WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.799 This is Man at Arms, and you are listening to 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:06.639 the Masters of Grayskull. I am Adam, Prince of 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.880 Eternia, defender of the secrets of Castle Grayskull. 00:00:10.439 --> 00:00:14.019 This is Cringer, my fearless friend. Fabulous 00:00:14.019 --> 00:00:36.119 - Hello, this is optimus solo and welcome to 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:40.280 the 122nd chapter in our powers of great skull 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:41.719 series Yeah, you thought you were done with us 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:43.759 You can't get rid of us that easy with me for 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:45.439 this journey into the masters of the universe 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.579 franchise is TFU and Mike Hello. Hello. Oh if 00:00:48.579 --> 00:00:52.500 they The plans I have ladies and gentlemen, you'll 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:55.520 find out much later than this podcast episode 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:59.280 So sir, are you ready? Somehow? We're we still 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:03.119 we're gonna return to Eternia Yeah, we are sort 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:05.959 of All right, in this episode of Masters of Grayskull, 00:01:06.099 --> 00:01:09.599 we'll be giving you our thoughts on the unaired 00:01:09.599 --> 00:01:13.799 episode that got turned into a comic book, and 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:16.640 that is called Captured, basically episode 40 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:22.519 called Captured. And this is a comic book that 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:26.939 was created, illustrated by Emiliano Santalucia. 00:01:27.740 --> 00:01:31.599 and involves Cobra Khan and Skeletor and kind 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:34.379 of how they're interacting and deals with King 00:01:34.379 --> 00:01:39.099 Hiss and all kinds of other stuff. So I know 00:01:39.099 --> 00:01:41.519 you're more of the comic expert out of the two 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:46.920 of us. Ladies and gentlemen, it is so crazy every 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.319 time I ask him to do some sort of Masters of 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:51.040 the Universe or Back to the Future or something 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.200 I know he's going to. At least a franchise that 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.659 I know he's like, I would never ask Optima Solo 00:01:56.659 --> 00:01:59.939 to sit here and review Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 00:01:59.939 --> 00:02:01.819 Power Rangers with me because I know he doesn't 00:02:01.819 --> 00:02:03.739 like Power Rangers. So I'd have to get somebody 00:02:03.739 --> 00:02:07.680 else for that. But screenplay originally obviously 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:09.960 done by the late great Dean Stefan. The comic 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:12.740 adaptation script was done by Ryan Foley. As 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:14.560 you already mentioned, the illustrator, the colorist 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:17.710 was Val Staples. Most of you probably know who 00:02:17.710 --> 00:02:21.229 Val is. Val has had a storied comic book career 00:02:21.229 --> 00:02:24.409 working on various comics. He is also the head 00:02:24.409 --> 00:02:28.110 guy over at He -Man .org. I'm hoping to get Val 00:02:28.110 --> 00:02:30.830 on the show at some point here in the future. 00:02:31.229 --> 00:02:33.449 What were you going to say? He -Man's grabbing 00:02:33.449 --> 00:02:36.469 a snake and it's like a multiple snake heads, 00:02:36.569 --> 00:02:39.229 but there's like one, two, three, four, five, 00:02:39.229 --> 00:02:41.150 six. I don't know what character this is that 00:02:41.150 --> 00:02:44.090 he's grabbing, but there's more involved than 00:02:44.090 --> 00:02:46.500 any character I've ever had. But I do like the 00:02:46.500 --> 00:02:50.419 art on this comic. I think it's very and I especially 00:02:50.419 --> 00:02:53.520 like how they do Skeletor. I think that's well 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.400 done. I think the artwork on Tila is really good. 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.620 I was pretty good. I always find that no matter 00:03:01.620 --> 00:03:04.219 what people do with He -Man or Prince Adam, that 00:03:04.219 --> 00:03:07.180 it's always comes across almost as inconsistent 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:10.620 to me, almost in the same way as like in the 00:03:10.620 --> 00:03:12.639 pullback when we talked about Marty McFly. I 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.830 think it was kind of how Like I feel like even 00:03:15.830 --> 00:03:17.849 just throughout this comic like Prince Adam and 00:03:17.849 --> 00:03:20.090 he man changes a little tiny bit here and there 00:03:20.090 --> 00:03:23.949 But that is like the most major nitpick I guess 00:03:23.949 --> 00:03:26.090 more like a minor nitpick that you can possibly 00:03:26.090 --> 00:03:28.090 come up with because I think from an illustration 00:03:28.090 --> 00:03:30.870 point Everything else is great. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. 