G.I. Joe is an ongoing line of Americancomic books published by Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe franchise by Stanley Weston and Donald Levine.
It is a successor of IDW Publishing's previous relaunch of G.I. Joe comics.[1][2]
Publication history
After IDW Publishing lost the licenses to produce Transformers and G.I. Joe comics by the end of 2022,[3]Hasbro announced in June 2023 that Skybound Entertainment, an imprint of Image Comics, would acquire those licenses.[4]
Since November 2023, Skybound began publishing four limited series of the Energon Universe franchise, as well as continuing IDW's A Real American Hero series, which originated from Marvel Comics.[1][2]
During San Diego Comic-Con 2023, it was revealed that Skybound has plans to reprint both the Marvel and IDW comics based on G.I. Joe, with more info set to release later.[5]
Energon Universe series
Premise
In response to the arrival of Cybertronians on Earth, G.I. Joe wants to investigate their origins while Cobra wants to harness the power of Energon.[2]
Overview
Prequel series
Starting in December 2023, Skybound began publishing four limited series set in the Energon Universe, starting with Duke and Cobra Commander, being written by Joshua Williamsonn, with art and colors by Tom Reilly, Andrea Milana, Jordie Bellaire and Annalisa Leoni respectively.[2]
Williamson said, “Childhood dreams come true! Get hyped! Tom and I are bringing you a new take on Duke and the formation of G.I. Joe that honors all that we love about the characters but takes it into a new and exciting direction. It's been awesome working with Skybound and Hasbro to bring this new take on the G.I. Joe franchise. For the last few years, I’ve been picking up all of the new G.I. Classified figures, so I am pumped to contribute to this new world of G.I. Joe and Transformers!”[8]
In October 2023, Skybound announced that the main roster of G.I. Joe features Duke, Hawk, Stalker and Baroness,[9] while the main roster of Cobra features Cobra Commander, Destro, Zarana and Mercer.[10]
In March 2024, Skybound announced the last two of the four initial limited series: Scarlett, written by Kelly Thompson, drawn by Marco Ferrari and colored by Lee Loughridge; and Destro, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Andrei Bressan and colored by Adriano Lucas.[11]
Thompson said, “I'm fortunate that, thanks to my job, I often get to dig into characters and worlds that I’ve loved for a long time, but G.I. Joe's Scarlett is truly one of my first geek loves as a kid, and I am absolutely thrilled to have a hand in building her for this new, incredibly cool and rich universe at Skybound.”[12]
Watters added, “I'm incredibly excited to bring Destro to life with Andrei. This is going to be a visceral, explosive thriller in which he [Destro] isn't very nice to anyone at all — everything you'd want from your favorite amoral arms trafficker.”[12]
Mainline series
As announced in the Energon Universe 2024 Special, a new ongoing G.I. Joe series in being planned for development, being a direct continuation of the Duke, Cobra Commander, Scarlett and Destro limited series. The series will feature the Duke creative team, with Williamson returning as writer, Reilly as illustrator, and Bellaire as colorist. The first issue debuted on November 13, 2024.[7]
To promote the debut issue, Skybound announced a fan initiative titled "Choose Your Side", in which readers submit photos and publicly declare their loyalty to either the G.I. Joe or Cobra factions.[13][14] Additionally, on the same publishing date of issue #1, there was a screening of G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) in AMC City Walk, in Los Angeles, which includes a panel discussion featuring Williamson.[15]
Prequel series
Starting in December 2023, Skybound began publishing four limited series set in the Energon Universe, starting with Duke and Cobra Commander, being written by Joshua Williamsonn, with art and colors by Tom Reilly, Andrea Milana, Jordie Bellaire and Annalisa Leoni respectively.[2]
Williamson said, “Childhood dreams come true! Get hyped! Tom and I are bringing you a new take on Duke and the formation of G.I. Joe that honors all that we love about the characters but takes it into a new and exciting direction. It's been awesome working with Skybound and Hasbro to bring this new take on the G.I. Joe franchise. For the last few years, I’ve been picking up all of the new G.I. Classified figures, so I am pumped to contribute to this new world of G.I. Joe and Transformers!”[8]
In October 2023, Skybound announced that the main roster of G.I. Joe features Duke, Hawk, Stalker and Baroness,[9] while the main roster of Cobra features Cobra Commander, Destro,
Mainline series
As announced in the Energon Universe 2024 Special, a new ongoing G.I. Joe series in being planned for development, being a direct continuation of the Duke, Cobra Commander, Scarlett and Destro limited series. The series will feature the Duke creative team, with Williamson returning as writer, Reilly as illustrator, and Bellaire as colorist. The first issue debuted on November 13, 2024.[7]
To promote the debut issue, Skybound announced a fan initiative titled "Choose Your Side", in which readers submit photos and publicly declare their loyalty to either the G.I. Joe or Cobra factions.[13][14] Additionally, on the same publishing date of issue #1, there was a screening of G.I. Joe: The Movie (1987) in AMC City Walk, in Los Angeles, which includes a panel discussion featuring Williamson.[15]
Plot
Codename: G.I. Joe (2023–2024)
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Sometime after his friend Tyler "Frosting" Frost was killed by a plane that transformed into a giant robot, Conrad "Duke" Hauser meets with his commanding officer, Colonel Hawk. Hawk orders him to return to duty and stop investigating the incident, to which Duke refuses. Six months later, Duke connects with Doctor Adele Burkhart at a conspiracy theory gathering in Washington, D.C., who informs him that he may have stumbled onto a secret arms race related to her research and directs him to M.A.R.S. Industries for more answers. Duke discovers that the company is producing a range of advanced robotic frames and exosuits, leading him to believe they created the robot that killed Frosting. He is discovered and thrown out by M.A.R.S. security operative
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the secret underground society of Cobra-La, whose humanoid residents rely solely on organic biotechnology, an angry mob attacks a science lab housing a foreign metal specimen. The scientists' commander orders them to protect their research, but one of them accidentally detonates an explosive spore in his face. He is healed and given a metal helmet to hide his wounds, and Pythona brings him to Cobra-La's leader Golobulus to answer for himself. The furious Golobulus berates the commander for disregarding Cobra-La's reverence for organic life through his experiments on the specimen's alien technology, even after they took him in from the human world. Golobulus also reveals he knows the commander instigated the riot to gain power and orders him to be executed; however, the commander kills his guards with several small insectoid robots and requests to depart on a special mission to strengthen Cobra-La. Golobulus reluctantly agrees, and the commander returns to the lab and extracts more data and Energon from the specimen – an imprisoned and deactivated
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Special operative Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara infiltrates a private party in Monaco while searching for a group of hostages, with strict orders not to engage. However, she is distracted by the sudden arrival of her old friend Jinx, who disappeared on a mission several years ago. Jinx covertly signals Scarlett not to interfere, but she breaks orders to save her, allowing Jinx's mysterious team of ninjas to escape with a hostage. Scarlett is dismissed from her unit for her insubordination, and she returns home to find Stalker waiting for her; he reveals that Jinx disappeared while infiltrating Clan Arashikage and asks her to find the clan, rescue Jinx, and retrieve a secret weapon the Arashikage have in their possession. Her pilot Snow Job transports her to a mountaintop Arashikage hideout, where she fights her way through a horde of ninja to reach the clan's leader, the
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Prime Minister of Darklonia orders his soldiers to gun down a mob of civilian protestors, but a horde of Battle Android Troopers kills them. Destro accepts his resignation on behalf of Darklonia's people and installs his cousin Artyom Darklon in power. He is contacted by Cobra Commander, who worries the B.A.T.s will bring undue attention to Cobra's operations, but Destro hotly reminds the Commander that he is his partner, not his servant. Several weeks later, Astoria Carlton-Ritz, the new CEO of Hybrid Technologies following her father's death, arrives in Darklonia for an illegal arms fair. Mercer confirms that none of the companies attending have discovered Energon, but Destro is concerned about the conspicuous absence of Extensive Enterprises. Tomax and Xamot, the company's heads, personally execute a small military operation for injuring a unit of their Crimson Guard while combat drones attack the arms fair. As Destro's Iron Grenadiers engage the drones, he saves Astoria from a stray missile, which turns out to be a dud.
G.I. Joe (2024–present)
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke and his newly formed G.I. Joe special mission force – Clutch, Cover Girl, Stalker, Rock 'n Roll, and the Baroness – flub a training exercise, after which Duke confesses to Hawk they aren't ready for field duty. As Destro demonstrates a new Energon-powered laser weapon, an undercover United States government operative codenamed Risk is ordered to return from a mission in Abu Dhabi. Hawk reassures Duke that the many differences between the Joes will strengthen their team before giving them their first mission – they are to protect a research facility in Colorado currently studying a shard of technology recovered from the alien wreckage in the middle of the ocean. At the same time, Destro and Cobra Commander order Mercer and a contingent of Cobra Troopers and Vipers to storm the facility, steal the shard, and kill everyone inside. The Cobra forces ambush the Joes, interrupting the bickering Stalker and Baroness, and Duke manages to commandeer their F.A.N.G. aircraft as the others attempt to evacuate the alien technology. However, Mercer's Vipers arrive and kill Rock 'n Roll with their Energon weapons.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Recently reactivated and on a mission to find the Autobots, Hound demands to know how and where Clutch acquired Energon. Clutch's standard weapons have no effect on the Cybertronian, but he injures Hound with an Energon grenade he stole from Cobra; however, he realizes too late that Hound meant him no harm and agrees to help repair him. Clutch brings Hound to the workshop of his old friend Matt Trakker, who somehow already has experience fixing Cybertronian technology. Before Trakker can finish the repairs, Ravage suddenly breaks in and attacks Clutch and Trakker for their Energon, but Hound manages to drive the Decepticon away. Trakker finishes Hound's repairs and parts amicably with Clutch, requesting he keep their encounter secret. Clutch and Hound apologize to one another for their poor first meeting and agree to work together to investigate Cobra's supply of Energon weapons. Meanwhile, in the swamps of Florida, Buzzer ambushes a contingent of Cobra troopers sent to gather more Energon and declares war on Cobra Commander.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The captive Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer informs the Commander that they have exhausted Cobra's initial supply of Energon from the Florida swamps. He orders their allies sent out to excavate smaller deposits around the world and takes Ripper to personally investigate a unique, pulsating Energon signal located in the Chihuahuan Desert. G.I. Joe also picks up the signal; with most of the team unavailable investigating the recent destruction of Chicago, Duke agrees to follow up on the anomaly while visiting Frosting's grave in Texas. He discovers Cobra already excavating the site, where Ripper uncovers a planted beacon emitting the Energon signature. The dig site explodes as he turns on the Commander and crushes his mechanical hand. Duke enters the fray and saves the Commander, but quickly captures him to learn more about Energon and the transforming robots. The Dreadnoks arrive in hot pursuit of the Commander and reunite with Ripper, while Destro takes command of Cobra.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Zartan secretly compiles information on Energon from G.I. Joe and Cobra's databases, the other Joes try to defuse the standoff between Duke and Hound. Clutch tries to vouch for Hound's integrity, but Duke places the Autobot under arrest, and everyone returns to the Pit. Hound willingly accepts containment and tells Duke about Starscream, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, and his current objective to fix his transponder and reconnect with the other Autobots active on Earth. Although still suspicious, Duke reluctantly agrees to trust Clutch and help Hound. The other Joes are immediately assigned new missions by "Hawk" – Cover Girl is to connect with Snow Job for more information, while Stalker, Baroness, and Risk are sent to investigate Energon readings in the barren country of Badhikistan. Meanwhile, a government agent attends an auto racing event to secretly warn Matt Trakker about the escape of his old Shadow Watch boss Miles Mayhem. Suddenly, Scrap-Iron bursts onto the track, kills the agent, and informs Trakker he has come to collect Mayhem's bounty on his head.
Other continuities
A Real American Hero
An ongoing series written by Larry Hama, drawn by Chris Mooneyham and colored by Francesco Segala, which continues the run left in the Marvel and IDW series, starting with issue #301.[1]
Hama said, "I am delighted to be continuing the saga of G.I. Joe with the good folks at Skybound and totally amped to be taking the G.I. Joe team to issue #301 and beyond. Little did I know back in 1982 that I would be associated with the Real American Hero for over 40 years. My thanks to the whole crew at Skybound for allowing me to continue to chronicle the exploits of characters who have become like a family to me.”[1]
A series of five one-shot issues titled A Real American Hero: Silent Missions, featuring several characters in scenes with no dialogue, was published during April 2025.[16]
Cold Slither
Cold Slither is an upcoming one-shot issue written by Tim Seeley, drawn by Juann Cabal, colored by Rex Lokus, and lettered by Pat Brosseau. It was published on October 1, 2025. The issue features the fictional band Cold Slither, which is based on Cobra's Dreadnok faction, and is set in a modern version of the shared continuity between the animated series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Transformers, Jem and Inhumanoids.[17]
Seeley said, “The catchiest song ever to grace a military themed toy line has lived in my head rent-free for forty years, so I’m happy to drag it out, and write the true story of the scrappy band of miscreants who recorded it.”[17]
Cabal added, “My parents met at a Cold Slither gig back in the ’80s, so getting to draw this one-shot has been really special for me.”
In March 2024, Skybound announced the last two of the four initial limited series: Scarlett, written by Kelly Thompson, drawn by Marco Ferrari and colored by Lee Loughridge; and Destro, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Andrei Bressan and colored by Adriano Lucas.[11]
Thompson said, “I'm fortunate that, thanks to my job, I often get to dig into characters and worlds that I’ve loved for a long time, but G.I. Joe's Scarlett is truly one of my first geek loves as a kid, and I am absolutely thrilled to have a hand in building her for this new, incredibly cool and rich universe at Skybound.”[12]
Watters added, “I'm incredibly excited to bring Destro to life with Andrei. This is going to be a visceral, explosive thriller in which he [Destro] isn't very nice to anyone at all — everything you'd want from your favorite amoral arms trafficker.”[12]
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Sometime after his friend Tyler "Frosting" Frost was killed by a plane that transformed into a giant robot, Conrad "Duke" Hauser meets with his commanding officer, Colonel Hawk. Hawk orders him to return to duty and stop investigating the incident, to which Duke refuses. Six months later, Duke connects with Doctor Adele Burkhart at a conspiracy theory gathering in Washington, D.C., who informs him that he may have stumbled onto a secret arms race related to her research and directs him to M.A.R.S. Industries for more answers. Duke discovers that the company is producing a range of advanced robotic frames and exosuits, leading him to believe they created the robot that killed Frosting. He is discovered and thrown out by M.A.R.S. security operative Mercer, who lets him live upon request from his employer. Duke returns to the conspiracy theorists only to discover that the meeting was massacred. The dying Burkhart tells him the killers stole almost all of her research and gives him the last hard drive, warning him not to let it fall into the wrong hands. Police storm the building and attack Duke, who escapes into the night. Hawk's superiors order him to find Duke, and he tasks Stalker and Rock 'n Roll with capturing him.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 31, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke arrives at the auto shop where his old friend Clutch works, who agrees to patch his wounds and help however he can. Although Clutch doesn't fully believe Duke's story about the giant robot, he discovers that Burkhart's drive doubles as a highly advanced tracker for her research, located somewhere in the western United States. As Destro, the CEO of M.A.R.S. Industries, receives an alert, Duke and Clutch leave to investigate but are ambushed by Rock 'n Roll. They flee in one of Clutch's custom vans, but Rock 'n Roll leads them into Stalker's sniper trap, who disables the van and knocks both men unconscious. Duke and Clutch are arrested and brought to the Pit, an underground prison for high-risk inmates, where Duke's railings against the justice system catch the attention of a mysterious woman imprisoned nearby.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 28, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As M.A.R.S. relocates its headquarters in the wake of Duke's infiltration, Destro tasks Major Bludd with tracking down and eliminating him. In the Pit, Hawk informs Stalker and Rock 'n Roll that Duke will be transferred to a new facility in two hours, while Duke identifies the mysterious woman as Anastasia Cisarovna, the Baroness. Bludd's forces hijack the prison transport and storm the Pit, and Rock 'n Roll frees Duke and Clutch to evacuate. Duke reluctantly frees the Baroness as well, but Bludd attacks him before they can escape. During their fight, Bludd reveals that he killed Burkhart and plans to kill Duke as well to collect the large bounty on his head; however, the Baroness shoots him and threatens to take down Duke for the bounty.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 27, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Bludd's forces continue attacking the Pit, Duke convinces the Baroness to join him and the others in fighting back. She accepts, to the others' consternation, and the group discovers a hangar full of decommissioned experimental vehicles that Clutch repairs. A grievously wounded Bludd, now missing an eye, orders his men to destroy the Pit, but they are beset by Duke's team and their new armaments – an APC, a MOBAT, and a Skystriker. The Baroness escapes in a F.A.N.G. jet during the chaos, and Duke also leaves to follow Burkhart's tracker, leading to a secret M.A.R.S. test facility in the Rocky Mountains. Destro oversees a failed test of the new H.I.S.S. tank, whose power cores are insufficient, and orders Scrap-Iron to prepare his newest invention for the incoming Duke. As Duke arrives and discovers more of M.A.R.S.'s robotic weapons, he vows to destroy their giant robot; however, he is attacked by a Battle Android Trooper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
May 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the remains of the Pit, Clutch refuses to tell Hawk where Duke went, but Stalker reveals they discovered Burkhart's tracker in the wreckage. As the Battle Android Trooper strangles Duke, Destro reveals himself and offers Duke a position with M.A.R.S.. Duke refuses and accuses Destro of being responsible for Frosting's death, but he denies building the transforming robot. Destro leaves Duke at the B.A.T.'s mercy and orders Scrap-Iron to destroy the facility as he and Mercer depart. As the facility explodes, Duke manages to overpower the B.A.T. and destroy its power source, collapsing from his injuries. Later, he awakens in a hospital to find Hawk and Cover Girl waiting, who informs him that the news believes he is dead and posthumously cleared of Burkhart's murder. Hawk thanks him for his assistance in exposing Destro's operations; he later brings Duke to the Pit and asks him to form a highly trained special mission force capable of handling a variety of new emerging threats. Although Duke refuses at first, he agrees when Hawk shows him footage of more transforming robots like the one that killed Frosting, including one that turns into a truck.
