He-Man and the Masters of the Universe 19: Blood of Grayskull Arc Review

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me is, uh, Skeletor? Yeah! Good morning, everyone!

I really need you to recut that Honda commercial,

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure. He didn't try. I love

the man, don't get me wrong. He didn't try nearly

hard enough. Oppenheimer's still around. Hell,

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as i think it was brian dobson of them in the

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back again hello sir how are you doing i am doing

as well as someone can on tuesday night uh...

god did you ever and this is where it's a comic

show i shouldn't bring this up but you've mentioned

uh... a tuesday night and all i can think of

is Boy meets world because Sean's mom left on

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Bet you all guessing what other than looking

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our masters of the universe coverage here inside

the poll bag We're going to be reviewing the

final seven issues of the 2013 ongoing series

Which has now turned into a new ongoing series

called he man the eternity war And welcome back

and in another episode and talk about eternity

war I'll tell you folks right now because we're

pretty much on the beginning of eternity war

I Think what we're gonna do is we're just gonna

do what Joe Reed and I do with the TMNT issues

We're gonna do two at a time instead of up team

number at a time So last time we did this we

talked about the lies within arc Um, when you

went to read these, did the bad taste wash out

of your mouth? Yes. Good. These seven issues

are a definite step up than what we've been getting.

The only thing that I am always confused about

because you have this and then, you know, the

original canon that everyone swears by and then

these many comments. mini -comics that get included

with the Masters Classics figures. I haven't

read many of the mini -comics that come with

them, but do they tie into this somehow, or are

they two completely different cannons? I don't

know. I have not bought an action figure in probably

seven years. I honestly could not tell you. Fair

enough. I do know that anything that has to do

with the DC, anything DC has published, it's

all in, like when we started this, when you and

I started this with the 2012 mini -series, it

starts pretty much from there or, I think there

was a digital series called Masters of the Universe,

which is before the 2012 mini, I think that was

in 2011 or something. I think that started it

and then the 2012 mini, because you and I were

like, at the end of that, you and I were like,

oh my god. it's a blue hey what's happening here

is that going to be continued into this new ongoing

and it was although they didn't really get to

it until dcu versus motu but um yeah i i think

anything mattel does on their own With the toys

the toy pack ins. I don't think the mini comics

have anything to do with this Okay, I always

found myself lost because like are we taking

what we've been given? Up until the the six issue

miniseries and then go off from there versus,

you know zero year basically, I think it starts

with that This I honestly think it starts with

that six issue miniseries. Okay, there's nothing

I've seen The thing that we've read so far mentions

anything prior to that that I know of I mean,

yeah sure we had the The hordak origin one -shot

where it's a thousand years ago, but that all

ties in obviously because we're gonna get to

that today, but So yeah, we start off with issue

number 13 the prelude to the blood of gray skull

and this really bugs me if the origin of shira

did not start in this why is it stamped on this

issue don't get me wrong i love the logo but

the origin really doesn't start until issue 14

because issue 13 is as it says it's a prelude

to the blood of greyskull and it's a backstory

on what happened during king greyskull's time

so Why the hell would they put the origin of

She -Ra on this issue? Well, how many other titles

can we get here? We have He -Man and the Masters

of the Universe, The Origin of She -Ra, Prelude

to the Blood of Grayskull, Mekanet Gets New Pants.

Yeah, it's a little crazy. The cover for this

is King Grayskull forging what I can only assume

is the sort of protection, because the sort of

power, I didn't realize until I actually held

this up in front of my face, is Leaning right

next to him on on the floor on his little table

there So I assume he is forging the sort of protection

in this cover. I'd say most likely Most likely

what do you think of the cover very powerful?

And you know it's it's gray skull in a very classic

look. He hasn't been upgraded in any By any means

which you know once we dive into this all these

characters pretty much haven't in this Prelude

piece yeah, no not at all They even worked in

the Master's Classics Hordak hood in that first

page. It took me until now to realize that he

plunged the Power Sword right through his chest.

I noticed it before, but it took me until opening

it right now. So we start with the final moments

of the Horde War Eternia 1 ,000 years ago. That

top panel of Hordak, he looks pretty badass.

Yeah, he is covered in blood. Well, so is Grayskull.

Yeah, so is Grayskull. I've said it before and

I'll say it again, I love seeing the classic

80s filmation power sword. I think we all do.

me well yeah I know I know it's an understatement

but compared to what we get later yeah you know

and don't get me wrong I understand the sword

need to be updated because of the powers whatever

else is just I'm so used to watching the He -Man

cartoon series and that sword being able to do

anything you know like I don't need another I

mean if you want to give me a different like

The 2002 series, I did not want to see the classic

filmation sword. I wanted to see the sword that

they had created with that series, you know.

And I just think that with making this, you know,

attorney has passed, I think it's great that

they're using the classic sword and it's so awesome.

What do you think of this opening shot here,

the opening two -page spread? It's everything

you want. Mean yeah, it's a little on the violent

side But this I I'm really digging this whole

flashback piece hmm me too me too and Now that

I'm looking at this. I'm almost looking at it

as oh my god, but oh my god Superman just killed

Batman with a sword Let's be honest, folks. If

you're looking at this two -page panel, and I

will put it in the post so people can see what

I'm talking about here, you've got King Grayskull

basically plunging the sword through Hordak's

chest, right through his bat symbol there, and

he's got this... lion mane looking hair with

a red cape coming out of the back of it and Hordak

has got black gloves with a gray suit and a red

bat on his chest if that I mean okay sure it's

not a black bat on his chest it just the way

this is drawn the way that it's colored and angled

it makes me look it makes me think it's Batman

even though I know it's not so we then get to

the celebration, the month of festivities. I

know in olden times they did this, where they

had a month of celebration after a big battle.

I just don't know if that could ever work. Well,

definitely not nowadays. It's like, I just don't

know. So what were your initial thoughts after

you read this one? Was oh, we're kind of getting

a little backstory with the whole gar Race and

You know yet pretty much all the gar are decked

out in cyclone or many nods the cyclone. No very

much So yeah, whether it be the males or the

females It does have a very kind of Thor vibe

to it but not enough to the point where I'm getting

irritated by it or it feels like a total knockoff.