00:03:31.009 --> 00:03:35.150 The art is amazing in this I'm not so sold on 00:03:35.150 --> 00:03:38.210 the story. Maybe it's because it's only a 22 00:03:38.210 --> 00:03:42.080 page comic Maybe it's because it's because they're 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:44.360 adapting a script that was supposed to be a 22 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.560 minute episode. Maybe if this had gotten more, 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:50.800 maybe if this had gotten more issues to, to say, 00:03:51.020 --> 00:03:53.199 okay, we're done with the cart, the cartoon series, 00:03:53.620 --> 00:03:56.800 but here, here's a continuation of comic form 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:00.360 kind of thing. Uh, maybe that would have worked. 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:04.439 The thing that I am kind of screwy on here is 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:07.099 there's a, it's, I forget which page it is. I 00:04:07.099 --> 00:04:12.530 think it's like. Page three There's a picture 00:04:12.530 --> 00:04:15.550 of there is a panel of Adam and Tila and man 00:04:15.550 --> 00:04:19.829 -at -arms and whatever Adam's colors are not 00:04:19.829 --> 00:04:22.649 his vest color is not dark enough. It's almost 00:04:22.649 --> 00:04:25.709 like old filmation It's not pink, but it's not 00:04:25.709 --> 00:04:29.269 a dark enough red to me and his sword should 00:04:29.269 --> 00:04:31.709 be the other way It should be over his left shoulder 00:04:31.709 --> 00:04:33.970 not his right shoulder because in the entire 00:04:33.970 --> 00:04:39.029 series He was left -handed with his sword I never 00:04:39.029 --> 00:04:41.910 noticed that. Yeah. Oh, I think it would be a 00:04:41.910 --> 00:04:43.990 benefit for us because obviously a die -hard 00:04:43.990 --> 00:04:46.230 human fans probably have access to this in some 00:04:46.230 --> 00:04:47.670 way shape or form I'm sure it's leaked onto the 00:04:47.670 --> 00:04:50.009 internet somewhere but technically this is on 00:04:50.009 --> 00:04:52.529 like you have to have the DVD ROM you have to 00:04:52.529 --> 00:04:56.209 have the DVD of This series in there. You have 00:04:56.209 --> 00:04:57.550 to have it in your computer You have to be able 00:04:57.550 --> 00:05:00.170 to pull up the DVD ROM drive to open a file that 00:05:00.170 --> 00:05:06.829 has the comic. Yeah Be having it so I'd like 00:05:06.829 --> 00:05:08.810 to at least somewhat kind of give like the cliff 00:05:08.810 --> 00:05:10.389 know what happens in this because nobody else 00:05:10.389 --> 00:05:13.569 is gonna have a clue unless they're Access to 00:05:13.569 --> 00:05:17.089 this so let me kind of go through a little bit 00:05:17.089 --> 00:05:20.209 by a little bit. So it starts off Which is the 00:05:20.209 --> 00:05:22.230 newly reformed snake Mountain which snake Mountain 00:05:22.230 --> 00:05:25.110 because Serpos has been back and banished back 00:05:25.110 --> 00:05:27.209 to his form back where he is now surroundings 00:05:27.420 --> 00:05:30.519 Well, etc. Yeah, so we start there and Skeletor 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:32.860 is kind of you know bemoaning the fact that you 00:05:32.860 --> 00:05:34.620 know His his layers still then we kind of saw 00:05:34.620 --> 00:05:36.060 this a little bit in the last episode That's 00:05:36.060 --> 00:05:37.779 why I said like yeah, I get it could have been 00:05:37.779 --> 00:05:40.160 like foreshadowing to future episodes I just 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.060 wish we would have got a little bit more Skeletor 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:44.680 last episode But this is kind of the culmination 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:46.439 of that where he's upset about this and he's 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:50.579 gonna do something about it but basically King 00:05:50.579 --> 00:05:59.120 his Is not around His he's headless I guess we 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:00.680 didn't talk about that in the last episode, but 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:03.740 King Hiss somewhat died in the last episode as 00:06:03.740 --> 00:06:08.279 much as a snake can. So the thing is that King 00:06:08.279 --> 00:06:09.920 Hiss was taken out, so now Skeletor doesn't have 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:11.680 that to worry about, so he's saying he's going 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:13.939 to get his revenge on anybody else, all the other 00:06:13.939 --> 00:06:16.620 snake men, etc., etc. We have Cobra Khan appearing 00:06:16.620 --> 00:06:19.220 and he's seemingly switching his loyalty to Skeletor 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:22.459 and saying that he'll be loyal to him and he'll 00:06:22.459 --> 00:06:26.300 do what he needs to do, etc., etc. So that's 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:28.000 kind of how it starts and then we go to a panel 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.759 where we have man -at -arms kind of showing off 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:36.180 the new Snake prison we already had this is this 00:06:36.180 --> 00:06:38.279 is the part that gets me in this comic. This 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:42.720 is what rubs me the wrong way We've had a snake 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:47.360 prison For most of the series because snake face 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.899 