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He-Man Eternity War # 5

 By Mark Rodriguez

All of Eternia's forces are out to find the Eyes of Chronos and Chaos to prevent the other from conquering or destroying everything. Since Teela is the new snake-themed Sorceress, the Snake Men now fight alongside He-Man, and after our bold hero saved Rattlor from war injuries, he now chooses to follow him out of actual respect rather than blind loyalty. Hordak forges his own Power Sword and gains the powers of Grayskull.... and impales She Ra with the giant sword, complete with lighting blasting out through her back. As She Ra lies a bloody mess, Skeletor suddenly arrives to grab her and teleports her to his lair. But to what end?

The issue opens with She-Ra bleeding to death and weakly begging for her sword. Evil Lyn, Trap Jaw and Beast Man taunt her, and Skeletor tells them he didn't bring her to his lair just to watch her die and commands that they give her the sword. She Ra holds onto it and it starts to glow. Within seconds she's completely healed and ready to fight against Skeletor and his forces. Skeletor says he is not here to fight and introduces her to his crew. Beast Man laughs and asks if the woman is called Her-Man, and Skeletor shuts him up with his version of the Force Choke Hold. Skeletor then wishes to speak with She-Ra alone.

Evil Lyn overhears this and says this won't stand. She takes the Eyes of Chrono and Chaos and vanishes away with them, telling the others that Skeletor is betraying them. Skeletor returns, how with his jaw reformed thanks to She-Ra healing him and asks what happened. Beast Man tells him what Evil Lyn did.

Evil Lyn warps inside Castle Grayskull and fights her way through the Horde Troopers, demanding to see Hordak himself. Modulok appears and tells them to take her to the dungeon. Tri Klops, now working for Hordak, says not to waste time and kill her outright, knowing how powerful she is. Hordak arrives and tells Evil Lyn that he likes her initiative. Hordak recongizes Evil Lyn as 'Skeletor's witch', but she says she no longer serves him and offers him the Eyes of Chrono and Chaos.

Teela, the Sorceress takes He-Man to a door with a Horde symbol on it. Behind it lies the answer to what he's looking for since he did say he would do 'whatever it takes' to defeat Hordak. Teela tells him he might not like what he sees. As he steps forth, everything goes red.

He-Man awakens in bed with his wife Teela, seemingly after a week's celebration of passionate lovemaking (giggedy), since this day marked the 30th anniversary of having defeated Hordak and having brought peace to Eternia. As He-Men gets up and stares across the balcony alongside his wife.... we see that the planet has been extremely militarized with crowds marching in a steady formation and guns located everywhere, now with the Grayskull symbol (the cross thing He-Man usually wears on his chest) replacing the Horde symbol. It seems He-Man had conquered Eternia for himself.


My Opinions-

 Well, where to begin. Skeletor's desire to become Keldor again and basically reform was interesting. On one side, it does kinda make sense. Most of the times bad guys in cartoons or comics that aren't flat out killed off continue to have evil plans and whatnot because they hope to someday win in the end. Yeah, someday either he, she, or one of their minions will succeed in killing the hero, or one day that death trap will be 100% escape truth. But what if you discovered that you were always destined to lose no matter what? That no matter what you do or what you plan, the good guys will somehow always win and you'll always have to run away to fight another day? This reminds me of an episode of Pinky and the Brain where they went to the future and Brain was upset to realize that after so many years they were still TRYING to take over the world rather than already having accomplished it.

I totally dug that scene with Skeletor going across the multiverse and we see this spread featuring Skeletor from different cartoons, the action figures, the movie, even the original mini-comics. I have no idea how DC got the rights from all those companies to do that. This takes a page right out of Turtles Forever (which I'm sure took a page out of somewhere else too) as the 2K3 Shredder also checked out other multiverses only to discover that no matter what there would always be some version of the Turtles out there to stop him. Rather than go insane and decided to just destroy EVERYTHING, like Shredder did, the DC  Skeletor instead sees himself a failure and always destined to lose no matter what. He sees the time has come to hang up the cloak and live a better life.

So many years later, and Skeletor is still losing to He-Man in the very end, even if it looks like he won for a bit at first

But then again this is Skeletor. He could very well be playing with She-Ra's sympathies and just kill when he's done killing Hordak and rule Eternia with an iron boney first once all is said and done.

Evil Lyn does what she does best. Betray one evil bad guy to work for another. In the 2002 version she tried to betray Skeletor to work for both King Hiss and Hordak and here she's pulling the same deal. I do have to say, in this particular version she is an incredibly stupid woman. Why? Well, she has already proven herself to be incredibly powerful.... and now she has BOTH the Eyes of Chrono and Chaos. Why in the hell doesn't she just take that power for herself and rule Eternia as an evil queen or something???? Why hand them over to Hordak? Honestly, if she wasn't such a major character within the MOTU universe, I would have had Hordak thank her, and then kill her right then and there, because after all.... he has no real reason not to. He's all-powerful now and evil in the strongest sense of the word.

And about Evil Lyn, she sure was hateful towards She-Ra, someone she has never seen before until now. Yeah, I get she's one of the good guys, but this sounds personal as if they had crossed swords before. When Skeletor ordered them to hand the dying She-Ra her sword, Evil Lyn spits out that she hopes she chokes on it. Geez bitch.

He-Man takes a back seat to his own series, but hey, you have to recognize that this series is full of all sorts of exciting characters, so it never hurts to spend some time with some of them too. The cliffhanger seems to shift focus back to him, so let's see what happens next issue. I assume He-Man is going to somehow 'Quantum Leap' into his future self to find out what of all happened, so let's see how this He-Man dictatorial leadership came about. 

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