The Menace of
Multi-Bot! is a 1985 Masters of the
Universe mini-comic written by Steven Grant and illustrated by Jim Mitchell
and Todd Kurosawa. Here, Modulok creates a robotic duplicate of himself to
attack He-Man.
Modulok couldn’t defeat He-Man; one wonders why anybody
thought a robot copy on its own would do substantially better, even if it could
resurrect itself and talk masochistic smack. And why does everybody seem so
surprised to learn it’s a robot? Did they look
at it? What did they think it was?
While the magnet solution makes sense, I guess (as long as
they’re magical Eternian super-magnets), He-Man (and by implication, Steven
Grant), seems to be guessing at the science behind it, which makes the
resolution feel silly. [YOUR “Magnets, How Do They Work” JOKE HERE]
The art is okay. Mitchell isn’t much for backgrounds, but
his figures are pretty good (although Hordak’s Skeletor teeth make him kind of
look like he needs to go put his dentures in – he’s a bat, not a skull, get it
right, people). Somewhat surprisingly, Multi-Bot, the very character this comic
was created to sell, actually looks very little like his action figure. Just
how early in the production process did they crank these comics out?
A prolonged fight, squabbling villains, the unstoppable power
of friendship: it’s all well and good, but there’s just nothing here to put this
one over the top.
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT
Read it HERE