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Joshua Williamson
Jason Howard
Mike Spicer
March 13, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Duke begins assembling his new team, he also decides to recruit the Baroness, despite Hawk's apparent objections. He rescues the Baroness from an ambush by two mysterious armored assassins and asks her to join his team to keep them honest, on edge, and wary of authority. She agrees, especially after learning her alternative is returning to prison. Meanwhile, Hawk meets with the two assassins, Flint and Lady Jaye, who voice their doubts about including the Baroness in Duke's new operation. However, Hawk's plans to bring the two together have worked out well, especially since he does not want Duke to know he is organizing multiple special forces teams.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the secret underground society of Cobra-La, whose humanoid residents rely solely on organic biotechnology, an angry mob attacks a science lab housing a foreign metal specimen. The scientists' commander orders them to protect their research, but one of them accidentally detonates an explosive spore in his face. He is healed and given a metal helmet to hide his wounds, and Pythona brings him to Cobra-La's leader Golobulus to answer for himself. The furious Golobulus berates the commander for disregarding Cobra-La's reverence for organic life through his experiments on the specimen's alien technology, even after they took him in from the human world. Golobulus also reveals he knows the commander instigated the riot to gain power and orders him to be executed; however, the commander kills his guards with several small insectoid robots and requests to depart on a special mission to strengthen Cobra-La. Golobulus reluctantly agrees, and the commander returns to the lab and extracts more data and Energon from the specimen – an imprisoned and deactivated Megatron. As he departs, plotting to conquer the world in Cobra-La's name, he overlooks Megatron momentarily reawakening. Accompanied by a Cobra-La grunt disguised as a human, the commander hijacks a truck and kills its driver for transport to a large Energon deposit in Florida. He vows the world will soon fear the name of Cobra Commander, unaware that others are already harvesting the Energon.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
February 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the Florida swamps, Buzzer and Ripper of the Dreadnoks gang torture and kill a pair of gunrunners for interfering in their territory. The Commander and the grunt begin their investigation, and the grunt recalls Pythona's orders to watch the Commander as they track the Energon further into the swamps. The two are confronted by a park ranger, who is quickly murdered by the grunt as the Commander slips away. He encounters the Dreadnoks, who flee after he destroys their vehicle. Zarana warns her brothers not to follow him into the restricted areas of the swamps as the Commander discovers a large body of water infused with Energon; however, he falls in while gloating and is quickly overwhelmed by a horde of Energon-enhanced alligators.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
March 20, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The grunt gets lost in the swamps looking for the Commander as he is captured by Zandar and taken back to the Dreadnoks' hideout. One by one, Buzzer, Torch, Ripper, Zandar, and Zarana torture the Commander but fail to break him, and he slowly begins turning his captors against one another. Zarana finally gives up and orders him to be taken to a secret bunker and executed, but the Commander activates a hidden tracking device. Just before he is killed, the Cobra-La grunt arrives, and the Commander orders him to dispose of the Dreadnoks so they can claim the Energon in Golobulus' name. With Buzzer's chainsaw ineffective against him, the grunt sheds his human disguise to reveal the monstrous form of the Nemesis Enforcer.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
April 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Enforcer begins slaughtering the Dreadnoks, the Commander forces Ripper to show him the secret bunker, where a captive scientist has been experimenting with Energon. The scientist shows the Commander the results of his work, including how raw pink Energon can be refined and transmuted into new forms and colors, and the Commander upgrades his insectoid robots with a cube of blue Energon. Zarana, Zandar, Torch, and Buzzer manage to distract the Enforcer long enough to escape, but he lets them leave and turns on the Commander instead as Ripper flees. He reveals that Golobulus ordered him to dispose of the Commander once he discovered a way to harness the power of Energon, and he is no longer needed now that they have the scientist. However, the Commander kills the Enforcer and catches up with Ripper, who reveals that the Dreadnoks planned to sell the Energon to Destro of M.A.R.S. Industries.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
May 22, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Commander begins attacking and raiding M.A.R.S. facilities across the United States, eventually inviting Destro to meet via Ripper. Destro, Mercer, Ripper, and a squadron of M.A.R.S. troops arrive at a seemingly idyllic small American town, but a hidden laser turret kills the troops. Destro reluctantly agrees to hear the Commander's proposal, who takes them to the underground lab of Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer, the scientist he rescued from the Dreadnoks. The Commander requests to ally M.A.R.S.'s technological might with his Energon production capabilities to unite the world's criminal elements. He demonstrates the potential by supercharging one of Destro's Battle Android Troopers with Energon, which effortlessly kills dozens of his own recruits. Destro agrees to the alliance, and the Commander formally organizes the partnership between his troops and M.A.R.S. into Cobra. Meanwhile, the denizens of Cobra-La are still reeling from Megatron's recent escape. Golobulus and Pythona raid the Commander's lab and discover his captive came from an entirely mechanical planet, the antithesis to Cobra-La's way of life. Fearing that more creatures like Megatron are already on Earth, Golobulus sends Pythona and a contingent of Cobra-La warriors into space to find their robotic homeworld – Cybertron.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Special operative Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara infiltrates a private party in Monaco while searching for a group of hostages, with strict orders not to engage. However, she is distracted by the sudden arrival of her old friend Jinx, who disappeared on a mission several years ago. Jinx covertly signals Scarlett not to interfere, but she breaks orders to save her, allowing Jinx's mysterious team of ninjas to escape with a hostage. Scarlett is dismissed from her unit for her insubordination, and she returns home to find Stalker waiting for her; he reveals that Jinx disappeared while infiltrating Clan Arashikage and asks her to find the clan, rescue Jinx, and retrieve a secret weapon the Arashikage have in their possession. Her pilot Snow Job transports her to a mountaintop Arashikage hideout, where she fights her way through a horde of ninja to reach the clan's leader, the Hard Master. She offers her services to the Arashikage but is quickly knocked out from behind by Storm Shadow, the Hard Master's most loyal servant.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
July 3, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett awakens to find herself in captivity; following another coded message from Jinx, she frees herself and attacks another group of Arashikage ninjas, impressing the watching Storm Shadow. He invites her to have tea with him and the Hard Master, and she explains that she hopes to use her skills for a more useful cause after her dismissal from the United States military. The Hard Master agrees to give Scarlett a chance, as the Arashikage are planning to retrieve an ancient weapon of unusual origin stolen from them by the Mugenonami, a yakuza group. As Scarlett begins the mission, she recognizes that the assignment is a suicide mission but believes that Jinx is worth dying for.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
August 7, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett infiltrates the Mugenonami building in Tokyo and takes control of the primary security center, but is severely wounded while fighting off a group of katana-wielding enforcers. As Storm Shadow, Jinx, and a group of Arashikage ninjas take on a legion of Mugenonami forces at a neighboring building, Scarlett rigs the secondary security center to explore and kills another enforcer. With the Mugenonami complex thrown into chaos, she makes her way to the roof of the other building and finally reunites with Jinx, but they are interrupted by the arrival of a Cobra helicopter.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
September 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Jinx secretly warns Scarlett to be wary as Storm Shadow summons them; the Mugenonami moved the weapon to a lower floor when the Arashikage arrived, and orders the two to find an alternate route while he and the others engage them directly. Jinx knocks out any surveillance with an EMP device, allowing the two a few minutes to talk privately. She gives Scarlett intel to take back to Stalker but refuses to come herself, believing that the Arashikage could become a powerful ally against the rising threat of Cobra as long as she stays with them. As the EMP's effects wear off and the two resume their mission, Scarlett realizes the Mugenonami moved the weapon to an upper floor instead, and Storm Shadow's forces are walking into a trap. She and Jinx secure the weapon and dispatch its guards and a squadron of Cobra Troopers. Storm Shadow arrives to claim it, revealing it as the Sword of Life, an ancient blade crafted from Energon.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
October 9, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Storm Shadow demonstrates the power of the Energon sword, he, Scarlett, and Jinx flee as another Cobra helicopter arrives and blows up the building floor. Cobra Commander arrives and shoots Scarlett, but Jinx saves her as the three escape into the streets of Tokyo. Scarlett rendezvous with Snow Job and passes on Jinx's intel but tells him she plans to stay with Jinx and the Arashikage for as long as she has to. She returns to the Arashikage stronghold with Jinx and Storm Shadow, who presents the Energon sword to the Hard Master. In recognition of his service, the Hard Master returns the sword to Storm Shadow, who gladly accepts its power.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Prime Minister of Darklonia orders his soldiers to gun down a mob of civilian protestors, but a horde of Battle Android Troopers kills them. Destro accepts his resignation on behalf of Darklonia's people and installs his cousin Artyom Darklon in power. He is contacted by Cobra Commander, who worries the B.A.T.s will bring undue attention to Cobra's operations, but Destro hotly reminds the Commander that he is his partner, not his servant. Several weeks later, Astoria Carlton-Ritz, the new CEO of Hybrid Technologies following her father's death, arrives in Darklonia for an illegal arms fair. Mercer confirms that none of the companies attending have discovered Energon, but Destro is concerned about the conspicuous absence of Extensive Enterprises. Tomax and Xamot, the company's heads, personally execute a small military operation for injuring a unit of their Crimson Guard while combat drones attack the arms fair. As Destro's Iron Grenadiers engage the drones, he saves Astoria from a stray missile, which turns out to be a dud.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
July 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro, Tomax and Xamot order a series of attacks on each other's facilities, each believing the other was responsible for the drone invasion of Darklonia. Eventually, the Crimson Guard infiltrates the M.A.R.S. factory, which produces the B.A.T.s and also serves as their primary store of Energon; Destro destroys the facility to keep the substance secret. Both parties agree to meet for negotiations, but neither Destro nor Tomax and Xamot are willing to back down and compromise. Under threat from one of Destro's nuclear weapons, they eventually agree to cease the physical attacks in favor of corporate warfare. Destro returns to his secluded ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands, where he speaks with statues of previous Destros, unaware that a lone assassin is waiting for him to emerge.
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Dan Watters
Andrea Milana
Adriano Lucas
August 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro leaves his family mausoleum to find Chameleon waiting for him. With his technology somehow incapacitated, he attempts to flee, but Chameleon shoots him and sends a group of the same drones that attacked Darklonia to disable his escape craft. At M.A.R.S. Industries, Mercer and Scrap-Iron discover the drones' technology is similar to the B.A.T.s, and the dud missile Destro saved Astoria from is still working. The injured Destro makes his way to a United States Air Force base and requests to speak with General Flagg. He tells him the history behind his family's signature mask – during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the original Laird Destro sold weapons to all sides, but the victorious Oliver Cromwell forced him to wear a scalding iron mask smelted from musket balls as punishment for his treachery. However, Destro's clan later reclaimed the mask as a symbol of pride instead. Just as the first Destro knew the value of himself and his weapons, the current Destro threatens to stop supplying the United States with M.A.R.S. weaponry, and Flagg begrudgingly agrees to his demands.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
September 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | With Destro presumed dead, Tomax and Xamot offer Darklon a substantial sum in exchange for M.A.R.S.. Darklon agrees and prepares a demonstration of the B.A.T.s, who turn on each other due to flaws in their friend-or-foe identification system. Having requested a store of files from General Flagg, Destro learns the full story behind Duke's claims of a robot transforming into a jet and identifies Hybrid Technologies as its potential origin. He crashes a party hosted by Astoria and orders Scrap-Iron to fire a missile at her, but she somehow deactivates it using an EMP generated from her own body. Destro surmises her abilities are from her father's experiments on her and accuses her of being behind the recent attacks. Astoria admits to being Chameleon and ambushing him in the Scottish Highlands out of fear he had discovered her father's secret project – a peacekeeping artificial intelligence named Overkill, equipped with enough weapons and foresight to neutralize any threat before it occurs. She confesses that the AI has begun making decisions on its own, such as attacking the arms fair against her orders, and requests Destro's help in managing it as Tomax and Xamot arrange a meeting with Cobra Commander.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
October 16, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Tomax and Xamot take the Commander on a tour of M.A.R.S. Industries' headquarters, they are confronted by Destro. He engages the Crimson Twins while the rest of their forces are routed and destroyed by Scrap-Iron, Chameleon, Mercer, a squadron of Overkill's drones, and the remaining B.A.T.s. Destro beats Tomax and Xamot into submission but refuses to kill them, instead proposing that they unite under Cobra's banner to prepare for the strange and alien forces emerging, which pleases the watching Commander. Destro later meets Astoria for lunch, and he surmises that the Commander was behind Overkill's funding; trusting neither, he destroys the Overkill command satellite with one of his nuclear warheads and shares a kiss with Astoria. Destro also meets with Darklon at their family tomb, who apologizes for his hasty sale of M.A.R.S. to Tomax and Xamot, and Destro forces another scalding iron mask onto his cousin's face as punishment. Meanwhile, at Cobra's headquarters, the Commander receives word of Overkill's destruction and that a large piece of Cybertron has fallen into the ocean.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Sometime after his friend Tyler "Frosting" Frost was killed by a plane that transformed into a giant robot, Conrad "Duke" Hauser meets with his commanding officer, Colonel Hawk. Hawk orders him to return to duty and stop investigating the incident, to which Duke refuses. Six months later, Duke connects with Doctor Adele Burkhart at a conspiracy theory gathering in Washington, D.C., who informs him that he may have stumbled onto a secret arms race related to her research and directs him to M.A.R.S. Industries for more answers. Duke discovers that the company is producing a range of advanced robotic frames and exosuits, leading him to believe they created the robot that killed Frosting. He is discovered and thrown out by M.A.R.S. security operative Mercer, who lets him live upon request from his employer. Duke returns to the conspiracy theorists only to discover that the meeting was massacred. The dying Burkhart tells him the killers stole almost all of her research and gives him the last hard drive, warning him not to let it fall into the wrong hands. Police storm the building and attack Duke, who escapes into the night. Hawk's superiors order him to find Duke, and he tasks Stalker and Rock 'n Roll with capturing him.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 31, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke arrives at the auto shop where his old friend Clutch works, who agrees to patch his wounds and help however he can. Although Clutch doesn't fully believe Duke's story about the giant robot, he discovers that Burkhart's drive doubles as a highly advanced tracker for her research, located somewhere in the western United States. As Destro, the CEO of M.A.R.S. Industries, receives an alert, Duke and Clutch leave to investigate but are ambushed by Rock 'n Roll. They flee in one of Clutch's custom vans, but Rock 'n Roll leads them into Stalker's sniper trap, who disables the van and knocks both men unconscious. Duke and Clutch are arrested and brought to the Pit, an underground prison for high-risk inmates, where Duke's railings against the justice system catch the attention of a mysterious woman imprisoned nearby.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 28, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As M.A.R.S. relocates its headquarters in the wake of Duke's infiltration, Destro tasks Major Bludd with tracking down and eliminating him. In the Pit, Hawk informs Stalker and Rock 'n Roll that Duke will be transferred to a new facility in two hours, while Duke identifies the mysterious woman as Anastasia Cisarovna, the Baroness. Bludd's forces hijack the prison transport and storm the Pit, and Rock 'n Roll frees Duke and Clutch to evacuate. Duke reluctantly frees the Baroness as well, but Bludd attacks him before they can escape. During their fight, Bludd reveals that he killed Burkhart and plans to kill Duke as well to collect the large bounty on his head; however, the Baroness shoots him and threatens to take down Duke for the bounty.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 27, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Bludd's forces continue attacking the Pit, Duke convinces the Baroness to join him and the others in fighting back. She accepts, to the others' consternation, and the group discovers a hangar full of decommissioned experimental vehicles that Clutch repairs. A grievously wounded Bludd, now missing an eye, orders his men to destroy the Pit, but they are beset by Duke's team and their new armaments – an APC, a MOBAT, and a Skystriker. The Baroness escapes in a F.A.N.G. jet during the chaos, and Duke also leaves to follow Burkhart's tracker, leading to a secret M.A.R.S. test facility in the Rocky Mountains. Destro oversees a failed test of the new H.I.S.S. tank, whose power cores are insufficient, and orders Scrap-Iron to prepare his newest invention for the incoming Duke. As Duke arrives and discovers more of M.A.R.S.'s robotic weapons, he vows to destroy their giant robot; however, he is attacked by a Battle Android Trooper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
May 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the remains of the Pit, Clutch refuses to tell Hawk where Duke went, but Stalker reveals they discovered Burkhart's tracker in the wreckage. As the Battle Android Trooper strangles Duke, Destro reveals himself and offers Duke a position with M.A.R.S.. Duke refuses and accuses Destro of being responsible for Frosting's death, but he denies building the transforming robot. Destro leaves Duke at the B.A.T.'s mercy and orders Scrap-Iron to destroy the facility as he and Mercer depart. As the facility explodes, Duke manages to overpower the B.A.T. and destroy its power source, collapsing from his injuries. Later, he awakens in a hospital to find Hawk and Cover Girl waiting, who informs him that the news believes he is dead and posthumously cleared of Burkhart's murder. Hawk thanks him for his assistance in exposing Destro's operations; he later brings Duke to the Pit and asks him to form a highly trained special mission force capable of handling a variety of new emerging threats. Although Duke refuses at first, he agrees when Hawk shows him footage of more transforming robots like the one that killed Frosting, including one that turns into a truck.
