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January 26, 2010
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It's Saturday, 1984. Cartoons are over, cereal is eaten, bed is made, room is clean, and you've just been handed your weekly allowance of five dollars. Mom agrees to take you to the store so you can spend it. Saving money's for suckers.

You race down the toy aisles, and pore over the little plastic muscle-men. There it is! The new Laser-Light BLACKSTAR action figure you saw on TV. There's no laser, of course; you just thumb a wheel in the figure's back and sparks shoot into its abdomen, which lights up a translucent plastic jewel in the chest. Lasers! You pull out the five-dollar bill from your pocket and eye the price tag: $4.99. There's no sales tax in Oregon. Life is sweet.

Back home, you tear open your prize. Behind the figure in the blister pack is a cheaply-printed fold-out poster with the Blackstar heroes; John, Klone, Mara, and the Trobbits. You throw the poster on your bed, grab your new figure, shoot a few lasers, and commence vanquishing the forces of evil. Skeletor and Cobra Commander have formed a shaky alliance -- it's up to John Blackstar and his Starsword to turn the tide.


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Super-huge printable version on the download link. Cheers, Saturday morning warriors.
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~electronicron Feb 22, 2013
I love the art, and I love your story!
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~MightyMorphinPower4 Oct 9, 2012
Awesome one
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*weremole Oct 8, 2012  Professional
I really like the colors used here.
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~skravania Sep 29, 2012
You can add Galtar and The Golden Lance to this 80's Saturday mornings Super Heroes group !
Beautiful art !
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*DwayneF Sep 6, 2012
Great piece. I especially like your vision of John Blackstar.
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*Gaston25 Aug 23, 2012
This is awesome! What a great blast from the past
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*MicahJGunnell May 19, 2012  Professional Filmographer
So cool! Love that rhino dude!
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~radja01 May 12, 2012
The text is so melancolic and the picture is very impressive! :) Thanks to sharing your child's memory! :)
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~Bonzulac Apr 30, 2012
Filmation - the most bland, generic, charmless animation studio outside of Canada. Completely lacking originality, they rip off several sources at once, watering all those stolen elements down until whatever life or skill the source material may have had is completely gone. Television animation was dead before Filmation. Filmation is where the necrophilia began.

That said - great drawing! If only the cartoon were half as good.
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Mood: Sentimental ~Marvsamune Apr 16, 2012  Professional Artist
Nice memories!!!!
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