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5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer awesome! vibrant - beautiful
Upon opening the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe mini-comic book collection, I was immediately impressed! This is like the best, most amazing book ever!As a book collector, I own many books, including some very lovely roleplaying game and comic books, so there are a few that I've seen that are comparable to this in terms of sheer awesome, but this one might just about take the cake, eat a piece, and push the rest of it on Skeletor's face while giving a sarcastic one-liner, followed by Skeletor yelling "Noooo!", which is then followed by comedic laughter by all the hero characters as the scene ends.It's just so incredibly, and even unexpectedly, beautiful! I love the illustrations and the vibrant colors and the smell of the ink and paper. I'm totally psyched!My favorite books of all time include titles that are rich with illustration and beautiful and creative conceptual imagery. This heavy tome is now instantly at the top of my list. It is 2 1/4 inches thick and has a bright red silk bookmark ribbon. The storyline text is sometimes a little inconclusive, raw, or simplistic, but that really just makes it read more like an old fairy tale or a children's book, which is how the stories of The Masters of the Universe tend to play out. In the introduction, Tim Kilpin states (something like; to paraphrase), that in the beginning, they were trying to sell toys, but that the process of developing storylines and character origins that were fun for children was something that they took seriously, that took on a life of its own, and it shows. I feel like I'm reading an ancient tome or some long lost forgotten fairy tale of biblical proportions. I'm sure that a little bit of this has to do with childhood nostalgia. But He-Man has at least a few things in common with many heroes and champions of the forces of good, from modern stories, 20th-century pulp fiction, as well as ancient myths. It's one of the few storylines that successfully combines genres of magic - sword and sorcery - with technology and science fiction themes, other dimensions, and extraplanetary travel. I can't think of many other brands or stories that do this in a way that's similar.... Warhammer 40K, Final Fantasy, or maybe Riddick or the Princess of Mars Chronicles? He-Man is pretty unique.These stories are fun, interesting, and beautifully portrayed. Contained within seems to be all the He-Man and She-Ra comics ever written, save for a few obscure issues that were printed in Brazil which were seemingly so rare that they could not be tracked down and rediscovered. This collection is epic and gorgeous. You can tell that love and attention was put into both the initial creation of these comics, back in the 1980s, as well as into this vibrant 2015 restored collection.I was seriously not expecting something of this level of quality and content for the price, which is why I decided to write this review. Considering the production value and obvious effort put into it, I might've expected this book to be 3 times what it actually cost on Bolo.Alfredo Alcala is automatically one of my new favorite artists; his use of color is tremendously striking and simultaneously both imaginary or ethereal as well as realistic. I'd compare his work maybe to Katsuya Terada's during the late 80s.Even if you're not a huge fan of The Masters of the Universe, but just a fan of comic books or of the (2nd) golden age of illustration, this book is something you really should consider owning.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Massively Small MOTU Omnibus
I've wanted this collection for quite some time!Back in the 1980s, when you got either a Masters of the Universe action figure or vehicle/playset, you got a free mini-comic. Generally what happened was on you way home from the store, you would read the minicomic in order to learn more about the item you have just bought. (Yes, I realize now that these books were basically 8-12 page ads. But they were so much fun to read!) Once you got home, you'd take your new toy and act out the adventures in the book. Or you'd nag your parents to buy the missing characters from the book.Over the years, finding those minicomics would become a mission for many fans such as myself. I don't have room to display dozens of action figures and playsets. But I have a couple of inches of space in one of my long boxes to house a complete run of minicomics.Turns out that the minicomics are even harder to find than the figures. That's because the minicomics would get lost or thrown away or damaged. In the over 10 years plus I've been collecting as an adult, I've only found one He-Man mini comic. It was only a couple of bucks but not in the best of shape with some apparent water damage.Thankfully, someone at Dark Horse decided to hunt down those lost treasures. And they went above and beyond including not just the complete run of MOTU, but the inserts from She-Ra, Princess of Power, the 1989 space reboot of He-Man, the original storybook set of 4, and some never before published minis as well!This collection is massively small. It has well over 1100 pages. Yet, it's just slightly bigger than the size of the mini-comics. So the transferring of original works to copies prevents the artwork from looking stretched-out!This massive volume includes early work from some of the industries legends such as Bruce Timm, Lee Nordling, Stan Sakai, Mark Texeira, and Robert Kirkman!It's really hard to complain about this book. Yes, some of the stories are quite silly, if not ludicrous. (They were written for kids aged 5-10!) The volume, it's got just about everything a MOTU minicomics collector would want- except for the final 8 minicomics produced for the He-Man classics line. I'm not sure why those weren't included unless Dark Horse was afraid that the book and it's costs were getting too out of hand.This book, from 2015, originally retails for $29.99. If you are patient, like I was, you can find it for a very good deal on Bolo. If you are wanting to revisit the wonder of being a He-Man fan back in the 80s, this is the perfect MOTU collection for you! And it will save you money and time for something else instead of trying to complete this set individually.Now if only DC Comics would release a collection of the Super Powers minicomics, my mirco-sized comic book searches would be complete!