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2024 Special
Joshua Williamson
Jason Howard
Mike Spicer
March 13, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Duke begins assembling his new team, he also decides to recruit the Baroness, despite Hawk's apparent objections. He rescues the Baroness from an ambush by two mysterious armored assassins and asks her to join his team to keep them honest, on edge, and wary of authority. She agrees, especially after learning her alternative is returning to prison. Meanwhile, Hawk meets with the two assassins, Flint and Lady Jaye, who voice their doubts about including the Baroness in Duke's new operation. However, Hawk's plans to bring the two together have worked out well, especially since he does not want Duke to know he is organizing multiple special forces teams.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the secret underground society of Cobra-La, whose humanoid residents rely solely on organic biotechnology, an angry mob attacks a science lab housing a foreign metal specimen. The scientists' commander orders them to protect their research, but one of them accidentally detonates an explosive spore in his face. He is healed and given a metal helmet to hide his wounds, and Pythona brings him to Cobra-La's leader Golobulus to answer for himself. The furious Golobulus berates the commander for disregarding Cobra-La's reverence for organic life through his experiments on the specimen's alien technology, even after they took him in from the human world. Golobulus also reveals he knows the commander instigated the riot to gain power and orders him to be executed; however, the commander kills his guards with several small insectoid robots and requests to depart on a special mission to strengthen Cobra-La. Golobulus reluctantly agrees, and the commander returns to the lab and extracts more data and Energon from the specimen – an imprisoned and deactivated Megatron. As he departs, plotting to conquer the world in Cobra-La's name, he overlooks Megatron momentarily reawakening. Accompanied by a Cobra-La grunt disguised as a human, the commander hijacks a truck and kills its driver for transport to a large Energon deposit in Florida. He vows the world will soon fear the name of Cobra Commander, unaware that others are already harvesting the Energon.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
February 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the Florida swamps, Buzzer and Ripper of the Dreadnoks gang torture and kill a pair of gunrunners for interfering in their territory. The Commander and the grunt begin their investigation, and the grunt recalls Pythona's orders to watch the Commander as they track the Energon further into the swamps. The two are confronted by a park ranger, who is quickly murdered by the grunt as the Commander slips away. He encounters the Dreadnoks, who flee after he destroys their vehicle. Zarana warns her brothers not to follow him into the restricted areas of the swamps as the Commander discovers a large body of water infused with Energon; however, he falls in while gloating and is quickly overwhelmed by a horde of Energon-enhanced alligators.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
March 20, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The grunt gets lost in the swamps looking for the Commander as he is captured by Zandar and taken back to the Dreadnoks' hideout. One by one, Buzzer, Torch, Ripper, Zandar, and Zarana torture the Commander but fail to break him, and he slowly begins turning his captors against one another. Zarana finally gives up and orders him to be taken to a secret bunker and executed, but the Commander activates a hidden tracking device. Just before he is killed, the Cobra-La grunt arrives, and the Commander orders him to dispose of the Dreadnoks so they can claim the Energon in Golobulus' name. With Buzzer's chainsaw ineffective against him, the grunt sheds his human disguise to reveal the monstrous form of the Nemesis Enforcer.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
April 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Enforcer begins slaughtering the Dreadnoks, the Commander forces Ripper to show him the secret bunker, where a captive scientist has been experimenting with Energon. The scientist shows the Commander the results of his work, including how raw pink Energon can be refined and transmuted into new forms and colors, and the Commander upgrades his insectoid robots with a cube of blue Energon. Zarana, Zandar, Torch, and Buzzer manage to distract the Enforcer long enough to escape, but he lets them leave and turns on the Commander instead as Ripper flees. He reveals that Golobulus ordered him to dispose of the Commander once he discovered a way to harness the power of Energon, and he is no longer needed now that they have the scientist. However, the Commander kills the Enforcer and catches up with Ripper, who reveals that the Dreadnoks planned to sell the Energon to Destro of M.A.R.S. Industries.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
May 22, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Commander begins attacking and raiding M.A.R.S. facilities across the United States, eventually inviting Destro to meet via Ripper. Destro, Mercer, Ripper, and a squadron of M.A.R.S. troops arrive at a seemingly idyllic small American town, but a hidden laser turret kills the troops. Destro reluctantly agrees to hear the Commander's proposal, who takes them to the underground lab of Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer, the scientist he rescued from the Dreadnoks. The Commander requests to ally M.A.R.S.'s technological might with his Energon production capabilities to unite the world's criminal elements. He demonstrates the potential by supercharging one of Destro's Battle Android Troopers with Energon, which effortlessly kills dozens of his own recruits. Destro agrees to the alliance, and the Commander formally organizes the partnership between his troops and M.A.R.S. into Cobra. Meanwhile, the denizens of Cobra-La are still reeling from Megatron's recent escape. Golobulus and Pythona raid the Commander's lab and discover his captive came from an entirely mechanical planet, the antithesis to Cobra-La's way of life. Fearing that more creatures like Megatron are already on Earth, Golobulus sends Pythona and a contingent of Cobra-La warriors into space to find their robotic homeworld – Cybertron.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Special operative Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara infiltrates a private party in Monaco while searching for a group of hostages, with strict orders not to engage. However, she is distracted by the sudden arrival of her old friend Jinx, who disappeared on a mission several years ago. Jinx covertly signals Scarlett not to interfere, but she breaks orders to save her, allowing Jinx's mysterious team of ninjas to escape with a hostage. Scarlett is dismissed from her unit for her insubordination, and she returns home to find Stalker waiting for her; he reveals that Jinx disappeared while infiltrating Clan Arashikage and asks her to find the clan, rescue Jinx, and retrieve a secret weapon the Arashikage have in their possession. Her pilot Snow Job transports her to a mountaintop Arashikage hideout, where she fights her way through a horde of ninja to reach the clan's leader, the Hard Master. She offers her services to the Arashikage but is quickly knocked out from behind by Storm Shadow, the Hard Master's most loyal servant.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
July 3, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett awakens to find herself in captivity; following another coded message from Jinx, she frees herself and attacks another group of Arashikage ninjas, impressing the watching Storm Shadow. He invites her to have tea with him and the Hard Master, and she explains that she hopes to use her skills for a more useful cause after her dismissal from the United States military. The Hard Master agrees to give Scarlett a chance, as the Arashikage are planning to retrieve an ancient weapon of unusual origin stolen from them by the Mugenonami, a yakuza group. As Scarlett begins the mission, she recognizes that the assignment is a suicide mission but believes that Jinx is worth dying for.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
August 7, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett infiltrates the Mugenonami building in Tokyo and takes control of the primary security center, but is severely wounded while fighting off a group of katana-wielding enforcers. As Storm Shadow, Jinx, and a group of Arashikage ninjas take on a legion of Mugenonami forces at a neighboring building, Scarlett rigs the secondary security center to explore and kills another enforcer. With the Mugenonami complex thrown into chaos, she makes her way to the roof of the other building and finally reunites with Jinx, but they are interrupted by the arrival of a Cobra helicopter.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
September 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Jinx secretly warns Scarlett to be wary as Storm Shadow summons them; the Mugenonami moved the weapon to a lower floor when the Arashikage arrived, and orders the two to find an alternate route while he and the others engage them directly. Jinx knocks out any surveillance with an EMP device, allowing the two a few minutes to talk privately. She gives Scarlett intel to take back to Stalker but refuses to come herself, believing that the Arashikage could become a powerful ally against the rising threat of Cobra as long as she stays with them. As the EMP's effects wear off and the two resume their mission, Scarlett realizes the Mugenonami moved the weapon to an upper floor instead, and Storm Shadow's forces are walking into a trap. She and Jinx secure the weapon and dispatch its guards and a squadron of Cobra Troopers. Storm Shadow arrives to claim it, revealing it as the Sword of Life, an ancient blade crafted from Energon.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
October 9, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Storm Shadow demonstrates the power of the Energon sword, he, Scarlett, and Jinx flee as another Cobra helicopter arrives and blows up the building floor. Cobra Commander arrives and shoots Scarlett, but Jinx saves her as the three escape into the streets of Tokyo. Scarlett rendezvous with Snow Job and passes on Jinx's intel but tells him she plans to stay with Jinx and the Arashikage for as long as she has to. She returns to the Arashikage stronghold with Jinx and Storm Shadow, who presents the Energon sword to the Hard Master. In recognition of his service, the Hard Master returns the sword to Storm Shadow, who gladly accepts its power.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Prime Minister of Darklonia orders his soldiers to gun down a mob of civilian protestors, but a horde of Battle Android Troopers kills them. Destro accepts his resignation on behalf of Darklonia's people and installs his cousin Artyom Darklon in power. He is contacted by Cobra Commander, who worries the B.A.T.s will bring undue attention to Cobra's operations, but Destro hotly reminds the Commander that he is his partner, not his servant. Several weeks later, Astoria Carlton-Ritz, the new CEO of Hybrid Technologies following her father's death, arrives in Darklonia for an illegal arms fair. Mercer confirms that none of the companies attending have discovered Energon, but Destro is concerned about the conspicuous absence of Extensive Enterprises. Tomax and Xamot, the company's heads, personally execute a small military operation for injuring a unit of their Crimson Guard while combat drones attack the arms fair. As Destro's Iron Grenadiers engage the drones, he saves Astoria from a stray missile, which turns out to be a dud.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
July 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro, Tomax and Xamot order a series of attacks on each other's facilities, each believing the other was responsible for the drone invasion of Darklonia. Eventually, the Crimson Guard infiltrates the M.A.R.S. factory, which produces the B.A.T.s and also serves as their primary store of Energon; Destro destroys the facility to keep the substance secret. Both parties agree to meet for negotiations, but neither Destro nor Tomax and Xamot are willing to back down and compromise. Under threat from one of Destro's nuclear weapons, they eventually agree to cease the physical attacks in favor of corporate warfare. Destro returns to his secluded ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands, where he speaks with statues of previous Destros, unaware that a lone assassin is waiting for him to emerge.
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Dan Watters
Andrea Milana
Adriano Lucas
August 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro leaves his family mausoleum to find Chameleon waiting for him. With his technology somehow incapacitated, he attempts to flee, but Chameleon shoots him and sends a group of the same drones that attacked Darklonia to disable his escape craft. At M.A.R.S. Industries, Mercer and Scrap-Iron discover the drones' technology is similar to the B.A.T.s, and the dud missile Destro saved Astoria from is still working. The injured Destro makes his way to a United States Air Force base and requests to speak with General Flagg. He tells him the history behind his family's signature mask – during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the original Laird Destro sold weapons to all sides, but the victorious Oliver Cromwell forced him to wear a scalding iron mask smelted from musket balls as punishment for his treachery. However, Destro's clan later reclaimed the mask as a symbol of pride instead. Just as the first Destro knew the value of himself and his weapons, the current Destro threatens to stop supplying the United States with M.A.R.S. weaponry, and Flagg begrudgingly agrees to his demands.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
September 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | With Destro presumed dead, Tomax and Xamot offer Darklon a substantial sum in exchange for M.A.R.S.. Darklon agrees and prepares a demonstration of the B.A.T.s, who turn on each other due to flaws in their friend-or-foe identification system. Having requested a store of files from General Flagg, Destro learns the full story behind Duke's claims of a robot transforming into a jet and identifies Hybrid Technologies as its potential origin. He crashes a party hosted by Astoria and orders Scrap-Iron to fire a missile at her, but she somehow deactivates it using an EMP generated from her own body. Destro surmises her abilities are from her father's experiments on her and accuses her of being behind the recent attacks. Astoria admits to being Chameleon and ambushing him in the Scottish Highlands out of fear he had discovered her father's secret project – a peacekeeping artificial intelligence named Overkill, equipped with enough weapons and foresight to neutralize any threat before it occurs. She confesses that the AI has begun making decisions on its own, such as attacking the arms fair against her orders, and requests Destro's help in managing it as Tomax and Xamot arrange a meeting with Cobra Commander.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
October 16, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Tomax and Xamot take the Commander on a tour of M.A.R.S. Industries' headquarters, they are confronted by Destro. He engages the Crimson Twins while the rest of their forces are routed and destroyed by Scrap-Iron, Chameleon, Mercer, a squadron of Overkill's drones, and the remaining B.A.T.s. Destro beats Tomax and Xamot into submission but refuses to kill them, instead proposing that they unite under Cobra's banner to prepare for the strange and alien forces emerging, which pleases the watching Commander. Destro later meets Astoria for lunch, and he surmises that the Commander was behind Overkill's funding; trusting neither, he destroys the Overkill command satellite with one of his nuclear warheads and shares a kiss with Astoria. Destro also meets with Darklon at their family tomb, who apologizes for his hasty sale of M.A.R.S. to Tomax and Xamot, and Destro forces another scalding iron mask onto his cousin's face as punishment. Meanwhile, at Cobra's headquarters, the Commander receives word of Overkill's destruction and that a large piece of Cybertron has fallen into the ocean.
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G.I. Joe (2024–present)
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke and his newly formed G.I. Joe special mission force – Clutch, Cover Girl, Stalker, Rock 'n Roll, and the Baroness – flub a training exercise, after which Duke confesses to Hawk they aren't ready for field duty. As Destro demonstrates a new Energon-powered laser weapon, an undercover United States government operative codenamed Risk is ordered to return from a mission in Abu Dhabi. Hawk reassures Duke that the many differences between the Joes will strengthen their team before giving them their first mission – they are to protect a research facility in Colorado currently studying a shard of technology recovered from the alien wreckage in the middle of the ocean. At the same time, Destro and Cobra Commander order Mercer and a contingent of Cobra Troopers and Vipers to storm the facility, steal the shard, and kill everyone inside. The Cobra forces ambush the Joes, interrupting the bickering Stalker and Baroness, and Duke manages to commandeer their F.A.N.G. aircraft as the others attempt to evacuate the alien technology. However, Mercer's Vipers arrive and kill Rock 'n Roll with their Energon weapons.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Mercer corners Cover Girl as the Vipers claim the shard; their weapons easily destroy Duke's F.A.N.G., and he jumps back into the fight to attack Mercer, whom he recognizes as M.A.R.S.'s head of security. The facility descends into chaos as Cobra Valkyries start killing the wounded civilians, Baroness saves Stalker, and Clutch steals one of the Energon rifles. Not wanting their special weapons to fall into the Joes' hands, the Commander activates a self-destruct mechanism on all the weapons, which destroys the facility as the remaining Cobra forces escape with the shard. In the aftermath, all the Joes are injured but alive except Rock 'n Roll and Clutch, who is missing and presumed dead. Duke informs Hawk about Cobra's possible connections to M.A.R.S., and Hawk introduces Duke to Risk, a former Air Force pilot turned CIA operative specializing in risk assessment and the newest member of G.I. Joe. However, Risk's condescending attitude and callous dismissal of Rock 'n Roll's death enrage Duke, and the two men begin to fight. At Cobra's Springfield headquarters, Destro and the Commander plan the kidnapping of Dr. Archibald Monev and stealing his Brainwave Scanner device, unaware that Clutch has infiltrated the base disguised as a Viper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The disguised Clutch is confronted by Mercer and saved by Destro, both unaware of his true nature. Destro briefs the assembled Vipers on their plan to retrieve Dr. Monev from protective custody before he testifies in front of Congress, but the Commander interrupts the meeting to report the presence of an intruder. One of the Cobra scientists, secretly a spy from Cobra-La, tries to attack the Commander, but he throws him into a pit of ravenous serpents. Clutch slips away in the chaos as Stalker finally interrupts Duke and Risk's brawl. As he leaves to call Rock 'n Roll's family, Cover Girl receives a transmission from Clutch informing them of Cobra's plans. In Washington, D.C., Monev's security detail deviates from their pre-planned route, but Duke, Baroness, and Risk stop them before they can escape. Risk reveals Monev's guards were Crimson Guard sleeper agents, and they are attacked by Tomax and Xamot.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Joes attempt to escape with Monev, but Tomax and Xamot's Stinger missile car easily overpowers their motorcycles. To prevent any civilian casualties, Duke surrenders, and all four are captured; meanwhile, Stalker and Cover Girl's attempt to return the Brainwave Scanner to storage fails, and Chameleon and Ripper capture them. At Cobra headquarters, Destro and Mercer discuss the reptilian remains of the Cobra-La spy and the Commander's many secrets, unaware that Clutch is spying on them nearby. The facility suddenly receives orders from the Commander to mobilize at M.A.R.S. headquarters, to Destro's confusion and anger, and Clutch departs with the other Cobra troops. Everyone arrives at M.A.R.S. with Monev and the Brainwave Scanner, where the Commander reveals his plan to modify the device into a brainwashing machine that will make its targets obey Cobra's commands. The five captured Joes are brought forth to serve as the machine's first test subjects.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro and Mercer gloat over Duke's captured team, but Clutch commandeers one of the H.I.S.S. tanks and throws Cobra into chaos. As the Joes retreat out of the line of fire, the Commander and Monev finish modifying the Brainwave Scanner; according to Monev's calculations, the machine's new explosive capabilities will enslave everyone within a five-mile blast radius, but all those within an initial one-mile epicenter will have their minds completely wiped, thanks to the potency of its Energon supply. Scrap-Iron destroys Clutch's H.I.S.S. with a bazooka, but the Joes launch a sudden counterattack and manage to break through and escape on a helicopter. Tomax and Xamot leave in disgust as a furious Destro pursues them in a F.A.N.G., but the Baroness suddenly notices that Duke is not with them. Meanwhile, the Commander betrays Monev and activates the machine with him inside; as he informs Destro the brain bomb is ready for transport, he is ambushed and held at gunpoint by Duke.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
April 23, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Cobra Commander nonchalantly introduces himself to Duke and raises the brain bomb to the roof. He informs Duke that the only way to deactivate it and save Washington, D.C. is to kill Monev. The two fight as Clutch goads the Baroness into going back to save Duke, and Destro orders the remaining Cobra forces to retreat. The Commander injures Duke, but he also kills Monev himself and deactivates the bomb after realizing that dying with Duke means Cobra would rule the world without him. The rest of G.I. Joe arrive to save their leader, and the impressed Commander spares Duke and returns to Springfield, where the irate Destro confronts him over compromising M.A.R.S. Industries. Acknowledging his demands for more information, the Commander reveals that the modified Brainwave Scanner's true purpose was to unlock a piece of Cybertronian technology and informs Destro about the existence of Megatron. Meanwhile, the Joes recuperate at the Pit, where Duke reiterates to Hawk that, despite the team's success against Cobra, his ultimate goal is to find and destroy the mysterious transforming robots. Clutch leaves the Pit on a drive to clear his head, but his Jeep suddenly transforms into the AutobotHound.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Recently reactivated and on a mission to find the Autobots, Hound demands to know how and where Clutch acquired Energon. Clutch's standard weapons have no effect on the Cybertronian, but he injures Hound with an Energon grenade he stole from Cobra; however, he realizes too late that Hound meant him no harm and agrees to help repair him. Clutch brings Hound to the workshop of his old friend Matt Trakker, who somehow already has experience fixing Cybertronian technology. Before Trakker can finish the repairs, Ravage suddenly breaks in and attacks Clutch and Trakker for their Energon, but Hound manages to drive the Decepticon away. Trakker finishes Hound's repairs and parts amicably with Clutch, requesting he keep their encounter secret. Clutch and Hound apologize to one another for their poor first meeting and agree to work together to investigate Cobra's supply of Energon weapons. Meanwhile, in the swamps of Florida, Buzzer ambushes a contingent of Cobra troopers sent to gather more Energon and declares war on Cobra Commander.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The captive Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer informs the Commander that they have exhausted Cobra's initial supply of Energon from the Florida swamps. He orders their allies sent out to excavate smaller deposits around the world and takes Ripper to personally investigate a unique, pulsating Energon signal located in the Chihuahuan Desert. G.I. Joe also picks up the signal; with most of the team unavailable investigating the recent destruction of Chicago, Duke agrees to follow up on the anomaly while visiting Frosting's grave in Texas. He discovers Cobra already excavating the site, where Ripper uncovers a planted beacon emitting the Energon signature. The dig site explodes as he turns on the Commander and crushes his mechanical hand. Duke enters the fray and saves the Commander, but quickly captures him to learn more about Energon and the transforming robots. The Dreadnoks arrive in hot pursuit of the Commander and reunite with Ripper, while Destro takes command of Cobra.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Zartan secretly compiles information on Energon from G.I. Joe and Cobra's databases, the other Joes try to defuse the standoff between Duke and Hound. Clutch tries to vouch for Hound's integrity, but Duke places the Autobot under arrest, and everyone returns to the Pit. Hound willingly accepts containment and tells Duke about Starscream, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, and his current objective to fix his transponder and reconnect with the other Autobots active on Earth. Although still suspicious, Duke reluctantly agrees to trust Clutch and help Hound. The other Joes are immediately assigned new missions by "Hawk" – Cover Girl is to connect with Snow Job for more information, while Stalker, Baroness, and Risk are sent to investigate Energon readings in the barren country of Badhikistan. Meanwhile, a government agent attends an auto racing event to secretly warn Matt Trakker about the escape of his old Shadow Watch boss Miles Mayhem. Suddenly, Scrap-Iron bursts onto the track, kills the agent, and informs Trakker he has come to collect Mayhem's bounty on his head.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke and his newly formed G.I. Joe special mission force – Clutch, Cover Girl, Stalker, Rock 'n Roll, and the Baroness – flub a training exercise, after which Duke confesses to Hawk they aren't ready for field duty. As Destro demonstrates a new Energon-powered laser weapon, an undercover United States government operative codenamed Risk is ordered to return from a mission in Abu Dhabi. Hawk reassures Duke that the many differences between the Joes will strengthen their team before giving them their first mission – they are to protect a research facility in Colorado currently studying a shard of technology recovered from the alien wreckage in the middle of the ocean. At the same time, Destro and Cobra Commander order Mercer and a contingent of Cobra Troopers and Vipers to storm the facility, steal the shard, and kill everyone inside. The Cobra forces ambush the Joes, interrupting the bickering Stalker and Baroness, and Duke manages to commandeer their F.A.N.G. aircraft as the others attempt to evacuate the alien technology. However, Mercer's Vipers arrive and kill Rock 'n Roll with their Energon weapons.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Mercer corners Cover Girl as the Vipers claim the shard; their weapons easily destroy Duke's F.A.N.G., and he jumps back into the fight to attack Mercer, whom he recognizes as M.A.R.S.'s head of security. The facility descends into chaos as Cobra Valkyries start killing the wounded civilians, Baroness saves Stalker, and Clutch steals one of the Energon rifles. Not wanting their special weapons to fall into the Joes' hands, the Commander activates a self-destruct mechanism on all the weapons, which destroys the facility as the remaining Cobra forces escape with the shard. In the aftermath, all the Joes are injured but alive except Rock 'n Roll and Clutch, who is missing and presumed dead. Duke informs Hawk about Cobra's possible connections to M.A.R.S., and Hawk introduces Duke to Risk, a former Air Force pilot turned CIA operative specializing in risk assessment and the newest member of G.I. Joe. However, Risk's condescending attitude and callous dismissal of Rock 'n Roll's death enrage Duke, and the two men begin to fight. At Cobra's Springfield headquarters, Destro and the Commander plan the kidnapping of Dr. Archibald Monev and stealing his Brainwave Scanner device, unaware that Clutch has infiltrated the base disguised as a Viper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The disguised Clutch is confronted by Mercer and saved by Destro, both unaware of his true nature. Destro briefs the assembled Vipers on their plan to retrieve Dr. Monev from protective custody before he testifies in front of Congress, but the Commander interrupts the meeting to report the presence of an intruder. One of the Cobra scientists, secretly a spy from Cobra-La, tries to attack the Commander, but he throws him into a pit of ravenous serpents. Clutch slips away in the chaos as Stalker finally interrupts Duke and Risk's brawl. As he leaves to call Rock 'n Roll's family, Cover Girl receives a transmission from Clutch informing them of Cobra's plans. In Washington, D.C., Monev's security detail deviates from their pre-planned route, but Duke, Baroness, and Risk stop them before they can escape. Risk reveals Monev's guards were Crimson Guard sleeper agents, and they are attacked by Tomax and Xamot.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Joes attempt to escape with Monev, but Tomax and Xamot's Stinger missile car easily overpowers their motorcycles. To prevent any civilian casualties, Duke surrenders, and all four are captured; meanwhile, Stalker and Cover Girl's attempt to return the Brainwave Scanner to storage fails, and Chameleon and Ripper capture them. At Cobra headquarters, Destro and Mercer discuss the reptilian remains of the Cobra-La spy and the Commander's many secrets, unaware that Clutch is spying on them nearby. The facility suddenly receives orders from the Commander to mobilize at M.A.R.S. headquarters, to Destro's confusion and anger, and Clutch departs with the other Cobra troops. Everyone arrives at M.A.R.S. with Monev and the Brainwave Scanner, where the Commander reveals his plan to modify the device into a brainwashing machine that will make its targets obey Cobra's commands. The five captured Joes are brought forth to serve as the machine's first test subjects.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro and Mercer gloat over Duke's captured team, but Clutch commandeers one of the H.I.S.S. tanks and throws Cobra into chaos. As the Joes retreat out of the line of fire, the Commander and Monev finish modifying the Brainwave Scanner; according to Monev's calculations, the machine's new explosive capabilities will enslave everyone within a five-mile blast radius, but all those within an initial one-mile epicenter will have their minds completely wiped, thanks to the potency of its Energon supply. Scrap-Iron destroys Clutch's H.I.S.S. with a bazooka, but the Joes launch a sudden counterattack and manage to break through and escape on a helicopter. Tomax and Xamot leave in disgust as a furious Destro pursues them in a F.A.N.G., but the Baroness suddenly notices that Duke is not with them. Meanwhile, the Commander betrays Monev and activates the machine with him inside; as he informs Destro the brain bomb is ready for transport, he is ambushed and held at gunpoint by Duke.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
April 23, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Cobra Commander nonchalantly introduces himself to Duke and raises the brain bomb to the roof. He informs Duke that the only way to deactivate it and save Washington, D.C. is to kill Monev. The two fight as Clutch goads the Baroness into going back to save Duke, and Destro orders the remaining Cobra forces to retreat. The Commander injures Duke, but he also kills Monev himself and deactivates the bomb after realizing that dying with Duke means Cobra would rule the world without him. The rest of G.I. Joe arrive to save their leader, and the impressed Commander spares Duke and returns to Springfield, where the irate Destro confronts him over compromising M.A.R.S. Industries. Acknowledging his demands for more information, the Commander reveals that the modified Brainwave Scanner's true purpose was to unlock a piece of Cybertronian technology and informs Destro about the existence of Megatron. Meanwhile, the Joes recuperate at the Pit, where Duke reiterates to Hawk that, despite the team's success against Cobra, his ultimate goal is to find and destroy the mysterious transforming robots. Clutch leaves the Pit on a drive to clear his head, but his Jeep suddenly transforms into the AutobotHound.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Recently reactivated and on a mission to find the Autobots, Hound demands to know how and where Clutch acquired Energon. Clutch's standard weapons have no effect on the Cybertronian, but he injures Hound with an Energon grenade he stole from Cobra; however, he realizes too late that Hound meant him no harm and agrees to help repair him. Clutch brings Hound to the workshop of his old friend Matt Trakker, who somehow already has experience fixing Cybertronian technology. Before Trakker can finish the repairs, Ravage suddenly breaks in and attacks Clutch and Trakker for their Energon, but Hound manages to drive the Decepticon away. Trakker finishes Hound's repairs and parts amicably with Clutch, requesting he keep their encounter secret. Clutch and Hound apologize to one another for their poor first meeting and agree to work together to investigate Cobra's supply of Energon weapons. Meanwhile, in the swamps of Florida, Buzzer ambushes a contingent of Cobra troopers sent to gather more Energon and declares war on Cobra Commander.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
May 28, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Assigned to steal a mysterious Darklonian shipment from wealthy collector Victor Foley, the special agent Beach Head spends three days lurking on Foley's beachfront property waiting to enter the house. Once inside, he discovers to his dismay that nearly all of his intel was wrong – the shipping box is larger than expected, Foley has a pair of civilian escorts complicating the extraction, and a horde of mercenaries attacks him as he tries to leave. The mercenaries escape with the box, destroying Foley's house in the process, but Beach Head manages to detach it from their truck. A second team of mercenaries on motorcycles confronts him, but he and the box are saved by a hovercraft. The mercenaries report back to Major Bludd, who kills them all for their failure, while Beach Head's saviors reveal themselves as Flint and Lady Jaye. A furious Beach Head confronts them, afraid his superiors will force him to retire, but Flint invites him to join their secret special mission team, Night Force. They open the box and show Beach Head the charred remains of a Battle Android Trooper; meanwhile, Cover Girl finds a redacted report concerning Night Force and gives it to Hawk, who promptly shreds it.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
June 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Joes continue to train, Destro and Cobra Commander watch footage of Seattle being destroyed in a battle between two giganticrobots. Destro sends Mercer to search the city's wreckage for spare parts, but the Commander insists they must have a fully intact Cybertronian. After Duke and the Baroness nearly catch Clutch returning to the Pit with Hound, she asks Duke to let her leave. He agrees on the condition that Cover Girl accompanies her, and the two fly to Paris for the weekend. The Baroness immediately tries to disappear, but Cover Girl tracks her to a small street café, unaware they are both being watched by Bludd's agents. At Cover Girl's pressing, the Baroness reluctantly admits that she is watching her parents celebrate their anniversary at a neighboring café, unable to speak with them but wanting to see them regardless. Cover Girl connects with her over the weight of her own parents' expectations, but a horde of falcons suddenly attacks the café. As the two Joes help civilians evacuate, they are cornered by Raptor, who asks them to come meet with Bludd.