or whatever you call them. Mm -hmm That character 00:06:50.899 --> 00:06:53.100 has been in prison the whole time without ever 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:56.009 getting out I'm until you know I get I get at 00:06:56.009 --> 00:06:58.430 the end that we had rattler got out etc etc but 00:06:58.430 --> 00:07:00.529 for the most part that was a pretty fail -safe 00:07:00.529 --> 00:07:03.850 prison that seemed like it worked yeah but now 00:07:03.850 --> 00:07:06.610 they need to redo it so he's installed all these 00:07:06.610 --> 00:07:08.810 other things that are gonna have snake sensors 00:07:08.810 --> 00:07:12.069 and are gonna be able to detect cold -blooded 00:07:12.069 --> 00:07:15.730 snake metabolism and Any type of reptilian things 00:07:15.730 --> 00:07:17.629 like so nobody's gonna be able to come anywhere 00:07:17.629 --> 00:07:22.649 near to let them out All this type of different 00:07:22.649 --> 00:07:26.000 stuff, right? Even though they already had an 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.839 attorney I'm lying to prison they needed all 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:32.959 this and even if that doesn't work it says that 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:38.339 there are laser security grids. And obviously 00:07:38.339 --> 00:07:40.100 we have light that comes in all the time because 00:07:40.100 --> 00:07:43.139 that's gonna prevent some king has from regenerating 00:07:43.139 --> 00:07:44.680 so this is the first time that we can see that 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.240 can his isn't dead and that there is a chance 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.790 that you like regrow his head I guess. So they 00:07:50.790 --> 00:07:53.129 have to make it light at all times, which means 00:07:53.129 --> 00:07:54.750 in my mind that you're like setting something 00:07:54.750 --> 00:07:58.250 up where. They're going to have to find a way 00:07:58.250 --> 00:08:03.170 to. Stop the light, make it dark, you know that 00:08:03.170 --> 00:08:04.689 I was thinking that's where it was going to go. 00:08:04.689 --> 00:08:06.569 Like the people were going to do different stuff 00:08:06.569 --> 00:08:08.490 to this prison to try to like shield the light 00:08:08.490 --> 00:08:10.610 or shield the light from the royal palace area 00:08:10.610 --> 00:08:13.529 or whatever the case may be. That's not how they 00:08:13.529 --> 00:08:16.430 went. They went a different route, but so we 00:08:16.430 --> 00:08:18.629 have all this right. And he just, there's literally. 00:08:20.110 --> 00:08:25.430 Two comic book pages dedicated to describing 00:08:25.430 --> 00:08:29.930 this new snake prison. Like we have one two three 00:08:29.930 --> 00:08:32.210 four five six seven eight cells is that what 00:08:32.210 --> 00:08:37.190 they're called individual. Talking about this 00:08:37.190 --> 00:08:40.210 thing right and it goes to the snake man and 00:08:40.210 --> 00:08:41.970 they're talking about oh you know it's going 00:08:41.970 --> 00:08:48.450 to take the bait from con etc etc and then. The 00:08:48.450 --> 00:08:52.330 evil warriors show up Get on top of the snake 00:08:52.330 --> 00:08:57.309 dome prison thing cut a hole in it Take the glass 00:08:57.309 --> 00:09:02.830 out Drop down through the laser field. Mm -hmm. 00:09:02.830 --> 00:09:04.690 We're talking about beast man is one of these 00:09:04.690 --> 00:09:12.649 characters Pick up snake face and king hiss and 00:09:12.649 --> 00:09:15.940 take them away. Mm -hmm. Okay So you're telling 00:09:15.940 --> 00:09:20.360 me that the stuff that was like the shackles 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:24.620 that King Hiss is entrapped in are that easily 00:09:24.620 --> 00:09:28.259 undone? First of all, the lasers are that easy 00:09:28.259 --> 00:09:33.000 to repel down like your freaking Tom Cruise and 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.679 and not touch any of them and then pick up another 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.419 human being body, you know, another snake body 00:09:38.419 --> 00:09:40.980 carried. Notice this snake has like five heads 00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:44.330 that are waggly all right. So Beastman is going 00:09:44.330 --> 00:09:46.909 to carry King Hiss and all his snake heads back 00:09:46.909 --> 00:09:49.789 up through the laser field, never touching one. 00:09:50.350 --> 00:09:52.529 Not to mention the fact that no alarms go off 00:09:52.529 --> 00:09:56.590 when this place is broken to begin with. When 00:09:56.590 --> 00:10:00.269 a hole is cut in it by Trapjaw. Head and Arms 00:10:00.269 --> 00:10:02.909 is like, oh, I built this to prevent snakes from 00:10:02.909 --> 00:10:04.750 breaking him out. I never thought the evil warriors 00:10:04.750 --> 00:10:07.929 would break him out. We just spent eight panels 00:10:07.929 --> 00:10:10.720 of you telling how this is like. Fort Knox the 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:13.559 hardest place to break in there's lasers. There's 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:15.559 all kinds of security things and it was this 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.860 easy Yeah, I don't care who it was doing it. 