Destro Volume 1: The Enemy written by Dan Watters, art by Andrei Bressan and Andrea Milana
In a continuation of the Energon Universe storyline, James McCullen Destro XXIV is a high-tech arms dealer whose family has a long tradition of selling weapons to any and everyone who is willing to pay. He has some competition, as any business would, but he has a star client in Cobra, an up and coming military force trying to sew war all over the world in hopes of achieving world domination. Before that can happen, Destro has to reckon with several competitors, especially Tomax and Xamot Paoli, the "Crimson Twins" who offer highly-trained soldiers to whoever will pay. They naturally want to muscle in on the high-tech end of the business, which makes Destro a prime target. Especially when he hosts an arms sales convention in an Eastern European country he has just taken over, putting his cousin on the throne. When the convention gets attacked (and the twins didn't even show up for the convention), a war breaks out among the weapons manufacturers of the world. Can Destro come out on top?
I played with the G. I. Joe figures of the 1980s and Destro was my favorite villain back then. He's given a lot more backstory here, which is good and handled well. The whole conflict between various villains is not so interesting--obviously readers are meant to root for Destro and he does have some clever tactics. But there's a lot of scientific nonsense and less than convincing alliances among characters. The plot became dramatically unconvincing about half-way through the book. I was very underwhelmed by this and am bailing out on the series. Sorry, G. I. Joes!
Not recommended.
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