Cobra Commander gives weapons dealer Destro some Energon to make his Battle Android Troopers (BATs) work - who then immediately uses his new robot army to stage a coup of the nation of Darklonia! But rival gun runners want what Destro has and the metal-faced baldy has to fight for his right to party.
The latest uninspired GI Joe spinoff is Destro, who looks like a giant trophy for a gay Dracula contest. And, like a lot of these one-and-done Joe books, the story is very weak and superfluous to the overall Energon Universe series.
I didn’t know anything about Destro before this book and I don’t know much more having read this - but then there’s not that much to know. Apparently he’s Scottish and we get the origin of the metal mask from ye olde days, though I don’t understand what he’s got in the present. His face is very malleable, almost like he’s not wearing a metal mask at all and has painted his head silver for some reason, but it’s prolly a magic alloy right yeah that’s it uh huh.
It’s not a badly written or drawn comic - Dan Watters’ script is readable and generally clear, while Andrei Bressan and Andrea Milana’s art is fine; I liked that Destro’s shit-eating grin ends a couple of issues, which was funny in a meme-worthy way - it’s just not a very interesting story: various unlikeable weapons manufacturers squabble the whole time to no real effect.
Destro, Volume 1: The Enemy is an unnecessary addition to the Energon Universe line and an unmemorable comic in itself.
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