G.I. Joe #28 asks if Zartan has already won, and Night Force has one chapter left after it

Night Force has one chapter left after this one. G.I. Joe #28 is in comic shops on Wednesday 18 November, 32 pages for $3.99 and rated T, from writer Joshua Williamson, artist Tom Reilly and colourist Lee Loughridge. Four of its five covers carry the same block of type beside the price, NIGHTFORCE, PART 4 OF 5. Reilly’s wraparound on issue 25 first put that count in print in August.

Image’s solicitation is two lines long. The first is “ZARTAN…VICTORIOUS?” and the second says Duke and Flint “must find a way to work together as the fate of G.I. Joe hangs in the balance.” October’s solicitation asked who Zartan is. This month’s asks whether he has won.

Reilly’s cover is a game board

Cover A is Reilly’s. Zartan fills the top half in his hood and segmented armour, one green eye lit, with a gauntlet reaching down onto a glowing grid floor where the Joes stand as small pale figurines on round bases. He has one of them in his fingers, lifted off the board. Another is toppling backwards with its gun going off, and across the bottom edge a figure lies flat on its back. The solicitation keeps its question mark, but Reilly has drawn Zartan holding a Joe like a game piece!

Cover B for G.I. Joe 28: a man in a black beret with a red badge holds a shotgun and smiles down at two prisoners kneeling on a stone floor, a blonde woman in a bomber jacket and a man in a yellow shirt and bandolier, both chained by the wrists to a ring in the floor

Cover B, signed by Mark Bagley and listed by Image under Richard Isanove. Cover art: Skybound and Image Comics.

Cover B points the other way. A man in a black beret with a red badge stands over two prisoners with a shotgun across his body and a smile on his face, and the prisoner in the yellow shirt and bandolier, chained by the wrists to a ring in the floor, looks a lot like Duke. Black beret, black T-shirt, shotgun: that is Flint’s kit. It is a variant and may have nothing to do with the story, but it is a funny thing to print on the issue that tells the two of them to cooperate.

The other three are Stephane Roux, with a woman in orange glasses and a dark catsuit up front; Fadime Yildirim, with a woman in a denim jacket and peaked cap posed twice over against a pink ground; and Rex Lokus, credited on a crowded green-and-steel scene with the Joes packed in under a giant machine. Image lists all five on the issue’s own page, and Cover D is the one without the Night Force block.

Where this sits in the arc

Night Force opened in issue 25 on 19 August, with Hawk standing up a second team because he did not trust Duke with every kind of mission. Issues 26 and 27 followed in September and October. The finale, issue 29, is dated 16 December, and its manga variant by Manabu Yashiro, which we wrote up in September, reads PART 5 OF 5. After that the book turns to the Baroness in issue 30 on 20 January.

If you have missed a chapter, MyComicShop’s G.I. Joe (2024) title page had issues 26 and 27 in stock when we checked it on 10 November; issue 28 is listed there but not yet orderable. The rest of the run, back to the Marvel years, is in our comics archive.

Sources

Cover art: Skybound and Image Comics. On-sale date, price, page count, rating and cover credits read off Image’s own listing on 10 November 2026.