Right. Now, this does bring up the contention

with some of the fandom how introducing the character

of Grayskull kind of takes away the emphasis

of He -Man being the most powerful man in the

universe. Right. But I enjoy looking at it all.

Yeah, I mean, it's very interesting. It is...

And this is giving us an origin from where He

- from where He -Man's powers come from and where

- how the castle gets to - well, it doesn't really

go too much into how Castle Grayskull itself

was built, but you know, I mean, this is his

ancestor. You know, this is, as I've already

said it, this is 1 ,000 years ago from the current

timeline that we're in, so it makes sense and,

you know... He -Man can't live forever unless,

you know, he and Tila just hurry up and have

a ch - oh wait, I'll save that for issue 19.

You know, you know what I mean? It's like, it's

one of those things where unless He -Man is gonna

have an heir, it doesn't really bother me that

you have King Grayskull who lived in the past

and was the most powerful man in the universe

and then his great -grandson? Great -great -great

- I don't know, whatever. you know one of those

things um what interests me about the the flashback

issue here is that it looks like one of these

sorceresses or one of the um one of the people

that serve the goddess uh vena is his queen so

he had a sorceress for a queen that's an interesting

twist Like it, but it's a very very strange interesting

twist because you know you flash forward you

change the costumes a bit That's basically he

man and the sorceress as we know her Well the

I guess you want to call it daughter they they

refer to as Tila knob But that's the sorceress

as we come to know her right. That's the sorceress

as we come to know her And then obviously The

other Tila. Which, that is one thing. It is one

thing in the entire history of Masters of the

Universe. It always makes me just... It's like

my brain is, you know, a fried egg. Because I

just don't get how you can have her mother be

the same name, you know. I mean... Yeah. It's

not like you know Oh Tila not jr. Tila not see

you can't do that unless you know Tila is kind

of like a family name and then maybe So we get

to Audi and and and and sarin and and they Basically

are gonna start this coup Sarin resists and resists

and resists and he basically lies to her and

says she's gonna have a child which The only

thing I can think of, and well, I guess we'll

have to bring this up later, but I'll bring it

up here. Is she supposed to have been... Keldor's

mother? Yes. I don't see how that could be, though.

Well, they kind of explain it in the... Later?

Yeah. I just don't see how that could be because...

Because Miro is Randor's father. Yes. Oh yeah,

okay, never mind. I got it, I got it, I got it.

So they're starting this whole coup, and yeah,

the cyclone stuff looks awesome. Love that armor.

And then the... Oddy, right? That's his name?

Yeah. Oddy, yeah. Hands are the sword, which...

Is that one of the swords that were daggers that...

I mean, obviously it has a snake head, but was

that a snake man accessory? Yeah, oh yeah, and

then that's that's a that's the cursed sword

And we get the shot of the Yeah, pretty much

yeah So Saren goes and she she kills grayskull

rather brutally yeah Kind of and she basically

slays him Yeah, wow And she would find that You

know as we end the prelude here It says Eternia

the darkest night of all 1 ,000 years ago and

you see the whole village and everything around

Castle Grayskull just burning to the ground I

love this issue. I think it's a great story.

It is but like at this point he has the power

of Grayskull, correct? Yeah, don't you think

you know something like he would have had some

sort of spider sense that would have won went

off like she's trying to poison you Yeah, possibly

possibly But I don't think that would happen

though because as he says What is this? You're

like a daughter to me, and she says I know close

your eyes You know I I think the the love of

a father or the love of a parent for a child

Can blind you to anything? because you want to

believe the best in that child and Sadly she

gutted him like a fish Any other final thoughts

on issue 13 I just I did really enjoy the story.

Yeah. Uh, I should mention that, um, uh, it's

done by Dan Abnett, but all the stories in this,

uh, it says, it's so weird. It says, Dan did

the script. And then it says at the, at the bottom

story by Rob David and Lloyd Goldfein. It says

this in every single issue up to issue 19. In

issue 19, it's actually Rob David writing it,

and Abnett is nowhere to be found. Maybe that's

because he was working on Eternity War at the

time. Also, Pop Mahan is back, which is great.

Like, every time I see him come up, it just seems

like his artwork is constantly evolving. Yeah.

Because I see some... Things that look the same,

but it just it looks a little different each

time. I see it and I'm Enjoying it much more

this time around Absolutely. Absolutely. So getting

to issue 14 we have the origin of She -Ra. He

-Man and the Master of the Universe the cover

is She -Ra She's bedazzled all over the place

because of the power I guess. Yeah, it's the

whole transformation sequence. Yeah that's not

the transformation sequence i remember but okay

um and then you've got he -man or adam or whomever

on the left and hordak on the right um she's

pretty much um a tug of war object for these

guys at this point we um we open this one with

uh On the island of Amantgar, home of the Gar

people, Eternia, one thousand years ago. A thousand

years. But does fear not diminish? It will never

go away. She is running. All the devils and demons

of Eternia pursue her. So, you know, a thousand

years ago her name was Saren. So this is after

she kills, pretty much picks up right after killing

Grayskull. and she's just running through the

woods and she ends up being trapped there. What

do you think of the colors and the art in these

first couple of pages here? That last shot where

they give you the title page, she's crouched

down crying, the face is a little off. But man,

I didn't want to be trapped in this idea. If

only Eric Cartman were actually skinny. Yeah,

I could see that I do like the the wearing of

the The the wornness of the blood out on the

elbows and everything Absolutely Absolutely,

so we go to 1 ,000 years later Adora wakes and

She's still in her her uniform. I mean, it's

not like she can, you know, go find a white undershirt

and red vest anytime soon. Well, once she ditches

a cloak, they're, they're accused of that. True.

Yeah. So how long, how much time has passed since

this and the last time we saw her? I can't, I

can't, it can't be that much long because the

last time we saw her was what, issue 12? Yeah.

Well, you know, her hair goes from buzz to chin

length. Yeah. I think that's just a design, more

so than anything else. I mean, and they have

to, and I mean, even in this issue, it gets longer

and longer and longer. Well, as these issues

progress, as this final storyline progresses,

it gets longer and longer and longer because

they have to get to a point where she is the

classic somewhat of the classic She -Ra so she

wakes up and He -Man comes and finds her basically

and she has a nice little touching moment with

Battle Cat and He -Man says Battle Cat is fond

of you he doesn't befriend people easily Can

really see that I can see battle cat like tearing

through people And Adam says you seem to have

a way with animals sister Yeah, there are a lot

of nods to oh, yeah prior canon in these oh,

yeah, the only thing that like Well, well well

we'll get to it so they have a nice little Nice

little conversation about the fact that Randor

is dead And you know so he tells her that and

she says so you're king now No, I will not take

the crown until attorney is free of the horde.

