The DVD version of the movie - serialized online before being shown on Adult Swim earlier this year - includes new unseen footage, as well as interviews with the people responsible and storyboards like these:

GI Joe: Resolute will be released on November 3rd.

GI Joe: Resolute (written by acclaimed comic book writer Warren Ellis) is being positioned as a more "sophisticated" take on the characters than the old animated series, in preparation for this summer's big-budget movie; the online premiere of the show leads up to its broadcast premiere on Cartoon Network next week, which will show all of the webisodes as well as debut the final 10 minutes of the storyline. We have to admit, we're excited, even if we kind of miss those old PSAs.

GI Joe: Resolute [Adult Swim]

Interestingly enough, one of the aims for Resolute was to reboot the franchise into something more movie-friendly:

The point was to write an hour-long story that really put the property and the characters through some shit changes: as if this were the GI JOE film (at the time of my writing RESOLUTE, there still wasn’t a locked script on the live-action film) and I was rebooting and re-grounding the property on my own.

How much leeway was Ellis given? Apparently, more than you'd expect:

The idea was, as I understand it, that bringing in a writer with absolutely no nostalgia for the property would give them the tone they were looking for. I think they were happy when I presented them with the initial list of characters I was going to just kill. And then the list of things I was going to blow up.

The people at Hasbro were actually remarkably supportive. And I did apologise after shouting at them those times. And they did give me one of those conversations that you never really expect to have when growing up:

HASBRO: No, Warren, you cannot wipe Beijing from the face of the earth.

ME: Shit. (pause) What about Moscow?

HASBRO: Wiping Moscow from the face of the earth would be fine.

And if you're wondering how Warren ended up writing about America's favorite toy soldiers in the first place, the answer seems to be "Out of ignorance":

It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, we’d really like you to write a GI JOE animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer. I said, I’ve never seen a GI JOE cartoon in my life. The closest I got to a GI JOE comic was drinking with Larry Hama. I’ve never even seen a GI JOE. Couldn’t tell you what they look like if you paid me. I know nothing about GI JOE. It is meaningless in my world.

Excellent, Sam said. Just the guy we need.

GI Joe: Resolute is expected to premiere online early next year.

GI Joe: Resolute [warrenellis.com]

The new hour-long season (Yes, you read that right; 10 5-minute episodes with an additional 10-minute season finale) will have a flavor familiar to fans of DC Comics' Vertigo line thanks to writing from, amazingly, grizzled comic veteran Warren Ellis and animation based on the artwork of 100 Bullets cover artist Dave Johnson. Joe fansite Hiss Tank got to see the one minute promo presentation at this weekend's Joecon, and judged it to be good:

It really was what you've been waiting for from these childhood toy lines as an adult. As they described it in the panel, while you were playing with these toys as a kid, or even watching the shows and reading the comics back then, what we saw today is what we THOUGHT we saw back then. And what we expect, and why the new versions of the old stuff doesn't play with us now. But, this new direction, PG-13 based adult themed entertainment, should fill that gap, and will be focused upon in the upcoming years, for Joe and all brands it fits with.

No decision has been made on how the cartoon will be released yet; apparently webisodes, TV and straight-to-DVD are all options at this point.

New G.I. Joe Resolute Animation for 2009 - HOLY CRAP [Hisstank.com]