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09
Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
July 16, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Bludd arrives and kills several police officers as Raptor captures both Joes. A suspicious Risk informs Duke that he believes Clutch is hiding something from them, while Clutch promises to find more Energon for an ailing Hound. Meanwhile, Mercer reports to Destro about his discovery of an imprisoned Agent Martin, the last surviving member of a rogue M.A.R.S. salvage team that was slaughtered by a robot named Starscream. Destro orders Mercer to keep this new information from the Commander and execute the insane Martin, while Cover Girl and the Baroness awaken in a rocky pit. From above, Bludd assures the two that he has no intention of killing them himself, but plans to sell them to the highest bidder among the Baroness' many enemies. However, he throws them a knife and orders them to settle the matter of his missing eye – either the Baroness must kill Cover Girl to be sold intact, or Cover Girl must cut out the Baroness' eye on Bludd's behalf to go free. The Baroness challenges Bludd to face her himself, but Cover Girl grabs the knife and stabs her in the back.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
August 20, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | To Bludd's anger, Cover Girl refuses to finish the job and echoes the injured Baroness' challenge to come take her eye himself. After he tells them that Raptor stands ready to kill the Baroness' parents, she begins to fight Cover Girl for their safety. Clutch and Hound leave the Pit to search for more of Cobra's Energon-powered weapons, unaware that Risk is following them, while a worried Destro confides in Astoria about his suspicions of the Commander's mysterious past. Forcing his way into his ally's private laboratory, Destro discovers several mangled and mutilated Cobra Troopers being experimented on before the Commander confronts him. As Bludd reads some of his poetry aloud, the Baroness seemingly snaps Cover Girl's neck; however, when he jumps into the pit to continue gloating, Cover Girl breaks his ankle and escapes to save the Baroness' parents from Raptor. Clutch leaves Hound behind to search the wreckage of M.A.R.S. Industries for Energon, where Risk ambushes him and accuses him of being a brainwashed Cobra double agent. Mercer and a squadron of Cobra Vipers confront the two Joes, unaware of Hound's looming presence behind them.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
September 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Hound easily shrugs off the Vipers' attacks and refuels himself with the Energon powering their weapons. The Joes and Hound escape, leaving a bewildered Mercer behind, while the Baroness and Bludd fight in the pit. Bludd offers to spare her parents if she allows him to take her eye, confident that Cover Girl will not be able to find her way out of the labyrinthine sewer tunnels. However, she escapes just in time to subdue Raptor, and the Baroness stabs out Bludd's remaining eye. She leaves the blinded mercenary behind and regroups with Cover Girl while Destro attempts to talk down the Commander in his laboratory. Both men acknowledge that they ultimately have different goals regarding Cobra's future, with the Commander stating his belief that humanity must evolve beyond flesh and bone to survive the coming wars. Clutch, Risk, Hound, the Baroness, and Cover Girl all return to the Pit, leaving Duke none the wiser about their respective adventures. As the Baroness and Cover Girl affirm their new friendship, Hawk tells Night Force to stand down and stop spying on her; instead, they are to sneak into Darklonia and rescue their next recruit – Jodie "Shooter" Craig.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
October 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Hawk assures a suspicious Duke that nothing is happening within G.I. Joe without his knowledge, Night Force prepares to assault a Darklonian labor camp to rescue Shooter. Within the prison, Shooter refuses to use her expert sniper skills for Darklon, the country's regent and prison commandant, who orders her beaten and sent back to her cell. She manages to break out just as Beach Head finds her, disrupting a rival prisoner's attempt to assassinate her, and the two escape with Flint and Lady Jaye. As they leave, Shooter pulls off an impossible sniper shot to kill the rival prisoner. Meanwhile, the Commander and Destro welcome Major Bludd into Cobra with a new pair of bionic eyes, restoring his sight. Mercer pulls Destro aside to inform him about Clutch's alliance with Hound; rather than attack the Commander directly and upset the balance of power within Cobra, Destro decides to send the Dreadnoks to kill him instead.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The captive Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer informs the Commander that they have exhausted Cobra's initial supply of Energon from the Florida swamps. He orders their allies sent out to excavate smaller deposits around the world and takes Ripper to personally investigate a unique, pulsating Energon signal located in the Chihuahuan Desert. G.I. Joe also picks up the signal; with most of the team unavailable investigating the recent destruction of Chicago, Duke agrees to follow up on the anomaly while visiting Frosting's grave in Texas. He discovers Cobra already excavating the site, where Ripper uncovers a planted beacon emitting the Energon signature. The dig site explodes as he turns on the Commander and crushes his mechanical hand. Duke enters the fray and saves the Commander, but quickly captures him to learn more about Energon and the transforming robots. The Dreadnoks arrive in hot pursuit of the Commander and reunite with Ripper, while Destro takes command of Cobra.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
November 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro begins offering Cobra's services to the highest bidder among his underworld contacts, to the confusion and concern of the other officers, while Duke and the Commander flee from the Dreadnoks. Outnumbered, outgunned, and with their communications blocked, Duke reluctantly frees the Commander and agrees to work together to escape the desert. Buzzer sabotages their Jeep with his arm-mounted chainsaw, but the two parkour across and through the Dreadnok convoy until they commandeer another truck. They lure their enemies into a canyon and collapse it, scattering the Dreadnoks but destroying their truck. After learning from Clutch that G.I. Joe is all out on missions, a frustrated Hawk departs for the CIA's headquarters in Langley to review intelligence on Destro's takeover of Cobra with General Flagg. Meanwhile, Duke and the Commander wander into an abandoned town and begin searching for a working vehicle or landline signal; the Commander discovers a drove of pigs inside one decrepit house and is suddenly taken out by a massive sledgehammer. As the remaining Dreadnoks converge on the town, Duke is cornered by Road Pig.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 3, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Road Pig quickly dispatches Duke and imprisons him in the house's attic with an unconscious and helmetless Commander. He leaves them to deal with the approaching Buzzer and Ripper while Hawk makes a detour to meet with Astoria. She brings him before Destro, who offers him Cobra's weapons and information in a potential truce against the menace of the transforming robots. In the attic, the Commander awakens and confides in Duke about his distaste for being human and his theft of the Dreadnoks' Energon. They are interrupted by the return of Road Pig, who has befriended Buzzer and Ripper after an initial fight and agreed to help the Dreadnoks. The Commander bites Buzzer's throat for commenting on his mutilated face; Road Pig takes the two captives outside, where Zarana arrives with the rest of the Dreadnoks and Ripper returns the Commander's helmet. At the Pit, Clutch realizes that Duke is in trouble and leaves with Cover Girl to organize a rescue.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Dreadnoks formally induct Road Pig into their gang with a party and prepare to burn their captives alive. Intrigued by Duke's continued insistence on sparing the Commander, Buzzer frees him and offers him a deal – if he can beat Buzzer in a fight, the Dreadnoks will let him interrogate the Commander before they kill him, and Torch lights the pyre to add a time limit. Despite learning that one of his Joes has secretly allied with a robot, Hawk rebuffs Destro's offer, dispatches Mercer, and escapes with a gunshot wound. Buzzer prepares to kill Duke, but the rest of G.I. Joe arrives with enough weapons and vehicles to match the Dreadnoks. In the ensuing firefight, the Commander escapes from the pyre, the Baroness saves Duke, and Zarana and Zandar activate an Energon-powered device on their rebuilt Thunder Machine that generates an Energon lightning storm. The Joes regroup and prepare to retreat, but the injured Duke insists they go back for the Commander. The Dreadnoks begin searching for him, but the Commander incapacitates Buzzer and attacks the search party with his chainsaw.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 14, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zarana, Zandar, and Ripper find that the Commander has captured Buzzer and massacred the other Dreadnoks. To their surprise, he commends their efforts and offers them a truce and employment as independent contractors for Cobra. The Commander also offers the Joes the chance to leave peacefully as thanks for their efforts to save him, but Duke refuses. The battle between the Joes and the Dreadnoks resumes fiercer than ever, leaving Clutch with no choice but to reveal his secret alliance with Hound. The Autobot transforms to the shock and horror of all and takes out the remaining Dreadnoks, but Destro arrives with Cobra reinforcements. The Commander escapes with Zarana, Zandar, Torch, Ripper, Buzzer, and Road Pig in tow; before the other Joes can react, a furious Duke punches Clutch and holds Hound at gunpoint. Meanwhile, the injured Hawk returns to the Pit and takes a secret call from Zarana, revealing himself to be a disguised and undercover Zartan.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
January 28, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zartan, as "Hawk," contacts Flint to ask his opinion on another potential recruit for Night Force – Marvin F. "Roadblock" Hinton, a former heavy gunner who retired to his hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi and opened a successful local food truck. Roadblock is approached by Tomax and Xamot with an offer to lead their new Red Rockets food truck business. However, already aware that the twins use the brand for Cobra recruitment purposes, he turns them down. As Tomax and Xamot leave, a squadron of Crimson Guard troops crashes into the open-air food court and starts firing into the crowd. However, Roadblock singlehandedly defeats them, steals their armored car's enormous roof-mounted machine gun, and catches up with Tomax and Xamot. He destroys their car with his food truck and the machine gun, and the twins flee with the remaining Crimson Guards. Roadblock returns to the food court to find that Night Force helped repair the damage in his absence, and he agrees to speak with them. At Cobra headquarters, the Commander thanks Destro for coming to his assistance, but secretly confirms his treachery through a recording system in Major Bludd's cybernetic eyes.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Zartan secretly compiles information on Energon from G.I. Joe and Cobra's databases, the other Joes try to defuse the standoff between Duke and Hound. Clutch tries to vouch for Hound's integrity, but Duke places the Autobot under arrest, and everyone returns to the Pit. Hound willingly accepts containment and tells Duke about Starscream, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, and his current objective to fix his transponder and reconnect with the other Autobots active on Earth. Although still suspicious, Duke reluctantly agrees to trust Clutch and help Hound. The other Joes are immediately assigned new missions by "Hawk" – Cover Girl is to connect with Snow Job for more information, while Stalker, Baroness, and Risk are sent to investigate Energon readings in the barren country of Badhikistan. Meanwhile, a government agent attends an auto racing event to secretly warn Matt Trakker about the escape of his old Shadow Watch boss Miles Mayhem. Suddenly, Scrap-Iron bursts onto the track, kills the agent, and informs Trakker he has come to collect Mayhem's bounty on his head.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
March 18, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Trakker escapes with Scrap-Iron in hot pursuit, but the Cobra mercenary is driven away by Duke, Clutch, and Hound. Although Trakker is furious at being discovered, he repairs Hound's transponder before leaving again. Hound successfully arranges a meeting between Duke and his leader, Optimus Prime; however, he is shocked to discover that Optimus has abdicated the title of Prime and sent the Matrix of Leadership back to Cybertron with the Autobots' new leader, Elita Prime. Duke is similarly shocked to learn that Starscream is dead. He admits the toll that his quest for revenge against Starscream and other Cybertronians on Earth has taken on him to Optimus, and the two connect over shared burdens of leadership and war. Eventually, they agree to an informal alliance between the Joes and the Autobots on their respective missions to defeat Cobra and the Decepticons. Optimus allows Hound to stay with the Joes, and Duke and Clutch agree to keep the meeting secret from the other Joes. Meanwhile, Cover Girl meets with Snow Job, who fills her in on the undercover agent Scarlett's infiltration of the Arashikage ninja clan. However, he is shocked to hear Cover Girl's new orders – extract Scarlett within 24 hours by any means necessary.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Lee Loughridge
April 15, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Snow Job, Cover Girl, and Frostbite approach the mountainous Arashikage stronghold, Scarlett sends them a secure message updating her status but refusing to leave without Jinx. Jinx catches her on the rooftop, but a squadron of Cobra attack helicopters suddenly appears and attacks the monastery. Cobra Commander leads a horde of Cobra Troopers through the compound, slaughtering dozens of Arashikage ninjas; Scarlett, Jinx, and Storm Shadow kill many Troopers in turn, but they fail to stop the Commander from gaining access to the innermost sanctum and shooting the Hard Master. Before he can take the Energon sword, the three defenders arrive and kill nearly all of the remaining Cobra forces. However, the last Cobra Valkyrie claims the sword and saves the Commander from Storm Shadow. She remotely fires a missile from one of the helicopters that destroys the monastery, and she and the Commander escape with the sword. A distraught Scarlett is dragged away from the scene by the three Joes, and the Hard Master emerges from the monastery's wreckage to find Storm Shadow holding an injured Jinx.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Sometime after his friend Tyler "Frosting" Frost was killed by a plane that transformed into a giant robot, Conrad "Duke" Hauser meets with his commanding officer, Colonel Hawk. Hawk orders him to return to duty and stop investigating the incident, to which Duke refuses. Six months later, Duke connects with Doctor Adele Burkhart at a conspiracy theory gathering in Washington, D.C., who informs him that he may have stumbled onto a secret arms race related to her research and directs him to M.A.R.S. Industries for more answers. Duke discovers that the company is producing a range of advanced robotic frames and exosuits, leading him to believe they created the robot that killed Frosting. He is discovered and thrown out by M.A.R.S. security operative Mercer, who lets him live upon request from his employer. Duke returns to the conspiracy theorists only to discover that the meeting was massacred. The dying Burkhart tells him the killers stole almost all of her research and gives him the last hard drive, warning him not to let it fall into the wrong hands. Police storm the building and attack Duke, who escapes into the night. Hawk's superiors order him to find Duke, and he tasks Stalker and Rock 'n Roll with capturing him.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 31, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke arrives at the auto shop where his old friend Clutch works, who agrees to patch his wounds and help however he can. Although Clutch doesn't fully believe Duke's story about the giant robot, he discovers that Burkhart's drive doubles as a highly advanced tracker for her research, located somewhere in the western United States. As Destro, the CEO of M.A.R.S. Industries, receives an alert, Duke and Clutch leave to investigate but are ambushed by Rock 'n Roll. They flee in one of Clutch's custom vans, but Rock 'n Roll leads them into Stalker's sniper trap, who disables the van and knocks both men unconscious. Duke and Clutch are arrested and brought to the Pit, an underground prison for high-risk inmates, where Duke's railings against the justice system catch the attention of a mysterious woman imprisoned nearby.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 28, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As M.A.R.S. relocates its headquarters in the wake of Duke's infiltration, Destro tasks Major Bludd with tracking down and eliminating him. In the Pit, Hawk informs Stalker and Rock 'n Roll that Duke will be transferred to a new facility in two hours, while Duke identifies the mysterious woman as Anastasia Cisarovna, the Baroness. Bludd's forces hijack the prison transport and storm the Pit, and Rock 'n Roll frees Duke and Clutch to evacuate. Duke reluctantly frees the Baroness as well, but Bludd attacks him before they can escape. During their fight, Bludd reveals that he killed Burkhart and plans to kill Duke as well to collect the large bounty on his head; however, the Baroness shoots him and threatens to take down Duke for the bounty.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 27, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Bludd's forces continue attacking the Pit, Duke convinces the Baroness to join him and the others in fighting back. She accepts, to the others' consternation, and the group discovers a hangar full of decommissioned experimental vehicles that Clutch repairs. A grievously wounded Bludd, now missing an eye, orders his men to destroy the Pit, but they are beset by Duke's team and their new armaments – an APC, a MOBAT, and a Skystriker. The Baroness escapes in a F.A.N.G. jet during the chaos, and Duke also leaves to follow Burkhart's tracker, leading to a secret M.A.R.S. test facility in the Rocky Mountains. Destro oversees a failed test of the new H.I.S.S. tank, whose power cores are insufficient, and orders Scrap-Iron to prepare his newest invention for the incoming Duke. As Duke arrives and discovers more of M.A.R.S.'s robotic weapons, he vows to destroy their giant robot; however, he is attacked by a Battle Android Trooper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
May 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the remains of the Pit, Clutch refuses to tell Hawk where Duke went, but Stalker reveals they discovered Burkhart's tracker in the wreckage. As the Battle Android Trooper strangles Duke, Destro reveals himself and offers Duke a position with M.A.R.S.. Duke refuses and accuses Destro of being responsible for Frosting's death, but he denies building the transforming robot. Destro leaves Duke at the B.A.T.'s mercy and orders Scrap-Iron to destroy the facility as he and Mercer depart. As the facility explodes, Duke manages to overpower the B.A.T. and destroy its power source, collapsing from his injuries. Later, he awakens in a hospital to find Hawk and Cover Girl waiting, who informs him that the news believes he is dead and posthumously cleared of Burkhart's murder. Hawk thanks him for his assistance in exposing Destro's operations; he later brings Duke to the Pit and asks him to form a highly trained special mission force capable of handling a variety of new emerging threats. Although Duke refuses at first, he agrees when Hawk shows him footage of more transforming robots like the one that killed Frosting, including one that turns into a truck.
