiger. I want more metal sweetheart in my comics please!
great vid! i would love to see you cover more ghost machine books in the future!
This might be as good of a place for this question as anywhere else....I tremendously enjoyed Johns and Franks "Doomsday Clock" though my enjoyment was drenched in guilt because Alan Moore has made it clear the very existence of that book (as well as the prequels, several of which I also enjoyed) is pure corporate evil and the most egregious example of the destruction of creators rights. Did any of you also enjoy the forbidden evil of Moore scorned projects?
No, I haven't read any of them yet.
In all fairness, they'd offered him back the rights in exchange for writing Moore stories but he denied them, and you can't expect to just not use their IP's. Also, Watchmen itself was quite a clear ripoff of Charlton heroes, Rorschach being a pallet swapped Question and Dr Manhattan a serious interpretation of the Allen Adam Captain Atom, only for Alan to be annoyed when others take inspiration from his stories, such as Morrison.
The one rights of creator that isn't itself evil, is the Swedish patent of bluetooth that was made public. That was the last great innovation that actually did anything right on the CREATORS, the Chinese manufacturers with ANY hope for decent profit margins.
In the west the only "right" is that of usury. Alan Moore "owning" his chracters is the same thing as saying he owns all the printer ink in the world in the shape of his characters, he's actually siding with the unrefillable cartridge lobby and Monsanto seed copyrights, NOT creation.
This "intellectual" property intellectualizes everyone only with doublethink. That you, in "capitalism", are made illegal to use your star trek replicator IN THE COMMERCIAL MARKET because it' copies somebody's "property", but you get to monetize it through AdSense and google like a REAL capitalist. And it's not only specific items, it's rationalizing everything AS collective property, and having no other language to express it.
Japan for instance doesn't and CAN'T have "anime", because it's like Derrida's Hauntology/ontology: in Japan they just say "animation" and there's a single word for it, no racial component to cartoon vs. anime. So is it any wonder, that when TOEI animates Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, with cheap Asian labor, that's called AMERICAN culture? What cultivation was there, when USA stole a concept of ninja and made it the cornerstone of Batman, and TMNT, and every Western Cowboy film ever?
Steaing samurai battles and reframing them ahistorically as guns at noon, "American culture". That's jsut salting the earth unless it's branded US collective property, same as 700 000 000 American people who US citizens call NON-American. Try that in Africa, Call a Billion people NON-AFRICAN for not living in Egypt or being muslim.
That's like being called "American" for living in annexed Texas and practicing protestantism in English.
Or living in Crimea and calling yourself Russian.
That, is Western Comic Book Artist, Alan Moore. That is spitting a fat loogey, on Marcelo de Sousa and Osamu Tezuka and Jean Giraud, as some backdrop, marginal "comic book" artists, for not being POPULAR in US media despite inventing all this crap to STEAL the RIGHT to COPY of. Even Genndy Tartakovsky BARELY is accepted when he gets inspired by global artstyles more broadly. John K. got his entire "anime style" stolen by Spongebob despite US cartooning having nothing but that and Adventure Time, everything else is Disney Afternoon japanese exports or drawing fromt the well of theatrical Disney. "Copyright" is death of the industry. And it is death of academics because you pay $40k to access the corporate owned LICENSED MATERIAL: it's literally illegal to LEARN and copy things into your brain.
@@ProjektTaku Moore originally intended to use the charlton heroes. i dont think that was ever denied as such.
@@rakdos36 the issue is that he's complaining about the abuse of creator rights when he got his start using a preexisting character with dubious rights, Marvelman, and intended to do the same with Charlton characters. But he gets mad when others do the same with his characters or take inspiration.
Awesome video. Also how about a "Marry Me (pic of Louis)Louis Lane" T shirt. Then on the back "I'm handsome too"
I am all in on the unnamed universe. I missed the boat on the massive-verse and black hammer, I will not miss this
Great review, Sasha.Very helpful!
Junkyard Joe is such a great book and the entire new Ghost Machine University is so much fun. Redcoat is by far my favorite.
DC had a Strange War series of stories called GI Robot who informed Junkyard Joe in looks (and fought in the South Pacific). I first read GI Robot in the early 80s in a crossover with the Creature Commandos, but he showed up in the Showcase for The War That Time Forgot, IIRC.
This made me want to to check out the unknown universe thanks for the heads up into this universe
I liked Saving Private Ryan, Full Metal Jacket, and Born on the Fourth of July too.
Cool to see you branching out and checking stuff outside Marvel and DC, the art in Jankyard Joe is quite neat, I'm intrigued.
I'd recommend Monstress and Blacksad if you haven't covered them yet.
Great art! Will look forward at my local store.
Keep up the great work exited to get into this comic
Someone: “Go outside and touch the grass.”
Me: “No. I will break out in hives and will need to take 2 Benadryl.”
I've read Geiger and enjoyed it. I haven't read Junkyard Joe but you sure make me want to. That creative team is hard to beat. I enjoyed the video.