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing! Beautiful pure nostalgiaa
Best comic compilation ever!!
Awesome
Awesome book
Excelente producto de He-man y los MOTU
Aunque me gustaría que los tomos 2 y 3 estuvieran disponibles. Una se queda con ganas de leer el resto de las historias. Este tomo tiene 15 y unos datos y entrevistas. Me gustó mucho. El tamaño es perfecto y la pasta dura es ideal para mantener el material en mejor estado.
Genial
Me ha sorprendido la calidad del tomo, son más de 1200 páginas con todos los minicómics de nuestra infancia. Se trata de los cómics que traían las figuras para presentar personajes y demás, así que son autoconclusivos y tienen un argumento muy simple.Dato curioso, los primeros cómics se hicieron antes de contar con una línea argumental clara, que luego seguirían tanto los cómics de Marvel como la serie de dibujos. Todos están incluídos en el tomo, con notas a pie de página para aclarar todo tipo de detalles, incluídas las incongruencias del argumento.Al estar publicado en un formato mayor que el original, tanto los dibujos como el texto aparecen aumentados, por lo que está muy bien si tienes problemas de vista o estás leyéndolo a alguien; pero ojo, que está en Inglés.La edición es muy chula, con una cinta para marcar las páginas y todo.
Excelente aquisição
Maravilhoso livro. Uma Bíblia MOTU. Para quem quiser aprofundar mais na história, esse livro é o melhor que existe. Muito top.
I remember lines from the Triclops comic
I watched the Netflix 'The Toys that Made Us' about MOTU, always wondered if someone would put them together.It also has illustrated stories from annuals.This book is thicc
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AED18393
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Order today to get by 7-14 business days
Delivery fee of AED 20. Free for orders above AED 200.
Imported From: United States
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sheer awesome! vibrant - beautiful
Upon opening the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe mini-comic book collection, I was immediately impressed! This is like the best, most amazing book ever!As a book collector, I own many books, including some very lovely roleplaying game and comic books, so there are a few that I've seen that are comparable to this in terms of sheer awesome, but this one might just about take the cake, eat a piece, and push the rest of it on Skeletor's face while giving a sarcastic one-liner, followed by Skeletor yelling "Noooo!", which is then followed by comedic laughter by all the hero characters as the scene ends.It's just so incredibly, and even unexpectedly, beautiful! I love the illustrations and the vibrant colors and the smell of the ink and paper. I'm totally psyched!My favorite books of all time include titles that are rich with illustration and beautiful and creative conceptual imagery. This heavy tome is now instantly at the top of my list. It is 2 1/4 inches thick and has a bright red silk bookmark ribbon. The storyline text is sometimes a little inconclusive, raw, or simplistic, but that really just makes it read more like an old fairy tale or a children's book, which is how the stories of The Masters of the Universe tend to play out. In the introduction, Tim Kilpin states (something like; to paraphrase), that in the beginning, they were trying to sell toys, but that the process of developing storylines and character origins that were fun for children was something that they took seriously, that took on a life of its own, and it shows. I feel like I'm reading an ancient tome or some long lost forgotten fairy tale of biblical proportions. I'm sure that a little bit of this has to do with childhood nostalgia. But He-Man has at least a few things in common with many heroes and champions of the forces of good, from modern stories, 20th-century pulp fiction, as well as ancient myths. It's one of the few storylines that successfully combines genres of magic - sword and sorcery - with technology and science fiction themes, other dimensions, and extraplanetary travel. I can't think of many other brands or stories that do this in a way that's similar.... Warhammer 40K, Final Fantasy, or maybe Riddick or the Princess of Mars Chronicles? He-Man is pretty unique.These stories are fun, interesting, and beautifully portrayed. Contained within seems to be all the He-Man and She-Ra comics ever written, save for a few obscure issues that were printed in Brazil which were seemingly so rare that they could not be tracked down and rediscovered. This collection is epic and gorgeous. You can tell that love and attention was put into both the initial creation of these comics, back in the 1980s, as well as into this vibrant 2015 restored collection.I was seriously not expecting something of this level of quality and content for the price, which is why I decided to write this review. Considering the production value and obvious effort put into it, I might've expected this book to be 3 times what it actually cost on Bolo.Alfredo Alcala is automatically one of my new favorite artists; his use of color is tremendously striking and simultaneously both imaginary or ethereal as well as realistic. I'd compare his work maybe to Katsuya Terada's during the late 80s.Even if you're not a huge fan of The Masters of the Universe, but just a fan of comic books or of the (2nd) golden age of illustration, this book is something you really should consider owning.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Massively Small MOTU Omnibus
