Occasionally I come up with an article series to get me to read something. Like Chapter By Chapter, or Scanning My Collection. And here’s the newest member of that list:
The official title of this series (for brevity) is The He-Man Comics. Adding “Newspaper” to the banner just further explains what I’m reviewing. I’ve already tackled all the Masters Of The Universe comics in my collection and I already have an article series for mini-comics, which includes our Eternian and Etherian friends. This however is something very different. Dark Horse has been putting together collections of Masters Of The Universe and Princess Of Power materials, including the aforementioned minicomics. Recently they added a new collection, of the newspaper strips.
“There were newspaper strips?” some of you may be asking and yes there were. I didn’t know about them either until Dark Horse announced the collection but I otherwise hadn’t been paying attention due to…other concerns. Then recently my friend Sean surprised me with an early birthday present (very early because my birthday is in July, so the rest of you still have time 😀 ) that he happened to see on sale.
This sucker is huge. It’s a hardcover omnibus that I could probably kill a man with if I more Skeletor than He-Man. (Let’s be honest: I’m more Prince Adam. Okay, Orko, but without the magic.) It’s so big that it would take a long time to read and review, so I’ve chosen this route, a 15+ article series to look over each story arc in the same vein of Chapter By Chapter. But before we begin the trip down this particular rabbit hole I thought a little explanation was in order. This is going to be short, so if you want the full details by all means get this book. It’s amazing just from flipping through it. I can’t wait to see what I get out of the actual review.
