Issue
#2 starts offs with Road Block in the brig for knocking Gen. Hawk’s lights out.
But Snake Eyes has a plan of some sorts, but since he can’t talk, we don’t
really know what those plans detail.
You
remember on Star Trek when the Captain or Mr. Spock would bend the rules a
little in order to get the job done without totally running ramrod all over
their prime directives? Well, that happens here, when Hawk and Scarlett allow
Road Block to be released from the brig, but forbid him to go rescue Mainframe,
unless he can get past the entire Joe squad. Well, thanks to a convenient power
outage, Road Block escapes with the American Ninja on his tail.
Along
the way, we see flashbacks of Road Block’s Childhood. As Marvin Hinton, a
displaced Louisiana teen, the future soldier is bullied on the streets of D.C.
In hopes of defending himself and maybe earn a little payback, Hinton goes to a
local gym where a fellow class mate is an aspiring boxer. Determined to not
give up, Hinton learns from his new pal how to pick himself up when knocked
down- and bulks up in the process. By the end of the issue, we learn that the
young boxer later becomes Mainframe. No wonder Road Block wants to head back to
Borovia to save his comrade!
But
in Borovia, Road Block learns on the ultimate fate of his friend and ends up
running into a ninja master and Snake Eyes! Now Road Block must decide- return
to the PIT in disgrace and a possible court martial or join up with Snake Eyes’
clan and learn to channel that hostility into a martial art.
The
decision is left as a cliff hanger, but I think we know where this is going.
Don’t we?
A
much better issue, the art is very good. But the real star of the book is the
fantastic back story into Road Block’s past. I am very much looking for to
issue 3. More than that, the anticipation to watch the movie to which this
mini-series is the prequel to is killing me.
Worth
Consuming.
Rating:
10 out of 10 stars.
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