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.799 It shouldn't have been that easy So I have a 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:22.779 big problem with the head is the main jugs of 00:10:22.779 --> 00:10:24.259 this so then we have a prison break They got 00:10:24.259 --> 00:10:26.440 King has they got snake face. They're going out 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.120 and then we have to have you know the the masters 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.000 and he meant are basically gonna Go off to try 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.220 to stop it because they don't want King his to 00:10:34.220 --> 00:10:37.059 come back to life. So we have Quite a few panels 00:10:37.059 --> 00:10:40.240 there where it's the chase between he man and 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.919 the masters trying to track down triclops trap 00:10:42.919 --> 00:10:45.860 drop Eastman Merman and their and their. Their 00:10:45.860 --> 00:10:49.799 prize you know snake face and King Hess so that's 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:51.500 all fine you know the panels are fine for that 00:10:51.500 --> 00:10:53.159 it shows some good action I'm sure I could have 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:56.220 seen this being a cartoon this part of it. So 00:10:56.220 --> 00:10:57.919 all this is fine cuz we're finally getting evil 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:01.179 warriors involved in the master or is what we 00:11:01.179 --> 00:11:04.639 kind of go for right. Really the masters fail. 00:11:05.250 --> 00:11:07.789 Um, so the evil warriors get away with their 00:11:07.789 --> 00:11:09.830 prizes and then we have, you know, Stratos and 00:11:09.830 --> 00:11:12.710 man -at -arms and Tila and He -Man, et cetera, 00:11:12.710 --> 00:11:16.590 who are kind of, I guess, commiserating in their 00:11:16.590 --> 00:11:21.230 failure. And then man -at -arms just takes off. 00:11:21.409 --> 00:11:25.610 Yep. Like a renegade master of the universe. 00:11:26.070 --> 00:11:28.509 Yeah. He -Man actually has to order Stratos to 00:11:28.509 --> 00:11:34.350 go stop him. So I have a problem here too, because 00:11:35.060 --> 00:11:39.220 This is out of character Like I get man -at -arms 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:41.799 is very stubborn and he's his own person and 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:44.419 he does all these inventions or whatnot But when 00:11:44.419 --> 00:11:47.460 in a hundred and twenty one episodes covering 00:11:47.460 --> 00:11:50.179 multiple episodes of different series throughout 00:11:50.179 --> 00:11:52.320 the last eight to ten years that we've been doing 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.320 this Have we had man -at -arms single -handedly 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:04.399 go try to take on an entire? Force Yeah, I mean, 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.720 there have been times in the episodes where he's 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:11.700 wanted to do so, but. And there's been times 00:12:11.700 --> 00:12:13.059 where he's been mad about his inventions not 00:12:13.059 --> 00:12:14.340 working on this side and the other, but dude 00:12:14.340 --> 00:12:16.179 literally with no discussion just takes off and 00:12:16.179 --> 00:12:18.799 it's like, I'll just take on everybody myself. 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.659 Yeah. Anyways, we go back to Snake Mountain, 00:12:22.980 --> 00:12:25.919 Skeletor's there, Beastman brings in King Hiss, 00:12:25.919 --> 00:12:28.460 who doesn't have a head still, and he leaves 00:12:28.460 --> 00:12:31.299 it up to Beastman to decide where he's going 00:12:31.299 --> 00:12:34.620 to put King Hiss. I do like the fact that he 00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:37.240 says, oh, I can put you in a cage with the serpent 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.860 of tours because that, hey, reference to a past 00:12:39.860 --> 00:12:43.399 episode or the end or the shadow beast. So we're 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:45.700 all getting those cool little things right there. 00:12:45.700 --> 00:12:47.500 Yeah. But of course, he has to mention that the 00:12:47.500 --> 00:12:49.720 shadow beast can only exist in total darkness. 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:52.879 King is is able to talk. So he says, oh, you 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:54.500 know, blah, blah, blah. You probably don't have 00:12:54.500 --> 00:12:56.019 somewhere where they can exist. So, of course, 00:12:56.019 --> 00:12:57.519 he throws them in the total darkness, which is 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.440 then going to allow him to regenerate his head. 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:03.299 His head. Yep. So then we have beast man standing, 00:13:03.299 --> 00:13:05.559 you know in the throne room basically and it's 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.740 almost like They almost could have shown him 00:13:08.740 --> 00:13:11.100 being killed right there Like I expected when 00:13:11.100 --> 00:13:13.100 he fell to have there be a knife in his back 00:13:13.100 --> 00:13:15.720 or something Yeah, something like the way that 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.059 he just falls and King his is standing behind 00:13:18.059 --> 00:13:20.580 him Yeah, he says basically he gave him some 00:13:20.580 --> 00:13:24.000 of his venom so then we have a battle between 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.679 King has and Skeletor my favorite part of this 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:33.379 is in the animation or in the cells in the illustrations 00:13:33.379 --> 00:13:36.559 here. King has talks about hey you know I used 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.200 to live here so I know everything about this 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:40.139 and he basically pulls down a part of the wall 00:13:40.139 --> 00:13:42.340 and there is a staff behind it a snake staff. 