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Joshua Williamson
Jason Howard
Mike Spicer
March 13, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Duke begins assembling his new team, he also decides to recruit the Baroness, despite Hawk's apparent objections. He rescues the Baroness from an ambush by two mysterious armored assassins and asks her to join his team to keep them honest, on edge, and wary of authority. She agrees, especially after learning her alternative is returning to prison. Meanwhile, Hawk meets with the two assassins, Flint and Lady Jaye, who voice their doubts about including the Baroness in Duke's new operation. However, Hawk's plans to bring the two together have worked out well, especially since he does not want Duke to know he is organizing multiple special forces teams.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the secret underground society of Cobra-La, whose humanoid residents rely solely on organic biotechnology, an angry mob attacks a science lab housing a foreign metal specimen. The scientists' commander orders them to protect their research, but one of them accidentally detonates an explosive spore in his face. He is healed and given a metal helmet to hide his wounds, and Pythona brings him to Cobra-La's leader Golobulus to answer for himself. The furious Golobulus berates the commander for disregarding Cobra-La's reverence for organic life through his experiments on the specimen's alien technology, even after they took him in from the human world. Golobulus also reveals he knows the commander instigated the riot to gain power and orders him to be executed; however, the commander kills his guards with several small insectoid robots and requests to depart on a special mission to strengthen Cobra-La. Golobulus reluctantly agrees, and the commander returns to the lab and extracts more data and Energon from the specimen – an imprisoned and deactivated Megatron. As he departs, plotting to conquer the world in Cobra-La's name, he overlooks Megatron momentarily reawakening. Accompanied by a Cobra-La grunt disguised as a human, the commander hijacks a truck and kills its driver for transport to a large Energon deposit in Florida. He vows the world will soon fear the name of Cobra Commander, unaware that others are already harvesting the Energon.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
February 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the Florida swamps, Buzzer and Ripper of the Dreadnoks gang torture and kill a pair of gunrunners for interfering in their territory. The Commander and the grunt begin their investigation, and the grunt recalls Pythona's orders to watch the Commander as they track the Energon further into the swamps. The two are confronted by a park ranger, who is quickly murdered by the grunt as the Commander slips away. He encounters the Dreadnoks, who flee after he destroys their vehicle. Zarana warns her brothers not to follow him into the restricted areas of the swamps as the Commander discovers a large body of water infused with Energon; however, he falls in while gloating and is quickly overwhelmed by a horde of Energon-enhanced alligators.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
March 20, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The grunt gets lost in the swamps looking for the Commander as he is captured by Zandar and taken back to the Dreadnoks' hideout. One by one, Buzzer, Torch, Ripper, Zandar, and Zarana torture the Commander but fail to break him, and he slowly begins turning his captors against one another. Zarana finally gives up and orders him to be taken to a secret bunker and executed, but the Commander activates a hidden tracking device. Just before he is killed, the Cobra-La grunt arrives, and the Commander orders him to dispose of the Dreadnoks so they can claim the Energon in Golobulus' name. With Buzzer's chainsaw ineffective against him, the grunt sheds his human disguise to reveal the monstrous form of the Nemesis Enforcer.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
April 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Enforcer begins slaughtering the Dreadnoks, the Commander forces Ripper to show him the secret bunker, where a captive scientist has been experimenting with Energon. The scientist shows the Commander the results of his work, including how raw pink Energon can be refined and transmuted into new forms and colors, and the Commander upgrades his insectoid robots with a cube of blue Energon. Zarana, Zandar, Torch, and Buzzer manage to distract the Enforcer long enough to escape, but he lets them leave and turns on the Commander instead as Ripper flees. He reveals that Golobulus ordered him to dispose of the Commander once he discovered a way to harness the power of Energon, and he is no longer needed now that they have the scientist. However, the Commander kills the Enforcer and catches up with Ripper, who reveals that the Dreadnoks planned to sell the Energon to Destro of M.A.R.S. Industries.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
May 22, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Commander begins attacking and raiding M.A.R.S. facilities across the United States, eventually inviting Destro to meet via Ripper. Destro, Mercer, Ripper, and a squadron of M.A.R.S. troops arrive at a seemingly idyllic small American town, but a hidden laser turret kills the troops. Destro reluctantly agrees to hear the Commander's proposal, who takes them to the underground lab of Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer, the scientist he rescued from the Dreadnoks. The Commander requests to ally M.A.R.S.'s technological might with his Energon production capabilities to unite the world's criminal elements. He demonstrates the potential by supercharging one of Destro's Battle Android Troopers with Energon, which effortlessly kills dozens of his own recruits. Destro agrees to the alliance, and the Commander formally organizes the partnership between his troops and M.A.R.S. into Cobra. Meanwhile, the denizens of Cobra-La are still reeling from Megatron's recent escape. Golobulus and Pythona raid the Commander's lab and discover his captive came from an entirely mechanical planet, the antithesis to Cobra-La's way of life. Fearing that more creatures like Megatron are already on Earth, Golobulus sends Pythona and a contingent of Cobra-La warriors into space to find their robotic homeworld – Cybertron.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Special operative Shana "Scarlett" O'Hara infiltrates a private party in Monaco while searching for a group of hostages, with strict orders not to engage. However, she is distracted by the sudden arrival of her old friend Jinx, who disappeared on a mission several years ago. Jinx covertly signals Scarlett not to interfere, but she breaks orders to save her, allowing Jinx's mysterious team of ninjas to escape with a hostage. Scarlett is dismissed from her unit for her insubordination, and she returns home to find Stalker waiting for her; he reveals that Jinx disappeared while infiltrating Clan Arashikage and asks her to find the clan, rescue Jinx, and retrieve a secret weapon the Arashikage have in their possession. Her pilot Snow Job transports her to a mountaintop Arashikage hideout, where she fights her way through a horde of ninja to reach the clan's leader, the Hard Master. She offers her services to the Arashikage but is quickly knocked out from behind by Storm Shadow, the Hard Master's most loyal servant.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
July 3, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett awakens to find herself in captivity; following another coded message from Jinx, she frees herself and attacks another group of Arashikage ninjas, impressing the watching Storm Shadow. He invites her to have tea with him and the Hard Master, and she explains that she hopes to use her skills for a more useful cause after her dismissal from the United States military. The Hard Master agrees to give Scarlett a chance, as the Arashikage are planning to retrieve an ancient weapon of unusual origin stolen from them by the Mugenonami, a yakuza group. As Scarlett begins the mission, she recognizes that the assignment is a suicide mission but believes that Jinx is worth dying for.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
August 7, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett infiltrates the Mugenonami building in Tokyo and takes control of the primary security center, but is severely wounded while fighting off a group of katana-wielding enforcers. As Storm Shadow, Jinx, and a group of Arashikage ninjas take on a legion of Mugenonami forces at a neighboring building, Scarlett rigs the secondary security center to explore and kills another enforcer. With the Mugenonami complex thrown into chaos, she makes her way to the roof of the other building and finally reunites with Jinx, but they are interrupted by the arrival of a Cobra helicopter.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
September 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Jinx secretly warns Scarlett to be wary as Storm Shadow summons them; the Mugenonami moved the weapon to a lower floor when the Arashikage arrived, and orders the two to find an alternate route while he and the others engage them directly. Jinx knocks out any surveillance with an EMP device, allowing the two a few minutes to talk privately. She gives Scarlett intel to take back to Stalker but refuses to come herself, believing that the Arashikage could become a powerful ally against the rising threat of Cobra as long as she stays with them. As the EMP's effects wear off and the two resume their mission, Scarlett realizes the Mugenonami moved the weapon to an upper floor instead, and Storm Shadow's forces are walking into a trap. She and Jinx secure the weapon and dispatch its guards and a squadron of Cobra Troopers. Storm Shadow arrives to claim it, revealing it as the Sword of Life, an ancient blade crafted from Energon.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
October 9, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Storm Shadow demonstrates the power of the Energon sword, he, Scarlett, and Jinx flee as another Cobra helicopter arrives and blows up the building floor. Cobra Commander arrives and shoots Scarlett, but Jinx saves her as the three escape into the streets of Tokyo. Scarlett rendezvous with Snow Job and passes on Jinx's intel but tells him she plans to stay with Jinx and the Arashikage for as long as she has to. She returns to the Arashikage stronghold with Jinx and Storm Shadow, who presents the Energon sword to the Hard Master. In recognition of his service, the Hard Master returns the sword to Storm Shadow, who gladly accepts its power.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Prime Minister of Darklonia orders his soldiers to gun down a mob of civilian protestors, but a horde of Battle Android Troopers kills them. Destro accepts his resignation on behalf of Darklonia's people and installs his cousin Artyom Darklon in power. He is contacted by Cobra Commander, who worries the B.A.T.s will bring undue attention to Cobra's operations, but Destro hotly reminds the Commander that he is his partner, not his servant. Several weeks later, Astoria Carlton-Ritz, the new CEO of Hybrid Technologies following her father's death, arrives in Darklonia for an illegal arms fair. Mercer confirms that none of the companies attending have discovered Energon, but Destro is concerned about the conspicuous absence of Extensive Enterprises. Tomax and Xamot, the company's heads, personally execute a small military operation for injuring a unit of their Crimson Guard while combat drones attack the arms fair. As Destro's Iron Grenadiers engage the drones, he saves Astoria from a stray missile, which turns out to be a dud.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
July 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro, Tomax and Xamot order a series of attacks on each other's facilities, each believing the other was responsible for the drone invasion of Darklonia. Eventually, the Crimson Guard infiltrates the M.A.R.S. factory, which produces the B.A.T.s and also serves as their primary store of Energon; Destro destroys the facility to keep the substance secret. Both parties agree to meet for negotiations, but neither Destro nor Tomax and Xamot are willing to back down and compromise. Under threat from one of Destro's nuclear weapons, they eventually agree to cease the physical attacks in favor of corporate warfare. Destro returns to his secluded ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands, where he speaks with statues of previous Destros, unaware that a lone assassin is waiting for him to emerge.
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Dan Watters
Andrea Milana
Adriano Lucas
August 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro leaves his family mausoleum to find Chameleon waiting for him. With his technology somehow incapacitated, he attempts to flee, but Chameleon shoots him and sends a group of the same drones that attacked Darklonia to disable his escape craft. At M.A.R.S. Industries, Mercer and Scrap-Iron discover the drones' technology is similar to the B.A.T.s, and the dud missile Destro saved Astoria from is still working. The injured Destro makes his way to a United States Air Force base and requests to speak with General Flagg. He tells him the history behind his family's signature mask – during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the original Laird Destro sold weapons to all sides, but the victorious Oliver Cromwell forced him to wear a scalding iron mask smelted from musket balls as punishment for his treachery. However, Destro's clan later reclaimed the mask as a symbol of pride instead. Just as the first Destro knew the value of himself and his weapons, the current Destro threatens to stop supplying the United States with M.A.R.S. weaponry, and Flagg begrudgingly agrees to his demands.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
September 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | With Destro presumed dead, Tomax and Xamot offer Darklon a substantial sum in exchange for M.A.R.S.. Darklon agrees and prepares a demonstration of the B.A.T.s, who turn on each other due to flaws in their friend-or-foe identification system. Having requested a store of files from General Flagg, Destro learns the full story behind Duke's claims of a robot transforming into a jet and identifies Hybrid Technologies as its potential origin. He crashes a party hosted by Astoria and orders Scrap-Iron to fire a missile at her, but she somehow deactivates it using an EMP generated from her own body. Destro surmises her abilities are from her father's experiments on her and accuses her of being behind the recent attacks. Astoria admits to being Chameleon and ambushing him in the Scottish Highlands out of fear he had discovered her father's secret project – a peacekeeping artificial intelligence named Overkill, equipped with enough weapons and foresight to neutralize any threat before it occurs. She confesses that the AI has begun making decisions on its own, such as attacking the arms fair against her orders, and requests Destro's help in managing it as Tomax and Xamot arrange a meeting with Cobra Commander.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
October 16, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Tomax and Xamot take the Commander on a tour of M.A.R.S. Industries' headquarters, they are confronted by Destro. He engages the Crimson Twins while the rest of their forces are routed and destroyed by Scrap-Iron, Chameleon, Mercer, a squadron of Overkill's drones, and the remaining B.A.T.s. Destro beats Tomax and Xamot into submission but refuses to kill them, instead proposing that they unite under Cobra's banner to prepare for the strange and alien forces emerging, which pleases the watching Commander. Destro later meets Astoria for lunch, and he surmises that the Commander was behind Overkill's funding; trusting neither, he destroys the Overkill command satellite with one of his nuclear warheads and shares a kiss with Astoria. Destro also meets with Darklon at their family tomb, who apologizes for his hasty sale of M.A.R.S. to Tomax and Xamot, and Destro forces another scalding iron mask onto his cousin's face as punishment. Meanwhile, at Cobra's headquarters, the Commander receives word of Overkill's destruction and that a large piece of Cybertron has fallen into the ocean.
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Mercer
, who lets him live upon request from his employer. Duke returns to the conspiracy theorists only to discover that the meeting was massacred. The dying Burkhart tells him the killers stole almost all of her research and gives him the last hard drive, warning him not to let it fall into the wrong hands. Police storm the building and attack Duke, who escapes into the night. Hawk's superiors order him to find Duke, and he tasks
Stalker
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Rock 'n Roll
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 31, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke arrives at the auto shop where his old friend Clutch works, who agrees to patch his wounds and help however he can. Although Clutch doesn't fully believe Duke's story about the giant robot, he discovers that Burkhart's drive doubles as a highly advanced tracker for her research, located somewhere in the western United States. As Destro, the CEO of M.A.R.S. Industries, receives an alert, Duke and Clutch leave to investigate but are ambushed by Rock 'n Roll. They flee in one of Clutch's custom vans, but Rock 'n Roll leads them into Stalker's sniper trap, who disables the van and knocks both men unconscious. Duke and Clutch are arrested and brought to the Pit, an underground prison for high-risk inmates, where Duke's railings against the justice system catch the attention of a mysterious woman imprisoned nearby.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 28, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As M.A.R.S. relocates its headquarters in the wake of Duke's infiltration, Destro tasks Major Bludd with tracking down and eliminating him. In the Pit, Hawk informs Stalker and Rock 'n Roll that Duke will be transferred to a new facility in two hours, while Duke identifies the mysterious woman as Anastasia Cisarovna, the Baroness. Bludd's forces hijack the prison transport and storm the Pit, and Rock 'n Roll frees Duke and Clutch to evacuate. Duke reluctantly frees the Baroness as well, but Bludd attacks him before they can escape. During their fight, Bludd reveals that he killed Burkhart and plans to kill Duke as well to collect the large bounty on his head; however, the Baroness shoots him and threatens to take down Duke for the bounty.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 27, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Bludd's forces continue attacking the Pit, Duke convinces the Baroness to join him and the others in fighting back. She accepts, to the others' consternation, and the group discovers a hangar full of decommissioned experimental vehicles that Clutch repairs. A grievously wounded Bludd, now missing an eye, orders his men to destroy the Pit, but they are beset by Duke's team and their new armaments – an APC, a MOBAT, and a Skystriker. The Baroness escapes in a F.A.N.G. jet during the chaos, and Duke also leaves to follow Burkhart's tracker, leading to a secret M.A.R.S. test facility in the Rocky Mountains. Destro oversees a failed test of the new H.I.S.S. tank, whose power cores are insufficient, and orders Scrap-Iron to prepare his newest invention for the incoming Duke. As Duke arrives and discovers more of M.A.R.S.'s robotic weapons, he vows to destroy their giant robot; however, he is attacked by a Battle Android Trooper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
May 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the remains of the Pit, Clutch refuses to tell Hawk where Duke went, but Stalker reveals they discovered Burkhart's tracker in the wreckage. As the Battle Android Trooper strangles Duke, Destro reveals himself and offers Duke a position with M.A.R.S.. Duke refuses and accuses Destro of being responsible for Frosting's death, but he denies building the transforming robot. Destro leaves Duke at the B.A.T.'s mercy and orders Scrap-Iron to destroy the facility as he and Mercer depart. As the facility explodes, Duke manages to overpower the B.A.T. and destroy its power source, collapsing from his injuries. Later, he awakens in a hospital to find Hawk and Cover Girl waiting, who informs him that the news believes he is dead and posthumously cleared of Burkhart's murder. Hawk thanks him for his assistance in exposing Destro's operations; he later brings Duke to the Pit and asks him to form a highly trained special mission force capable of handling a variety of new emerging threats. Although Duke refuses at first, he agrees when Hawk shows him footage of more transforming robots like the one that killed Frosting, including one that turns into a truck.
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Joshua Williamson
Jason Howard
Mike Spicer
March 13, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Duke begins assembling his new team, he also decides to recruit the Baroness, despite Hawk's apparent objections. He rescues the Baroness from an ambush by two mysterious armored assassins and asks her to join his team to keep them honest, on edge, and wary of authority. She agrees, especially after learning her alternative is returning to prison. Meanwhile, Hawk meets with the two assassins, Flint and Lady Jaye, who voice their doubts about including the Baroness in Duke's new operation. However, Hawk's plans to bring the two together have worked out well, especially since he does not want Duke to know he is organizing multiple special forces teams.
