Skybound Entertainment’s G.I. Joe’s Silent Missions Beach Head #1!

Yeah.

Very cool.

Very...

Yeah, as soon as I saw it, I was like, "Hey, it's time to have Mike back on the show."

Right?

[laughs]

You see what I'm saying? It just became associated with me.

Yeah, exactly.

Uh, what is your overall opinion of the G.I. Joe side of the Skybound Energon Universe stuff?

I, I'm actually really enjoying it.

Y- you know, I, I know that's not a popular...

Or I, I shouldn't say it's not popular, but it's, it's certainly not the only thread you see out there.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, if you get on, if you get on internet fandom and all, but that's internet fandom for you.

Anytime something is different from, from what's been rolling around in your own personal head canon for the last 30 or 40 years, it's just instantly bad and we shouldn't accept it.

But, um, but I don't feel that way at all with this.

I, I had my concerns.

Mm-hmm.

I, I have to admit, I, I, I've...

U- I was always a guy who, who, who, um, when the, the question was asked, "Hey, do G.I. Joe and Transformers exist in the same universe?" I was always very much a, a "No, they don't" guy, right? That was always my answer, even though, you know, it did happen back in the, in the day when, when the Transformers book was canceled and, and Larry Hama was given the, the orders to include Generation 2 Transformer stuff in the G.I.

Joe book.

Yep.

But, um, you know, that, that piece of...

That part of their history seems to have been forgotten.

So i- i- it almost like it, it, you know, got, got retconned out by ignoring it for 20 years.