00:13:43.179 --> 00:13:45.220 Yep. Almost like a havoc staff but it's a snake 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:49.620 version right in this the staff that the toy 00:13:49.620 --> 00:13:53.200 of Tila always for some reason has. I think so 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:56.179 when she becomes the goddess because she at some 00:13:56.179 --> 00:14:00.090 point in her future. Becomes the goddess who 00:14:00.090 --> 00:14:04.210 I was confused as a kid Because Tina always had 00:14:04.210 --> 00:14:06.029 the snake staff yet. I had never saw her with 00:14:06.029 --> 00:14:08.710 a snake staff in the show Yeah, maybe I'm wrong. 00:14:08.850 --> 00:14:12.009 Maybe I just missed it. I mean, let's see her 00:14:12.009 --> 00:14:14.809 staff. Hold on It looks almost identical to that 00:14:14.809 --> 00:14:16.669 So that's what King Hiss is wielding and he is 00:14:16.669 --> 00:14:19.470 going to use that to kind of battle with Skeletor 00:14:19.470 --> 00:14:21.909 and Skeletor's Havoc staff and we have a pretty 00:14:21.909 --> 00:14:25.909 cool sequence of about You know three pages actually 00:14:25.909 --> 00:14:30.240 almost Almost six pages where King Hiss and Skeletor 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:32.360 are battling back and forth and that part is 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.860 very cool Yeah, cuz that we've been waiting to 00:14:34.860 --> 00:14:38.940 see Yeah, there's a cool Panel where Skeletor 00:14:38.940 --> 00:14:40.879 is grabbing King Hiss's foot while he's dangling 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:44.039 over the cliff There's a lot of stuff dealing 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:47.360 with like the lava We have another instance where 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.919 the snake men's skin can be molted off and then 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:51.360 we don't have to worry about it. So that's kind 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:56.960 of cool and ultimately King has basically is 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:00.580 looks like he's about to get the better The better 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:05.620 of him we have evil in Who kind of interjects? 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.440 Good and then we have man -at -arms who comes 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:11.779 in and interjects So this whole battle has been 00:15:11.779 --> 00:15:13.279 going on multiple people have been coming in 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:14.879 we got snakemen We got evil warriors and now 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.960 we have man -at -arms involved as well Stratos 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:19.799 is somewhat involved, but he kind of gets pushed 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:23.539 to the side right away And then we have a whole 00:15:23.539 --> 00:15:28.519 page where he man and tila are basically like 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:32.759 holding each other like lovers. Kind of weird 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:37.539 cuz she's got her hand on his chest. And i know 00:15:37.539 --> 00:15:39.480 it's just like a more of a comforting thing like 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.480 where he's just trying to hold almost looks like 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:45.450 their husband and wife and picture. Yeah and 00:15:45.450 --> 00:15:48.309 there have been in other comics where they like 00:15:48.309 --> 00:15:50.690 the comics that a despair and i have covered 00:15:50.690 --> 00:15:53.389 over on the pool bag. There have been a time 00:15:53.389 --> 00:15:57.210 where he man and tila were married right so i 00:15:57.210 --> 00:16:02.350 mean that. Yeah that's sort of strados comes 00:16:02.350 --> 00:16:05.009 back and informs him that he couldn't help man 00:16:05.009 --> 00:16:07.330 at arms and then we get the final page which 00:16:07.330 --> 00:16:09.769 is man at arms and king has king has is telling 00:16:09.769 --> 00:16:12.299 him that he's going to create. inventions and 00:16:12.299 --> 00:16:14.940 weapons and vehicles for him. He says, no, you're 00:16:14.940 --> 00:16:16.960 not. They kind of do a reference here because 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:21.919 of the, um, the Fidians spire, which we've seen 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:24.460 before, uh, somewhere along the way. And, you 00:16:24.460 --> 00:16:26.000 know, man in arms says, yeah, but you don't have 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.960 the whatever the other MacGuffin, the snake ring 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.960 or something like that. And it says, yeah, but 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:33.320 you've already been stabbed with this and you've 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:35.139 already been a snake man. So I don't need it. 