This is my oath And they go and they have to

get to Attorneys version of Mos Eisley, I guess.

Yeah If Mos Eisley were a boat yard I Mean it's

very touching the the the conversation between

the two of them You know and lo and behold snake

snake lady shows up Tila shows up and and in

some sort of message form And she basically puts

a door on the path And we And gives her the dagger

yeah, yeah, you know this sure bodes well Yeah,

really I know right Gives her the cursed sword

And then I don't know if like I can tell that

there's nothing missing out on my comic cuz this

is kind of where the Where the in the physical

copy where the staple really juts out so I know

this is like the middle of the issue But it feels

like a page is missing here because there's no

transition between perhaps I can help with that

how family strength family is a strength that

demons fear and then Adora to your left. It's

just all of a sudden in battle against whore

troopers I'm thinking it's more of like a hard

cut slash montage type Don't like it. I Just

wish that there was something where? Something

else that could have been said on that page like

you know let's let's go Over here. Let's go this

way something else so Hey, man, and adora and

battle cat are all Tearing up the horde troopers

Good. Oh, yeah, I'm six days slashing slashing

and slashing yeah There's horde troopers all

over the place and you can pretty much tell that

they're non -humans in that thing. They aren't

robots. Yeah, it made me wonder for a second

because in the flashback to King Grayskull, you

see these horde troopers and it almost looks

like they're whatever race Batros is. Right.

Because they have the ears and the purple skin

and then... these shots of them tearing them

up you can definitely see the circuitry and all

but in the face there's a purple glow around

the eyes so it took me a second to realize what

was going on. So we get to Athraport or Altraport

and it's basically a modern -day freight zone

well a modern -day freight zone to us because

the freight zone did not look anything like this

in Secret of the Sword. Well, they're they're

like terraforming the planet basically and they're

yeah horde outposts all over the planet. Yeah

Pretty much. Yeah, and you're right. She pretty

much had her adora outfit on underneath the black

armor Good lord. We shouldn't be cold in the

wintertime And this one kind of ends with you

know, kind of ends with, uh, we have to get through

that hellhole and find a boat. Hey, I'm game

if you are. Adam and Adora, children of Randoor,

of the blood of greyskull, side by side with

the mighty battle cat at their heels. And we

see a page that I bet every Master's fan is waiting

to see. Look everybody, it's Metalhead. oops

wrong franchise it's pretty obvious you don't

even need to see issue 16 or it well it is issue

16 but because they don't actually get to this

person until but i mean all of us know three

eyes come on go three eyes it a circle square

and a triangle i think we got this covered oh

yeah yeah Overall, issue 14, another great story,

another continuing saga of their journey to free

Eternia. Love the story, love the art. What about

you? It's a great beginning to a warrior's quest.

Absolutely. And we get to issue 15. My brother,

my savior, and its multiple versions of He -Man.

I just love the painting. It looks very much

like the old toy box art. And even the shot of...

I can't remember the name that they gave him.

I almost want to say Caesar, but the Alcala He

-Man origins. They've got him in that kind of

crouched over pose like he did, I believe, in

the mini -comic. Or the mini -story, if you want

to call it. Right, right. It's basically every

toy version. Okay, they're missing one but Yeah,

it's yeah, cuz the one is battle armor. The other

is Thunder Punch There's a regular 80s filmation

version no flying fists Wait what? Well that

there were there were three he -man variants.

Oh, that's okay Yeah, we don't need We have Thunder

Punch we don't need flying fists he -man So the

the armor the quote -unquote newer armor that

he gets earlier on in the series to what he has

now Is the only difference a furry? undershirt

Pretty much what the harness is a little different,

but is that it? Yeah, pretty much. What was the

boy of that? I don't know Sound like we're trying

to sell his toys. I mean yet 2016 Masters Classics

Wait, I thought I thought it dies this year.

Well tactic well, they want to end everything

that I think they said it's gonna continue but

in what form They'll probably cut it back to

six figures for the entire year and charge it

three times as much as what they used to I really

do like this cover because it is multiple versions

of him. I think the version that's most to the

left, where him just standing up, I think that's

the current version of what we have in the comic

here, as far as the armor and everything else.

The crouching version at the bottom of it, right

above the direct sales UPC, I think that's the

version we had earlier in this series. Because

it's that Iron Man looking red stuff underneath

him. Yeah. He -Man is not Iron Man. Yeah, I'm

noticing what he has on now, colors aside, is

pretty much a mix between the classic and new

adventures. If you look at those pants. Yeah,

that's very true. Alright, so we open this one

up and it is them making their way through the

village and obviously battling as they go. We

have You know he man says I don't even know what

the freight zone does I do What don't look at

me like that of course I know hordak raised me

as his own daughter He trained me to be the chief

killer his force captain that see that's what

this needed it needed the force captain title

so they uh... basically uh... she tells him about

the freight zone how it's consuming the planet

and uh... they've got to get to this boat get

to the vault get to the vault It's not the same

as gets in a chopper. It doesn't roll off the

tongue as much Yeah, so they're going through

what used to be this town which is now kind of

fright zonish because like you said you know

the fright zones are terraforming the planet

and they see all these animals and they see a

winged unicorn Like that's not obvious The only

thing That was it's the one thing I'm gonna complain

about with this storyline. Yeah, I wish no I

like it. I think it's cool I think it adds something

to this version, but I wish they would have pulled

it pulled a better homage and I wish they would

have had him as Spirit first right I would have

saved it for the transformation sequence and

then say yeah and save it for the transformation

because it would have made it even more powerful,

just as powerful as it was in the Secret of the

Sword film. Every time I see it, it's like, oh,

the world has become like a dangerous place for

unicorns. Thundercats, anyone know? No? Episode

6, Terror of Hammerhand? Yes. You know. And,

um... I don't normally do this, folks. I did

it in the very beginnings of the pullback in,

like, year one. There are times where I have

to complain about the ads. So we're gonna take

a little break here and complain about the ad

between these two pages because whoever the hell

DC has working for them last year, um... A new

monthly... I'm not even reading the top yet.

