The story is improbably implausible – on his worst day,
Skeletor isn’t this incompetent. We’re expected to believe that he passed up a
chance to kill or imprison He-Man and passed it up in favor of pulling an elaborate
prank on him instead? And even so, Skeletor almost wins – he’s stopped not by
He-Man, but by a random and unexplained bolt of lightning ex machina.
Spiegle’s art is par (I suppose I should say sub-par) for
the course. His characters are puffy, lumpy, almost bloated looking. His He-Man
is oafish and wears his hair in a short bob. Most unforgivable, though, is
He-Man’s harness: instead of wrapping around his torso, the straps run down
into his belt, like suspenders. This was offensive to me when I was a little
kid, and my feelings haven’t changed.
The Trap is thoroughly poor, and perhaps even
insulting to the child mind. The highlight is the cover, although that stupid
lightning bolt is there, too.