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:38.820 So he stabs man in arms and man in arms becomes 00:16:38.820 --> 00:16:42.200 one of the snake. Now this goes back to when 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.919 in the show they were snake people. Right, so 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.019 now he becomes a snake person once again. And 00:16:48.019 --> 00:16:50.279 he says, yes, how may I serve you my king? And 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:53.419 then it has the end with a question mark. Yeah. 00:16:54.179 --> 00:16:58.720 What do you think? I love the art. Art's good. 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:01.379 I love the colors. King Hiss looks better on 00:17:01.379 --> 00:17:04.599 this than he did in the show. He does. He does. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.079 I love the shadows of when he's in the darkness. 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:11.059 I love the fact that they play up the whole beast 00:17:11.059 --> 00:17:13.980 man being a moron angle because most of the time 00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:16.599 beast man is a moron. He's not one of Skeletor's 00:17:16.599 --> 00:17:20.319 evil warriors that's gonna come back and, and, 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:23.460 uh, right. You know, try to do smart things. 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:27.160 Um, Evelyn is not here at all. Is she? Yeah. 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.920 She comes in at one point and then it's on page 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:35.440 like 21 or 20 or something where she. Use her 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:39.500 power to stop king has one time. Okay, yeah, 00:17:39.500 --> 00:17:43.119 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:43.900 --> 00:17:45.680 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:46.859 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:46.859 --> 00:17:46.859 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:46.859 --> 00:17:46.859 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:46.859 --> 00:17:46.859 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:46.859 --> 00:17:48.039 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:48.039 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:48.039 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:48.039 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:48.039 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:48.259 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:59.740 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:17:59.740 --> 00:18:02.470 yeah, Of Evelyn trying to bring back Hordak like 00:18:02.470 --> 00:18:05.250 she basically all but besmirched Skeletor the 00:18:05.250 --> 00:18:07.829 last two episodes of the show and then Skeletor 00:18:07.829 --> 00:18:12.150 just fades away in the show. And this comic doesn't 00:18:12.150 --> 00:18:16.089 even address that at all. And I, I understand 00:18:16.089 --> 00:18:19.089 where they're going with it, but I don't think 00:18:19.089 --> 00:18:21.509 man at arms being turned back into a snake person 00:18:21.509 --> 00:18:24.069 should have been the cliffhanger. If this was 00:18:24.069 --> 00:18:27.529 supposed to be. And I know they're running off 00:18:27.529 --> 00:18:30.910 of Dean Stefan. His script and like i said at 00:18:30.910 --> 00:18:32.849 the beginning of this may the man rest in peace. 00:18:33.809 --> 00:18:37.549 I wish this what like if we had one more like 00:18:37.549 --> 00:18:40.269 this was deans thing but if they had done one 00:18:40.269 --> 00:18:43.829 more thing or if somehow some way like i said 00:18:43.829 --> 00:18:46.509 within the next two years they come back and 00:18:46.509 --> 00:18:51.529 say hey we want to give you guys. A true finale 00:18:51.529 --> 00:18:53.869 whether skeletor is defeated or not what even 00:18:53.869 --> 00:18:58.069 if it's a cliffhanger but just. A better, I liked 00:18:58.069 --> 00:19:00.990 this more than I liked the last episode, but 00:19:00.990 --> 00:19:03.450 at the same time, I still wanted more from this. 00:19:03.710 --> 00:19:07.329 I think this could have been an episode, five 00:19:07.329 --> 00:19:09.990 episodes ago or so, like where we had some of 00:19:09.990 --> 00:19:11.170 those other ones that seemed like it was just 00:19:11.170 --> 00:19:13.069 filler where it wasn't doing much. This would 00:19:13.069 --> 00:19:14.529 have been one of those episodes that was leading 00:19:14.529 --> 00:19:17.750 towards, that happened along the way of the snake 00:19:17.750 --> 00:19:19.289 men eventually getting to Serpos and whatnot. 00:19:19.750 --> 00:19:21.210 That I would have been fine with. I think where 00:19:21.210 --> 00:19:23.890 they made a mistake was teasing Hordak and then 00:19:23.890 --> 00:19:26.789 not bringing Hordak in. That's where we wanted 00:19:26.789 --> 00:19:28.470 to go. We were done with the Snakemen. We've 00:19:28.470 --> 00:19:30.329 dealt with them for a while now. Like, have them 00:19:30.329 --> 00:19:32.269 have their climax, have Hordak take over as the 00:19:32.269 --> 00:19:34.490 new bad guy for what would eventually have been 00:19:34.490 --> 00:19:36.049 a new season. Even if we didn't get it, I would 00:19:36.049 --> 00:19:38.660 have rather stopped at that. Like that's where 00:19:38.660 --> 00:19:40.220 I wanted to go is more to the Hordeck because 00:19:40.220 --> 00:19:42.259 then that also opens the door to She -Ra coming 00:19:42.259 --> 00:19:44.799 in eventually. It just opens up a lot of good 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:48.160 stuff. So I forgot to mention, and I know this 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:49.359 has nothing to do with what we're talking about 