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Post by coinilius on Feb 5, 2013 4:46:06 GMT -5
Page Thirty-Eight
Panel One
Overlord (off panel): There! A real planet… but its red desert would offer no shelter… perhaps farther… closer to the sun… you ship goes back…
Panel Two
Overlord (off panel): …Along it’s trail that arises from this blue planet! Your planet! Bright and welcoming with its luminous atmosphere…
Panel Three
Overlord (off panel): So calm and serene… seas spread out and pure… gentle mountains… trees… flowers and birds, an enchanting paradise that demands to be subjected!
Panel Four
Overlord (Off panel): Cities of elegant architecture… verdant parks… technological marvels…
Panel Five
Overlord (off panel): As your ship returns to its place of origin, your fellow human beings there to wave you off… it becomes a landing point!
Panel Six
Overlord (off panel): A young girl is waiting for you! When in reality, she leaves you forever! But… By the Supreme Evil! You both speak… backwards!
Girl (backwards): Goodbye, John! Do not forget me!
Blackstar (backwards): See you soon, Leia!
NOTES:
* John is certainly taking this dangerous trip into deep space lightly, he's just that cool and collected... it even looks like he's heading off with his briefcase for just another day at the office lol
* Another distinction between this and the cartoon originals - here, Blackstar's girlfriend he's leaving behind on Earth is named Leia rather than Katana.
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Post by coinilius on Feb 5, 2013 4:48:05 GMT -5
Of course, as written these are just seperate continuities to each other, but if you're like me and like to 'join the dots' the two different girlfriends are a pretty simple problem to overcome - her name is simply Leia Katana  She is Lt Katana after all, so you can take it to refer to a last name (although I actually worked with a woman whose daughter was named Katana... maybe she was a Blackstar fan  ) |
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Post by blackstar76 on Feb 5, 2013 6:18:03 GMT -5
Yes please, I would very much like to join the dots, so Leia Katana suits me fine!!! |
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Post by coinilius on Feb 18, 2013 5:18:55 GMT -5
Page Thirty-Nine
Panel One:
Overlord (off panel): But I can decipher… You were John… She was Leia! You had sworn fidelity! Ugh! Certainly, this foolish love reigns on many worlds…
Leia (backwards): When will you return, my love?
Blackstar (backwards): This will be my last mission, darling!
Panel Two
Blackstar (thinking): Leia… Leia… Leia…
Panel Four
Overlord: Enough! Love… always love! And I see that woman’s name awakens your memories!
Blackstar: L… Leia… Leia…
Panel Five
Overlord: That’s it! Continue, Blackstar! Tell me about your planet! What is its name? What is its galactic position?
Mara: No! Blackstar! No! Be quite!
Blackstar: Le… Leia…
Panel Six
Blackstar: After… a long and cruel history… wars… famines… and revolutions… came the period of peace… and planetary consciousness… brilliant centuries… wisdom… progress of the mind… techniques… interstellar travel… I… I… Leia…
Overlord (off panel): That’s enough, Blackstar! Its name! What is its name?
Panel Seven
Blackstar (off panel): The… The… The… The Earth!
Page Eight
Overlord: I see it! Five billion happy people will soon be five billion slaves in my service … unless I decide to destroy them first! Ah! Ah! Ah! I recovered your spaceship…
Overlord: …to repeat the cosmic path you just revealed to me!
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Post by blackstar76 on Feb 18, 2013 11:53:27 GMT -5
Thanks for page 39 dude!
Well, Overlord got very close in succeeding in his deadly cause in this comic! This page is full of dramatic panels!
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Post by coinilius on Feb 19, 2013 3:41:46 GMT -5
I like the idea of Overlord having recovered Blackstar's spaceship intending to use it to spearhead his attack on Earth.
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Post by coinilius on Apr 15, 2013 5:19:55 GMT -5
Page Forty
Panel One
Overlord: Give me its galactic co-ordinates! Speak human!
Mara (off panel): No, Blackstar! I beg you!
Blackstar: 285,30 light years… constellation of the cross… latitude… 0, 97 galactic plane… and…
Panel Two
Overlord: Repeat the galactic longitude and I will know all! My crew of Griffon-Conquerors await my orders! Speak!
