Image Comics: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero Front Line #6 Early Thaw (2003)
 
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.
 
As the Joe team continues to investigate the Operation: Coldfire laboratory, they are discovering weird frozen bodies, secret rooms and budget documents. Scarlett & Lifeline are attacked by a large hairy creature. Lifeline is slashed by the creature and could possibly be infected. Scarlett discovers some caves and the Joe team splits up to explore the caves. Lifeline has a theory that the scientists have crossed their human DNA with polar bears.