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:50.940 right here, but I did notice it when I was looking 00:19:50.940 --> 00:19:53.900 at one of the cells of He -Man that we forgot 00:19:53.900 --> 00:19:56.220 to mention in our last episode. I didn't get 00:19:56.220 --> 00:19:57.819 to ask you a question I wanted to ask you, which 00:19:57.819 --> 00:20:01.759 was what did you think of the power sword? opening 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:06.160 up as it did in the final aired episode. There 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:09.519 wasn't enough explanation for that. It's like 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:12.079 it had an extra extra amount of power once it 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:16.059 opened up. Yeah, somehow it got a new power and 00:20:16.059 --> 00:20:19.880 whereas man at arms had a good explanation for 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.579 getting snake D the snake armor like he actually 00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:27.519 built the snake armor. I didn't see any. Any 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:29.779 explanation at all as to why he might he meant 00:20:29.779 --> 00:20:32.880 sword split open and some other snake gem something 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:37.140 or other came out of it and I It was weird to 00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:40.119 me because it was very weird Like it would have 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:41.779 been different if it was like Oh all of a sudden 00:20:41.779 --> 00:20:43.140 you can do something else that you didn't know 00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:44.799 you could do with a sword But now it like became 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:49.220 a different sword like a different chemistry 00:20:49.220 --> 00:20:51.079 and not chemistry different physical properties 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.039 to it almost i was like where did this come from 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:55.740 but yeah it was very confusing i like that you 00:20:55.740 --> 00:20:58.039 can finally summon the the true power of the 00:20:58.039 --> 00:20:59.519 elders and do stuff like that i just thought 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:00.920 it was weird the way that they did that with 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.259 the sword but that's another deck but um so that's 00:21:04.259 --> 00:21:06.279 kind of episode 40 guys so we end up with man 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.460 at arms being a snake man yep so i mean if i 00:21:10.460 --> 00:21:12.319 was great in this one i'd probably be around 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:16.480 a three um If I'm grading the visuals of the 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.400 comic, I'd give it a four and a half and five 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.299 maybe. I'm right at like a three and a half or 00:21:22.299 --> 00:21:25.640 four for the comic specifically. Yeah. I just 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:27.019 think that there was a problem with the cell 00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:29.500 being so easily broken into. And I know that's 00:21:29.500 --> 00:21:31.680 getting hung up on plot point, but whatever, 00:21:32.240 --> 00:21:34.839 that stuff bugs me. I really enjoyed the King 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:38.140 Hiss and Skeletor back and forth, which is the 00:21:38.140 --> 00:21:39.859 majority of the comics. So I get how that's good, 00:21:39.859 --> 00:21:42.099 but it's like, we basically have like the first 00:21:42.099 --> 00:21:43.500 couple of pages, which explains how they get 00:21:43.630 --> 00:21:45.910 broken out. We have the majority of the comic 00:21:45.910 --> 00:21:47.369 that's dealing with their fight back and forth. 00:21:47.369 --> 00:21:49.029 And then we just have like the end right at the 00:21:49.029 --> 00:21:50.630 end where it's like, Oh, and man in arms is a 00:21:50.630 --> 00:21:53.089 snake man. So I feel like the beginning and the 00:21:53.089 --> 00:21:55.029 end could have been fleshed out differently. 00:21:55.390 --> 00:21:58.329 The middle I have no problem with. So I'd be 00:21:58.329 --> 00:22:00.650 three, three and a half somewhere in there. Um, 00:22:00.970 --> 00:22:03.609 that's three and a half or a four. Yeah. We've 00:22:03.609 --> 00:22:05.490 exhausted everything we can talk about with this 00:22:05.490 --> 00:22:09.309 series outside of, uh, summarizing the whole 00:22:09.309 --> 00:22:10.950 series overall and giving our general thoughts 00:22:10.950 --> 00:22:12.769 on the series. Pretty much. This is, this is 00:22:12.769 --> 00:22:15.869 all we get. This is all we get and next time 00:22:15.869 --> 00:22:19.529 around is when we'll do the He -Man 2002 recap 00:22:19.529 --> 00:22:22.529 where we've got our overall thoughts on the entire 00:22:22.529 --> 00:22:25.609 series. I'm sure we'll do like top five or top 00:22:25.609 --> 00:22:28.490 10 favorite episodes. We'll do the same thing 00:22:28.490 --> 00:22:33.869 that we did with all the other series. Then we'll 00:22:33.869 --> 00:22:36.230 let you know in that episode what else you can 00:22:36.230 --> 00:22:39.109 look for. We're not done with He -Man. No, we're 00:22:39.109 --> 00:22:42.440 not done. So we'll just eat some stuff. We're 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:44.420 kind of done with He -Man, but we're not done 00:22:44.420 --> 00:22:46.920 with He -Man. We'll tease themself. We'll keep 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:48.299 telling them that they're making a new series. 