Escape from the Slime Pit! is a 1985 Masters of
the Universe mini-comic written by Eric Frydler and illustrated by Jim
Mitchell and Bruce Timm. Here, Hordak constructs the Slime Pit, which turns
people into mindless thralls, and tries it out on He-Man.
It’s kind of neat to see He-Man unleashed by the forces of
evil, although it all gets resolved about the way you’d expect (the “Sun Rock”?),
and the writing is uneven.
He-Man sacrificing himself for the Rock People is noble, but
horrendously irresponsible on his part – Hordak told him what it would do
beforehand, and who, exactly, is supposed to stop He-Man from destroying
Eternia? Not Skeletor, clearly. And at the end, He-Man ends up fighting the Horde under the exact same circumstances that led him to surrender at the beginning.
The Rock People’s Eternian immigration program is proceeding apace: they just landed on Eternia, and now have a village already. But all
of a sudden, they’re pacifists (for the first half of the issue, anyway – convenient).
And since they’re made out of stone, shouldn’t they be too heavy to abduct, at
least without the Horde Winch and Heavy Duty Pickup (sold separately)?
The art here is pretty good, especially the backgrounds.
Mitchell can be inconsistent with his faces, but that’s really the only
complaint.
This one has some problems, but it’s an enjoyable read nonetheless.
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