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ABOUT AFTER ACTION REPORT

Comprehensive reference guides to help you collect them all

As envisioned by former writers of YoJoe.com Roger Taft and Josh Eggebeen, AFTER ACTION REPORT (AAR) started as a series of reference guides that cover all the known G.I. Joe comics and books ever published. Backed by its own Kickstarter moving through distinct series, publishers and 40 years of periodicals, each AAR Volume covers an era of G.I. Joe comics based generally off the publisher during a particular decade. Each Comic Guide volume is a catalog of every known version of any Hasbro licensed G.I. Joe comic or book produced during a specific era including every cover variant. In addition, each guide contains creator interviews, historical articles, highlight pages of cool G.I. Joe related subjects & lots of fun facts. The cover of each Guide features original artwork illustrated exclusively for that guide plus original back cover art by an artist of that era. At the back of each Comic Guide is a master checklist that collector's can conveniently use to track their missing comics. Each comprehensive Guide will send collectors down the rabbit hole trying to collect them all.

Why make AAR Comic Guides?

The G.I. Joe community has a very loyal collecting community that has loved G.I. Joe since 1964. So many of those fans have published books on collecting G.I. Joe. The majority of these books are toy based from the many different eras of G.I. Joe as well as collecting the art & pre-production process.

With many of those authors being contributors or advisors to AAR, Roger & Josh plan to spends hours, even years of their life, dedicated to preserving all aspects of G.I. Joe comics by creating guide books that cover all of the different versions of the comics from Marvel, Devil’s Due and IDW eras of G.I. Joe; the amazing variant covers; the history of their creation; the creators' stories; the international versions; all to help preserve the comics part of

G.I. Joe's history.

THE AAR STORY SO FAR...

It’s always been Roger's dream to have a useable and handy guide book for collecting G.I. Joe comics. A resource to track his collection when hunting for G.I. Joe comics in those long boxes at every convention. From printed paper lists based upon Excel to modern day apps on phones, Roger and all other collectors have used all sorts of methods to track the gaps in their collections. Josh has used databases from three different decades to track his collection and might have the largest G.I. Joe & Action Force comic collection in the world and it is still growing with Skybound crazy cover madness.

And thus the start of AFTER ACTION REPORT Series ball started rolling...

Spring 2020 CO-VID shutdown. Roger calls Josh asking "Want to do a project that will take a year?" Josh jumped on the idea with a big YES. Scanning covers and the writing thefirst AAR book begins.
September 2020 First Kickstarter for AAR Volume #1 Marvel Era 1982-1996 premiered at JoeFest in Augusta, GA.
October 2020 First Kickstarter successfully funded with 4 stretch goals reached.
February 2021 AfterActionReport.net goes live pre-selling AAR Volume #1.
September 2021 One year after the first announcement of AAR Volume #1 and after global printing & shipping challenges, AAR Volume #1 arrives in Kickstarter backers' hands.
October 2021 Work on AAR Volume #2 Devil's Due Era 2001-2008 + More (Fun Publishing) begins.
May 2022 Kickstarter for AAR Volume #2 funds 100% in 48 hours.
August 2022 Author Greg Agustin joins the AAR team.
November 2022 Kickstarter for AAR Volume #3 Larry Hama's IDW ARAH Era 2010-2022 funds in 6 days. Author Ted Jacobson & designer Brian Sauer are credited on the cover.
November 2022 AAR: Command Files Volume #1 A-Teams Character Guide announced at Assembly Required in Des Moines, IA.
February 2023 Kickstarter for AAR: Command Files Volume #1 begins.
February 2023 AAR Volume #2 begins shipping to Kickstarter backers
March 2023 AfterActionReport.net site refresh.
April 2023 Kickstarter for AAR: Command Files Volume #1 funds, but campaign pauses for 35 days due to copyright infringement claim.
May 2023 Kickstarter for AAR: Command Files Volume #1 resumes and completes
June 2023 Kickstarter for AAR Volume #1 Second Printing Newsstand funds.
January 2024 Kickstarter for History of G.I. Joe #21 an After Action Report Book funds.
June 2024 History of G.I. Joe #21 an After Action Report Book is available at JoeFest in Augusta, GA then begins shipping to Kickstarter backers shortly after.
Summer 2024 AAR publisher is fired after discovery of failure to get 3 books printed and delivered.
September 2024 Kickstarter of G.I. Joe & Transformers Comic Checklist, After Action Report Book funds.
December 2024 AAR Volume #3 IDW ARAH Era arrives and is shipped to backers
January 2025 AAR: Command Files Volume #1 & AAR Volume #1 Second Printing Newsstand arrives and is shipped to backers.
May 2025 Kickstarter for AAR: Command Files Volume #2 Support Elements funds in 6 days.
July 2025 Kickstarter for AAR: Command Files Volume #2 completes 298% funded and sets highest AAR Kickstarter records.
October 2025 Roger retires from active AAR duty.
November 2025 Kickstarter for AAR: G.I. Joe Comics ARAH Trivia & Activity Book funds in one day with Editor Gary Viola joining the AAR team.
November 2025 AAR: Command Files Volume #2 is shipped to backers during Thanksgiving

Tentatively looking forward

TBD Kickstarter for AAR: International Volumes #4 and #5
TBD Kickstarter for AAR: Command Files Volume #3 (COBRA)

And the adventure continues...

For Roger, it's been a near lifetime of thinking about AAR. For Josh, just a couple of years of non stop computer work on AAR. But for both writers, its been 40 years of searching, researching, buying, collecting, selling and trading G.I. Joe Comics. They both have a passion for G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comics that has NEVER stopped since 1982.

When it comes to tracking and filling out your own collection, you can't do better than what Roger and Josh have contributed to the Joe community. The two have been contributors to the YoJoe.com Comic Section. Josh was the Senior Editor of the YoJoe Comic Section for over a decade. Both have written several articles for Joe Declassified Magazine. Josh created the YoJoe.com International Comic Section