Three years...

In the script to the She-Ra season two episode "Return Of The General" writer Bob Forward states that three years have passed since Sunder's first appearance in "Unexpected Ally". This helps explain the sudden appearance of his daughter Telzy whom he fathered with Mally. This does make for an interesting discussion point as "Unexpected Ally" was only fourteen episodes prior to this one. Three years?!


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Lazy Skeletor!

Here is a great illustration by Robin Davies from the Masters of the Universe Ladybird book "Wings of Doom". One would assume that while it is quite different than its animated counterpart this is presumably Skeletor's throne room at Snake Mountain! What makes this image so perfect is Skeletor's lazy posture in his chair as his Skelcon servant stands before him...


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Earned the right...

The end of "The Treachery of Modulok!" minicomic has a fantastic illustration of He-Man, with his newly acquired Thunder Punch powers, striking a very heroic pose. It was often hard for the writers of these minicomics to feature a new character and not make it seem like a blatant advertisement. In the case of Thunder Punch He-Man I actually think they did a good job; He-Man having earned the right of his new power.


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The three prominent Hordesmen...

In the classic He-Man episode "Origin of the Sorceress" we see the first three prominent Horde characters to appear on Eternia. In the episode they are never addressed by their individual names, but in the script they are called (from left to right) Ferros, Repta and Rachney...

Scorpio?

As you can see in this image, the original design of Scorpio from the He-Man season one episode "The Heart of A Giant" was very different to what appeared in the final episode. The Scorpio design originally was more humanoid in appearance, whereas the creature in the actual episode looked more like a scorpion. It is hard to see why such a change was made, and it is a shame as this creature looks a lot more threatening...


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Taking aim in 2008! :)

Not a hoax! Not a dream! Not an imaginary story! The He-Man and She-Ra Blog returns! Yes, this is now the third year of this Blog, which is pretty incredible to be honest. I intend to keep doing this until I run out of things to say which, let's face it, on the subject of He-Man and She-Ra is never going to happen!

Now, let's have two updates...

As you all know I am a big fan of the colorfully bold illustrations by Robin Davies during his time spent working for the Ladybird book company. In this piece of artwork from the She-Ra book "Shadow Weaver's Magic Mirror" we see She-Ra, Bow and Swift Wind illustrated quite beautifully as Bow takes aim, intent on destroying Shadow Weaver's evil mirror. What makes this story quite interesting is that fact that Bow eventually uses an arrow that is fashioned by the Sorceress!


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Original Bow!

As I have mentioned before, while work was already underway on the She-Ra series, none of the character designs had actually been finalized. When it came to storyboarding the first She-Ra episode "Into Etheria" artist Don Manuel had no character designs to refer to, and subsequently had to design many of the characters himself. In this panning shot we can see Don Manuel's original design of Bow was quite different than the final version!


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Shokoti's Sanctum.

Here is an impressive page from the storyboards of the season one He-Man episode "House of Shokoti" Part 2 illustrated beautifully by Robert Lamb. As you will see Robert illustrated a panning shot and instructed the director how the camera should move throughout the across the scene. Also it is interesting to read Larry DiTillio's lengthy description for the sanctum of Shokoti, which Robert followed to the letter!


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Elves of Seaworthy...

Here is an amusing model sheet showing many of the Seaworthy elves that appeared in the Sea Hawk episodes. It is interesting to see such a variety of characters, especially ones that exude a sense of who they are just because of their design...


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Cheering Orko! :)

Apologies for the lack of updates - I've been busy working on issue three of cereal:geek! :)

"He-Man meets the Beast" features this extremely dramatic illustration of He-Man firing a blast of energy from the Sword of Power as Orko appears to cheerlead. This is another great image by Robin Davies, and I love the use of shadows in this piece! Of course we have seen the little Trollan cheerlead before in "The Energy Beast" episode from season two...


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