The Clash of Arms is a 1983 Masters of the
Universe mini-comic. No author or artist is credited, but this looks like
Larry Houston’s work. Here, Fisto is captured and forced to fight Skeletor’s
minions one by one in a gladiatorial arena that Skeletor and Evil-Lyn apparently
run on the side.
Skeletor operating his own coliseum is such a cool idea that
I don’t even want to nitpick about why we’ve never heard of this before, particularly as it’s right next to Castle Grayskull. Let’s keep
going.
It’s nice to see Fisto get his day in the sun – and that
he’s a force to be reckoned with. With his battles, we get some quality action
scenes and even a little bit of intensity.
Here also is the surprising scene of He-Man riding in on a
horse and shooting folks, which is extremely satisfying, much in the way that
He-Man shooting folks in the live-action film was not in the least bit
satisfying.
Stridor is here, standing in for Battle Cat, running fast, knocking
walls down, and kicking people in the face. You really couldn’t ask for a
better advertisement for him or for Fisto.
And speak of the devil – the Filmation Snake Mountain is
here, too. Ask and ye shall receive.
Nothing but good times in this issue.
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