A new monthly series. Tim Seely, Tom King...

McHale Jane in July 2014. This is Grayson You

think you know Nightwing you don't know dick

like I'm not kidding. I Not kidding and that

that was even in the solicitations for the first

issue You think you know Nightwing you don't

know dick and it just It makes me laugh and it

makes me cringe all at the same time and they

wonder why they're numbers are dropping yeah

so Adam cannot stand this whole you know stuff

in you know all these animals trapped and all

the huge all these citizens trapped and just

a grave injustice yes and you know by the power

of race go I have the power you know this loses

a lot of points for me because it and it This

is a nitpick, folks. I understand. I'm going

to nitpick this, but this is not my transformation.

When they do the double transformation later,

when she finally becomes She -Ra, that's not

my transformation. It just looks so... Those

swords are just horrible. Yeah, yeah, they're...

And it my bag. Well, this brings up the question...

Is he just calling the power? Has he been Adam

the entire time and they're kind of older in

this story? Or has he been walking around as

He -Man? He's been walking around in the armor

because you can see, like, it's not like he has

a maroon jacket and purple pants with white fluffy

purple boots. I mean, you know, if you look at

him, yeah, he is. When he says, all these attorneys

will die then. in the Fright Zone chambers, their

souls eaten. Yes, but if you look at him in that

panel, he's wearing the He -Man costume that

we've seen this entire time. So I assume by the

power of Grayskull Eye of the Power is just so

he can gain a... They're basically making the

power sword in this issue and this series at

this point. They're basically making it Mjolnir.

A electrified version of Mjolnir, because that's

all it is. I mean, I don't know. It just, I don't

know. So they go to town, and I do love, I do

love Adora's reaction to the infusion of power,

and she's like, whoa. And the internal monologue

said, he is like a majestic god, a savior, as

he and Battle Cat are just destroying these horde

troopers. Free the prisoners So she snaps out

of her thing and she says everybody run I said

run Run attorneys run and You know so she she

names the the winged unicorn swift wind Which

it's a nice nod, but again. I wish as we already

said I wish it was more Surprised and not so

tongue -in -cheek. You're free now take to the

swift winds and get away And he man decrees that

everybody you know run for the hills you'll be

safe there The hell says run for the hills iron

maiden one And then battle cat has to do, you

know Has to encourage them with emphasis by growling

at them. I thought that was hilarious And Adora

says well, that was a hell of a thing. It was

necessary So they are let's see here what's happening

So they get caught in another fright zone uprising

terraforming kind of thing and And lo and behold,

Swift Wind has to come in and save the day. I

kind of like this shot of, you know, where He

-Man basically turns the tables on, or no, he

says it again, you certainly have a way with

animals. I kind of like this shot, even though

she's not in her sheer regard, but kind of reminds

me of when they were riding on Swift Wind in

the movie. And then a giant snakehead with Tila

appears in the sky. Fly on, friends, fly on true,

and what gar awaits you. Is she actually talking

to them, or is that kind of her inner monologue

getting the point across as she's watching over

them? No, because they see, because she... Not

Christ Adora says what's happening? Is it a storm?

No the sorceress so no they see her That's not

for us. They see her and then as they're flying

on to and want gar we see giant red eyes and

Next hunted circle square triangle It's like

we're playing with the old PlayStation controller

The only thing that's missing is an X. I'll just

mash them all. Yeah. Issue 15, final thoughts?

I like where we're going now. Let's bring on

me some traclops. Were you gonna say some sexclops?

I don't even know what that would be. I am the

creeping sexclops. Yep. Oh, man. Alright, so

issue 16. He -Man and the Masters of the Universe.

This might be my favorite cover of all of them

out of this arc because it is it's basically

a wanted poster. Wanted. He -Man and the Masters

of the Universe. Twins of Power. He -Man. Adora.

Reward. Wanted for rebellion against Lord Hordak.

Known Accomplices. Abnett, Mahan, and Roberts.

He -Man and Adora must be stopped before the

origin of She -Ra continues. Now, where did these

guys get a chance to get photos of them looking

so pouty? They have headshots on them at all

times. Well, he does have triclops. I mean, he

does have three cameras. Plus, he used to, not

in this series, but in the cartoon series, he

didn't even make... No, yeah. In the 2002 series,

he had those doom gazers. You know, not being

literal. No, I know you're not being literal.

I'm just saying that that's what it could be,

but I love this wanted poster. The only other

wanted poster I've seen in comics that makes

this one go to shame is the grim fairy tales

Robin Hood wanted, where it's her picture. It's

a female Robin Hood. It's a new take on Robin

Hood. I have yet to read that series. I want

to so badly. Yeah, but this cover is amazing

it really really is Because where his his Helmet

his headdress his hats. I guess I don't know

it's basically ripping through the poster and

how this cover is designed is You basically have

hit him ripping through the he man of the Masters

universe logo. That's amazing So we start off

with You know easy Swift win easy now He's spooked

he man. He's not the only one the island of Anwar

gar is a haunted place There's a presence here

something evil And at this point they're more

so on a search there anything else because Swift

win Eventually runs off because he gets spooked

again but it's basically a conversation piece

until we get to triclops i mean they they meet

the gar people and swiftwin runs off and uh you

know uh they mention the witch and he man's like

witch what witch which which is yeah which which

is which uh um you know um And I like this. I

think it's great that He -Man is going to the

guard people and trying to, you know, make, uh,

you know, peace with them. Although, as we'll

come to find out in this issue, sadly they've

already made a deal with the devil, because his

wine is spiked. Again. Again. So, they, among,

you know, like on their chest, on their face,

they have, uh, this red painting which looks

like the classic like if you want to call the

iron cross thing that Hima has on his his chest

piece so like what's the they were cast out but

they still want to be part of Eternia so they

kind of have loyalty to the once former king

or I was a little confused by that yeah I think

it's kind of like the scarlet letter maybe I

don't know We see I'm trying folks not to call

her Shira It's so hard seeing her with Swifty

in this in this in this way, so she finds the

horse and she hears whispering around all around

her and she thinks it's just her imagination

and we see all that and and then we see this

apparition with her and You know the ghost arises

And we see where the ghost of King Grayskull

of all people You know any points at the sword

and and There's blood on the sword now, and what

does this mean? What are you telling me? He means

like it's been too long going after a door What

do you What do you think of her her little vision

quest there? It was bound to happen very long

time thinking Oh, why won't you tell anything

my throat has been slit. How do you expect me

to talk? and the guard people basically fool

He -Man into thinking that, um, our men have

found her. She has been brought to the temple

there, Adora. Adora, there's no one here. Wrong.

