“Are we there yet?”
Transformers: All Hail Megatron #11
IDW Publishing (May 2008)
WRITER: Shane McCarthy
ARTIST: Guido Guidi
COLORIST: Josh Burcham & Felix Serrano
SELECTED COVER ART: Trevor Hutchison
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITORS: Andy Schmidt & Denton J. Tipton
The library of the late Filmation has gone all over the place. Some went into the ether but Dreamworks picked up three of their last shows, He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe, She-Ra: Princess Of Power, and Bravestarr. Just as with Voltron: Legendary Defender, they’re now creating a new Netflix series, but this time they own the show. (World Events Productions still owns Voltron; Dreamworks just makes the show.) Of course Mattel still owns the intellectual property and Super 7 licensed out the action figures since Mattel stopped making them. I think DC still owns the comic rights.
While I was looking up the comic for yesterday’s Free Comic Inside I noticed a news story about a press release from Dreamworks about the new She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power, because I guess everyone gets to be a princess now. Yes, even Hordak. There’s a mental image for your nightmares, kids! I thought I would give this a going over. We have four images, which I picked up from He-Man.org, and combined them with images from the original cartoon, courtesy of the He-Man wiki. (There’s a wiki for practically everything folks. Including some topics I would prefer not to look up or be told about. Thank you for your understanding. If you don’t understand, note that I don’t usually exercise my power over the comments but that doesn’t mean I won’t if I have to.) This comes with a description of the show, so let’s start there.
“Wouldn’t you rather have a jelly baby?” “Is it a real baby?”
Marvel Premiere #58
Marvel Comics (February, 1981)
REPRINT COLORIST: Andy Yanchus
“Doctor Who & The Iron Legion” part 2: “Against The Gods”
WRITERS: Pat Mills & John Wagner
ARTIST: Dave Gibbons
“K-9’s Finest Hour”
(originally presented in Doctor Who Weekly #12)
WRITER: Steve Moore
ARTIST: Paul Neary
I haven’t seen the Netflix version of the sci-fi series Lost In Space but for fans I just hope it’s better than the movie was. (Sorry, all I have for images in my library are the tie-in comics from Dark Horse from the movie.) However, if you liked the show a series of graphic novels from Legendary’s recent foray into comics might be something that interest you. If you like prequels.
We return to Eternia but we also return to the pre-minicomics, the illustrated booklets of series 1. Four of these were produced and tonight, via He-Man.org, we’ll be looking at the third one. To recap this continuity: He-Man went out from his home village to protect Castle Grayskull because it was Tuesday or something (seriously, no reason is given), and comes across a green-skinned Goddess who gives him a power-boosting harness, a harness that creates force fields and looks exactly the same as the power-boosting harness (I wonder if he ever mixed those up?), and the Battle Ram vehicle. Skeletor comes from another dimension and wants to use the power of Grayskull to open a portal to his home dimension so he can lead an army to conquer Eternia because it’s there and they don’t own it.
This story focuses on those gifts He-Man was given and gives Mer-Man something to do in this story besides stand around. It’s a story in which the heroes look foolish until the final act. Must be Friday the 13th on Eternia.
He-Man insists you pay for your airline tickets.
Masters Of The Universe series 1 #3
Mattel (1981)
“Battle In The Clouds”
WRITER: Donald F. Glut
ARTIST: Alfredo Alcala
“Hey, I said I get to kill him!”
Iron Man vol. 3 #12
Marvel Comics (January, 1998)
“Spoils Of War!”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Patrick Zircher
INKER: Larry Mahlstedt
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERING: Comicraft
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
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