Masters of the
Universe #11, “Whose Enemy Am I Anyway?” is by Caragonne, Wilson, and
Bulanadi. Here, He-Man and Hordak lose their memories, then team up. Now
featuring characters from the She-Ra
cartoon!
Are we sure Mike Carlin didn’t sneak back in to write the
first few pages of this issue? Hordak has an absurdly vast invasion force –
which is easily thwarted by bumbling jive-talking caricatures of heroes.
Once the story gets going, however, we do somewhat better.
Amnesia is a tired old plot, but making enemies team up is a reasonably fresh
take on it. Hordak gets some good character development here, even if there’s
an obvious parallel between him and Darth Vader. We also get He-Man reaffirming
the value of life, which is always nice. (And unrelated to the plot, Caragonne makes
Battle Cat contemptuous of Cringer, which is a curious decision.)
Solid work again from the regular art team, although on page
20 it kind of looks like Man-At-Arms might have landed his ship right on top of
some people. And between the beginning of the issue and the end, letterer Jack Morelli
forgot that “Grayskull” is spelled with an a.
This one’s the weakest of Caragonne’s contributions to the
comic, but it does more good than bad (if barely).
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