I am Triclops. He looks good. Yeah, I mean, it's

a pretty, pretty much a 2000X look. Mm -hmm.

Which wasn't a bad redesign, so I'm fine with

it. Yeah. I love what they do with his eyeball

there on the next page Or he man's inside of

his eyeball. I thought that was absolutely hilarious.

It was great and basically we get to what I was

saying earlier where he says oh well, I made

it I came yesterday and made a deal with them

and Basically says that he is there for the blood

of Grayskull and he is there for He -Man's blood

and we get to the next page and If Hordak wants

He -Man's blood he most certainly can he can

most certainly have it and Adora kills He -Man.

What the huh? I mean, I know it's it's basically

repeating the past from when Sarn did it and

then I wish they would have called the next story

of this but they tease it with next the secret

of the sword what'd you think of this one brutal

brutal ending i wasn't expecting you know him

to get his throat cut again or a grayskull to

get his throat cut again yeah it's It is so crazy.

I'm loving this storyline. Everything about it,

there's nothing in here so far that has made

me cringe. There's nothing in here that just

makes me put the book down. It's very well done

storytelling. Yeah, I'm reading it issue, issue,

issue rather than issue, wait a month issue.

I feel if I were to read these as they were released,

it would have Wouldn't have gotten the same feeling

about it. This seems like it would be it would

be more beneficial if it was a collected volume

Yeah They'll go that route eventually. I mean

it's DC. They always put that stuff out, but

I just I mean we're come we're we're coming up

on we were at the time when we Originally started

to plan this episode coming up on the time where

eternity war was gonna start so I wanted us to

finish this before eternity war got too far in

and at this point eternity war has only had the

first issue come out the second issue comes out

i think the 28th of january i think i don't know

um so issue 17 has um uh the title on the cover

is under the sorceress's spell we have adora

pretty much in her classic adora outfit with

the Cursed Sword, we got He -Man there, and Tila

as the Sorceress, um... and it still bugs me.

As much as I don't really care for Tila in most

incarnations, it just bugs me that they've made

her the snake goddess in this... I don't know.

I'm over it, but... Were you expecting her to

become the Sorceress, or...? Yeah, I was expecting,

like, you know, following her mother's footsteps,

but... That's not what happened. So we still

have a Snake man at some point so she could always

evolve Yeah, true So we open up with with where

we left off and he man is dead His throat is

cut he slaps over like really sis really And

You know Triclops goes on to say I knew what

I or she said Dora says I knew what I was doing

this ancient blaze Sharp enough to cut through

even his enhanced skin you seem surprised by

your actions Adora. I imagine he man was too

You know so they go back and forth back and forth

and Come to find out that Kordak is not gonna

keep his his word and and the gar are betrayed

again Did you really expect otherwise? No, not

at all. I do love that we get a shot of the Roton

again. Oh yeah, the Roton! Thank you! I wish

you would... I want you to go... I'll have to

give you the link, but um... I want you to currently

go over to GeekAssRatio .com, look at Powers

of Grayskull episode 38, and comment on that

and let Kevin know what the hell to do. We can

never... because we've seen it several times

that were in the middle of season two of of filmation

he and on on the review show powers of grayskull

tales of attorney and we can never think of the

content name of the vehicle is that the use of

like twice already i'm like oh yeah the road

time that's right that works uh... the only thing

that this series to this point and i will get

it in the lion king issue at the end of this

podcast but uh... It's missing a lot of Sky Sleds.

I miss Sky Sleds. Well, Sky Sleds were more used

in a more civilized time before the Dark Time,

before the Horn. So, overcome by grief and guilt

and thinking that she can never get Adam back,

she threatens to kill herself until the Sorceress

appears. you know, Tila appears and she tells

her the story that the cursed sword was the blade

used to kill King Grayskull and she's basically

putting her on the path to where Sarn was but

except she, Adora, is actually the chosen one.

She is the heir for the Sword of Protection and

she tells her this whole backstory of we basically

pick up after the events of issue 13. of Grayskull

being killed this is before Sarn this had to

have been before she was in the jungle in issue

14 because it shows her standing there and the

blood goes on and reveals this hidden chamber

you know the chamber of eternity so this has

to have been for Sarn before she was running

in the woods And she finds the Sword of Protection.

And it is as it should be, except it's a little

bit too much toy accurate for me. Red jewel my

ass. Would you like a purple jewel? Or a teal

jewel? How about a pink jewel? I want it to look

like how it looked in the damn movie. So we get

this story of Sauron and Tila says... This must

be destiny Sarn tells herself. This must be righteous.

She now thinks only as a mother and Let's see

Sarn Flee's gray skull. She takes the sword and

hides it from everyone including Adi the traitor.

She will keep it secret. She will protect the

sword at all costs for child No act toward that

end will be too cruel. Well this reveals The

one page where it's, oh, you know, Adi's body

was never found and you basically see a cast

off snake man skin, which, you know, if you put

two and two together, that reveals a lot. And

then there's a shadowed shot of Hiro. And from

the description, it sounds like he or they do

say the lone surviving son of King Grayskull.

Right. Wasn't he like 500 years after him in

the original canon? Oh, I don't know. I don't

know. I'm not sure. All these people lived to

be very, very, very old, I think. So, you know,

Sarn was never located, but what of the Sword

of Protection? What of the Second Sword? No one

ever knew even to look for it. Saren still has

it still. Cursed by the blood she had spilled,

Saren became an immortal monster, the fabled

witch of Anwotgar. So Adora has her mission.

She goes out to look for the witch, but she pretty

much tells Tila off and is like, look, we're

done. Because you basically used me. Which is

an interesting angle to take for the two of them.

Yeah, the way these things work. Oh, you know

she'll get these powers. She'll come to her senses.

