Alternate Covers

Cover C : A Special Incentive is a "Special Reprint of GI Joe: A Real American Hero #21" (IDW's wording)

What it actually is is a reprint of the Hasbro 25th Anniversary Collector's Pack comic (See Hasbro #21)

Cover #19B

Cover #19C (Special Incentive)

Notes of Interest

A Silent Issue written by Larry Hama.

Major Continuity Differences

How Timber becomes connected with Snake Eyes.

Major Players

GI Joe: Snake Eyes, Timber

Additional Characters: Female Russian style Pilot & Male Russian style Pilot.

Creative Team

"Origins #19"
Writer: Larry Hama
Pencils: Joe Benitez
Inks: Victor Llamas
Colors: J. Brown
Assistant Editor: Carlos Guzman
Editor: Andy Schmidt


Cover Credits
Cover A: Artist: Joe Benitiez and Victor Llamas, Colors by J. Brown
Cover Company: IDW

Cover B: Artist: Joe Benitiez and Victor Llamas, Colors by Andrew Crossley
Cover Company: IDW

Cover C (Special Incentive): Artist: Ashley Wood
Cover Company: IDW

Full Details

(Editor's Note, a completely silent issue)

As a C-130 cargo airplane approaches, Snake Eyes is in the back ready to parachute out. Both of the pilots and Snake Eyes are covering their ears because of a noise. Snake Eyes jumps and lands in the snow using his sword to cut himself lose from the parachute.

Near where he lands he sees a wolf (Timber, but unnamed) caught in a barbwire fence. He goes over and using wire cutters frees the wolf. A silent alarms goes off in the nearby Russian style base that a wire has been cut. The wolf stands and looks at Snake Eyes before heading off into the woods. Two soldiers on snowmobiles come after him.

Moments later when the snowmobile arrives, Snake Eyes jumps out from under his white parachute, which he was using as camouflage, attacking the two soldiers. Easily killing them with his sword.

Above the base, the C-130 is detected by the radar and two pilots one a female with yellow see through glasses and a man with goggles authorize an attack on the plane. The same item that was making the noise before opens up on the plane again. This time some of the electronics short out. The underground hanger door opens for the pilots to get in there helicopter. Snake Eyes arrives driving the snowmobile using the soldier's coat as a disguise. Dropping down into the hanger he kills one soldier after slicing his gun in half. More guards attack Snake Eyes, who breaks out his Uzi, they start dying faster and Snake Eyes does a flip well changing the magazine of his Uzi all in mid air. He rushes towards a door that is closing and using a large wrench he picked up on the run, stops the door in the open position. He kills 2 guards as he does this.

Once inside the room, the two pilots are there protecting a computer terminal. Snake Eyes does a flip over their gunfire kicking both in the head and knocking them to the side. Snake Eyes breaks open the terminal, rips out the targeting processor for the noise maker, the noise stops and pilot up in the C-130 give the ok for extraction. He then drops a grenade near the terminal and runs off.

Both pilots scramble away from the grenade. On his way out, he uses several grenades to kill several more guards. The Uzi runs out of bullets so he throws it into the head of a soldier, then uses a throwing knife on another. He picks up 2 AK-47's from the soldiers and starts firing away. As he exits the hanger, he runs past the helicopter.

The two pilots arrive at the helicopter and prep it for take off. Snake Eyes running in the snow is being chased by snowmobiles. The helicopter takes off after him, also. As the snowmobiles get close a pack of wolves attack them. The wolf Snake Eyes saved earlier literally sits at his feet. The helicopter arrives.

Snake Eyes releases a balloon that extends up in the air as the helicopter gets closer. He just stands their and points to the side of the helicopter. The pilots believing that have the drop on Snake Eyes look at the side and see his sword stuck in the gas tank and fuel leaking everywhere, the helicopter runs out of fuel and crashes.

The C-130 arrives over head and using a skyhook on the front of the plane captures the rope connected to the balloon. It pulls him up and into the back of the airplane.

The pilots escape from the crash just as several wolves attack them.

Summary by Josh Eggebeen