HMD | March 2012

[these_balls]

EVALUATE MY BATTLING!

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Comments

[usedlaserbeam]

Okay, so I just had to take a minute out to say that I really, really like what you're doing with Cobra Commander — largely, the fact that he is rabblerousing a little bit, and enacting fantastically stupid 90's Cartoon Villain Evil Plans™, and you're letting him be kind of hilarious and fail and over-the-top and just generally fun. It's a really nice thing to see, and I think you strike a good balance of making him appropriately silly without making him a complete joke, if that makes sense? He's got just the right level of sort of ridiculous incompetence, and I mean that in the best possible way.

[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Thank you!

And I totally get what you mean about balancing him. In his canon, he takes himself super seriously and sometimes does things like what he pulled off in Violet, but at the same time he's a gigantic ham, extremely failure prone, and subject to planning incredibly questionable schemes like carving his face into the moon or making a giant Cobra themed funhouse to deal with a small handful of people. I've tried pretty hard to balance these elements, and I'm glad that it comes across well!