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First appearance of Ripcord! The latest candidate for G.I. Joe status may already be dead! Meet Wallace Weems, a soldier everybody calls Ripcord. Lost in a forbidding jungle, Ripcord has one mission: SURVIVE! And if he doesn't outwit, outfight, and outlast the terrorists hunting him, thousands more might die!
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—The description as originally solicited by IDW Publishing.
"When I make the jump from this man's Army to our brother Air Force, I'm taking up a respectable aeronautical call-sign like Ace or Slipstream or Barrel Roll..."
--Sorry, they're all taken; you'll have to stick with Ripcord.
"Well, you know that wherever there's trouble..."
"We're there."
--Hawk and Scarlett know their job well.
Other Notes
Errors
The man giving the briefing at the Pentagon says the Republic of Agak is in west-central Africa, but the map shows it east-central.
The colors on the map change significantly between panels.
Items of note
First appearance: Ripcord, Kurin, Republic of Agak.
Do not confuse Ripcord's team with the team Beachhead was leading in G.I. Joe: Origins #11 - while both were involved in drug work, Ripcord's team was in Colombia, while Beach's was in Guatemala.
Weems is a Master Sergeant.
G.I. Joe references
The team's jump uniforms - green camo with full facemasks - are the same as the uniform worn by Generation 1 Rip-Cord.
Weems' list of potential callsigns are all existing Joe pilots.
Hawk and Scarlett's exchange in the helicopter is a nod to the Real American Hero cartoon themesong.
Real-world references
The computer screen that flags Rip's report includes the keyword "bio-toxin," suggesting the "beans" the workers are harvesting are castor beans, used for creating ricin.
Judging by the map, Agak is sandwiched in between Rwanda, Uganda and the Congo.[1]
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