 If you're new to this channel, make sure you hit the subscribe button. Make sure you also click on the little bell to ensure that you receive all notifications for all new videos being uploaded. Make sure you hit the like button, share with your friends, and comment below. I'm Shannon, and Come Again starts now. Hey guys, welcome back to Come Again. I'm Shannon, and today I wanted to go over some reading recommendations. And what I've got here is Masters of the Universe Volume 1 by Image Comics and M.V.P. Creations. Now, as you can see, it's a fairly big stack, but there's only four issues in this volume. And the reason why this is so big is because I have alternate covers to three of the four issues. As you can see, issue one has Skeletor on one cover, and the Masters of the Universe on the other cover. This is cover C, and I believe this is cover A. It doesn't have a cover logo on there, but here this one says cover C. And as you can see, this one's got more of a golden foil look on the logo itself. And this basically takes place in the 2000X He-Man Universe. So what we have here are issue number two. I've got cover A and cover B. This is A, this is B. And then issue number three covers A and B. And then issue number four, I've only got the one cover for it. Now, Image did a really great job with translating the 2000X He-Man inch comic book format. Issue number one has five different alternate covers ranging from A to E. MyComicsShop.com has it listed as about $2.40 on their online marketplace. All right, so in this series, Orco comes across a powerful crystal that enhances his powers, but it also changes his personality quite a bit. It makes him a little bit more entitled. It brings out his worst qualities. And at the same time, Skeletor is hatching a plan to obtain the secrets of Castle Grayskull, but Evil Lynn is working behind the scenes with Trapjaw, and it appears triclops in order to gain this crystal and overthrow Skeletor and King Randor. The story itself is pretty decent. It wasn't anything that really had me on the edge of my seat. You know, most He-Man stories, you know He-Man's gonna win other than, you know, the most recent He-Man Thundercats titles, which I won't get into right now, but in the 2000X version, we know He-Man's gonna win no matter what. In this volume, which is volume one, it does take four issues for him to win, but he does finally win. Issue number one also contains the first four pages of Invincible volume one, which came out about the same time as the 2000X He-Man series. I remember reading Invincible volume one as a digital comic on Image's website when it was released, and I knew right then and there that it was gonna be something incredible. And sure enough, it became one of Image's top titles. But I'll give issue number one, which came out in November of 2002, a seven out of ten. Like I said, it was a good read, wasn't anything special, but if you're a Masters of the Universe fan, you will enjoy it. In issue number two, which again has multiple covers, He-Man sets out on a journey to destroy the mystical artifact that Orco brought them as he's charged with by the sorceress. See, eventually He-Man is accompanied by Man of Arms and a few others of the Masters to the outskirts of Eternia in order to get rid of this crystal. But chaos soon ensues when the Masters start turning on each other and fighting for the crystal. So He-Man decides to finish out the journey on his own as he heads toward Snake Mountain. In issue number two, it's revealed that the crystal that Orco found that He-Man is trying to destroy is only a fragment of the Chakaran crystal. He-Man has sent Snake Mountain in order to obtain the rest of the crystal in order to destroy it so that the full crystal does not fall into evil hands. This fragment of the crystal in which the Masters of the Universe now possess is called the Shard of Darkness and it's said to bring out the worst qualities of a person while also enhancing their powers. Issue number two was an improvement over issue number one. Still not really anything special, but it does begin to show that you know no matter how good someone is that they are still capable of evil such as the case with He-Man, Man of Arms and Orco who begin turning dark whenever they are near the Shard of Darkness. I'll rank this issue as an 8.5 out of 10 stars. Issue number three once again with multiple covers is it opens with He-Man becoming unlikely allies with Evil Lin who lures He-Man into a trap in order to destroy Skeletor. Evil Lin poses as an ally but in reality we all see it coming. We know that she's not really trying to help He-Man. She's not really trying to join forces or anything like that. She's trying to possess the full Chakron crystal in order to defeat Skeletor and King Randor and rule over Eternia on her own. In this issue also the Shard of Darkness finally takes possession of He-Man and we get to see his full potential as a villain. He really