They'll They'll cast this fight into the pits

of eternity and all will be forgiven Yep So we

get We get to Sarn's cave and I got some beautiful

shots down here because she puts her to spar

a mask back on Because she thinks that you know

Wearing a Halloween costume is gonna scare a

thousand year old witch Hey, if I was wearing

a Kim Kardashian Halloween costume, I'd probably

scare the crap out of a lot of people Okay, I

don't know where to go from there folks Wow You

mean she she she is wearing a costume. Really?

I thought that was her everyday look so she sees

the sword and we see the sword and we also see

Sarn and Sarn is not going to um let her take

it and it ends with the witch the witch for my

dreams dun dun dun once again i'm loving this

it's great we went through all that hell of the

what lies within arc to get to the good stuff

with blood of greyskull I think the the series

as a whole had been kind of Iffy which I know

a lot of die -hard Masters fans after an issue

or two or like this. I can't do this I'm just

gonna stop reading it, but this this is really

starting to pick up It is it's too bad that it's

pretty much I mean Eternity war is a pickup basically.

Okay folks when we start talking about issue

18 here in a moment I actually take a quick break

here in a minute, but When we come back and talk

about issue 18 specifically, this series for

me ends with issue 18 because Eternity War picks

up, Eternity War number one picks up pretty much

right where this left off. It basically ignores

what I'm calling and what a couple of my other

friends online are calling the Lion King issue

of Masters. ye come on dude homo jobby homo jobby

so we're going to take a quick break we're going

to come back and talk about issues 18 and 19

of He -Man and the Master's Universe from DC

Comics we'll be back after this I've never seen

so many liars something must be happening something

big we better get to Whispering Woods fast I

gotcha By the power of Grayskull! Alright folks,

we are back. Issue 18, He -Man and the Masters

of the Universe. An epic cover. And how? Uh oh,

are you saying you don't like this? Oh no no

no no, I do. I didn't notice it until right now,

but this is kind of the cover set up kind of

like one of the toy posters where you have all

the good guys on one side and the bad guys on

the other. I can't remember which one it was

for, but there's definitely a concept piece which

this mirrors pretty well. Oh, absolutely, absolutely.

Yeah, no, this cover is just simply amazing.

Absolutely love it. I think the one you are thinking

of was it? Yeah, I have that as actually yeah,

you're I don't know which one it was from but

it is one of the toy posters And this is it's

just epic you forget Castle gray skull the sorceress

orko Adam why Why is Adam and he man there at

the same time it's not like It's not like he

man is a hologram. It's it's not like you know

Adam pressed an earring and said hello synergy

or anything like that it Why is that I'm standing

there pulling the sword like it just is so I'd

like it It's I like the cover overall, but that's

just weird to me. I Don't know what to make of

that Don't know either the title on the cover

here is she has the power because Shira is in

the middle of the two sides and I think is this

the only time in this series we've ever seen

pan Thor I've On the cover because like we have

Skeletor hasn't really been seen other than the

DC one Yeah, I mean well that well that's where

he was I mean that's after the whole thing in

the 2012 miniseries wore off He went to earth,

but like even in that. I don't remember seeing

panther But no, it's great triclops is there

I believe Trap yeah Evil in a rotan with beast

man on it. I think yep, and then snake man looks

absolutely epic So, we pick up with this issue

with the fight between Sarn and Adora. The blood

of Grayskull will spill again this day! What

I'm really digging about this witch design for

her, you know, she's got this one decomposed

golden skeleton hand, which I'm assuming is the

hand that she... Slash Grayskull's throat with

and it's kind of like the cursed hand of Grayskull.

Yeah Yeah, it looks absolutely awesome So they

go back and forth back and forth in this in this

battle and You know, you know She's basically

cuz Sauron's really really old. She's a thousand

years old and You know, she basically says, he

man, he abandoned you. Grayskull abandoned you.

They lied to you. They are corrupt. She's still

going under Adi's belief that the whole line

of Grayskull is corrupt, which is so not cool.

She cray cray. Yeah, pretty much. So... This

battle goes on and on and I love my I love pops

art in this it's so great the dark backgrounds

compared to the their designs oh, man, it's so

awesome and Sarn in the process of ripping Adora's

mask off actually rips off her locket and You

know monster give it back and this kind of gives

the door of the fire to kind of beat Sarnan kind

of pretty much get the sword away from her and

she basically says nobody chooses my destiny,

but me which and I choose gray skull well this

this is a new development because the sword starts

to glow and She says it again the cursed sword

evaporates pretty much And, you know, once she

says that and Sarn's on fire in the background,

we have an upgraded Sword of Protection. Once

again, I'm sorry, Pop, I do love your art, man.

I love the way you do the classic power swords,

but Jesus Christ, these upgraded swords are horrible.

They look like ornate letter openers. They do.

Very much so. And, you know, it says, uh, and

Adora says the words as though she has said them

countless times before. For the honor of Grayskull.

And, you know, I am She -Ra! And... And... That

armor is... I honestly think, and I don't know

if this is Mattel's thing... But if you look

at the journey we've taken between the 2012 miniseries

and now, 2012 miniseries, Tila was in a golden

bikini for crap's sake. In the beginning of this

ongoing series in 2013, He -Man showed more skin

on his chest and arms and everything else, and

now it's like they've gone all conservative with

him. And they want every orifice to be covered

up I'm not complaining about it. I just find

it absolutely hilarious Well, she's not a character

that needs to be scantily No No, not necessarily,

but I Mean, you know comparing her to her filmation

design. Come on now the filmation I mean that

skirt when she's holding, you know, oh, I'm just

a friend. Hi he man, you know, it's like What

I find most interesting, and the only reason

why I assume that Keldor is Sarn's son, is of

how she dies. I perish, but my son will live

on. It isn't even those words. It's the design

after she's gone. It's pretty much Skeletor.

Well, yeah, her face, the skeleton remains of

her skull is yellow, but then she's got this

pool of blood around her hand which shows the

reflection of Skeletor. Absolutely So he man

is still dead She was like, oh my god, am I in

time? This is the scene I was gonna talk about

earlier that I wish was a little bit different

I wish it wasn't the sword like I understand

it's the sword of protection but when swift wind

got hit in the movie and i know this isn't the

movie folks i get it trust me you know she basically

just put her hands on him and said the words

for the honor of greyskull you know and he man's

like sheera look your hands they're glowing i

wish we had asked the sorceress about more about

your powers you know it's one of the like i wish

there was a little bit more reference in this

um but he man comes back to life And we get the

by the power of grayskull Double untundra of

You know, I have the power Where's battle cat?

