You know, this comic was working just fine up until the part
where they fight giant clock monsters. Beyond the fact that these “time demons”
look like alarm clocks, we have He-Man and pink-clad Teela (who’s pulled a
ten-foot pole out of nowhere) making awful jokes*. The only redeeming thing in
these panels is Man-At-Arms calmly wrecking shop with his gun. And after this,
we get a monster recycled from earlier in the issue.
Even though it feels like the Heroic Warriors fight a lot of
different things, the story essentially ends on page 11. That gives us an
unnecessary three and a half pages of wrap-up (including a final splash page
with Ram Man apparently flying).
Houston’s art is never better than adequate (Given how this comic
ties to the cartoon, could he not draw us a scorpion? Are they that hard to
draw?). His drawing of Man-At-Arms climbing a pole (p. 9) is just poor. And
what the heck is Ram Man doing on page 13? Is He-Man standing on his foot? Was
he about to ask Teela out? Even so, Houston does do a good job recreating
Skeletor’s incredulous facial expression from the cartoon. And now he’s drawing
Man-At-Arms with symmetrical armor, like his cartoon counterpart.
This one might be dumb, but at least it’s entertainingly dumb.
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*Like the giant scarab (the first one) says when He-Man
chops its face off, “Yowl! Aughh! Hiss!”
