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The Masters of the Universe Coloring Book.

Looking at the main page, I noticed that I hadn't done a He-Man article in many months. Whoops. Making up for some lost time, here's my review of an insane Masters of the Universe Coloring Book, featuring two stories and some strange games and puzzles. The stories contain everything from Skeletor driving clouds to forcing marriage on Teela, so it seemed like something I had to show you. Review spans several pages, but it's mostly a quick read, so get readin' quick.

Posted by Matt on 03/03/2004. E-mail me!

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Damn, Matt, this was one of your better articles. The Teela story seemed like something my sisters and I would have come up with about fifteen years years ago (except we didn’t have Teela, so Skeletor would have married one of the She-Ra figures, and He-Man and a few My Little Ponies would have rescued her). That "cloud" thing was truly inspired, though, up to and including the psycho black scribble. I think I have a good explanation of why some of the coloring was decent and some of it was dada – an older sibling or parent must have briefly joined the little kid.

My mom colored with my siblings and I all the time when we were little. We had tons of coloring books for everything under the sun, but the ones I remember most were a "Justice League of America" (or something like that) activity book (I only remember it because the Wonder Twins were in it) and a really cute all-coloring "Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers" tale about the crew foiling a plot on a cruise ship. We had that book for years.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/06/2004 10:54 PM

Great article Matt! This is my first post on your website, but I’ve been reading your writing for about a year now. So many fun memories have come back to me from the 80′s thanks to your archives. Keep up the great work!

Chestnuts roasted by Tama chan @ 03/07/2004 10:53 AM

AAFES! That coloring book began it’s post-printing life in the military’s equivilent of a K-Mart.

Chestnuts roasted by akbarium @ 03/07/2004 6:44 PM

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/365682/heman.gif

Now all I need is a 3d shark!

Chestnuts roasted by Great Scott @ 03/08/2004 2:43 PM

just a random guess about your basketball player, but if it’s new jersey a few eyars ago it’s probably Jayson williams, from before he broke his leg and killed his limo driver.

Chestnuts roasted by chris @ 03/08/2004 3:23 PM

I planned on posting this earlier, but my server was down. Here ya go…

http://www.issue9mm.com/~corwin/lincolnheman.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Corwin Gibson @ 03/13/2004 5:40 AM

Oh my god. i am at work and had to stifle my laughter. i think i am going to throw up. Jesus that was funny

Chestnuts roasted by Vodstok @ 03/15/2004 1:14 PM

Genius on the "what they see" page. genius.

Chestnuts roasted by mark @ 03/19/2004 1:19 AM

Genius on the "what they see" page. genius.

Chestnuts roasted by mark @ 03/19/2004 1:19 AM

This was my first time looking at these books and the running commentary had me pissing myself. It is so damn funny. Its nice to see a site dedictaed to so much of my childhood. Thanks for the memories and the laughs.

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 04/19/2004 11:40 PM

I had that book I think, I don’t remember the stories too much, but I certainly remember the fun & games, especially the what do he-man and teela see. It was on 2 pages one was stratos filled in black, only with a ‘hole’ in him and the other page was the same picture, but with a black dot where the hole was. The idea was to stare at the black stratos for a minute then look at the black dot and you’ll see a floating stratos appear. Spooky stuff

Chestnuts roasted by English Gaz @ 05/07/2004 7:50 AM

lol I think that kid that was coloring this book was mad at boredom. Lol This was totally funny to read. A kid that went beserk on a book. With funny comments after looking at the pages. Good Commenting by the way.

Chestnuts roasted by Matthew @ 05/14/2004 4:39 PM

This Stupid comic was fucking funny. Especially when on the puzzle pages where she had to find the right key. And to think that kids back then read these

Chestnuts roasted by Allahwin @ 05/28/2004 9:25 PM

You might find this funny as well, for zany He-Man related goodness:
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=140

Chestnuts roasted by Adam @ 07/07/2004 2:04 PM

The coloring book was actually very cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Crimson @ 07/13/2004 2:15 AM

hilarity personified! Even way out in Manchester UK!! Work has never been so interesting

Chestnuts roasted by Punktigger @ 07/15/2004 12:38 PM

hilarity personified! Even way out in Manchester UK!! Work has never been so interesting

Chestnuts roasted by Punktigger @ 07/15/2004 12:39 PM

hilarity personified! Even way out in Manchester UK!! Work has never been so interesting

Chestnuts roasted by Punktigger @ 07/15/2004 12:39 PM

oops
*shame*

Chestnuts roasted by punktigger @ 07/15/2004 12:40 PM

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Chestnuts roasted by hope2b2 @ 08/26/2004 2:28 PM

gay people

Chestnuts roasted by stone @ 09/27/2004 10:08 AM

you people are all gay

Chestnuts roasted by stone @ 09/27/2004 10:13 AM

I used to have that He-Man book as a kid. But you really put it together. I laughed my ass off so bad I scared my cat.

Chestnuts roasted by Jess @ 11/07/2004 5:27 AM

I think I had that one.

Chestnuts roasted by Mick @ 06/11/2011 7:06 AM

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