barry_x's review
4.0
How to make a five year old cool. Buy a load of He-Man DVD's his Dad used to enjoy then let him watch them (whilst you let the inner child out by watching the action figures on ebay...)
I read the individual comics in this series rather than the paperback.
It took me a while to get used to the look and feel of this book, I guess the 'Mattell' imagery is a little ingrained in me. However the colourful world of Eternia is on every page. Although this Eternia is much darker in tone the world is recognisable as the Eternia you may remember from your youth.
He-Man is much more 'macho' and more of a warrior, rather than a friendly, camp strongman. I love the new Teela - if I am being honest she always got on my nerves as a kid (I'm an Evil-Lyn kind of man)_ and that hasn't changed rewatching these with the little one in adulthood. In this book Teela is also the Sorceress and ruler of the Snake People, I appreciate the darker tone in this book of a world at war with the fate of the universe at stake. The early three way dance between Hordak, He-Man and Skeletor is awesome and I loved the representation of Skeletor (including some very trippy scenes were Skeletor imagines himself in an alternative universe....)
I read the individual comics in this series rather than the paperback.
It took me a while to get used to the look and feel of this book, I guess the 'Mattell' imagery is a little ingrained in me. However the colourful world of Eternia is on every page. Although this Eternia is much darker in tone the world is recognisable as the Eternia you may remember from your youth.
He-Man is much more 'macho' and more of a warrior, rather than a friendly, camp strongman. I love the new Teela - if I am being honest she always got on my nerves as a kid (I'm an Evil-Lyn kind of man)_ and that hasn't changed rewatching these with the little one in adulthood. In this book Teela is also the Sorceress and ruler of the Snake People, I appreciate the darker tone in this book of a world at war with the fate of the universe at stake. The early three way dance between Hordak, He-Man and Skeletor is awesome and I loved the representation of Skeletor (including some very trippy scenes were Skeletor imagines himself in an alternative universe....)
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