I drew this over a week ago and began to color it. Then I got busy grading papers and visiting family and so never finished the coloring. I may get back to it eventually, but I thought I’d go ahead and put up the pen-and-ink version. This is another version of the Masters of the Universe characters, this time adding more of my own interests. The layout, by the way, was inspired by the cover of one of the mini comics that came with the original figures.
The other day, I was imagining the Village People dressed up as Masters of the Universe characters. Just a normal mental musing for a Friday evening at the park. That thought lead me to the idea of Tom of Finland drawing MOTU. It’s not that much of a stretch really, seeing as the original MOTU characters were mostly burly men in loin cloths. I’ve always imagined doing a series of drawings or paintings of the MOTU characters and I have scribbled things in my notebook over the years. So I decided to channel Tom of Finland a bit and draw the main men of MOTU.
We must be strong and brave!
Our home we’ve got to save!
If we don’t in just one year,
Mother Earth will disappear!
Then we’ll return.
And when we arrive,
The Earth will survive
With OUR STAR BLAZERS!!!
They never used the damn wave motion gun enough in the series. But that was kind of the point…
