The He-Man newspaper comic premiered on a Sunday with a quick explanation of the premise: Eternia is a world where both magic and science work together (oooh, imagine a storyline where a sorcerer hates science or a scientist hates magic, or both, and one is trying to expel the other from Eternia), that Adam is He-Man, and who shares that secret. Then writer Jim Shull, in his solo tale for the comic, goes into the first storyline, “Day Of The Comet”. The story took 14 weeks and managed to fit in a whole lot of characters and the “Laserbolts” vehicle.
Since the collection just came out and it was suggested by someone involved in the project that I limit the spoilers (not violently…he didn’t threaten to sick a flock of wolfbats on me or anything and congrats if you got the reference), plus this book being too heavy for me to put on my scanner (if there’s a strip or panel I really need to show you I’ll be using a camera), this will be a short summary, but there will be spoilers as necessary for the review. As this goes on and the book has been out longer I may end up expanding the plot summary as I refine the format. You may want to snag the book and I do recommend it because it’s great artwork. But today we start seeing if the stories follow suit.
I should also note that this storyline also utilizes the Evil Horde even though it’s based on Filmation continuity. Licensing is a curious animal. While Filmation and the rest of us treated He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe and She-Ra: Princess Of Power as the same universe they were considered separate properties, because as I’ve established during Free Comic Inside (and will again when we return to Etheria for FCI this month) Mattel really didn’t know what they were doing with the Princess Of Power toyline as an extension of its boys’ counterpart, to where I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be tied in to Masters Of The Universe from the start or was done so last-minute. So while this is the Horde from the She-Ra cartoon it might as well be the Horde from the Masters toyline considering how little is mentioned of Etheria. But on with the review.
Day Of The Comet
WRITER: Jim Shull | ARTIST/ORIGINAL LETTERING: Gerald Forton | COLORIST: Connie Schurr
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