I've wanted this collection for quite some time!Back in the 1980s, when you got either a Masters of the Universe action figure or vehicle/playset, you got a free mini-comic. Generally what happened was on you way home from the store, you would read the minicomic in order to learn more about the item you have just bought. (Yes, I realize now that these books were basically 8-12 page ads. But they were so much fun to read!) Once you got home, you'd take your new toy and act out the adventures in the book. Or you'd nag your parents to buy the missing characters from the book.Over the years, finding those minicomics would become a mission for many fans such as myself. I don't have room to display dozens of action figures and playsets. But I have a couple of inches of space in one of my long boxes to house a complete run of minicomics.Turns out that the minicomics are even harder to find than the figures. That's because the minicomics would get lost or thrown away or damaged. In the over 10 years plus I've been collecting as an adult, I've only found one He-Man mini comic. It was only a couple of bucks but not in the best of shape with some apparent water damage.Thankfully, someone at Dark Horse decided to hunt down those lost treasures. And they went above and beyond including not just the complete run of MOTU, but the inserts from She-Ra, Princess of Power, the 1989 space reboot of He-Man, the original storybook set of 4, and some never before published minis as well!This collection is massively small. It has well over 1100 pages. Yet, it's just slightly bigger than the size of the mini-comics. So the transferring of original works to copies prevents the artwork from looking stretched-out!This massive volume includes early work from some of the industries legends such as Bruce Timm, Lee Nordling, Stan Sakai, Mark Texeira, and Robert Kirkman!It's really hard to complain about this book. Yes, some of the stories are quite silly, if not ludicrous. (They were written for kids aged 5-10!) The volume, it's got just about everything a MOTU minicomics collector would want- except for the final 8 minicomics produced for the He-Man classics line. I'm not sure why those weren't included unless Dark Horse was afraid that the book and it's costs were getting too out of hand.This book, from 2015, originally retails for $29.99. If you are patient, like I was, you can find it for a very good deal on Bolo. If you are wanting to revisit the wonder of being a He-Man fan back in the 80s, this is the perfect MOTU collection for you! And it will save you money and time for something else instead of trying to complete this set individually.Now if only DC Comics would release a collection of the Super Powers minicomics, my mirco-sized comic book searches would be complete!
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing! Beautiful pure nostalgiaa
Best comic compilation ever!!
Awesome
Awesome book
Excelente producto de He-man y los MOTU
Aunque me gustaría que los tomos 2 y 3 estuvieran disponibles. Una se queda con ganas de leer el resto de las historias. Este tomo tiene 15 y unos datos y entrevistas. Me gustó mucho. El tamaño es perfecto y la pasta dura es ideal para mantener el material en mejor estado.
Genial
Me ha sorprendido la calidad del tomo, son más de 1200 páginas con todos los minicómics de nuestra infancia. Se trata de los cómics que traían las figuras para presentar personajes y demás, así que son autoconclusivos y tienen un argumento muy simple.Dato curioso, los primeros cómics se hicieron antes de contar con una línea argumental clara, que luego seguirían tanto los cómics de Marvel como la serie de dibujos. Todos están incluídos en el tomo, con notas a pie de página para aclarar todo tipo de detalles, incluídas las incongruencias del argumento.Al estar publicado en un formato mayor que el original, tanto los dibujos como el texto aparecen aumentados, por lo que está muy bien si tienes problemas de vista o estás leyéndolo a alguien; pero ojo, que está en Inglés.La edición es muy chula, con una cinta para marcar las páginas y todo.
Excelente aquisição
Maravilhoso livro. Uma Bíblia MOTU. Para quem quiser aprofundar mais na história, esse livro é o melhor que existe. Muito top.
I remember lines from the Triclops comic
I watched the Netflix 'The Toys that Made Us' about MOTU, always wondered if someone would put them together.It also has illustrated stories from annuals.This book is thicc
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