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Published: 2011-06-15 04:05:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 21331; Favourites: 204; Downloads: 523
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Today (June 14) marks the official release day of The Herculoids: The Complete Original Animated Series from Warner Archive. So in commemoration of this event - a DVD I've been waiting for ever since the advent of DVDs themselves - I drew this piece of fan art.And although I've drawn Tara several times before, this marks the first time (excepting perhaps some sketches I might've done as a child, and a Herculoids fan) that I've drawn Zandor and Dorno. I would've included the others - Zok, Tundro et al - but I wanted to get this posted before the day is over. (Doesn't look like I'm gonna make it, though.)
BTW: the title is my rebuttal to the name of the bonus feature on the DVD: a short featurette entitled "The Herculoids: The First Family of Quasar." Here's why I not-so-cordially dislike the name "Quasar" for the Herculoids' home planet, and why it'll always be "Amzot" to me.
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Memory Lane, here you come. :wOOt:
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Excellent drawing! Loved the Herculoids as a child, though my fave creature was Tundro.
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Hanna, Barbara, and Alex Toth himself would be proud of this portrait of the Herculoids. 
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Congrats on getting your Herculoids goodness, man.
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The very first thing that popped into my head was "BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!"
Got to admit, even though the image is not about the old He-Man cartoon, it has the He-Man style.
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Good picture! Never got to see the Herculoids in the UK....Only saw some episodes in the West Indies.
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I bet you wished you would've worked for Hanna-Barbera as an artist when you were a child. This reflects the simple cartoon design those two geniuses came up with.
An homage to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, rest in peace, and keep smiling.
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I certainly did want to work in cartoons, and these type of series (action/adventure with science-fantasy overtones) were the kind I wanted to make.
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He'd certainly be great on national defense.
And Tara as First Lady
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This reminds me of the old He-Man and She-Ra series.
They were some kind of of awesome.
Really nice style^^
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:: falls off chair, dies ::
Somewhere, Alex Toth is swelling with pride. Great work on this!
FAVED!
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When I was a little kid, I'd see reruns of Herculoids, and it wasn't until later I realized, despite the remarkable similarity, that Zandor was not, in fact, just He-Man with a dyejob.
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He-Man has more in common with Young Samson and Goliath (American kid turns into a superstrong "barbarian"-bodied hero and then turns his pet into a superpowered lion with laser vision) and with Mighty Mightor (fantasy world cave-teen turns into a superstrong "barbarian"-bodied hero and then turns his pet saurian into a dragon with fire breath).
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I meant visually, not in general.
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Just the other way around, actually; He-Man's the one with the dye-job
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Wow! That's pretty much spot-on with the designs of the show!
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