I Have the Power!

When I was about 10 years old I got lost one evening coming home from a friend's house,  I found myself at a dark scary crossroads which had four possible alleyways to choose from.  And then from the darkest of the Four directions I heard someone shout 'By the Power of Grayskull'.  So I chose that path, and when I came out the other side, I knew where I was!  He-Man had saved me!... from ending up back at my mate's house.

Anyway, I've come up with the idea for my next sketch and it's He-Man related.  I have this incredible voice actor lined up who is going to record all the voices for me and I'm pretty excited about the idea as I've not seen anything like it done before.  I can't wait to get started on this one.  ETA is mid to late February.

As I'm on a bit of a nostalgia trip I thought I'd share some great He-Man related artwork that I found a while back. The first two are from MonsterBrains blog which I highly recommend you check out for all sorts of crazy monster artwork.  These are posters or artwork that would come with the toys.

Here's Skeletor looking like a Pimp (Click for larger versions), I don't remember Webstor being such a short arse though.

And here's an epic battle scene.  I love how much is going on in this poster, everyone just doing their thing.  It's not exactly a great military tactic but if wars were won by adopting cool poses then Mer-Man would be a shoe in for king of the universe.

If you want to see more of these posters check out MonsterBrains.

Aswell as the old Mattel artwork many artists have been re-imagining He-Man over the years.  Here's some artwork by a guy callled Mattias Fahlberg.

With his Spiked skin and Trident arm Spikor was already one of the most bad ass characters from the MOTU world.  This image takes his evil brutishness up another notch.

Whereas the toy of the Webstor character (the short arse from earlier) never really looked that terrifying.  But this image really taps into his creepy Spider origins.

Check out more of Mattias's images here.

And the final image is from an artist called Raul Abonitalla Jnr.  An incredible Frankenstein\Zombie looking re-imagining of Trap-Jaw.  This makes me want to see a darker, more adult targeted MOTU film.  Surely Chris Nolan can't be that busy now can he?