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DARK FANTASY TALES FROM THE LOST
WORLD OF MINETERNIA
'Mineternia' describes the Eternia of the original Masters
Of The Universe mini-comics (1982-83), and my
first eight stories are based on those enigmatic barbarian adventures.
Following the minicomics, infant Prince Adam is
raised to manhood by a race of jungle warriors and, through tournament, becomes
their champion, ..He-Man! Armed with the strength of a
god and the mystical Sword of Power, he joins forces with the heroic soldiers
of Eternos--Duncan, Teela, Stratos and the rest--fighting to keep Skeletor,
the Lord of Destruction, from using the cosmic secrets of Castle Grayskull to conquer Eternia.
In a tavern, Prince
Adam of tells the sad tale of how the Vulnarian
warriors met their untimely end and swears vengeance on Skeletor.
This introduction to my first, six tales is set after the adventure in He-Man
and the Power Sword. (2003, Originally published
as The He-Man)
To reunite a father
and son, He-Man hunts down the evil warriors of
Skeletor steals He-Man's Sword of Power
and invades Grayskull, where he uses the castle's
mystic secrets to pit Captain Teela against
He-Man in a fight to the death. Before its full restoration in 2005n 2002,
almost all of it was scrapped for use in The Tale of
Teela. (2005, Based on King of Castle
Grayskull, by Donald F. Glut)
Eternos seeks He-Man's help, when the
shrines to the Warrior Goddess fall silent, and Captain Teela
disappears, as Skeletor and the Priests of Infinitias attack Eternia. (2002,
Based on The Tale of Teela,
by Gary Cohn)
When the
warrior-goddess Evil-Lyn demands a sacrifice, Skeletor
turns an actor into a weapon of mass destruction and the secret of Grayskull's dark origins is revealed. (2004, Based on a
story by Gary Cohn)
To rescue a captured
princess, a young Adam of the Vulnarians ventures
into the furnace of the gods ..alone -- and no, he is
not called He-Boy anywhere in this story! (2004, Based on He-Man and
the Power Sword, by Donald F. Glut)
Skeletor turns Eternia's
natural magic into demonic energy, and a familiar Sorceress summons He-Man
into a mirror universe, where he must prepare a teenaged prince, named Adam,
for the battle to end all battles. (2005, Based on The
Magic Stealer, by Gary Cohn)
When Skeletor and Evil-Lyn attack Eternia
with giant mutant ants, an army of bloodthirsty orcs
AND the Talon Fighter, He-Man and a pegacorn-riding amazon wage all-out war in the skies to save mankind, and
House Freenorn's greatest secrets are finally
revealed! (2010, Based on The Power of Point Dread , by Gary Cohn)
The Vengeance Of
Xena
Holding Gabrielle's
life in the balance, Ares hires Xena to slay the
Goddess and take her eyes, putting her in mortal combat with the Most Powerful
Man in the Universe. This story, the first of the Tales series, was
originally published on a Hercules/Xena fan fiction
site and will likely never be rewritten. (1997, Based on Xena:
Warrior Princess TV series and The Vengeance of Skeletor,
by Donald F. Glut)
FURTHER TALES of MINETERNIA ...
In the spirit of the
We're Not
Afraid Campaign, I will be writing all new stories under my birth
name, Stephens (much to the embarrassment of my family, most certainly).
To save his world,
in this epic tale of Adam’s final days as Eternia's
king, unlikely alliances set him upon a dark, deadly journey into the shadows
of the mysterious
What happens when
Man-At-Arms climbs into a wind raider with a flask of
Young Adam returns
to the Sorceress's lair for answers to questions he might've asked in Adam
and Sword, if he hadn't been so busy losing his bloody virginity. Will he
get the truth, or will Boa'Na remain a mystery?
The Tale Of Teela: The Tom-Stone Draft
Once, The Tale Of Teela seemed like the
perfect place to introduce Tom-Stone, a stone-skinned boy sidekick I
created to replace Orko in my minicomic-inspired
stories. To do that, I rescripted parts of my
original fic that featured the god Eternos to fit Tom-Stone's origin and backstory, ..and rather unwisely,
in retrospect. (2003, Based on A Story by Gary Cohn)
To print out the
first eight completed TALES and Morte
D'Adam all at once, click here.
Other Points of Interest on this Site
Very
special thanks to Kirk Trigon for his
inexhaustible generosity and support - all of the black and white and most of
the color graphics were clipped from Kirk's site, He-ManTales.net.
Special thanks also to Gary Cohn and Donald F. Glut, the authors
of those great minicomics, and also to the definitive
Mineternian artistes, Alfredo Alcala
and Mark Texeira, whose artwork can be found
on this page and throughout my website.
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Skeletor, Eternia and all
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