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Megatron
. As he departs, plotting to conquer the world in Cobra-La's name, he overlooks Megatron momentarily reawakening. Accompanied by a Cobra-La grunt disguised as a human, the commander hijacks a truck and kills its driver for transport to a large Energon deposit in
Florida
. He vows the world will soon fear the name of
Cobra Commander
, unaware that others are already harvesting the Energon.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
February 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | In the Florida swamps, Buzzer and Ripper of the Dreadnoks gang torture and kill a pair of gunrunners for interfering in their territory. The Commander and the grunt begin their investigation, and the grunt recalls Pythona's orders to watch the Commander as they track the Energon further into the swamps. The two are confronted by a park ranger, who is quickly murdered by the grunt as the Commander slips away. He encounters the Dreadnoks, who flee after he destroys their vehicle. Zarana warns her brothers not to follow him into the restricted areas of the swamps as the Commander discovers a large body of water infused with Energon; however, he falls in while gloating and is quickly overwhelmed by a horde of Energon-enhanced alligators.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
March 20, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The grunt gets lost in the swamps looking for the Commander as he is captured by Zandar and taken back to the Dreadnoks' hideout. One by one, Buzzer, Torch, Ripper, Zandar, and Zarana torture the Commander but fail to break him, and he slowly begins turning his captors against one another. Zarana finally gives up and orders him to be taken to a secret bunker and executed, but the Commander activates a hidden tracking device. Just before he is killed, the Cobra-La grunt arrives, and the Commander orders him to dispose of the Dreadnoks so they can claim the Energon in Golobulus' name. With Buzzer's chainsaw ineffective against him, the grunt sheds his human disguise to reveal the monstrous form of the Nemesis Enforcer.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
April 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Enforcer begins slaughtering the Dreadnoks, the Commander forces Ripper to show him the secret bunker, where a captive scientist has been experimenting with Energon. The scientist shows the Commander the results of his work, including how raw pink Energon can be refined and transmuted into new forms and colors, and the Commander upgrades his insectoid robots with a cube of blue Energon. Zarana, Zandar, Torch, and Buzzer manage to distract the Enforcer long enough to escape, but he lets them leave and turns on the Commander instead as Ripper flees. He reveals that Golobulus ordered him to dispose of the Commander once he discovered a way to harness the power of Energon, and he is no longer needed now that they have the scientist. However, the Commander kills the Enforcer and catches up with Ripper, who reveals that the Dreadnoks planned to sell the Energon to Destro of M.A.R.S. Industries.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Annalisa Leoni
May 22, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Commander begins attacking and raiding M.A.R.S. facilities across the United States, eventually inviting Destro to meet via Ripper. Destro, Mercer, Ripper, and a squadron of M.A.R.S. troops arrive at a seemingly idyllic small American town, but a hidden laser turret kills the troops. Destro reluctantly agrees to hear the Commander's proposal, who takes them to the underground lab of Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer, the scientist he rescued from the Dreadnoks. The Commander requests to ally M.A.R.S.'s technological might with his Energon production capabilities to unite the world's criminal elements. He demonstrates the potential by supercharging one of Destro's Battle Android Troopers with Energon, which effortlessly kills dozens of his own recruits. Destro agrees to the alliance, and the Commander formally organizes the partnership between his troops and M.A.R.S. into Cobra. Meanwhile, the denizens of Cobra-La are still reeling from Megatron's recent escape. Golobulus and Pythona raid the Commander's lab and discover his captive came from an entirely mechanical planet, the antithesis to Cobra-La's way of life. Fearing that more creatures like Megatron are already on Earth, Golobulus sends Pythona and a contingent of Cobra-La warriors into space to find their robotic homeworld – Cybertron.
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Hard Master
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
July 3, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett awakens to find herself in captivity; following another coded message from Jinx, she frees herself and attacks another group of Arashikage ninjas, impressing the watching Storm Shadow. He invites her to have tea with him and the Hard Master, and she explains that she hopes to use her skills for a more useful cause after her dismissal from the United States military. The Hard Master agrees to give Scarlett a chance, as the Arashikage are planning to retrieve an ancient weapon of unusual origin stolen from them by the Mugenonami, a yakuza group. As Scarlett begins the mission, she recognizes that the assignment is a suicide mission but believes that Jinx is worth dying for.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
August 7, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Scarlett infiltrates the Mugenonami building in Tokyo and takes control of the primary security center, but is severely wounded while fighting off a group of katana-wielding enforcers. As Storm Shadow, Jinx, and a group of Arashikage ninjas take on a legion of Mugenonami forces at a neighboring building, Scarlett rigs the secondary security center to explore and kills another enforcer. With the Mugenonami complex thrown into chaos, she makes her way to the roof of the other building and finally reunites with Jinx, but they are interrupted by the arrival of a Cobra helicopter.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
September 4, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Jinx secretly warns Scarlett to be wary as Storm Shadow summons them; the Mugenonami moved the weapon to a lower floor when the Arashikage arrived, and orders the two to find an alternate route while he and the others engage them directly. Jinx knocks out any surveillance with an EMP device, allowing the two a few minutes to talk privately. She gives Scarlett intel to take back to Stalker but refuses to come herself, believing that the Arashikage could become a powerful ally against the rising threat of Cobra as long as she stays with them. As the EMP's effects wear off and the two resume their mission, Scarlett realizes the Mugenonami moved the weapon to an upper floor instead, and Storm Shadow's forces are walking into a trap. She and Jinx secure the weapon and dispatch its guards and a squadron of Cobra Troopers. Storm Shadow arrives to claim it, revealing it as the Sword of Life, an ancient blade crafted from Energon.
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Kelly Thompson
Marco Ferrari
Lee Loughridge
October 9, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Storm Shadow demonstrates the power of the Energon sword, he, Scarlett, and Jinx flee as another Cobra helicopter arrives and blows up the building floor. Cobra Commander arrives and shoots Scarlett, but Jinx saves her as the three escape into the streets of Tokyo. Scarlett rendezvous with Snow Job and passes on Jinx's intel but tells him she plans to stay with Jinx and the Arashikage for as long as she has to. She returns to the Arashikage stronghold with Jinx and Storm Shadow, who presents the Energon sword to the Hard Master. In recognition of his service, the Hard Master returns the sword to Storm Shadow, who gladly accepts its power.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
July 17, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro, Tomax and Xamot order a series of attacks on each other's facilities, each believing the other was responsible for the drone invasion of Darklonia. Eventually, the Crimson Guard infiltrates the M.A.R.S. factory, which produces the B.A.T.s and also serves as their primary store of Energon; Destro destroys the facility to keep the substance secret. Both parties agree to meet for negotiations, but neither Destro nor Tomax and Xamot are willing to back down and compromise. Under threat from one of Destro's nuclear weapons, they eventually agree to cease the physical attacks in favor of corporate warfare. Destro returns to his secluded ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands, where he speaks with statues of previous Destros, unaware that a lone assassin is waiting for him to emerge.
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Dan Watters
Andrea Milana
Adriano Lucas
August 21, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro leaves his family mausoleum to find Chameleon waiting for him. With his technology somehow incapacitated, he attempts to flee, but Chameleon shoots him and sends a group of the same drones that attacked Darklonia to disable his escape craft. At M.A.R.S. Industries, Mercer and Scrap-Iron discover the drones' technology is similar to the B.A.T.s, and the dud missile Destro saved Astoria from is still working. The injured Destro makes his way to a United States Air Force base and requests to speak with General Flagg. He tells him the history behind his family's signature mask – during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the original Laird Destro sold weapons to all sides, but the victorious Oliver Cromwell forced him to wear a scalding iron mask smelted from musket balls as punishment for his treachery. However, Destro's clan later reclaimed the mask as a symbol of pride instead. Just as the first Destro knew the value of himself and his weapons, the current Destro threatens to stop supplying the United States with M.A.R.S. weaponry, and Flagg begrudgingly agrees to his demands.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
September 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | With Destro presumed dead, Tomax and Xamot offer Darklon a substantial sum in exchange for M.A.R.S.. Darklon agrees and prepares a demonstration of the B.A.T.s, who turn on each other due to flaws in their friend-or-foe identification system. Having requested a store of files from General Flagg, Destro learns the full story behind Duke's claims of a robot transforming into a jet and identifies Hybrid Technologies as its potential origin. He crashes a party hosted by Astoria and orders Scrap-Iron to fire a missile at her, but she somehow deactivates it using an EMP generated from her own body. Destro surmises her abilities are from her father's experiments on her and accuses her of being behind the recent attacks. Astoria admits to being Chameleon and ambushing him in the Scottish Highlands out of fear he had discovered her father's secret project – a peacekeeping artificial intelligence named Overkill, equipped with enough weapons and foresight to neutralize any threat before it occurs. She confesses that the AI has begun making decisions on its own, such as attacking the arms fair against her orders, and requests Destro's help in managing it as Tomax and Xamot arrange a meeting with Cobra Commander.
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Dan Watters
Andrei Bressan
Adriano Lucas
October 16, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Tomax and Xamot take the Commander on a tour of M.A.R.S. Industries' headquarters, they are confronted by Destro. He engages the Crimson Twins while the rest of their forces are routed and destroyed by Scrap-Iron, Chameleon, Mercer, a squadron of Overkill's drones, and the remaining B.A.T.s. Destro beats Tomax and Xamot into submission but refuses to kill them, instead proposing that they unite under Cobra's banner to prepare for the strange and alien forces emerging, which pleases the watching Commander. Destro later meets Astoria for lunch, and he surmises that the Commander was behind Overkill's funding; trusting neither, he destroys the Overkill command satellite with one of his nuclear warheads and shares a kiss with Astoria. Destro also meets with Darklon at their family tomb, who apologizes for his hasty sale of M.A.R.S. to Tomax and Xamot, and Destro forces another scalding iron mask onto his cousin's face as punishment. Meanwhile, at Cobra's headquarters, the Commander receives word of Overkill's destruction and that a large piece of Cybertron has fallen into the ocean.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Duke and his newly formed G.I. Joe special mission force – Clutch, Cover Girl, Stalker, Rock 'n Roll, and the Baroness – flub a training exercise, after which Duke confesses to Hawk they aren't ready for field duty. As Destro demonstrates a new Energon-powered laser weapon, an undercover United States government operative codenamed Risk is ordered to return from a mission in Abu Dhabi. Hawk reassures Duke that the many differences between the Joes will strengthen their team before giving them their first mission – they are to protect a research facility in Colorado currently studying a shard of technology recovered from the alien wreckage in the middle of the ocean. At the same time, Destro and Cobra Commander order Mercer and a contingent of Cobra Troopers and Vipers to storm the facility, steal the shard, and kill everyone inside. The Cobra forces ambush the Joes, interrupting the bickering Stalker and Baroness, and Duke manages to commandeer their F.A.N.G. aircraft as the others attempt to evacuate the alien technology. However, Mercer's Vipers arrive and kill Rock 'n Roll with their Energon weapons.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Mercer corners Cover Girl as the Vipers claim the shard; their weapons easily destroy Duke's F.A.N.G., and he jumps back into the fight to attack Mercer, whom he recognizes as M.A.R.S.'s head of security. The facility descends into chaos as Cobra Valkyries start killing the wounded civilians, Baroness saves Stalker, and Clutch steals one of the Energon rifles. Not wanting their special weapons to fall into the Joes' hands, the Commander activates a self-destruct mechanism on all the weapons, which destroys the facility as the remaining Cobra forces escape with the shard. In the aftermath, all the Joes are injured but alive except Rock 'n Roll and Clutch, who is missing and presumed dead. Duke informs Hawk about Cobra's possible connections to M.A.R.S., and Hawk introduces Duke to Risk, a former Air Force pilot turned CIA operative specializing in risk assessment and the newest member of G.I. Joe. However, Risk's condescending attitude and callous dismissal of Rock 'n Roll's death enrage Duke, and the two men begin to fight. At Cobra's Springfield headquarters, Destro and the Commander plan the kidnapping of Dr. Archibald Monev and stealing his Brainwave Scanner device, unaware that Clutch has infiltrated the base disguised as a Viper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The disguised Clutch is confronted by Mercer and saved by Destro, both unaware of his true nature. Destro briefs the assembled Vipers on their plan to retrieve Dr. Monev from protective custody before he testifies in front of Congress, but the Commander interrupts the meeting to report the presence of an intruder. One of the Cobra scientists, secretly a spy from Cobra-La, tries to attack the Commander, but he throws him into a pit of ravenous serpents. Clutch slips away in the chaos as Stalker finally interrupts Duke and Risk's brawl. As he leaves to call Rock 'n Roll's family, Cover Girl receives a transmission from Clutch informing them of Cobra's plans. In Washington, D.C., Monev's security detail deviates from their pre-planned route, but Duke, Baroness, and Risk stop them before they can escape. Risk reveals Monev's guards were Crimson Guard sleeper agents, and they are attacked by Tomax and Xamot.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Joes attempt to escape with Monev, but Tomax and Xamot's Stinger missile car easily overpowers their motorcycles. To prevent any civilian casualties, Duke surrenders, and all four are captured; meanwhile, Stalker and Cover Girl's attempt to return the Brainwave Scanner to storage fails, and Chameleon and Ripper capture them. At Cobra headquarters, Destro and Mercer discuss the reptilian remains of the Cobra-La spy and the Commander's many secrets, unaware that Clutch is spying on them nearby. The facility suddenly receives orders from the Commander to mobilize at M.A.R.S. headquarters, to Destro's confusion and anger, and Clutch departs with the other Cobra troops. Everyone arrives at M.A.R.S. with Monev and the Brainwave Scanner, where the Commander reveals his plan to modify the device into a brainwashing machine that will make its targets obey Cobra's commands. The five captured Joes are brought forth to serve as the machine's first test subjects.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro and Mercer gloat over Duke's captured team, but Clutch commandeers one of the H.I.S.S. tanks and throws Cobra into chaos. As the Joes retreat out of the line of fire, the Commander and Monev finish modifying the Brainwave Scanner; according to Monev's calculations, the machine's new explosive capabilities will enslave everyone within a five-mile blast radius, but all those within an initial one-mile epicenter will have their minds completely wiped, thanks to the potency of its Energon supply. Scrap-Iron destroys Clutch's H.I.S.S. with a bazooka, but the Joes launch a sudden counterattack and manage to break through and escape on a helicopter. Tomax and Xamot leave in disgust as a furious Destro pursues them in a F.A.N.G., but the Baroness suddenly notices that Duke is not with them. Meanwhile, the Commander betrays Monev and activates the machine with him inside; as he informs Destro the brain bomb is ready for transport, he is ambushed and held at gunpoint by Duke.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
April 23, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Cobra Commander nonchalantly introduces himself to Duke and raises the brain bomb to the roof. He informs Duke that the only way to deactivate it and save Washington, D.C. is to kill Monev. The two fight as Clutch goads the Baroness into going back to save Duke, and Destro orders the remaining Cobra forces to retreat. The Commander injures Duke, but he also kills Monev himself and deactivates the bomb after realizing that dying with Duke means Cobra would rule the world without him. The rest of G.I. Joe arrive to save their leader, and the impressed Commander spares Duke and returns to Springfield, where the irate Destro confronts him over compromising M.A.R.S. Industries. Acknowledging his demands for more information, the Commander reveals that the modified Brainwave Scanner's true purpose was to unlock a piece of Cybertronian technology and informs Destro about the existence of Megatron. Meanwhile, the Joes recuperate at the Pit, where Duke reiterates to Hawk that, despite the team's success against Cobra, his ultimate goal is to find and destroy the mysterious transforming robots. Clutch leaves the Pit on a drive to clear his head, but his Jeep suddenly transforms into the AutobotHound.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Recently reactivated and on a mission to find the Autobots, Hound demands to know how and where Clutch acquired Energon. Clutch's standard weapons have no effect on the Cybertronian, but he injures Hound with an Energon grenade he stole from Cobra; however, he realizes too late that Hound meant him no harm and agrees to help repair him. Clutch brings Hound to the workshop of his old friend Matt Trakker, who somehow already has experience fixing Cybertronian technology. Before Trakker can finish the repairs, Ravage suddenly breaks in and attacks Clutch and Trakker for their Energon, but Hound manages to drive the Decepticon away. Trakker finishes Hound's repairs and parts amicably with Clutch, requesting he keep their encounter secret. Clutch and Hound apologize to one another for their poor first meeting and agree to work together to investigate Cobra's supply of Energon weapons. Meanwhile, in the swamps of Florida, Buzzer ambushes a contingent of Cobra troopers sent to gather more Energon and declares war on Cobra Commander.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
May 28, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Assigned to steal a mysterious Darklonian shipment from wealthy collector Victor Foley, the special agent Beach Head spends three days lurking on Foley's beachfront property waiting to enter the house. Once inside, he discovers to his dismay that nearly all of his intel was wrong – the shipping box is larger than expected, Foley has a pair of civilian escorts complicating the extraction, and a horde of mercenaries attacks him as he tries to leave. The mercenaries escape with the box, destroying Foley's house in the process, but Beach Head manages to detach it from their truck. A second team of mercenaries on motorcycles confronts him, but he and the box are saved by a hovercraft. The mercenaries report back to Major Bludd, who kills them all for their failure, while Beach Head's saviors reveal themselves as Flint and Lady Jaye. A furious Beach Head confronts them, afraid his superiors will force him to retire, but Flint invites him to join their secret special mission team, Night Force. They open the box and show Beach Head the charred remains of a Battle Android Trooper; meanwhile, Cover Girl finds a redacted report concerning Night Force and gives it to Hawk, who promptly shreds it.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
June 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Joes continue to train, Destro and Cobra Commander watch footage of Seattle being destroyed in a battle between two giganticrobots. Destro sends Mercer to search the city's wreckage for spare parts, but the Commander insists they must have a fully intact Cybertronian. After Duke and the Baroness nearly catch Clutch returning to the Pit with Hound, she asks Duke to let her leave. He agrees on the condition that Cover Girl accompanies her, and the two fly to Paris for the weekend. The Baroness immediately tries to disappear, but Cover Girl tracks her to a small street café, unaware they are both being watched by Bludd's agents. At Cover Girl's pressing, the Baroness reluctantly admits that she is watching her parents celebrate their anniversary at a neighboring café, unable to speak with them but wanting to see them regardless. Cover Girl connects with her over the weight of her own parents' expectations, but a horde of falcons suddenly attacks the café. As the two Joes help civilians evacuate, they are cornered by Raptor, who asks them to come meet with Bludd.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
July 16, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Bludd arrives and kills several police officers as Raptor captures both Joes. A suspicious Risk informs Duke that he believes Clutch is hiding something from them, while Clutch promises to find more Energon for an ailing Hound. Meanwhile, Mercer reports to Destro about his discovery of an imprisoned Agent Martin, the last surviving member of a rogue M.A.R.S. salvage team that was slaughtered by a robot named Starscream. Destro orders Mercer to keep this new information from the Commander and execute the insane Martin, while Cover Girl and the Baroness awaken in a rocky pit. From above, Bludd assures the two that he has no intention of killing them himself, but plans to sell them to the highest bidder among the Baroness' many enemies. However, he throws them a knife and orders them to settle the matter of his missing eye – either the Baroness must kill Cover Girl to be sold intact, or Cover Girl must cut out the Baroness' eye on Bludd's behalf to go free. The Baroness challenges Bludd to face her himself, but Cover Girl grabs the knife and stabs her in the back.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
August 20, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | To Bludd's anger, Cover Girl refuses to finish the job and echoes the injured Baroness' challenge to come take her eye himself. After he tells them that Raptor stands ready to kill the Baroness' parents, she begins to fight Cover Girl for their safety. Clutch and Hound leave the Pit to search for more of Cobra's Energon-powered weapons, unaware that Risk is following them, while a worried Destro confides in Astoria about his suspicions of the Commander's mysterious past. Forcing his way into his ally's private laboratory, Destro discovers several mangled and mutilated Cobra Troopers being experimented on before the Commander confronts him. As Bludd reads some of his poetry aloud, the Baroness seemingly snaps Cover Girl's neck; however, when he jumps into the pit to continue gloating, Cover Girl breaks his ankle and escapes to save the Baroness' parents from Raptor. Clutch leaves Hound behind to search the wreckage of M.A.R.S. Industries for Energon, where Risk ambushes him and accuses him of being a brainwashed Cobra double agent. Mercer and a squadron of Cobra Vipers confront the two Joes, unaware of Hound's looming presence behind them.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