starts to almost transform into the anti Eternia He-Man without the full black and red hair. I wouldn't say he's really evil but he feels that he needs to rule Eternia in order to keep the people safe and in order to do that he needs to destroy Skeletor and Evil Lin and all the other evil horde. I mean it really goes deep into He-Man's mentality. It also makes him a lot more violent, willing to kill which we haven't really seen from He-Man before and he becomes obsessed with obtaining the rest of the Chakron crystal. It's also revealed in this issue at the end that Skeletor knew all about Evil Lin's plan and that Tri-Clock was actually working against Evil Lin and never really turned his back on Skeletor. Once again an improvement over the first two issues. I will rank this as an eight and a half out of ten stars which is about the same as issue number two. The story was good you just you could see the ending coming. It proves that even He-Man isn't powerful enough to escape the the power of avarice or greed. So in issue number four we see Skeletor and Evil Lin battling it out. We also see Trapjaw begging for mercy which is kind of a change from his icons of Evil counterpart. As we saw in Icons of Evil Trapjaw was more of a more wanting to take the power for himself and not wanting to follow Skeletor but in this he's kind of more or less like the Trapjaw from the filmation version. A battle ensues as Man of Arms and the Masters of the Universe attempt to help He-Man by attacking Snake Mountain but Skeletor's Skeletor warriors or whatever they're called I can't remember exactly. Battle back massive battle. As you can see Skeletor has He-Man and chains stretched out. It seems that Skeletor may have finally won but He-Man does break his chains and begins to attack Skeletor. He does take Skeletor's Havoc staff while Skeletor has possession of the Sword of Power. So it's kind of a role reversal you know normally we see Skeletor with the Havoc staff battling He-Man who's in possession of the Sword of Power now He-Man has the Havoc staff and Skeletor has the Sword of Power. In this scene we see the Chakron Crystal calling to He-Man. It's saying He-Man come to me come to me as he and Skeletor are racing to it. Until finally we see when He-Man touches the Chakron Crystal inside himself Adam is split from He-Man and the Chakron Crystal takes possession of the He-Man personality right there and it's more like which is which is the mightier of the two Prince Adam or He-Man. We know He-Man possesses all the strength and power but there's also something to be said about Prince Adam who possesses the wisdom the courage and the humanity which makes He-Man possible. It also shows that even when Prince Adam can't transform into He-Man he's still willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that evil doesn't win and ends up defeating the dark entity once and for all. By himself he's barely able to raise the Sword of Power but he does end up using it to destroy the dark entity and we come back to the real world where He-Man shatters the crystal once and for all causing it to explode and he appears to be falling to his doom but Man in Arms catches him and immediately locks him up feeling that you know I'm sorry about this He-Man but I've got to be certain that you're not evil. It's revealed that the sorceress requested Man in Arms and the rest of the masters to stay behind and let He-Man do it on his own because it was He-Man's destiny to to do this by himself and if Man in Arms would have listened to the sorceress several of his men wouldn't have died. He says we lost many in battle. A battle I'm sure we could have avoided. Imagine how much worse the situation would have been if He-Man was lost to the power of the evil artifact. Sorceress goes on to say but He-Man did not lose and if you had done as I requested the lives of your men would have been spared. He-Man would have managed on his own as it was foretold. Man in Arms returns with I'm not sure free-falling several hundred feet would classify as managing it. You underestimate the resourcefulness of He-Man and of Adam but we're left with one fragment of the Chakron crystal can be seen in the pits of Snake Mountain. Only time will tell if it's truly gone. Once again this was issue number four the end of volume one from Image Comics. I'll be going over volume two as soon as I get the final issue of that volume I've got I'll show you real quick I've got issues one and two so far I think there's anywhere between three to five issues in this series so I'll have to double check but once I get all the issues for volume two I will review it overall I will give volume one a an eight out of ten that is a good story good read if you like Masters of the Universe you'll want to pick this issue this volume up like I said for collectors there are variant covers and uh so yeah I hope you guys enjoy and stay tuned hit that subscribe button make sure you hit the like