SDCC security gave up long before this fight started.
Godzilla Versus Hero Zero
Dark Horse (July, 1995)
WRITER: Michael Eury PENCILER: Tatsuya Ishida INKER: Mike Miller COLORIST: Pamela Rambo COVER ART: Arthur Adams COVER COLORIST: Chris Chalenor LETTERER: Vickie Williams DESIGN: Scott Tice EDITOR: Randy Stradley
It’s been awhile since we’ve looked at the original He-Man adventures, the illustrated booklets that is so far off from the Masters Of The Universe we know it’s hard to recognize it. I never owned these; my introduction to He-Man and friends were the Gary Cohn comics. So here’s the review of the first story if you want the full refresher course. I wasn’t sure if I was going to go back here since our last installment was also a Masters comic…and then I heard that the “Masters Of The Universe Classics” line was introducing a figure based on the original version under the name Oo-Lar. (Seriously? Oo-Lar? That’s what you came up with? Granted, Mattel seems to think everyone in this line needs a normal name and a…what, superhero/supervillain name, but Oo-Lar?) So it seemed like good timing.
Here are the highlights of this version. He-Man is just some barbarian villager who got up one morning and decided to go defend Castle Grayskull. He met a green-skinned woman in snake armor called the Sorceress, who gave him a harness that boosts his strength and creates a force field around himself for saving her life. Oh, and a vehicle that can travel warp space for some reason. He fought Skeletor, a being from another dimension trapped on Eternia hoping to use the power of Castle Grayskull to open the gateway for an invasion force from his planet. He failed and the two halves of the Sword Of Power are now all over the planet. This is where our next tale begins.
I thought it was dogs that liked bones?
Masters Of The Universe: King Of Castle Grayskull
Mattel (1981)
WRITER: Don Glut
ARTIST: Alfredo Alcala
“Group hug, everybody!”
Lost In Space #2
Dark Horse (May, 1998)
WRITER: Brian McDonald PENCILER: Gordon Purcell INKERS: Andy Parks & Terry Pallot COLORS: Digital Chameleon COVER ART: Gary Erskine & Gordon Purcell COVER COLORS: Dark Horse Digital LETTERER: Clem Robins DESIGNER: Kristen Burda EDITORS: Ian Stude & Phil Amara
Multiverse Network (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Hypertime, a method by post-Crisis DCU to have a multiverse without having a multiverse. I’ve often said that Crisis On Infinite Earths was a good story but a failed project. Chris Sims of Comics Alliance explains the concept and gives us the positives and negatives of Hypertime both in and out of the story…and why it screws up by merging the two.
“Where do you think you are, grandpa? The Silver Age?”
Iron Man #210
Marvel (September, 1986)
“Happy’s Story” WRITER:Danny Fingeroth PENCILER: Mark Bright INKER: Sam De La Rosa COLORIST: Adam Philips LETTERER: Rick Parker MANAGING EDITOR: Michael Higgins EDITOR: Mark Gruenwald
“Holy family reunions!”
It’s not easy being a henchman. Whether you work for Spectre, AIM, the Joker, Rita Repulsa, or any villain you’re future is doomed to having your butt kicked by a superhero and pray it’s not the Punisher or Clint Eastwood so at least you’ll live long enough to get out of prison in a few years.
I’ve used Cracked for Morning Article Links, so why not Filler Video? After Hours is a video series with four friends sitting around discussing fictional universes. In this installment they try to figure out who would be the best villain to work for.
“Warning, Will Robertson. We will appear in a sub-part movie.”
Lost In Space #1
Dark Horse (April, 1998)
WRITER: Brian McDonald PENCILER: Gordon Purcell INKER: Terry Pallot COLORS: Digital Chameleon COVER ARTIST: Gary Erskine LETTERER: Pat Brosseau DESIGNER: Kristen Burda EDITORS: Ian Stude & Phil Amara
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
