{"id":4214,"date":"2010-07-23T21:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:30:30","slug":"who-is-preternia-disguise-he-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/who-is-preternia-disguise-he-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Preternia Disguise He-Man?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No doubt a lot of casual MOTU<\/i> fans are wondering where the heck the recently announced \"Preternia Disguise He-Man<\/a>\" comes from. The answer is the vintage minicomic \"The Powers of Grayskull - The Legend Begins\" (inked by Bruce \"DC Animated Universe\" Timm and lettered by Stan \"Usagi Yojimbo\" Sakai). I have to say, this is one figure that really needs to come with a reprint minicomic to be appreciated, and I hope Mattel has a plan for that - at the very least, they should have a nice version of the comic available on their site.<\/p>\n

Until they do, we have a nice version of the comic available on our site. We got the entire comic from He-Man.org here<\/a>, but their navigation between pages is atrocious, so we're mirroring it here, in proper order. I'll summarize it for those of you who don't want to bother.<\/p>\n

He-Man<\/a> and the Sorceress<\/a> are hanging out in the Eternia playset<\/s> Three Towers when He-Man starts wondering about the Towers and the return of the Snake Men<\/a>. The Sorceress takes him to a magical portal, formed by the Cosmic Key, that lets them walk right into the past (I hope they keep a velvet rope around that or something - you just know Ram Man's<\/a> going to wander in and get lost). They witness King Hiss<\/a> tormenting some peasants. He-Man wants to help, but the Sorceress forbids him to interfere with the past lest he step on a butterfly<\/a> or something. However, Skeletor<\/a> sneaks into the Central Tower and crosses through the portal, quickly joining forces with King Hiss in hopes of changing Eternia's future for the worse.<\/p>\n

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Now that Skeletor's involved, the Sorceress lets He-Man join the fray-but only once he's disguised, \"for reasons that will made clear to you in the future\" (I'm guessing this has something to do with He-Ro<\/a> being his ancestor, but who knows). The Sorceress conjures a Bionatops and He-Man rides it into battle, but even as he defeats Skeletor, He-Ro (unnamed and seen only in shadow) appears and sends He-Man, Skeletor and the Sorceress home. When He-Man asks who the shadowy figure was, the Sorceress replies, \"the greatest Sorceror [sic] of all!\" \"But who is he?\" He-Man wonders, and the caption tells us to learn the answer, and more, in the next amazing issue of \"The Powers of Grayskull.\"<\/p>\n

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Sadly, that issue never appeared as MOTU<\/i> was cancelled before it could be published, and it would be nearly 30 years<\/a> before He-Ro was officially incorporated into a MOTU<\/i> toyline.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>