I’m a big fan of Ghost Machine already. I’ve loved every title so far, even Joe and Geiger from pre-Ghost Machine.
It's also important to remember that the Iron Giant was the movie version the tge 1960s antiwar novel by Poet Laureate Ted Hughes "The Iron Man". Also "brutalism" is an aet movment, "brutality" is the word you mean.
Iron Giant, sure, but don't forget Short Circuit. Number 5 is alive!
Stops it at 3:57. Yes Sasha. I got your Cotton Eyed Joe nod/reference. It was good.
I LOVE THAT SHIRT!!
Gary Frank is one of my favorite pencilers of all time, so I pretty much pick up anything he's involved in, and both Geiger and Junkyard Joe have been well-told stories. Really looking forward to seeing other stories in this universe to see how they all connect.
🎉🎉🎉 Bravo 👏 for new comic universes
Hmmm. Thanks. I hadn't heard about this one. I must have blinked.
I read Geiger about a year ago and read Joe once Ghost Machine got announced. Been really enjoying this imprint so far but Junkyard Joe and Rook Exodus have been my favourites so far.
Joe definitely isn’t a new story, but in terms of comics… this is one of the 1st ones that actually does the iron giant trope. I also really enjoyed the psychological aspect behind it and Joe is such a compelling character even though he has no means of communication. This had a profound impact on me as a reader because I’ve never seen this kind of psychological distress so real in a comic before. It’s definitely a great read to think of the toll of war and is lowkey a great anti-war story.
cotton eye joe where did ya go?!
I was a little worried at first that this was gonna be a little too close to the project I'm working on. Turns out it's not.
I'm working on my own comic concept. Really, it's just an excuse to work on improving my art and writing. I didn't realize how much work it was gonna be, but I'm happy to have a goal that serves to help me improve myself.
Junkyard Joe looks interesting. I've seen The Iron Giant. Geoff Johns was able to bring Hal Jordan back as Green Lantern and have it make sense.
Was I the only one who thought this would be a 'TOY STORY'-thing about a thrown away G.I. Joe-doll?
Haven't read Junkyard Joe or any unamed universe stuff. Johns is not my favorite, but the Veteran charity stuff for this series intrigued me. As a vet myself, I may have popped for this series on that reason alone, had I known.
Your comparison to Iron Goant sparked memories of another "killer robot finds humanity through friendship" movie, being Short Circuit from 1986. Worth checking out if you never saw it.
As for war movies, I would have to go.woth Full Metal Jacket. Saw it on boot leave for the first time, and I have to say outside of the hitting and cussing (both of which were mo longer allowed by my era) it is 100% accurate to the MCRD recruit experience. Souch so, that the movie is still quoted religiously throughout the Marine Corps to this day.
This is really making me think more about The Zeta Project.
Salute to the ‘Cotton Eye Joe’ line 🫡
Okay, so it’s G.I. Robot plus The Iron Giant with a dash of The Zeta Project.
The pollen are strong this year!
I'm reading a few of the ghost machine books, and they are fun so far. The red coat has been a favorite of them.
Everytime the Iron Giant is mentioned, I will always say that the Iron Giant is one of the greatest Superman films of all time. Iron Giant tied to Superman at this point, that he was in the comics too.
I've been reading all these Ghost Machine books from the start! They're awesome!
You should do a Jean Grey retrospective to celebrate her upcoming solo!! would love to watch that video!
Huh I've seen the Geiger comics in my hoopla library app, but hadn't clocked the Geoff Johns involvement. Definitely curious about the universe and world building
Never even heard of the Unknown Universe until no and honestly it does sound a little like one of those comic projects that only exists to be turned into movies.
Such a great miniseries
You know you have to do a G.I. Robot video now....
When I was reading the comic I had the same feelings you did in that it felt like a classic 80s movie (the one that came to mind was E.T.). And I couldn’t help but feel the ending was a little rushed (maybe another issue or two would’ve done it). But, that said I still enjoyed the comic and can’t wait for more of the unnamed ‘verse.
Have you thought about covering any war comics from Garth Ennis?
Ive been reading redcoat which is pretty entertaining so far. Im definitely going to check out more of the books now.
3:21 - 3:25, O Sasha, the words in the title 'Un(N?)named Universe' are an example of alliteration technically, because they are different words starting with the same letter.
Their stressed syllables though, don't start with the same sound, or 'consonate' so they are not an example of 'consonance' being defined as - different words starting with the same consonant sounds in their stressed syllables.
I think 'consonance' is the word you were seeking to say, when you said 'almost alliteration'.
I learned this information from J.R.R. Tolkien in his 'appendix on verse forms' in a collection of his translations of three Middle English Poems published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien.
I remember a comic about a robot soldier from the 70's I believe it was Weird War.
