G.I. Joe Sierra Muerte (a review)

I should probably open with a disclaimer: I’m not a fan of G.I. Joe. It’s not that I hate the franchise or anything, I just never got into it. My childhood was mostly spent playing with dolls and pretending to be a normal little girl. But I still always loved action movies and other “boy” stuff so G.I. Joe wouldn’t have been too out of the ballpark for me.

I don’t know.

Recently, I’m starting to branch out to popular “boy” franchises like Conan the Barbarian, Judge Dredd, and, of course, G.I. Joe. Sometimes, you just need a good old testosterone-filled story about buff dudes (and girls) punching evil in the face. I decided to review G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte since it looked like a nice, short story that’ll give me a taste of what I’m getting into.

Also, the only other G.I. Joe book I have is the G.I. Joe: Best of Snake-Eyes collection so please forgive me if I get specific bits of the lore wrong.

G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte is a three-issue mini-series written and illustrated by Michel Fiffe and published by IDW in 2019. Fiffe has been around for the last ten years, mostly working on original projects like Copra and Zegas, but he has also worked for…