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novelesque_life's review against another edition
5.0
RATING: 4.5 STARS
2017; Dark Horse Books/Dark Horse
(Review Not on Blog)
I grew up watching and loving He-Man and She-Ra and even attended a live show when I was 7 or 8. I never saw them as superheroes for some reason, like Batman and Superman. Seeing them in this medium gave me a wider perspective and I really enjoyed this collection.
***I received an eARC from EDELWEISS***
2017; Dark Horse Books/Dark Horse
(Review Not on Blog)
I grew up watching and loving He-Man and She-Ra and even attended a live show when I was 7 or 8. I never saw them as superheroes for some reason, like Batman and Superman. Seeing them in this medium gave me a wider perspective and I really enjoyed this collection.
***I received an eARC from EDELWEISS***
katiecatbooks's review against another edition
5.0
80's. Adventure hero. Based on cartoon.
Story: This book chronicles the He-Man newspaper comics from beginning to end.
Characters: He-Man is in reality Prince Adam, with the secret ability to transform. He saves the day with the help of his friends, not just with brawn but with brains.
Language: Very 80's dialogue. Full of cheesy lines and some morals. Contains suggestive adult content, but also appropriate reading for younger readers. While a lot of the dialogue with women is very sexist, women play strong roles in the book and are often the heroes.
A fun leap backwards in time, a nice distraction from my normal reading. Took some time to read because the book is so physically big it often causes cricks in my neck so I had to take lots of breaks!
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Story: This book chronicles the He-Man newspaper comics from beginning to end.
Characters: He-Man is in reality Prince Adam, with the secret ability to transform. He saves the day with the help of his friends, not just with brawn but with brains.
Language: Very 80's dialogue. Full of cheesy lines and some morals. Contains suggestive adult content, but also appropriate reading for younger readers. While a lot of the dialogue with women is very sexist, women play strong roles in the book and are often the heroes.
A fun leap backwards in time, a nice distraction from my normal reading. Took some time to read because the book is so physically big it often causes cricks in my neck so I had to take lots of breaks!
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jadejade's review against another edition
4.0
An almost-complete collection of MOTU newspaper strips. Also includes some much-appreciated history behind the comic and the difficult process of bringing this collection together.
I found this collection difficult to rate. On the one hand, this is as complete a collection of MOTU newspaper strips as one can find (space is left for the few missing strips, with a description of what is missing), and so the MOTU collector in me is delighted. On the other hand, despite my love of MOTU I have no personal nostalgia tied to the newspaper strips, and the stories were not so interesting to me that I'm ever likely to reread them. That said, there were a few moments and story threads that kept me going.
I would recommend this collection to fans of MOTU and those who remember the strip when it appeared in newspapers.
I found this collection difficult to rate. On the one hand, this is as complete a collection of MOTU newspaper strips as one can find (space is left for the few missing strips, with a description of what is missing), and so the MOTU collector in me is delighted. On the other hand, despite my love of MOTU I have no personal nostalgia tied to the newspaper strips, and the stories were not so interesting to me that I'm ever likely to reread them. That said, there were a few moments and story threads that kept me going.
I would recommend this collection to fans of MOTU and those who remember the strip when it appeared in newspapers.
paulbrad25's review against another edition
2.0
The actual comics themselves are pretty dry reading, an ongoing daily comic strip is a difficult medium to write for and then reproduce in a collected edition. Two of the strips are also entered in the wrong order, considering the amount of effort that was put into recovering these strips I feel thats a massive oversight.
The book is peppered with a lot of very interesting insights into the production of the strips, and the people behind them as well as a look at and example of the original pitch that had a different approach, with much better story telling, which sadly wasn't picked up.
There is also a very interesting flash-forward story where He-Man travels through time to meet the characters from the later iteration of He-Man, where he leaves Eternia (and gets a hair cut) to travel through space.
This is for completionists and die hard-fans only
The book is peppered with a lot of very interesting insights into the production of the strips, and the people behind them as well as a look at and example of the original pitch that had a different approach, with much better story telling, which sadly wasn't picked up.
There is also a very interesting flash-forward story where He-Man travels through time to meet the characters from the later iteration of He-Man, where he leaves Eternia (and gets a hair cut) to travel through space.
This is for completionists and die hard-fans only
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