From the Page to the Screen: Interview with G.I. Joe Artist Lee Ferguson

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With the popularity of action films based on comics, it's interesting to note that movies are all essentially moving comic strips. Even romantic films require story boards that detail the action, frame by frame, just like a comic book. Comic book characters jumping off the page and into the big screen is a natural progression of the medium.

[Ultimately], you exercise a lot of the same muscles, says Lee Ferguson, Marvel artist - and in full disclosure, my older brother. I know right! Nepotis at it's finest.

Lee is currently working on one of Marvel's crossover projects with a G.I. Joe comic book mini-series. It's a prequel to the movie, he says. The story centers around fan favorite Snake Eyes returning to Japan in order to investigate some murders near the hometown where he trained as a ninja with the Arashikage clan.

We'll see some flashbacks to his childhood, training alongside Storm Shadow under the Hard Master, fun stuff, he adds.

It is fun stuff. Going back to our childhood, regularly chanting Go Joe! was part of our lives in a big way. He recalls: When I was about ten or so, the current version of GI Joe came out, which was a huge thing. The toys, the cartoon, the comics ... I loved it all. For the longest time, I thought 'ninja' was a perfectly acceptable career goal.

Fortunately, drawing them is.

Although the big budget movie hits theaters this summer, the first issue isn't due on shelves in October. That means you have time to pre-order and reserve yours now, pardon the plug. Go Bro!