I was deeply moved by this comic 😊
As a DC reader I have always admired Geoff Johns for being a solid and professional writer. But I did always want to see what he could do if not working with original characters. I know he had a story in a Vertigo anthology once, but that seemed to be all.
I did finally get round to picking up Geiger in trade last December. I do love Gary Frank's art as well. I read it a couple of months later. And I liked it a lot. It was a good story with an interesting lead character. And great art. I can't say the hints about the bigger plotline blew me away though or especially grabbed me, so it was a four out of five read for me. Haven't managed to get my hands on the Geiger Special yet. But I do intend to read the rest of this stuff on the basis of having Read Geiger. A bit more so now, having watched this. It won't be a priority for me to get. But I will get to it when I can.
As fate would have it I watched the Iron Giant against last December. For the first time in at least twenty years. Maybe longer. At the end I said quite instinctively and out loud 'what a great film!'. Anything that makes me react that way is a great movie.
It seems like they should really make a Junkyard Joe comic strip or a comic in that style. He seems very endearing.
This also sounds a bit like The Zeta Project that Spun out from The Batman Beyond universe. I have been reading Geiger and really enjoying that. I also read Rook Exodus #1 and that has potential too.
I got into collecting because of Doomsday Clock, so I was aware of Geiger and Junkyard Joe since when they first came out, but I only bought and read the trades last January. I bought the 1 shot with a previews as well.
I like Junkyard Joe more than Geiger, probably because of the design. I didn't really notice the Iron Giant similarities, since I don't think about the Iron Giant alot/haven't seen it in a while. Funnily enough, I saw a lot of comparisons to the Iron Giant with Transformers issue 2 with Optimus and the deer.
For the Ghost Machine books, they all seem solid and good, but I plan to wait for the trades, since it'd be too expensive in my opinion to buy each individual issue, and there doesn't feel a need to read them right away, in part because no one really talks about them, so I don't mind waiting for the trades.
Favorite war movie..? Casualties of War.., We were soldiers...Enemy at the Gates. I probably have to say, We were soldiers. Did he actually use the word pedantic? You have a much higher level of verbiage in your household, than in mine.
Though not really a proper war film, I've always been a sucker for Lifeboat. Funny thing, I like war stories and war comics fine enough, but can't get into war films. One of those odd mind quirks.
This comic sounds interesting, and the world Johns and co. are building up seems neat.
So far, all I've read are a couple issues of GEIGER and the first two issues of REDCOAT, which I'm really liking. Re: JUNKYARD JOE, I was much more concerned with comparisons to DC's G.I. ROBOT. The similarities to THE IRON GIANT intrigue me enough to want to give JJ a try.
Im actually interested in this comic now
Big Ups Geoff Johns 😎👍
I'm enjoying the Unnamed Universe and the all the current Ghost Machine comics so far , Junkyard Joe is very GI Robot and Iron Giant / Iron Man the original British title of the kids book .
Yo, finally seeing someone talk about this ...
I think it's finally time for
The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
CCR plays softly in the background.
It's less sleeping on it, and more like avoiding it lol. It does seem like the most interesting book out of the label though.
Been there. Done that. Cool T shirt.
I watch that name and I can just hear Patrick Warburton's voice
I loved JYJ!
Geiger is good but Joe had that softness. I agree, it was tropey and predictable but held itself well.
I got the Iron Giant Vibes/references too but wasn't put off by them as I adore that movie!
I have to wonder if there's an argument for using less expensive materials for basic issues and saving the real high quality stuff for the eventual collected editions in order to create an easier, less expensive entry point for people who just want to dip their toes in and check out if it's worth getting invested.
So this IS GI Robot?!
I read Geiger and thought it was okay but not Geoff Johns best work.
I read both first imprint of Geiger and Junkyard Joe was pretty good. But took to long to come out.
I’m actually intrigued by this whole universe.
~_~
That Robot Soldier character really reminds me of That DC Robot Soldier character Too But He was fighting The Japanese Robot's during the Second World War!🤔
I had a lot of comics in my pull around that time and Joe didn't make it on their, i think i have issue 1 though
At fist I thought you where going to compare it to the kids WB “The Zeta Project”
The recent JSA book has been delayed how many times?
I ❤️ love your videos, but can we get some DC golden age videos/stories and / or some Gentleman Ghost videos would be super cool, too. ge golden age origin of the Gentleman Ghost 👻 (in Hawkman The Gentleman Ghost is great because it end with was he a ghost 👻 or just a man. It's great.)
Love your videos there great (even for comics I normally wouldn't watch the video but your video I do no matter what the subject)
Thank you for always making me smile and or laugh at least once a video if not a few times keep up the great work 👍 😀
Please do an update video on the batman wayne family adventures!🙏🙏
I read the Ghost Machine kick-off issue and found the storytelling to be a bit rushed. One of the problems with comics these days is the inability to create solid anthologies that present satisfying stories. The stories didn't make me more interested in the characters, but your review here did make me want to seek out Junkyard Joe, if only for the Gary Frank art.