Kensho: A Snake-Eyes Story is something like The Dark Knight Returns meets Inception meets War and Peace meets Mister Robot meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all wrapped up inside a black mask and visor. It takes Larry Hama’s story, “Snake-Eyes: The Origin” in Marvel’s G.I. Joe #26, as its canonical baseline. The story follows Snake-Eyes through the infiltration and destruction of a remote black site for contraband data storage, taking for granted that if Snake-Eyes had served in Vietnam in his early twenties, he would be in his sixties today. Woven into this adventure is a flashback that retcons parts of Hama’s origin story by folding a near-death mystical experience into the heart of Snake-Eyes’ narrow escape from death in South-east Asia.
Kensho: A Snake-Eyes Story is something like The Dark Knight Returns meets Inception meets War and Peace meets Mister Robot meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, all wrapped up inside a black mask and visor. It takes Larry Hama’s story, “Snake-Eyes: The Origin” in Marvel’s G.I. Joe #26, as its canonical baseline. The story follows Snake-Eyes through the infiltration and destruction of a remote black site for contraband data storage, taking for granted that if Snake-Eyes had served in Vietnam in his early twenties, he would be in his sixties today. Woven into this adventure is a flashback that retcons parts of Hama’s origin story by folding a near-death mystical experience into the heart of Snake-Eyes’ narrow escape from death in South-east Asia.