September 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Hound easily shrugs off the Vipers' attacks and refuels himself with the Energon powering their weapons. The Joes and Hound escape, leaving a bewildered Mercer behind, while the Baroness and Bludd fight in the pit. Bludd offers to spare her parents if she allows him to take her eye, confident that Cover Girl will not be able to find her way out of the labyrinthine sewer tunnels. However, she escapes just in time to subdue Raptor, and the Baroness stabs out Bludd's remaining eye. She leaves the blinded mercenary behind and regroups with Cover Girl while Destro attempts to talk down the Commander in his laboratory. Both men acknowledge that they ultimately have different goals regarding Cobra's future, with the Commander stating his belief that humanity must evolve beyond flesh and bone to survive the coming wars. Clutch, Risk, Hound, the Baroness, and Cover Girl all return to the Pit, leaving Duke none the wiser about their respective adventures. As the Baroness and Cover Girl affirm their new friendship, Hawk tells Night Force to stand down and stop spying on her; instead, they are to sneak into Darklonia and rescue their next recruit – Jodie "Shooter" Craig.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
October 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Hawk assures a suspicious Duke that nothing is happening within G.I. Joe without his knowledge, Night Force prepares to assault a Darklonian labor camp to rescue Shooter. Within the prison, Shooter refuses to use her expert sniper skills for Darklon, the country's regent and prison commandant, who orders her beaten and sent back to her cell. She manages to break out just as Beach Head finds her, disrupting a rival prisoner's attempt to assassinate her, and the two escape with Flint and Lady Jaye. As they leave, Shooter pulls off an impossible sniper shot to kill the rival prisoner. Meanwhile, the Commander and Destro welcome Major Bludd into Cobra with a new pair of bionic eyes, restoring his sight. Mercer pulls Destro aside to inform him about Clutch's alliance with Hound; rather than attack the Commander directly and upset the balance of power within Cobra, Destro decides to send the Dreadnoks to kill him instead.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The captive Dr. Laszlo Vandermeer informs the Commander that they have exhausted Cobra's initial supply of Energon from the Florida swamps. He orders their allies sent out to excavate smaller deposits around the world and takes Ripper to personally investigate a unique, pulsating Energon signal located in the Chihuahuan Desert. G.I. Joe also picks up the signal; with most of the team unavailable investigating the recent destruction of Chicago, Duke agrees to follow up on the anomaly while visiting Frosting's grave in Texas. He discovers Cobra already excavating the site, where Ripper uncovers a planted beacon emitting the Energon signature. The dig site explodes as he turns on the Commander and crushes his mechanical hand. Duke enters the fray and saves the Commander, but quickly captures him to learn more about Energon and the transforming robots. The Dreadnoks arrive in hot pursuit of the Commander and reunite with Ripper, while Destro takes command of Cobra.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
November 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro begins offering Cobra's services to the highest bidder among his underworld contacts, to the confusion and concern of the other officers, while Duke and the Commander flee from the Dreadnoks. Outnumbered, outgunned, and with their communications blocked, Duke reluctantly frees the Commander and agrees to work together to escape the desert. Buzzer sabotages their Jeep with his arm-mounted chainsaw, but the two parkour across and through the Dreadnok convoy until they commandeer another truck. They lure their enemies into a canyon and collapse it, scattering the Dreadnoks but destroying their truck. After learning from Clutch that G.I. Joe is all out on missions, a frustrated Hawk departs for the CIA's headquarters in Langley to review intelligence on Destro's takeover of Cobra with General Flagg. Meanwhile, Duke and the Commander wander into an abandoned town and begin searching for a working vehicle or landline signal; the Commander discovers a drove of pigs inside one decrepit house and is suddenly taken out by a massive sledgehammer. As the remaining Dreadnoks converge on the town, Duke is cornered by Road Pig.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 3, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Road Pig quickly dispatches Duke and imprisons him in the house's attic with an unconscious and helmetless Commander. He leaves them to deal with the approaching Buzzer and Ripper while Hawk makes a detour to meet with Astoria. She brings him before Destro, who offers him Cobra's weapons and information in a potential truce against the menace of the transforming robots. In the attic, the Commander awakens and confides in Duke about his distaste for being human and his theft of the Dreadnoks' Energon. They are interrupted by the return of Road Pig, who has befriended Buzzer and Ripper after an initial fight and agreed to help the Dreadnoks. The Commander bites Buzzer's throat for commenting on his mutilated face; Road Pig takes the two captives outside, where Zarana arrives with the rest of the Dreadnoks and Ripper returns the Commander's helmet. At the Pit, Clutch realizes that Duke is in trouble and leaves with Cover Girl to organize a rescue.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Dreadnoks formally induct Road Pig into their gang with a party and prepare to burn their captives alive. Intrigued by Duke's continued insistence on sparing the Commander, Buzzer frees him and offers him a deal – if he can beat Buzzer in a fight, the Dreadnoks will let him interrogate the Commander before they kill him, and Torch lights the pyre to add a time limit. Despite learning that one of his Joes has secretly allied with a robot, Hawk rebuffs Destro's offer, dispatches Mercer, and escapes with a gunshot wound. Buzzer prepares to kill Duke, but the rest of G.I. Joe arrives with enough weapons and vehicles to match the Dreadnoks. In the ensuing firefight, the Commander escapes from the pyre, the Baroness saves Duke, and Zarana and Zandar activate an Energon-powered device on their rebuilt Thunder Machine that generates an Energon lightning storm. The Joes regroup and prepare to retreat, but the injured Duke insists they go back for the Commander. The Dreadnoks begin searching for him, but the Commander incapacitates Buzzer and attacks the search party with his chainsaw.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 14, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zarana, Zandar, and Ripper find that the Commander has captured Buzzer and massacred the other Dreadnoks. To their surprise, he commends their efforts and offers them a truce and employment as independent contractors for Cobra. The Commander also offers the Joes the chance to leave peacefully as thanks for their efforts to save him, but Duke refuses. The battle between the Joes and the Dreadnoks resumes fiercer than ever, leaving Clutch with no choice but to reveal his secret alliance with Hound. The Autobot transforms to the shock and horror of all and takes out the remaining Dreadnoks, but Destro arrives with Cobra reinforcements. The Commander escapes with Zarana, Zandar, Torch, Ripper, Buzzer, and Road Pig in tow; before the other Joes can react, a furious Duke punches Clutch and holds Hound at gunpoint. Meanwhile, the injured Hawk returns to the Pit and takes a secret call from Zarana, revealing himself to be a disguised and undercover Zartan.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
January 28, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zartan, as "Hawk," contacts Flint to ask his opinion on another potential recruit for Night Force – Marvin F. "Roadblock" Hinton, a former heavy gunner who retired to his hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi and opened a successful local food truck. Roadblock is approached by Tomax and Xamot with an offer to lead their new Red Rockets food truck business. However, already aware that the twins use the brand for Cobra recruitment purposes, he turns them down. As Tomax and Xamot leave, a squadron of Crimson Guard troops crashes into the open-air food court and starts firing into the crowd. However, Roadblock singlehandedly defeats them, steals their armored car's enormous roof-mounted machine gun, and catches up with Tomax and Xamot. He destroys their car with his food truck and the machine gun, and the twins flee with the remaining Crimson Guards. Roadblock returns to the food court to find that Night Force helped repair the damage in his absence, and he agrees to speak with them. At Cobra headquarters, the Commander thanks Destro for coming to his assistance, but secretly confirms his treachery through a recording system in Major Bludd's cybernetic eyes.
colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Zartan secretly compiles information on Energon from G.I. Joe and Cobra's databases, the other Joes try to defuse the standoff between Duke and Hound. Clutch tries to vouch for Hound's integrity, but Duke places the Autobot under arrest, and everyone returns to the Pit. Hound willingly accepts containment and tells Duke about Starscream, the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, and his current objective to fix his transponder and reconnect with the other Autobots active on Earth. Although still suspicious, Duke reluctantly agrees to trust Clutch and help Hound. The other Joes are immediately assigned new missions by "Hawk" – Cover Girl is to connect with Snow Job for more information, while Stalker, Baroness, and Risk are sent to investigate Energon readings in the barren country of Badhikistan. Meanwhile, a government agent attends an auto racing event to secretly warn Matt Trakker about the escape of his old Shadow Watch boss Miles Mayhem. Suddenly, Scrap-Iron bursts onto the track, kills the agent, and informs Trakker he has come to collect Mayhem's bounty on his head.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
March 18, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Trakker escapes with Scrap-Iron in hot pursuit, but the Cobra mercenary is driven away by Duke, Clutch, and Hound. Although Trakker is furious at being discovered, he repairs Hound's transponder before leaving again. Hound successfully arranges a meeting between Duke and his leader, Optimus Prime; however, he is shocked to discover that Optimus has abdicated the title of Prime and sent the Matrix of Leadership back to Cybertron with the Autobots' new leader, Elita Prime. Duke is similarly shocked to learn that Starscream is dead. He admits the toll that his quest for revenge against Starscream and other Cybertronians on Earth has taken on him to Optimus, and the two connect over shared burdens of leadership and war. Eventually, they agree to an informal alliance between the Joes and the Autobots on their respective missions to defeat Cobra and the Decepticons. Optimus allows Hound to stay with the Joes, and Duke and Clutch agree to keep the meeting secret from the other Joes. Meanwhile, Cover Girl meets with Snow Job, who fills her in on the undercover agent Scarlett's infiltration of the Arashikage ninja clan. However, he is shocked to hear Cover Girl's new orders – extract Scarlett within 24 hours by any means necessary.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Lee Loughridge
April 15, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Snow Job, Cover Girl, and Frostbite approach the mountainous Arashikage stronghold, Scarlett sends them a secure message updating her status but refusing to leave without Jinx. Jinx catches her on the rooftop, but a squadron of Cobra attack helicopters suddenly appears and attacks the monastery. Cobra Commander leads a horde of Cobra Troopers through the compound, slaughtering dozens of Arashikage ninjas; Scarlett, Jinx, and Storm Shadow kill many Troopers in turn, but they fail to stop the Commander from gaining access to the innermost sanctum and shooting the Hard Master. Before he can take the Energon sword, the three defenders arrive and kill nearly all of the remaining Cobra forces. However, the last Cobra Valkyrie claims the sword and saves the Commander from Storm Shadow. She remotely fires a missile from one of the helicopters that destroys the monastery, and she and the Commander escape with the sword. A distraught Scarlett is dragged away from the scene by the three Joes, and the Hard Master emerges from the monastery's wreckage to find Storm Shadow holding an injured Jinx.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 18, 2024
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Mercer corners Cover Girl as the Vipers claim the shard; their weapons easily destroy Duke's F.A.N.G., and he jumps back into the fight to attack Mercer, whom he recognizes as M.A.R.S.'s head of security. The facility descends into chaos as Cobra Valkyries start killing the wounded civilians, Baroness saves Stalker, and Clutch steals one of the Energon rifles. Not wanting their special weapons to fall into the Joes' hands, the Commander activates a self-destruct mechanism on all the weapons, which destroys the facility as the remaining Cobra forces escape with the shard. In the aftermath, all the Joes are injured but alive except Rock 'n Roll and Clutch, who is missing and presumed dead. Duke informs Hawk about Cobra's possible connections to M.A.R.S., and Hawk introduces Duke to Risk, a former Air Force pilot turned CIA operative specializing in risk assessment and the newest member of G.I. Joe. However, Risk's condescending attitude and callous dismissal of Rock 'n Roll's death enrage Duke, and the two men begin to fight. At Cobra's Springfield headquarters, Destro and the Commander plan the kidnapping of Dr. Archibald Monev and stealing his Brainwave Scanner device, unaware that Clutch has infiltrated the base disguised as a Viper.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The disguised Clutch is confronted by Mercer and saved by Destro, both unaware of his true nature. Destro briefs the assembled Vipers on their plan to retrieve Dr. Monev from protective custody before he testifies in front of Congress, but the Commander interrupts the meeting to report the presence of an intruder. One of the Cobra scientists, secretly a spy from Cobra-La, tries to attack the Commander, but he throws him into a pit of ravenous serpents. Clutch slips away in the chaos as Stalker finally interrupts Duke and Risk's brawl. As he leaves to call Rock 'n Roll's family, Cover Girl receives a transmission from Clutch informing them of Cobra's plans. In Washington, D.C., Monev's security detail deviates from their pre-planned route, but Duke, Baroness, and Risk stop them before they can escape. Risk reveals Monev's guards were Crimson Guard sleeper agents, and they are attacked by Tomax and Xamot.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
February 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Joes attempt to escape with Monev, but Tomax and Xamot's Stinger missile car easily overpowers their motorcycles. To prevent any civilian casualties, Duke surrenders, and all four are captured; meanwhile, Stalker and Cover Girl's attempt to return the Brainwave Scanner to storage fails, and Chameleon and Ripper capture them. At Cobra headquarters, Destro and Mercer discuss the reptilian remains of the Cobra-La spy and the Commander's many secrets, unaware that Clutch is spying on them nearby. The facility suddenly receives orders from the Commander to mobilize at M.A.R.S. headquarters, to Destro's confusion and anger, and Clutch departs with the other Cobra troops. Everyone arrives at M.A.R.S. with Monev and the Brainwave Scanner, where the Commander reveals his plan to modify the device into a brainwashing machine that will make its targets obey Cobra's commands. The five captured Joes are brought forth to serve as the machine's first test subjects.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
March 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro and Mercer gloat over Duke's captured team, but Clutch commandeers one of the H.I.S.S. tanks and throws Cobra into chaos. As the Joes retreat out of the line of fire, the Commander and Monev finish modifying the Brainwave Scanner; according to Monev's calculations, the machine's new explosive capabilities will enslave everyone within a five-mile blast radius, but all those within an initial one-mile epicenter will have their minds completely wiped, thanks to the potency of its Energon supply. Scrap-Iron destroys Clutch's H.I.S.S. with a bazooka, but the Joes launch a sudden counterattack and manage to break through and escape on a helicopter. Tomax and Xamot leave in disgust as a furious Destro pursues them in a F.A.N.G., but the Baroness suddenly notices that Duke is not with them. Meanwhile, the Commander betrays Monev and activates the machine with him inside; as he informs Destro the brain bomb is ready for transport, he is ambushed and held at gunpoint by Duke.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
April 23, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Cobra Commander nonchalantly introduces himself to Duke and raises the brain bomb to the roof. He informs Duke that the only way to deactivate it and save Washington, D.C. is to kill Monev. The two fight as Clutch goads the Baroness into going back to save Duke, and Destro orders the remaining Cobra forces to retreat. The Commander injures Duke, but he also kills Monev himself and deactivates the bomb after realizing that dying with Duke means Cobra would rule the world without him. The rest of G.I. Joe arrive to save their leader, and the impressed Commander spares Duke and returns to Springfield, where the irate Destro confronts him over compromising M.A.R.S. Industries. Acknowledging his demands for more information, the Commander reveals that the modified Brainwave Scanner's true purpose was to unlock a piece of Cybertronian technology and informs Destro about the existence of Megatron. Meanwhile, the Joes recuperate at the Pit, where Duke reiterates to Hawk that, despite the team's success against Cobra, his ultimate goal is to find and destroy the mysterious transforming robots. Clutch leaves the Pit on a drive to clear his head, but his Jeep suddenly transforms into the AutobotHound.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
May 28, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Assigned to steal a mysterious Darklonian shipment from wealthy collector Victor Foley, the special agent Beach Head spends three days lurking on Foley's beachfront property waiting to enter the house. Once inside, he discovers to his dismay that nearly all of his intel was wrong – the shipping box is larger than expected, Foley has a pair of civilian escorts complicating the extraction, and a horde of mercenaries attacks him as he tries to leave. The mercenaries escape with the box, destroying Foley's house in the process, but Beach Head manages to detach it from their truck. A second team of mercenaries on motorcycles confronts him, but he and the box are saved by a hovercraft. The mercenaries report back to Major Bludd, who kills them all for their failure, while Beach Head's saviors reveal themselves as Flint and Lady Jaye. A furious Beach Head confronts them, afraid his superiors will force him to retire, but Flint invites him to join their secret special mission team, Night Force. They open the box and show Beach Head the charred remains of a Battle Android Trooper; meanwhile, Cover Girl finds a redacted report concerning Night Force and gives it to Hawk, who promptly shreds it.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
June 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Joes continue to train, Destro and Cobra Commander watch footage of Seattle being destroyed in a battle between two giganticrobots. Destro sends Mercer to search the city's wreckage for spare parts, but the Commander insists they must have a fully intact Cybertronian. After Duke and the Baroness nearly catch Clutch returning to the Pit with Hound, she asks Duke to let her leave. He agrees on the condition that Cover Girl accompanies her, and the two fly to Paris for the weekend. The Baroness immediately tries to disappear, but Cover Girl tracks her to a small street café, unaware they are both being watched by Bludd's agents. At Cover Girl's pressing, the Baroness reluctantly admits that she is watching her parents celebrate their anniversary at a neighboring café, unable to speak with them but wanting to see them regardless. Cover Girl connects with her over the weight of her own parents' expectations, but a horde of falcons suddenly attacks the café. As the two Joes help civilians evacuate, they are cornered by Raptor, who asks them to come meet with Bludd.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
July 16, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Bludd arrives and kills several police officers as Raptor captures both Joes. A suspicious Risk informs Duke that he believes Clutch is hiding something from them, while Clutch promises to find more Energon for an ailing Hound. Meanwhile, Mercer reports to Destro about his discovery of an imprisoned Agent Martin, the last surviving member of a rogue M.A.R.S. salvage team that was slaughtered by a robot named Starscream. Destro orders Mercer to keep this new information from the Commander and execute the insane Martin, while Cover Girl and the Baroness awaken in a rocky pit. From above, Bludd assures the two that he has no intention of killing them himself, but plans to sell them to the highest bidder among the Baroness' many enemies. However, he throws them a knife and orders them to settle the matter of his missing eye – either the Baroness must kill Cover Girl to be sold intact, or Cover Girl must cut out the Baroness' eye on Bludd's behalf to go free. The Baroness challenges Bludd to face her himself, but Cover Girl grabs the knife and stabs her in the back.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
August 20, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | To Bludd's anger, Cover Girl refuses to finish the job and echoes the injured Baroness' challenge to come take her eye himself. After he tells them that Raptor stands ready to kill the Baroness' parents, she begins to fight Cover Girl for their safety. Clutch and Hound leave the Pit to search for more of Cobra's Energon-powered weapons, unaware that Risk is following them, while a worried Destro confides in Astoria about his suspicions of the Commander's mysterious past. Forcing his way into his ally's private laboratory, Destro discovers several mangled and mutilated Cobra Troopers being experimented on before the Commander confronts him. As Bludd reads some of his poetry aloud, the Baroness seemingly snaps Cover Girl's neck; however, when he jumps into the pit to continue gloating, Cover Girl breaks his ankle and escapes to save the Baroness' parents from Raptor. Clutch leaves Hound behind to search the wreckage of M.A.R.S. Industries for Energon, where Risk ambushes him and accuses him of being a brainwashed Cobra double agent. Mercer and a squadron of Cobra Vipers confront the two Joes, unaware of Hound's looming presence behind them.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
September 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Hound easily shrugs off the Vipers' attacks and refuels himself with the Energon powering their weapons. The Joes and Hound escape, leaving a bewildered Mercer behind, while the Baroness and Bludd fight in the pit. Bludd offers to spare her parents if she allows him to take her eye, confident that Cover Girl will not be able to find her way out of the labyrinthine sewer tunnels. However, she escapes just in time to subdue Raptor, and the Baroness stabs out Bludd's remaining eye. She leaves the blinded mercenary behind and regroups with Cover Girl while Destro attempts to talk down the Commander in his laboratory. Both men acknowledge that they ultimately have different goals regarding Cobra's future, with the Commander stating his belief that humanity must evolve beyond flesh and bone to survive the coming wars. Clutch, Risk, Hound, the Baroness, and Cover Girl all return to the Pit, leaving Duke none the wiser about their respective adventures. As the Baroness and Cover Girl affirm their new friendship, Hawk tells Night Force to stand down and stop spying on her; instead, they are to sneak into Darklonia and rescue their next recruit – Jodie "Shooter" Craig.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
