The Stench of Evil! is a 1984 Masters of the
Universe mini-comic written by Christy Marx and illustrated by Larry
Houston and Tom Luth. Here, Skeletor enlists Stinkor to pollute the forest; his
heroic pine-fresh counterpart Moss Man is also introduced.
Skeletor’s up to some genuinely small-time antics this time –
driving the animals out of the forest to no useful purpose is just
rabble-rousing (granted, there’s only so much you can do with a villain with
stink powers). The story itself feels cobbled together – there’s a message
about not trying to domesticate wild animals tossed in, and a moral that doesn’t
logically follow from what’s gone before. And He-Man doesn’t actually do anything –
not that there’s anything wrong with that every once in a while.
Houston’s art is generally solid. Many panels are quite good,
but some look extremely rushed (e.g., everything on page 9). The shaded
coloring helps quite a bit.
This one does some things well, but the small-scale,
slapdash story holds it back.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
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