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Post by lildude8218 on Jan 13, 2013 18:56:20 GMT -5
slightly off topic but I wish I had the money and had known about it in advance, I would have bought every single one of the figures off of the Matty Collector site and still mark out when I see new obscure ones pop up.
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 13, 2013 18:59:29 GMT -5
Is the entire He-Man universe in this comic? Including the lesser-known guys like Clamp Champ, Rio Blast, Dragster, and Jitsu? Probably not. Mattel's kinda weird with the He-Man license. They tend to make demands that forces creators to stick with the main characters and popular supporting ones. Which sucks because I love seeing the C/D-listers show up and get revamped or at least just used for a little bit. . Should have taken a cue from Hasbro and let the less popular guys show up. IDW was able to reivent Chuckles in their GI Joe comics, no reason we cant see an edgier Rio Blast or Dragster. |
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Post by Goldenbane on Jan 13, 2013 19:03:36 GMT -5
Probably not. Mattel's kinda weird with the He-Man license. They tend to make demands that forces creators to stick with the main characters and popular supporting ones. Which sucks because I love seeing the C/D-listers show up and get revamped or at least just used for a little bit. . Should have taken a cue from Hasbro and let the less popular guys show up. IDW was able to reivent Chuckles in their GI Joe comics, no reason we cant see an edgier Rio Blast or Dragster. To be totally honest, I loved characters like Scareglow, Mosquitor, Rio-Blast, Dragstor, and Ninjor. The MOTU Classics line made a really awesome looking Scareglow, and I'm pumped about Ram Man coming out as well. I hope they do Rio-Blast soon. I don't even like cowboys normally, but the fact that he has 12 billion guns coming out of every pore in his body just makes me smile with glee. He's the Punisher's wet dream. |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 13, 2013 19:04:56 GMT -5
Is the entire He-Man universe in this comic? Including the lesser-known guys like Clamp Champ, Rio Blast, Dragster, and Jitsu? Probably not. Mattel's kinda weird with the He-Man license. They tend to make demands that forces creators to stick with the main characters and popular supporting ones. Which sucks because I love seeing the C/D-listers show up and get revamped or at least just used for a little bit. They've cancelled the last iteration of MOTU (the early 2000's cartoon and comics) just as they were getting to introducing Hordak and She-Ra, so I'm kinda impressed Hordak is showing up here. Yeah, Hasbro gave Val Staples, who had the license to make the tie-in comic to the early 2000's MYP series a lot of grief over this awhile back. He was basically told he could not use any MotU character in the comic that had not already been shown in the cartoon. This was pretty difficult considering a good chunk of those comics were made after the cartoon had been canceled (they did make an exception for Scare Glow though). They also gave him a lot of problems about creating his own characters from scratch as well. He found this especially frustrating since he told Hasbro he intended to use these characters before he purchased the license, and then was told by them he couldn't after he got it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2013 19:09:15 GMT -5
Probably not. Mattel's kinda weird with the He-Man license. They tend to make demands that forces creators to stick with the main characters and popular supporting ones. Which sucks because I love seeing the C/D-listers show up and get revamped or at least just used for a little bit. They've cancelled the last iteration of MOTU (the early 2000's cartoon and comics) just as they were getting to introducing Hordak and She-Ra, so I'm kinda impressed Hordak is showing up here. Yeah, Hasbro gave Val Staples, who had the license to make the tie-in comic to the early 2000's MYP series a lot of grief over this awhile back. He was basically told he could not use any MotU character in the comic that had not already been shown in the cartoon. This was pretty difficult considering a good chunk of those comics were made after the cartoon had been canceled (they did make an exception for Scare Glow though). They also gave him a lot of problems about creating his own characters from scratch as well. He found this especially frustrating since he told Hasbro he intended to use these characters before he purchased the license, and then was told by them he couldn't after he got it. Mattel, not Hasbro. Hasbro's proven they're very cool with people adapting and altering the sh*t out of GI Joe and Transformers and using every Cobra, Autobot, Joe and Decepticon possible. Mattel, meanwhile, gave Val heaps of crap for that one-shot comic where Scare Glow showed up (it moreorless led to him losing the license). |
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 13, 2013 19:20:20 GMT -5
Yeah, Hasbro gave Val Staples, who had the license to make the tie-in comic to the early 2000's MYP series a lot of grief over this awhile back. He was basically told he could not use any MotU character in the comic that had not already been shown in the cartoon. This was pretty difficult considering a good chunk of those comics were made after the cartoon had been canceled (they did make an exception for Scare Glow though). They also gave him a lot of problems about creating his own characters from scratch as well. He found this especially frustrating since he told Hasbro he intended to use these characters before he purchased the license, and then was told by them he couldn't after he got it. Mattel, not Hasbro. Hasbro's proven they're very cool with people adapting and altering the sh*t out of GI Joe and Transformers and using every Cobra, Autobot, Joe and Decepticon possible. Mattel, meanwhile, gave Val heaps of crap for that one-shot comic where Scare Glow showed up (it moreorless led to him losing the license). My apologies, don't know how I made that mistake. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2013 19:33:01 GMT -5
^^ Hasbro's bought a few other companies over the years - Galoob, Kenner, Tiger, Tonka - I actually had to check to see if they'd picked up Mattel at some point when reading your earlier comment.
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Post by JDviant on Jan 14, 2013 9:53:17 GMT -5
So people are still trying to do liefeld-inspired artwork in 2013? I'd hate to see what Orko and Ram Man look like in this comic. Ed Benes is a great artist. comparing him to Rob Liefeld is just wrong. Ed Benes is a disciple of the Image founders group. He's more Jim Lee then Rob, but this image is very much inspired by that style. Compared to Rob's New Mutants work it doesn't seem like the two styles are worlds apart.  |
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 14, 2013 10:02:11 GMT -5
HHH = HeMan
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 14, 2013 10:52:03 GMT -5
Ed Benes is a great artist. comparing him to Rob Liefeld is just wrong. Ed Benes is a disciple of the Image founders group. He's more Jim Lee then Rob, but this image is very much inspired by that style. Compared to Rob's New Mutants work it doesn't seem like the two styles are worlds apart. maybe so, but Benes' anatomy isn't all over the place and everything's in proper proportion, which is the main problem with Liefeld. |
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Jan 14, 2013 11:03:24 GMT -5
Man, I would LOVE to see updated versions of Rio Blast, Clamp Champ, Roboto, Buzz Off, Webstor and King Hiss!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2013 11:30:48 GMT -5
Ed Benes is a disciple of the Image founders group. He's more Jim Lee then Rob, but this image is very much inspired by that style. Compared to Rob's New Mutants work it doesn't seem like the two styles are worlds apart. maybe so, but Benes' anatomy isn't all over the place and everything's in proper proportion, which is the main problem with Liefeld. The problem some people have with Benes, though, is that his women are.....provocatively drawn (they got the long bare legs and they got the boobs). |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2013 11:57:07 GMT -5
Man, I would LOVE to see updated versions of Rio Blast, Clamp Champ, Roboto, Buzz Off, Webstor and King Hiss! Most - if not all these folks - were vamped in 2002 as part of the new MOTU line of figures and statuettes. If you plug in the name of the character and either "2002" or "Four Horsemen" (the compant that designed & sculpted the new versions) you should get results. The new(er) Rio Blast, for example, looks like this:  |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 15, 2013 10:26:45 GMT -5
so I just read DC's solicits for April... Boob-dak is actually She-ra. she's being mind-controlled by Hordak.
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