That's not he was leading the um the people from

the town to wherever they need to be that's true,

but usually when the most of the time when the

powers the The power transformation, you know

battle cats usually I only reason why I really

ask is because it would have been cool if it

was Swift win and battle cat being there But

if she's got the power now, you know, he Swift

wins missing the the straddle and the mask, uh

-huh He's missing everything except the wings

and the horn and by the power of Grayskull basically

brings down this this terraformed freight zone

uh... and uh... and so it's pretty much destroyed

uh... so horax menace falls so it does brother

so it does uh... you know she's consoling swiftwind

and uh... You know he tells he man tells the

gar people get up rise. You truly are a broken

people I will no longer permit darkness to rule

over and what gar or attorney it ends now You

know and she says you never change brother you

on the other hand something tells me we have

a lot to talk about yeah the Eternia universe

I guess is so used to magic at this point. You

know he wakes up. Oh, okay. This doesn't faze

me at all Alright, I was kind of expecting it

anyway And it's so we I guess triclops had to

work for somebody since Skeletor is not around

but it just it's super weird to me that that

this is You know what triclops is doing? He's

working for Hordak and the epilogue here in this

issue is at Castle Grayskull. I love this shot

Which it looks like a giant Hordak face and now

it's not even the castle we used to know twisted

and evil yeah very much so and there's an even

better shot of this in the eternity war number

one and you know all pretty much all of the the

evil hoarder well at least be not be so no yeah

all everybody's there it's a man tana and just

a man tana and leech Leech, but we got grizzlore

catra Dragster and scorpion Dragster this one

I never knew Well when I took a look at the the

tiny shot where the rotons coming in and triclops

is getting off you see Grizzlore and you know,

you see the little bit of green. Oh, is that

leech behind him? Well, no, he's got this this

snake head on his back, which I guess he's using

as a backpack or an armor piece for his back,

which I just, it came upon me. Oh wait, that's

the snake hand puppet from the Fright Zone play

set. Right, right, yeah. So it ends with Triclops

saying, you know, hey, I have, you know, I've

got the blood and... Hordex says I have everything

I needed at long last a means to escape despondos

and thus the ability to break the secrets of

castle grayskull and claim The power of grayskull

once and for all next prelude to eternity war

Where's the snorting when you need it? Yeah,

true May he rest in peace George de senso We're

getting to that age. I know, right? Issue 18,

what'd you think? I'm totally fine with this

new She -Ra outfit. The cover is probably where

I like this new design for the sword the best.

I'm not a huge fan of it, but I guess because

it's painted, it imbues that very Crystal Castle

look to it. Oh, absolutely, yeah. And looks a

little... more properly sized yeah absolutely

um absolutely issue 18 for me absolutely awesome

this is where i consider the series to be ended

because the next the final issue of the on 2013

ongoing which has ended and has now become he

manned the eternity war issue 19 is by david

Darinic and Roberts. Rob David, I think it's

Tom Darinic and Mark Roberts, I believe. I'm

not looking at the inside just yet. But the cover

is Skeletor, Adam, and Randor. Put three lion

heads on these characters and you got Scar, Simba,

and Mufasa. Yeah, pretty much. And prelude to

the eternity or this basically takes place 12

years ago now I Hate when they futz with time.

I really do Because in the 2012 miniseries we

were stuck in a time of where or wherever the

hell and skeleton that spell on us and then we

fast forward and We now have you know this and

it's like 12 years ago. It doesn't seem like

he man is that young to where he would be this

young now It just I don't know. Well, yeah this

now that I go back to the the mini series it's

He he doesn't he doesn't get In this issue. He

doesn't really get he doesn't get the the gray

skull powers But the way the story is running

it seems like in Like, at least in the 2000X

series, that's pretty much where He -Man starts.

But here it doesn't, and then I guess in the

mini -series he gets the powers, or he gets them

back, and yeah. See, I think that because in

this issue, Sorceress says, you know, you will

have a great power later, but for now I'll give

you the power you need to save your father. I

think this issue, since this says 12 years ago,

I think this takes place right before Skeletor

put the spell. I think this takes place right

before the 2012 miniseries. It has to. Because

as you said, he doesn't have the power of Grayskull

already. So, we open this one up, and we, you

know, just in time, reinforcements, and, you

know, he sees Zor, the symbol of the Falcon,

and... We hear internal monologue for Adam and

he says things are moving fast are moving so

fast and I am powerless to stop it and then I

see it a Falcon the totem of Zor and suddenly

I feel there's hope that everything might one

day be as right as it was this morning We're

I love you. I don't love you. I was gonna say

thank God. This isn't pop maha because he I hope

to God he would never do this This is just creepy

folks I was like, yeah, 12 -year -olds are stringy,

but I don't remember them looking this stringy.

And their hands are huge! She's got man hands,

dude. Where's Jerry Seinfeld when you really

need him, right? The man hands! The man hands!

Um, I'm sorry, folks. As much as I don't mind

Adam and Tila having... a relationship when they're

in their 20s or 30s as whatever age they are

here just looks so wrong. Well you flip the page

and it's it was just a dare. I know but it's

just one of those things where the image of it

just is just looks so wrong. Well it's not like

he's 20 and she's 12 then we would have an issue.

Yeah true um but uh So, you know they go on and

on about the dare and whatever else You know

and we see We see that he's bowing in the street

to her and he's about to get run over by a very

upgraded looking attack track. Yeah Click across

between the formation one in the toy Yeah, I

wish it was a little bit more formation Like

I wish as it rolled that the things That always

made track so awesome. So, you know, we meet

man at arms here. We meet man at arms here. Well,

at this point, I guess she just started the Academy

and she took it upon herself to entrust Adam's

safety to her. Yeah. On the next page we see

a great shot of Stratos and Buzz Off. Looking

more like Stratos than we've gotten so far. Oh

god yes. Absolutely. Looks so good. And we get

a shot of the classic palace almost. At the bottom

there on that panel. Which is really really cool.

