Sunday, May 31, 2026

Deadman and Man-Thing Vs. Skeletor

 

This can serve as a direct sequel to when Deadman previously crossed paths with Man-Thing in STF #4613. The new Masters of the Universe movie looks pretty good to me, visually at least.  The quick shots I have seen of Skeletor in the trailers looked cool - and I don't mind that they didn't keep his campy cartoon voice.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

He could always try possessing Orko... or maybe even Stinkor! ;)

Carycomic said...

Given that Alan Oppenheimer (who provided the "campy cartoon voice" for Skeletor in the 1980's Filmation series*) is a 96-year-old retiree from acting, it stands to reason they have to get someone else to do the voice-over for the CGI version of Old Bonehead.

*He also did the voices for Cringer/Battlecat and Man-at-Arms Duncan.

Carycomic said...

As for Deadman's question? He should use the Nexus of All Realities and and bring Travis Morgan back from Skartaris for the climactic sword fight!*

*Thereby also making this a prequel to STF #4937 (@ last October 19).

Anonymous said...

P.S.---your highlighted link seems to be sending me no further back than yesterday's robo-cover.

Ross said...

Thanks, fixed the link.

Detective Tobor said...

getting Swamp-Thing might give Boston a hand. Nice cover.

Anonymous said...

The "Anonymous" posting a P.S. to the first comment, above, is not me, but a different one altogether.

Brett Alan said...

“Bonehead”. I love it!

Anonymous said...

True. I was Anon703. He was Anon628.

Jason Toddman said...

In canon DeadMan couldn't possess Swamp Thing when they met either (an adventure involving Rip Hunter in a coupler of issues of Challengers of the Unknown iirc), so makes perfect sense that he can't possess Man Thing either.

Anonymous said...

What if he occupied Samuel "Plantman" Smithers? The organic human original, that is; not one of his phyto-based clones.

Alaric said...

This cover brings to mind an interesting question- if Deadman felt fear, could Man-Thing's touch burn a ghost? After all, Man-Thing's burned metaphysical being such as demons before...

Jason Toddman said...

Alaric: Maybe that's *why* Deadman can't take over "the big guy"? The cover never really says, though in an actual DC comic he couldn't possess Swamp thing either.

Simreeve said...

Has Deadman ever tried to possess either Solomon Grundy or a Bizarro?

Carycomic said...

That's like asking if the Spectre would be blown to smithereens if he were solid enough to be touched by the Human Bomb. A case of "Never gonna happen."

Carycomic said...

Probably not.

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