Image Comics: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero! Front Line Vol. 1 #1 (2002)
 
Image Comics with a monthly series, Frontline, features rotating writers and artists telling stories set in different periods of the Joes' history. The series ran for 18 issues and ended in 2003.
 
The Mission that Never Was 1 of 4, One if By Land

The Joes are given a covert mission by the original Joe to deliver a high stakes piece of equipment for the Jugglers. Cobra finds out and comes after the tech. Mayhem ensues and Hawk is shot.