Skeletor’s Flower of Power is a 1985 Masters of
the Universe children’s book written by Bryce Knorr and illustrated by
Harry J. Quinn and James Holloway. Here, Skeletor uses “remote-controlled” flowers
to control the people of Eternia and become king.
The worst title of all time and a tired plot device badly
executed – it should come as no surprise, then, that this is one of those
stories where things just happen without regard for making sense, plausibility,
or contrivance (of course that giant inflatable monster randomly bouncing
around the palace is the king of his people!). Maybe – just maybe – this would
have worked as a cartoon episode (not a good one, for sure), but as a book, it
fails.
The two artists have different, clashing styles. Some pages are
exceptionally good; most are not. The characters are frequently out of
proportion, and often look like whichever artist responsible just copied the
action figures (ridiculous proportions and all), then tacked on the faces. And Orko’s
arms are so long that he makes the leap from comical to extremely creepy (he’s
also “walking” – blame Knorr for that).
You can’t go right with slapdash art and writing that doesn’t
respect children’s intelligence.
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