Dangerous Games is
a 1985 Masters of the Universe children’s
book written by Mark Sufrin and illustrated by Charlie Pietrafeso. Here,
Skeletor has been driven back into Snake Mountain and is trapped there by the
Mystic Wall, so the Heroic Warriors host an Olympics-style event to keep
everyone sharp.
Sufrin’s story is pretty good. The Heroic Warriors are up to
some interesting things, and Skeletor has a solid, logical plan. The plotting
doesn’t get lazy until the end, when He-Man just happens to bump Skeletor et
al. into the Lost Corridors of Time during their dogfight.
The Mystic Wall is a notable story element here because it
would be featured later, in much the same way, in the 200X cartoon. Its
presence here, however, begs for the potentially very interesting stories of A.
how they got Skeletor trapped behind it in the first place and B. how, exactly,
he broke through it (apparently without much difficulty).
Pietrafeso’s art is generally good. His figures are
typically well done, although he occasionally gives us big, cartoony heads and
awkward poses. He also does a fine job with Skeletor’s myriad of monsters.
In short, Dangerous
Games features an entertaining story and pretty decent art.
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