Blackstar: Lon… gitude…
Panel Three
Mara (thinking): Oh Moons… give me some of your light… so that it fills my fairy tears , like it did yesterday, outside the cave of Antrax!
Panel Four
Mara (thinking): Oh Moons… that your sublime rays by the crystal tears reach the sword and gems!
Panel Five
Overlord: By the evil ice! Speak!
Overlord: Aaarrrgh! Why can I not raise this sword against you?
Blackstar: Longitude… Le… Leia…
Panel Six
Caption: Amplified and concentrated like a laser beam, the double flash of Mara strikes the magical sword with full force…
Panel Seven
Caption: Then, lowering her burning gaze, the sweet fairy reaches the two gems!
Panel Eight
Blackstar: The Earth… lon… longitude…
Blackstar: Magic sword! Slice my bonds!
Caption: In the violent glow, all memory is erased. The hero plunges back into reality!
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Post by coinilius on Apr 23, 2013 7:06:12 GMT -5
Page Forty-One
Panel One
Overlord: By the Supreme Evil!
Caption: Buzzing with energy, the fantastic weapon flies from the first of the Overlord and plunges into the chains that imprison its master!
Panel Two
Caption: In a lightning move, Blackstar grabs his faithful sword and frees himself!
Panel Three
Caption: In the same movement, the young prince parries the mortal blow of the Overlord…
Overlord: Griffon Guards! To me!
Panel Four
Overlord: Sacrifice the fairy Mara who dared to help the cursed human!
Blackstar: Tyrant! This crime will cost you dearly!
Panel Five
Mara (thinking): Farewell, beloved prince, this is the end!
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Post by coinilius on Apr 23, 2013 7:13:17 GMT -5
Interesting how despite Overlord not being depicted using the Power Sword in this continuity, he still has a 'regular' sword to pull out so that he can have a climactic sword fight with Blackstar...
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Post by coinilius on Apr 20, 2014 23:49:17 GMT -5
Page Forty-Two
Panel One
Klone (in form of bird): To the Attack!
Gossamer: To the… to the att… to the atta… tata…
Panel Two
Gryphon Guard: Hiiiarg!
Panel Three
Gossamer: Hey Klone, have I come down?
Klone: And how, Goss! To basket the alley cats!
Panel Four
Klone: Is that it, Griffin?
Gossamer: Sweet fairy Mara! I have liberated you, and outside my companions are ready to attack!
Mara: Klone! Gossamer! By what miracle?
Panel Five
Overlord: By the Icy Terror!
Blackstar: Klone! Carry Mara! Gossamer! Take the bag of gems! Tell the Trobbits to attack! I’ll take care of this tyrant!
Mara: No, my love! I will not abandon you!
Klone: Come, Mara! You know Blackstar is the best swordsman in this corner of the galaxy!
Gossamer: Courage, noble prince! We will return in force!
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Post by blackstar76 on Apr 21, 2014 3:32:30 GMT -5
I like the fact that Mara shows that she's really in love with Blackstar in every chance she gets, something that we never got to see in the cartoon...
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Post by coinilius on Apr 21, 2014 3:41:16 GMT -5
The French comics both really ran with that angle! It's an interesting take, especially given how underplayed it was in the cartoon itself. Maybe the French are just romantics like that?  I've mentioned it before, but it's also interesting that both the Pif Gadget comic and this one also had it that Overlord was looking to further his conquests past Sagar, with plans on conquering Earth and presumably other planets. And unlike the Mara/John romance, that idea really wasn't in the cartoon at all. |
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Post by monteeg on Apr 21, 2014 8:41:10 GMT -5
That romantic triangle among John, Mara and Klone, is well done in French publications...
Unfortunately the cartoon had a short-live...it's possible we could have much more reveals in a second season...
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Post by blackstar76 on Apr 21, 2014 11:34:51 GMT -5
that idea really wasn't in the cartoon at all. Unfortunately no! But it was in the greek version of blackstar! The alternate masters of the universe toyline!!! Ha,ha! |
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Post by coinilius on Apr 22, 2014 5:23:58 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I doubt Filmation would have ever really done more with the Mara/John relationship than what was presented - it wasn't really Filmation's style. Even so, a second series would have been great to see - more adventures of Blackstar on Sagar are always welcome!
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