October 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Hawk assures a suspicious Duke that nothing is happening within G.I. Joe without his knowledge, Night Force prepares to assault a Darklonian labor camp to rescue Shooter. Within the prison, Shooter refuses to use her expert sniper skills for Darklon, the country's regent and prison commandant, who orders her beaten and sent back to her cell. She manages to break out just as Beach Head finds her, disrupting a rival prisoner's attempt to assassinate her, and the two escape with Flint and Lady Jaye. As they leave, Shooter pulls off an impossible sniper shot to kill the rival prisoner. Meanwhile, the Commander and Destro welcome Major Bludd into Cobra with a new pair of bionic eyes, restoring his sight. Mercer pulls Destro aside to inform him about Clutch's alliance with Hound; rather than attack the Commander directly and upset the balance of power within Cobra, Destro decides to send the Dreadnoks to kill him instead.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
November 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro begins offering Cobra's services to the highest bidder among his underworld contacts, to the confusion and concern of the other officers, while Duke and the Commander flee from the Dreadnoks. Outnumbered, outgunned, and with their communications blocked, Duke reluctantly frees the Commander and agrees to work together to escape the desert. Buzzer sabotages their Jeep with his arm-mounted chainsaw, but the two parkour across and through the Dreadnok convoy until they commandeer another truck. They lure their enemies into a canyon and collapse it, scattering the Dreadnoks but destroying their truck. After learning from Clutch that G.I. Joe is all out on missions, a frustrated Hawk departs for the CIA's headquarters in Langley to review intelligence on Destro's takeover of Cobra with General Flagg. Meanwhile, Duke and the Commander wander into an abandoned town and begin searching for a working vehicle or landline signal; the Commander discovers a drove of pigs inside one decrepit house and is suddenly taken out by a massive sledgehammer. As the remaining Dreadnoks converge on the town, Duke is cornered by Road Pig.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 3, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Road Pig quickly dispatches Duke and imprisons him in the house's attic with an unconscious and helmetless Commander. He leaves them to deal with the approaching Buzzer and Ripper while Hawk makes a detour to meet with Astoria. She brings him before Destro, who offers him Cobra's weapons and information in a potential truce against the menace of the transforming robots. In the attic, the Commander awakens and confides in Duke about his distaste for being human and his theft of the Dreadnoks' Energon. They are interrupted by the return of Road Pig, who has befriended Buzzer and Ripper after an initial fight and agreed to help the Dreadnoks. The Commander bites Buzzer's throat for commenting on his mutilated face; Road Pig takes the two captives outside, where Zarana arrives with the rest of the Dreadnoks and Ripper returns the Commander's helmet. At the Pit, Clutch realizes that Duke is in trouble and leaves with Cover Girl to organize a rescue.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Dreadnoks formally induct Road Pig into their gang with a party and prepare to burn their captives alive. Intrigued by Duke's continued insistence on sparing the Commander, Buzzer frees him and offers him a deal – if he can beat Buzzer in a fight, the Dreadnoks will let him interrogate the Commander before they kill him, and Torch lights the pyre to add a time limit. Despite learning that one of his Joes has secretly allied with a robot, Hawk rebuffs Destro's offer, dispatches Mercer, and escapes with a gunshot wound. Buzzer prepares to kill Duke, but the rest of G.I. Joe arrives with enough weapons and vehicles to match the Dreadnoks. In the ensuing firefight, the Commander escapes from the pyre, the Baroness saves Duke, and Zarana and Zandar activate an Energon-powered device on their rebuilt Thunder Machine that generates an Energon lightning storm. The Joes regroup and prepare to retreat, but the injured Duke insists they go back for the Commander. The Dreadnoks begin searching for him, but the Commander incapacitates Buzzer and attacks the search party with his chainsaw.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 14, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zarana, Zandar, and Ripper find that the Commander has captured Buzzer and massacred the other Dreadnoks. To their surprise, he commends their efforts and offers them a truce and employment as independent contractors for Cobra. The Commander also offers the Joes the chance to leave peacefully as thanks for their efforts to save him, but Duke refuses. The battle between the Joes and the Dreadnoks resumes fiercer than ever, leaving Clutch with no choice but to reveal his secret alliance with Hound. The Autobot transforms to the shock and horror of all and takes out the remaining Dreadnoks, but Destro arrives with Cobra reinforcements. The Commander escapes with Zarana, Zandar, Torch, Ripper, Buzzer, and Road Pig in tow; before the other Joes can react, a furious Duke punches Clutch and holds Hound at gunpoint. Meanwhile, the injured Hawk returns to the Pit and takes a secret call from Zarana, revealing himself to be a disguised and undercover Zartan.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
January 28, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zartan, as "Hawk," contacts Flint to ask his opinion on another potential recruit for Night Force – Marvin F. "Roadblock" Hinton, a former heavy gunner who retired to his hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi and opened a successful local food truck. Roadblock is approached by Tomax and Xamot with an offer to lead their new Red Rockets food truck business. However, already aware that the twins use the brand for Cobra recruitment purposes, he turns them down. As Tomax and Xamot leave, a squadron of Crimson Guard troops crashes into the open-air food court and starts firing into the crowd. However, Roadblock singlehandedly defeats them, steals their armored car's enormous roof-mounted machine gun, and catches up with Tomax and Xamot. He destroys their car with his food truck and the machine gun, and the twins flee with the remaining Crimson Guards. Roadblock returns to the food court to find that Night Force helped repair the damage in his absence, and he agrees to speak with them. At Cobra headquarters, the Commander thanks Destro for coming to his assistance, but secretly confirms his treachery through a recording system in Major Bludd's cybernetic eyes.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
March 18, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Trakker escapes with Scrap-Iron in hot pursuit, but the Cobra mercenary is driven away by Duke, Clutch, and Hound. Although Trakker is furious at being discovered, he repairs Hound's transponder before leaving again. Hound successfully arranges a meeting between Duke and his leader, Optimus Prime; however, he is shocked to discover that Optimus has abdicated the title of Prime and sent the Matrix of Leadership back to Cybertron with the Autobots' new leader, Elita Prime. Duke is similarly shocked to learn that Starscream is dead. He admits the toll that his quest for revenge against Starscream and other Cybertronians on Earth has taken on him to Optimus, and the two connect over shared burdens of leadership and war. Eventually, they agree to an informal alliance between the Joes and the Autobots on their respective missions to defeat Cobra and the Decepticons. Optimus allows Hound to stay with the Joes, and Duke and Clutch agree to keep the meeting secret from the other Joes. Meanwhile, Cover Girl meets with Snow Job, who fills her in on the undercover agent Scarlett's infiltration of the Arashikage ninja clan. However, he is shocked to hear Cover Girl's new orders – extract Scarlett within 24 hours by any means necessary.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Lee Loughridge
April 15, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Snow Job, Cover Girl, and Frostbite approach the mountainous Arashikage stronghold, Scarlett sends them a secure message updating her status but refusing to leave without Jinx. Jinx catches her on the rooftop, but a squadron of Cobra attack helicopters suddenly appears and attacks the monastery. Cobra Commander leads a horde of Cobra Troopers through the compound, slaughtering dozens of Arashikage ninjas; Scarlett, Jinx, and Storm Shadow kill many Troopers in turn, but they fail to stop the Commander from gaining access to the innermost sanctum and shooting the Hard Master. Before he can take the Energon sword, the three defenders arrive and kill nearly all of the remaining Cobra forces. However, the last Cobra Valkyrie claims the sword and saves the Commander from Storm Shadow. She remotely fires a missile from one of the helicopters that destroys the monastery, and she and the Commander escape with the sword. A distraught Scarlett is dragged away from the scene by the three Joes, and the Hard Master emerges from the monastery's wreckage to find Storm Shadow holding an injured Jinx.
Ben Abernathy, Executive Editor on Skybound, also added, “To say this face-melting issue was a labor of love is an understatement. Getting this motley crew of creators together for this incisive and heartfelt look at the rise and fall of the legendary Cold Slither was a heavy metal dream come true!”[17]
Additionally, Hasbro and Reigning Phoenix Music presented a concert in San Diego’s Brick by Brick festival (July 24), featuring Gus Rios as Zartan (vocals/bass), Ross Sewage as Torch (guitar), Matt Harvey as Ripper (guitar) and Andy Selway as Buzzer (drums).[18]
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
May 28, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Assigned to steal a mysterious Darklonian shipment from wealthy collector Victor Foley, the special agent Beach Head spends three days lurking on Foley's beachfront property waiting to enter the house. Once inside, he discovers to his dismay that nearly all of his intel was wrong – the shipping box is larger than expected, Foley has a pair of civilian escorts complicating the extraction, and a horde of mercenaries attacks him as he tries to leave. The mercenaries escape with the box, destroying Foley's house in the process, but Beach Head manages to detach it from their truck. A second team of mercenaries on motorcycles confronts him, but he and the box are saved by a hovercraft. The mercenaries report back to Major Bludd, who kills them all for their failure, while Beach Head's saviors reveal themselves as Flint and Lady Jaye. A furious Beach Head confronts them, afraid his superiors will force him to retire, but Flint invites him to join their secret special mission team, Night Force. They open the box and show Beach Head the charred remains of a Battle Android Trooper; meanwhile, Cover Girl finds a redacted report concerning Night Force and gives it to Hawk, who promptly shreds it.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
June 18, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As the Joes continue to train, Destro and Cobra Commander watch footage of Seattle being destroyed in a battle between two giganticrobots. Destro sends Mercer to search the city's wreckage for spare parts, but the Commander insists they must have a fully intact Cybertronian. After Duke and the Baroness nearly catch Clutch returning to the Pit with Hound, she asks Duke to let her leave. He agrees on the condition that Cover Girl accompanies her, and the two fly to Paris for the weekend. The Baroness immediately tries to disappear, but Cover Girl tracks her to a small street café, unaware they are both being watched by Bludd's agents. At Cover Girl's pressing, the Baroness reluctantly admits that she is watching her parents celebrate their anniversary at a neighboring café, unable to speak with them but wanting to see them regardless. Cover Girl connects with her over the weight of her own parents' expectations, but a horde of falcons suddenly attacks the café. As the two Joes help civilians evacuate, they are cornered by Raptor, who asks them to come meet with Bludd.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
July 16, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Bludd arrives and kills several police officers as Raptor captures both Joes. A suspicious Risk informs Duke that he believes Clutch is hiding something from them, while Clutch promises to find more Energon for an ailing Hound. Meanwhile, Mercer reports to Destro about his discovery of an imprisoned Agent Martin, the last surviving member of a rogue M.A.R.S. salvage team that was slaughtered by a robot named Starscream. Destro orders Mercer to keep this new information from the Commander and execute the insane Martin, while Cover Girl and the Baroness awaken in a rocky pit. From above, Bludd assures the two that he has no intention of killing them himself, but plans to sell them to the highest bidder among the Baroness' many enemies. However, he throws them a knife and orders them to settle the matter of his missing eye – either the Baroness must kill Cover Girl to be sold intact, or Cover Girl must cut out the Baroness' eye on Bludd's behalf to go free. The Baroness challenges Bludd to face her himself, but Cover Girl grabs the knife and stabs her in the back.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
August 20, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | To Bludd's anger, Cover Girl refuses to finish the job and echoes the injured Baroness' challenge to come take her eye himself. After he tells them that Raptor stands ready to kill the Baroness' parents, she begins to fight Cover Girl for their safety. Clutch and Hound leave the Pit to search for more of Cobra's Energon-powered weapons, unaware that Risk is following them, while a worried Destro confides in Astoria about his suspicions of the Commander's mysterious past. Forcing his way into his ally's private laboratory, Destro discovers several mangled and mutilated Cobra Troopers being experimented on before the Commander confronts him. As Bludd reads some of his poetry aloud, the Baroness seemingly snaps Cover Girl's neck; however, when he jumps into the pit to continue gloating, Cover Girl breaks his ankle and escapes to save the Baroness' parents from Raptor. Clutch leaves Hound behind to search the wreckage of M.A.R.S. Industries for Energon, where Risk ambushes him and accuses him of being a brainwashed Cobra double agent. Mercer and a squadron of Cobra Vipers confront the two Joes, unaware of Hound's looming presence behind them.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
September 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Hound easily shrugs off the Vipers' attacks and refuels himself with the Energon powering their weapons. The Joes and Hound escape, leaving a bewildered Mercer behind, while the Baroness and Bludd fight in the pit. Bludd offers to spare her parents if she allows him to take her eye, confident that Cover Girl will not be able to find her way out of the labyrinthine sewer tunnels. However, she escapes just in time to subdue Raptor, and the Baroness stabs out Bludd's remaining eye. She leaves the blinded mercenary behind and regroups with Cover Girl while Destro attempts to talk down the Commander in his laboratory. Both men acknowledge that they ultimately have different goals regarding Cobra's future, with the Commander stating his belief that humanity must evolve beyond flesh and bone to survive the coming wars. Clutch, Risk, Hound, the Baroness, and Cover Girl all return to the Pit, leaving Duke none the wiser about their respective adventures. As the Baroness and Cover Girl affirm their new friendship, Hawk tells Night Force to stand down and stop spying on her; instead, they are to sneak into Darklonia and rescue their next recruit – Jodie "Shooter" Craig.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
October 15, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Hawk assures a suspicious Duke that nothing is happening within G.I. Joe without his knowledge, Night Force prepares to assault a Darklonian labor camp to rescue Shooter. Within the prison, Shooter refuses to use her expert sniper skills for Darklon, the country's regent and prison commandant, who orders her beaten and sent back to her cell. She manages to break out just as Beach Head finds her, disrupting a rival prisoner's attempt to assassinate her, and the two escape with Flint and Lady Jaye. As they leave, Shooter pulls off an impossible sniper shot to kill the rival prisoner. Meanwhile, the Commander and Destro welcome Major Bludd into Cobra with a new pair of bionic eyes, restoring his sight. Mercer pulls Destro aside to inform him about Clutch's alliance with Hound; rather than attack the Commander directly and upset the balance of power within Cobra, Destro decides to send the Dreadnoks to kill him instead.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
November 19, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Destro begins offering Cobra's services to the highest bidder among his underworld contacts, to the confusion and concern of the other officers, while Duke and the Commander flee from the Dreadnoks. Outnumbered, outgunned, and with their communications blocked, Duke reluctantly frees the Commander and agrees to work together to escape the desert. Buzzer sabotages their Jeep with his arm-mounted chainsaw, but the two parkour across and through the Dreadnok convoy until they commandeer another truck. They lure their enemies into a canyon and collapse it, scattering the Dreadnoks but destroying their truck. After learning from Clutch that G.I. Joe is all out on missions, a frustrated Hawk departs for the CIA's headquarters in Langley to review intelligence on Destro's takeover of Cobra with General Flagg. Meanwhile, Duke and the Commander wander into an abandoned town and begin searching for a working vehicle or landline signal; the Commander discovers a drove of pigs inside one decrepit house and is suddenly taken out by a massive sledgehammer. As the remaining Dreadnoks converge on the town, Duke is cornered by Road Pig.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 3, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Road Pig quickly dispatches Duke and imprisons him in the house's attic with an unconscious and helmetless Commander. He leaves them to deal with the approaching Buzzer and Ripper while Hawk makes a detour to meet with Astoria. She brings him before Destro, who offers him Cobra's weapons and information in a potential truce against the menace of the transforming robots. In the attic, the Commander awakens and confides in Duke about his distaste for being human and his theft of the Dreadnoks' Energon. They are interrupted by the return of Road Pig, who has befriended Buzzer and Ripper after an initial fight and agreed to help the Dreadnoks. The Commander bites Buzzer's throat for commenting on his mutilated face; Road Pig takes the two captives outside, where Zarana arrives with the rest of the Dreadnoks and Ripper returns the Commander's helmet. At the Pit, Clutch realizes that Duke is in trouble and leaves with Cover Girl to organize a rescue.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
December 17, 2025
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | The Dreadnoks formally induct Road Pig into their gang with a party and prepare to burn their captives alive. Intrigued by Duke's continued insistence on sparing the Commander, Buzzer frees him and offers him a deal – if he can beat Buzzer in a fight, the Dreadnoks will let him interrogate the Commander before they kill him, and Torch lights the pyre to add a time limit. Despite learning that one of his Joes has secretly allied with a robot, Hawk rebuffs Destro's offer, dispatches Mercer, and escapes with a gunshot wound. Buzzer prepares to kill Duke, but the rest of G.I. Joe arrives with enough weapons and vehicles to match the Dreadnoks. In the ensuing firefight, the Commander escapes from the pyre, the Baroness saves Duke, and Zarana and Zandar activate an Energon-powered device on their rebuilt Thunder Machine that generates an Energon lightning storm. The Joes regroup and prepare to retreat, but the injured Duke insists they go back for the Commander. The Dreadnoks begin searching for him, but the Commander incapacitates Buzzer and attacks the search party with his chainsaw.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Jordie Bellaire
January 14, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zarana, Zandar, and Ripper find that the Commander has captured Buzzer and massacred the other Dreadnoks. To their surprise, he commends their efforts and offers them a truce and employment as independent contractors for Cobra. The Commander also offers the Joes the chance to leave peacefully as thanks for their efforts to save him, but Duke refuses. The battle between the Joes and the Dreadnoks resumes fiercer than ever, leaving Clutch with no choice but to reveal his secret alliance with Hound. The Autobot transforms to the shock and horror of all and takes out the remaining Dreadnoks, but Destro arrives with Cobra reinforcements. The Commander escapes with Zarana, Zandar, Torch, Ripper, Buzzer, and Road Pig in tow; before the other Joes can react, a furious Duke punches Clutch and holds Hound at gunpoint. Meanwhile, the injured Hawk returns to the Pit and takes a secret call from Zarana, revealing himself to be a disguised and undercover Zartan.
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Joshua Williamson
Marco Foderà
Lee Loughridge
January 28, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Zartan, as "Hawk," contacts Flint to ask his opinion on another potential recruit for Night Force – Marvin F. "Roadblock" Hinton, a former heavy gunner who retired to his hometown of Biloxi, Mississippi and opened a successful local food truck. Roadblock is approached by Tomax and Xamot with an offer to lead their new Red Rockets food truck business. However, already aware that the twins use the brand for Cobra recruitment purposes, he turns them down. As Tomax and Xamot leave, a squadron of Crimson Guard troops crashes into the open-air food court and starts firing into the crowd. However, Roadblock singlehandedly defeats them, steals their armored car's enormous roof-mounted machine gun, and catches up with Tomax and Xamot. He destroys their car with his food truck and the machine gun, and the twins flee with the remaining Crimson Guards. Roadblock returns to the food court to find that Night Force helped repair the damage in his absence, and he agrees to speak with them. At Cobra headquarters, the Commander thanks Destro for coming to his assistance, but secretly confirms his treachery through a recording system in Major Bludd's cybernetic eyes.
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Joshua Williamson
Andrea Milana
Lee Loughridge
March 18, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | Trakker escapes with Scrap-Iron in hot pursuit, but the Cobra mercenary is driven away by Duke, Clutch, and Hound. Although Trakker is furious at being discovered, he repairs Hound's transponder before leaving again. Hound successfully arranges a meeting between Duke and his leader, Optimus Prime; however, he is shocked to discover that Optimus has abdicated the title of Prime and sent the Matrix of Leadership back to Cybertron with the Autobots' new leader, Elita Prime. Duke is similarly shocked to learn that Starscream is dead. He admits the toll that his quest for revenge against Starscream and other Cybertronians on Earth has taken on him to Optimus, and the two connect over shared burdens of leadership and war. Eventually, they agree to an informal alliance between the Joes and the Autobots on their respective missions to defeat Cobra and the Decepticons. Optimus allows Hound to stay with the Joes, and Duke and Clutch agree to keep the meeting secret from the other Joes. Meanwhile, Cover Girl meets with Snow Job, who fills her in on the undercover agent Scarlett's infiltration of the Arashikage ninja clan. However, he is shocked to hear Cover Girl's new orders – extract Scarlett within 24 hours by any means necessary.
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Joshua Williamson
Tom Reilly
Lee Loughridge
April 15, 2026
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colspan="5" style="text-align: left;" | As Snow Job, Cover Girl, and Frostbite approach the mountainous Arashikage stronghold, Scarlett sends them a secure message updating her status but refusing to leave without Jinx. Jinx catches her on the rooftop, but a squadron of Cobra attack helicopters suddenly appears and attacks the monastery. Cobra Commander leads a horde of Cobra Troopers through the compound, slaughtering dozens of Arashikage ninjas; Scarlett, Jinx, and Storm Shadow kill many Troopers in turn, but they fail to stop the Commander from gaining access to the innermost sanctum and shooting the Hard Master. Before he can take the Energon sword, the three defenders arrive and kill nearly all of the remaining Cobra forces. However, the last Cobra Valkyrie claims the sword and saves the Commander from Storm Shadow. She remotely fires a missile from one of the helicopters that destroys the monastery, and she and the Commander escape with the sword. A distraught Scarlett is dragged away from the scene by the three Joes, and the Hard Master emerges from the monastery's wreckage to find Storm Shadow holding an injured Jinx.