Oh, interesting. I did not notice that in that

cover. Okay. Anyway, sorry, folks. You've never

shown an interest in state affairs before. I

know, Father, but I wish to accompany your men

to Avion to observe so I can learn. No, absolutely

not. You're just a boy. And I'm sorry, folks,

Randor still looks like the Burger King. Oh,

yeah, big time. Let me just say I'm not a huge

fan of Keldor without the mustache At first I

thought it was Kronos Yeah, that was his name

right? Yeah, yeah, yeah at first I thought it

was him and you know and and He's basically saying

to randor grayskull is a myth randor a fairy

tale told to inspire young warriors Could you

tell folks this issue is boring Sorry folks,

it's filler Yeah, this is very much filler and

as I said, this is very much lion king ish because

Adam and Keldor go off and Keldor basically talks

him into going after these you know going after

watching this battle and He The only cool thing

in this issue I'll say is I finally got my wish

even though it's Adam. He's on a sky sled. That's

great That is awesome, I think the only thing

that really ties us in is we do get the explanation

of Keldor's lineage right right so we find out

you know we go to back to Randor and Keldor says

oh well he's he's gone he's he's gone after the

battle and And you know, he, you know, Keldor

basically says to Randor, look, go after him.

Go save your son. I can, you know, and then he

says, and then Randor says, okay, we'll take

my seat here. And of course he's going to go

overboard here. Cause to the king. Yes, to the

king and the mighty, the destroyer, King Keldor.

And yeah, they burned off or? Yeah, I... It's

a fairly graphic shot of all the people at the

table and half of their faces have been burnt

off. Yeah, pretty much. A most excellent vintage

Miss Lin. Eva Lin does not look like Eva Lin

here. That's horrible. Well, she looks like how

she's been depicted in this series so far. Yeah,

still I don't like it. And so it begins. So Beastman

knocks off Adam off his sky sled and Adam is

basically trapped and we see the Wind Raider!

Yay, the Wind Raider! An upgraded Wind Raider

because the Wind Raider I know never had an actual

closed cockpit and never could hold more than

four people at one time. It looks like there's

five people in that thing. I like it. I think

it's awesome. It goes crashing down. And let's

see here it goes crashing down, and he wants

to say Adam wants to go save his father and You

know we got beast man. You know going after him,

and he's like dad. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry

I don't please get safe. No. I won't leave you

father. I will never leave you I can save you

And then we get the sorceress and zodiac well

we will yeah, yeah, so on this page up He's got

a strained old man face as he's trying to lift

this thing off of him. It's like he's aged a

thousand years. He looks like a feeble old Vader

from the original version of Star Wars Episode

IV. He is tapped into the power of eternity.

Now you see why I called you here. So we get

the Sorceress in Zodak and this is our Sorceress.

This is not Tila because obviously Tila is still

a kid in this issue. She looks good. She's designed...

It's basically her and battle cat are the only

characters who haven't been altered at all. Yeah,

and then I don't know what well Cat has been

altered because it doesn't seem like he, in this

entire series run, and I don't even know about,

obviously, Eternity War, as I've said throughout

this whole podcast, I only have one issue to

this point, he doesn't seem to have the cringer

personality. It's just Battle Cat. I mean, like,

the design to the armor and... Yeah, that's true.

What are your thoughts on the... I guess how

they slightly re -imagine Zodak? I like it. I

like it. He looks like he, I mean, he looks like

he has no nipples. Well, it's he he's part original

Zodiac and part 2002. I was going to say not

eternity. Is it infinity for Dr. Strange? Yeah,

yeah, I think so. Yeah, no, he looks good. I

like him. Zodiac has never been really one of

my favorites. I mean, I mean, I like how he how

he interacts with. with everybody but like as

far as design it's just not my thing i mean i

like i like it it's fine but i have no real um

connection to him at all he's a bit of an ass

in the scene considering some of the things that

he says yes yes very much so um so the final

page here is we have uh the sorceress in time

I will grant you the key to unlock your greatest

power young prince, but for now power enough

to save your father She kisses him she vanishes.

He still looks like an old man and I have The

title of the story is stuck in a moment which

cuts back to the first page of the issue. Yeah

the power Lion King for Motu That's all I can

say. It just... I don't know, dude. I wish that

they had done something else. A different way

of telling that story that didn't have it come

off so Lion King -ish. I mean, the only thing

we're missing is, you know, Timun and Pumbaa

and Hakuna Matata. The issue as a whole doesn't

really accomplish anything. No No All right,

so really quickly before we get out of here folks

because I know it's been a long record for us

Issues 13 through 18 the blood of greyskull and

pray little 13 is prelude to the blogger issues

the the entire story arc for blood of greyskull

I'm giving it a five out of five stars. It was

amazing What about you? I'll give it a four point

five out of five. No comic is perfect except

for a couple but this is such a vast improvement

of what we've been given up to this point absolutely

um and issue 19 the lion king issue i give it

a two just for a couple of the vehicles designs

and stuff like that i mean just the story just

it's very souring Thankfully, Eternity War washes

out the bad taste in our mouths again. I don't

know if you've read issue one yet, but it was

pretty damn good. I look forward to it. Alright,

where can the people find you online, sir? I

guess the most easy way to find me is on Facebook

under A .Dosbaran. Twitter at A .Dosbaran. I

try to update that when I can. Liar! When I can.

I don't want to contain my words to 144 characters.

I would say at adosparan .com, where my yearly

subscription thing went up, so we just have to

renew it. So it'll be up shortly again. Cool,

cool. uh... to close out january joe reid and

i are going to be starting attack on technodrome

for the idw tmnt series issues forty one forty

two so that's what you folks can look forward

to next week uh... coming up in february we're

gonna have uh... a uh... a valentine's day episode

uh... the punisher bloody valentine so that'll

be fun uh... god i can hear you scoffing uh...

and i believe the call uh... hailstorm i will

be doing transformers uh... the detail formally

known as robots in disguise and more than it's

the i issue twenty nine and then we'll have some

hundred the best of the poll bag uh... so that's

going on for us uh... obviously marvelous march

this year is going to be happening so that's

going on so i'll talk about that next month in

february uh... as is or online i can't use is

or online do it By the, no, by the power of Grayskull,

you all have the power. We will catch you next

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