GI Joe: America's Elite

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GI Joe: America's Elite is a comic book series set in the Marvel GI Joe universe. It's events take place one year after the events of GI Joe: A Real American Hero v2.

[edit] Characters

The series features a smaller GI Joe team than the other two main series', consisting of Flint, Hawk, Duke, Scarlett, Shipwreck, Stalker, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, who has defected to Joe's, and Roadblock at the beginning of the series, although the cast changes as the series continues.

[edit] Plot

The comic, which has 21 issues as of February 28, 2007, begins with a series of satellites crashing into major cities. The GI Joe team, which was deactivated at the end of the previous series, is reactivated to deal with this threat. They discover that a man named Vance Winfield, who had attempted to cause a nuclear war in the Marvel series and was presumed dead, is behind the attacks, and stop him, although Snake Eyes dies during this operation. He is resurrected by a group of mystic ninjas, and the Secretary of State, actually Cobra Commander in disguise, attempts to shut down the team. When this fails, he sends a team of Cobra operatives to kill them. they fight off this attack.