Kevin Smith Promises HE-MAN Will Be A Faithful Recreation

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Kevin Smith Promises That His HE-MAN Cartoon Will Be A Faithful Recreation Of The Original Classic

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hi everyone it’s your boy zach and i saw

a few

very interesting choices of words

in kevin smith’s uh announcement of some

new art from his uh

power of grayskull cartoon uh but oh i’m

sorry

animated series before i start 4.99

graphic novel this has already been sent

to the printers

rock and roll ninja graphic novel not

due yet

ahead of schedule impossible stars i

just talked to the printers it’s the

same printers who have done

basically everything for the last few

years so we’re going to be doing

impossible stars in nexus

at the same time along with a poster

this is a very

nice part of the process it’s like oh

it’s done it’s

you know we’re starting you know so

they’re going prep the the

well the pages for the print files to be

populated into

uh so um it’s gonna be uh nexus is gonna

have the same form factor

as a pandemic and then um

impossible stars is gonna be different i

think it will be satin finish

which is like glossy but not too glossy

you don’t have to like angle the paper

and then there’s going to be like a cool

spot varnish

never done this before on the cover of

impossible stars

so um i mentioned for years i’m not

really a huge fan of

he-man at least in uh papillion nebraska

it was the dumb kids toy line of choice

they wouldn’t really come up with story

lines they would just kind of bash them

together and then drop

one and then say the one that didn’t get

dropped one and i

found that not compelling at all

you know with uh star wars with

transformers with gi joe

you would take all your characters your

playsets your vehicles and you would

you know usually you were just ripping

off the latest episode

of the cartoon but you would do your own

take on it i always had snake guys kill

himself

because of like ptsd because he would

usually kill the most people and then he

would be very guilty and then he would

kill himself

so that that was my twist i didn’t copy

that from the cartoon because that never

actually happened

so he was announced for this he-man

cartoon and people

rolled their eyes for a couple reasons

number one it’s kevin smith

who he’s basically a living meme he just

cries for a living he says everything is

wonderful

and he used to be that caustic

irreverent guy and now he’s just

complete

corporate shill he’s also constantly

crying

which is universally uh detested by

everyone when it’s a man

if you’re a man and you’re crying it

better be

like a close family member died

or you are so injured that like

entire bones are sticking out of your

skin like cartoon style like you

there’s very few instances where you get

to cry

and because you saw luke skywalker on

mandalorian no

that doesn’t count oh because you got to

see avengers endgame and it was really

good no that doesn’t count

literally everything he’s cried for does

not qualify for crying without being you

know

mocked or uh women just being disgusted

with

it but that’s his thing he cries for

everything so

nobody really expected much and the

other thing is that

it’s been a bunch of woke remakes if you

you had that thundercats roar

that got buried um uh boy people really

really did not like that don’t take a

cool adventure

toy franchise and turn it into hipster

nonsense

shira was that to a lesser extent she-ra

i know a lot of people said it was

terrible it was solid it was actually

it wasn’t she-ra it was lesbian

princesses of power

on autism island but

it was solid as a show it wasn’t shira

but it was solid thundercats roar was

just complete

um and nobody expected much and

then we started seeing the art for this

he-man you’re like

oh this is actually looks

really really good it kind of reminds me

of what like 15 years ago where they

brought back

thundercats and they just did it you

know a very solid adaptation of the old

show

so all of this looks pretty good i’m a

little worried right there but that’s

fine

but it’s how he describes it that i

found um

actually kind of shocking so uh

he says uh mattel and netflix released

10 images and announced the premiere

date for the for the attorney and epic

we’ve been concocting

masters of the universe revelation i

guess that’s the official title of it

the series is a two-part story with the

five

episode part one debuting on july

23rd what you see here is imagery

crafted by the

fine folks at powerhouse creative in

austin okay

i didn’t realize there was like a

animation studio that did like

2d adventure stuff in austin um

our universe spanning serial takes cues

directly from the beloved 80s cartoon

so long time fans will be transported

right back to their childhoods

but even if you’re unfamiliar with the

mysteries of castle greyskull

our cartoon chronicle is inviting

engrossing adventure for the whole

family

which is something i rarely do without

an r rating of some sort

this is my favorite part faithful

continuations

and recreations of the original classic

character designs if you look at it

we’re not suddenly getting black lesbian

he-man

it’s a continuation of the original

series

which requires everyone to effectively

be basically the same yeah i can see

changes orco is a little

more uh aggro than he used to be

uh and there are you know some changes

for you know

minor characters but anyone can look at

he-man and

instantly realize that that is actually

he-man i don’t know this guy

this guy i remember one guy was named

trap jaw

i just remember that because one of my

friends his mom had a really heavy jaw

so i always called her trap jaw

but um yeah it looks good and i was

actually kind of shocked to see the

words faithful continuations and

recreations he’s

really really emphasizing that this is

not the same we’ve had

over and over again for the last five

years where

everyone’s like okay let’s race swap

let’s gender swap let’s make him

everyone gay let’s make everything

bisexual lighting

no it’s he-man so you get i always find

it weird when people have

hair color that’s lighter than their

skin color but that’s

that’s he-man uh so if

i think they’re tired of failing this

stuff is expensive that’s why that

thundercats remake i think it only got

one or two seasons

it was doing good but they’re like this

is really expensive to do this type of

quality so we need that ratings to be a

lot higher

this is expensive thundercats roar was

not

shiro was like in the middle when you do

this level of quality

it’s very expensive and requires a very

large audience so they’re not trying to

push away

tens of millions of gen xers who grew up

with this stuff

they don’t want to push away all the

people who have bought it sincerely

and they don’t want to make it some

ironic hipster nonsense so you can make

funko pop that can be on some normies

freaking you know workstation

i’m not a he-man fan but i will

absolutely at least give you know the

first few episodes a try this is a

good take and i’m hoping it’s the

beginning of a trend

4.99 graphic novel still time to order

it rock and roll ninja graphic novel

ahead of schedule

and i will have more new comic reviews

up sometime

eventually

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