A few years after the Joe
team
was shut down, Flint and Lady Jaye were married and made a home in Fort
Meade, Maryland, not far from the Pentagon. At that time, Flint began
working
on a book about his experiences on the Joe team. In 2001, the G.I. Joe
Team was reinstated by the government in reponse to Cobra's return to
the
United States. Duke brought many of the older Joes to help train and
lead
a batch of new recruits, and Flint became the team's executive officer.
Lady Jaye is one of the team's field commanders. Joes have noted that
his
marraige and new administrative duties have helped Flint tone down his
occasional arrogant behavior. After helping to fight Cobra's nano-mite
threat and taking part in other operations, Flint was kidnapped by
Russian
mobsters while on his way to his own book, signing. Both he and the
Baroness
were being held in the Czech Republic by groups of gangsters hoping to
stop Cobra from stealing away their members. The two escaped even as
the
Joes and Destro joined forces to rescue them, and worked together
closely.
Once they were rescued, the Baroness -- just causing trouble for the
fun
of it -- made sure everyone saw her thank him with a kiss. Lady Jaye
was
not amused and again gave Flint a punch in the mouth before he could
explain.
Flint later joined the Joes' invasion of Cobra Island to battle the
forces
of a revived Serpentor.
Flint
found himself in conflict with Duke after
his old teammate launched a secret operation in Sierra Gordo. The small
nation's
new president contacted Duke after Destro offered his services to the
country to help them fight a group of invaders who were secretly
Destro's Iron Grenadiers. A team of Joes were sent in to assist Sierra
Gordo's army in the battle, but Duke had not told them that he was
setting
up Destro to be captured. In fact, he hadn't told Hawk, Flint or any
other Joe
what he was planning. Duke personally captured Destro, and two Joes
were
injured in the fighting. After the
operation, Duke faced angry
teammates, including Hawk and Flint, who were even considering throwing
him off the team for unnecessarily endangering troops. Their argument
nearly came to blows before Hawk could separate them. Before
the two old friends patched up their differences, the Joe team baited
Cobra Commander
into a trap by making him believe Destro was onboard a train guarded by
the Joes. Destro helped set the trap in exchange for his freedom. In
the battle that followed, Hawk was shot and paralyzed by Cobra
Commander, who was in turn captured by the Joes. In Hawk's absence,
Duke took control of the team, while Flint continued his role as
executive officer. The Joe commanders soon found themselves fighting
the
cabal of generals known as the Jugglers. During
this time, Flint and Lady Jaye's
relationship became strained as they wondered if they could ever live a
normal, peaceful life again.
With Destro
once again free
and in command of Cobra, the Jugglers began cracking down on the
Joes, intent on reigning in the team or disbanding it all together.
Meanwhile, Hawk was seemingly despondent and unwilling to retake
command. Duke
and Flint did their best to keep the team together with the help of
General Joe Colton, though the Jugglers
cut down their roster to about
a dozen Joes and arrested a number of them. They also placed General
Philip Rey in command of the team. Rey, Flint and the remaining Joes
fought Cobra Commander's plans to unleash the deadly superweapon known
as the Tempest. At the same time, the
Joes faced a new threat in the group called the Red Shadows, who had
begun targeting and murdering Joe and Cobra agents. They sparked
violence and instability around the globe, hoping to take control of
the world. The battle with this new organization became shockingly
personal when Flint was attacked by an agent of the Red Shadows and
would have been killed if not for the intervention of Lady Jaye. While
attempting to save her husband, Lady Jaye was killed as Flint looked on
in horror. Devastated and angry, Flint threw himself into the mission
at hand while hoping to exact vengeance on the Red Shadows. He nearly
got himself killed by infiltrating
the Shadows' base on his own before the remaining Joes arrived. Flint
nearly shot and killed an unarmed Eden, but was not disturbed enough to
turn himself into a murderer. In the
end, Duke, Rey and Flint's small
team of Joes defeated the schemes of the Red Shadows and Cobra. Shortly
after these
threats were neutralized, the G.I. Joe team was again disbanded by the
military.
The defeat of
the Red
Shadows did little to help Flint deal with his grief over Lady Jaye's
death. One year later, the Joe team was reformed with a smaller roster
of active members, including Flint. Still bitter and angry after Lady
Jaye's death, Flint became more aggressive and reckless as the Joes
tried to stop Vance Wingfield from crashing orbiting satellites into
populated areas. The team's new commander, Joe Colton, expressed his
doubts about Flint being a part of the team to Stalker, who convinced
the General to keep his old teammate on duty. As Wingfield's threat
ended,
Snake-Eyes was apparently killed in action. Flint was little comfort to
Scarlett in her grief, telling her that the pain only gets worse. After
Snake-Eyes was miraculously revived by the Red Ninjas and freed from
their control, Flint officially resigned from the G.I. Joe team with
little explanation. The team was unaware Flint went on a personal
mission to track down the Red Shadows' Wilder Vaughn and bring
him to justice. When he finally found Vaughn in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam, he witnessed a meeting between Vaughn and the Baroness, who
had recently escaped the Joe team's custody. When the meeting ended,
though he found the decision difficult to make, Flint followed the
Baroness and contacted Joe headquarters that he had found her. Flint
followed her to Cobra Commander's hidden base in Honduras, where she
hoped to find her kidnapped baby son. As the Baroness met with the
Commander and Destro (the baby's father), Flint, Spirit and Snake-Eyes
raided the base but were captured. As the Joes watched, Destro turned
his company, MARS, over to Cobra Commander in exchange for baby Eugen.
Flint and the Joes tried to capture the Commander, but decided against
it after the Commander revealed he had learned the names and locations
of their family members when he had infiltrated the White House a short
time before.
To help deal with Cobra Commander's
growing threat, the Joe team expanded its roster of active members and
welcomed Flint back to the team. By this time, while Flint had not
completely moved past the death of Lady Jaye, he had moved beyond the
anger and seemed more like his old self. The Joes began tracking down
as many former and current Cobra operatives as they could find. The
team began tracking down as many former and current Cobra operatives as
they could find. In Dagestan, Flint helped prevent the assassination of
a local official and faced a number of Cobra operatives. G.I. Joe soon
learned that the new spike in Cobra activity was part of Cobra
Commander's plan to literally start World War III, leading General
Colton to activate all reserve members of the team. The conflict
spread across the globe as Flint and the core members of the team took
the lead in fighting Cobra and the Iron Grenadiers. Eventually, the
Joes crushed Cobra and finally arrested Cobra Commander, bringing an
end to the war. Most reserve Joes have returned to their previous
assignments while Flint continues on as an active member of G.I. Joe
Artwork: G.I. JOE vol 2 #1
(cover) by J. Scott Campbell; G.I. JOE #31 vol. 2 (cover)
Appearances:
- G.I. JOE: #37, 38, 45-47,
49-55,
57, 58,
61, 63, 67, 72-74, 76, 77, 86-88, 93, 97, 99-105, 111, 112, 114
(dossier), 116, 117, 120-125, 140, 148-151, 155
- G.I. JOE Special Missions: #8
- G.I. JOE Yearbook: #2
-
G.I. JOE: Order of Battle: #1
- G.I. JOE vol. 2: #1-4, 6, 8-10,
15-19, 23,
26, 28-40, 42, 43
- G.I. JOE: Frontline: #13
- G.I. JOE: Battle Files: #1
- G.I.
JOE: America's Elite: #1-12, 23-26, 29-31, 33-36
- G.I.
Joe: Data Desk Handbook
- G.I.
Joe: The Data Desk Handbook A-M
(compiled with help from Bryon Hake)
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