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:50.839 They're going to keep the content coming and 00:22:50.839 --> 00:22:55.000 they're going to keep us coming back. I just 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.079 had somebody say to me, sent us a, and this is 00:22:59.079 --> 00:23:01.079 a while ago by the time this podcast will air, 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:03.680 but somebody sent us a message through Facebook 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.039 through the GeekCast radio thing asking us if 00:23:06.039 --> 00:23:08.240 more from the Command Center stuff was going 00:23:08.240 --> 00:23:10.240 to happen with the Power Rangers series with 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:12.890 the current generation of the last three series. 00:23:13.089 --> 00:23:16.329 And I'm like, there's sort of a plan, but I don't 00:23:16.329 --> 00:23:18.670 know when it's gonna happen kind of thing. So 00:23:18.670 --> 00:23:23.829 hey, people with the two series that were being 00:23:23.829 --> 00:23:26.970 planned for Netflix, I don't know. Yeah, I like 00:23:26.970 --> 00:23:29.569 I said last episode, I don't know if it's in 00:23:29.569 --> 00:23:31.309 last time's episode or not. I might have said 00:23:31.309 --> 00:23:34.210 this to you off air. I have no no clue what's 00:23:34.210 --> 00:23:37.450 going on with MOTU right now, other than the 00:23:37.450 --> 00:23:39.430 fact that Mattel is releasing the origins line 00:23:39.430 --> 00:23:43.430 for toys. I have like, as far as I saw, I've 00:23:43.430 --> 00:23:48.750 seen when I've actually looked, I think the Kevin 00:23:48.750 --> 00:23:51.569 Smith Netflix thing is on hold. And I think the, 00:23:51.569 --> 00:23:54.650 um, the other movie thing, I don't know if it's 00:23:54.650 --> 00:23:56.849 in theory. There was two different series. Yeah. 00:23:57.069 --> 00:23:58.329 Yeah. That's what I'm saying. The Kevin Smith 00:23:58.329 --> 00:24:01.089 thing. And then the Noah Emmerich movie thing 00:24:01.089 --> 00:24:03.589 is two different thing. There's two different 00:24:03.589 --> 00:24:08.200 series plus the movie. Oh, really? Yeah. And 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.220 there's a Kevin Smith one, but then there's an 00:24:10.220 --> 00:24:13.019 all a whole different one as well. Um, series 00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:15.119 that's also being planned. So I just, I'd have 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:16.700 to do some research to see what happened with 00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:19.859 COVID and how it puts stuff on hold or whatever. 00:24:19.859 --> 00:24:21.519 Cause I know that they will even had a voice 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:24.759 cast for the Kevin Smith one already. Um, recent 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:26.460 cast as their characters, et cetera, et cetera. 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:29.700 So, um, we'll keep you in touch as stuff happens, 00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:31.799 but. Yep. And the last thing I want to bring 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:33.599 up because they've been sitting on my computer 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:35.440 this whole time that we've been recording this 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:38.000 episode last week's episode in the. at two episodes 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:42.400 before this. Funko finally got the masters of 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:44.559 it's they've had it back but there was a time 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:47.420 last year in 2019 or it might have been 2018 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:50.579 where it was like oh my god Funko's gonna lose 00:24:50.579 --> 00:24:52.640 the MOTU license and they lost it for a while 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:55.319 but they came back and brought in new stuff. 00:24:56.019 --> 00:24:58.940 I have a Prince Adam Funko pop he looks just 00:24:58.940 --> 00:25:01.960 like Filmation Prince Adam pink purple white 00:25:02.329 --> 00:25:05.990 uh, with his power sword. Very, very cool. And 00:25:05.990 --> 00:25:08.769 I actually had to grab this off eBay because 00:25:08.769 --> 00:25:12.890 some of the Fun Co does limited convention shared 00:25:12.890 --> 00:25:15.549 exclusives. So if you're going to something like 00:25:15.549 --> 00:25:18.930 Emerald City Comic Con out here in Seattle, Washington, 00:25:19.609 --> 00:25:22.750 and you go, you get a con sticker on your pop, 00:25:22.789 --> 00:25:25.150 but it's also shared with something like GameStop 00:25:25.150 --> 00:25:30.210 or Box Launch or Hot Topic or whatever. I went 00:25:30.210 --> 00:25:33.339 on eBay and I had to get Slime Pit He -Man. It's 00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:38.200 basically He -Man in his classic filmation with 00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:41.460 the classic filmation sword, but it's translucent 00:25:41.460 --> 00:25:45.579 green plastic. It doesn't glow, but it's translucent 00:25:45.579 --> 00:25:47.660 green plastic. He's all in green. The sword's 00:25:47.660 --> 00:25:50.460 in green. 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