Hi Niki! I am glad you enjoy
Tri-Klops, Trap-Jaw, & the Demon!
Zodac is one of the characters many people don't either get or get to attached too, but then he offers a great nostalgia for others. Not being in the mini-comics was a great hindrance to him early on popularity-wise, & then him being listed as evil on his early packaging but appearing as neutral (or even good) in Filmation, DC, (& in judging by "The Power Of Point Dread" record book) this was always Mattel's intention, but its said that they needed to make him evil to even out the ranks in the first waves of MOTU figures. I know Roger Sweet said in his book that they could have made a better "Space Man" & "Bird Man" (Stratos) but that is exactly what the charm of Zodac (& Stratos) is ...that they are weird crazy cool. I always liked Zodac as kid but it wasn't until I was older that I realized just how much. He's very powerful, he knows He-Man's secret/yet he himself is mysterious, & he can help either side. He is also a hodgepodge of parts form the first figures... he has a human look, typically heroic colors, but the reptile arms & feet, & then has the Beast-Man/Stratos chest. He most likely was the last of the original 8 created & seems the most to be based on the "New Gods" DC comic that helped to inspire MOTU in the 1st place. I remember when I 1st saw him in the store I was hoping he had the cool whitish feet the card art showed him with & then was mildly disappointed when I found out they were gray (just like I was with Mer-Man's non-Alcala head sculpt) but that's where art comes in & you can reinterpret your favorites the way that you've always seen them, or take them in a new direction all together.
Fun Fact: I asked my parents what a "Cosmic Enforcer" was as a child & my Dad told me he was "Space Police," thus the description I gave him on the art card. lol
As for
Tallstar her "origin" story in this Art "fanon" is a rocky one. lol
At first, I was not going to have ANY POP characters in this series as I wanted it to be just oldskool MOTU, but the more I thought about it & the more great art history I discovered in all of the MOTU related lines, the more I felt the need to include those chapters within the "50-character selection." So now the 50 does include some POP, NA, (& a lot of oddities lol) but most are based on the earliest ideas of the characters (thus why Tallstar is mostly based on her 80's prototype). I always go back & forth as to who I like better, Starla or Tallstar, admittedly I think the MOTUC Starla figure probably came out the best of the 3 sisters. But than I got this cirque/goth idea for Tallstar when I was looking at her 80's prototype. The internet photo colors where washed out & her Stars looked "black" to me, which helped me to make her a bit darker in tone overall, as if tragedy had stuck her & now she is changed...(I almost called her "Dark Star" to help show this transformation, but decided that was getting a little to fan-fic-like for a series of illustrated art cards & not an actual fleshed "written" out story or bios.) Since I have no plans to include her sisters in the set of 50 characters, I decided that instead of them just being "not here" & the community asking why, to tell the story of Tallstar in her description as having lost her sisters, (story
"Jewelstar" on their Eternian arrival (aka planetary impact), & "Starla" in battle with their "Great Rebellion" allegiance. This changed Tallstar into who she is today within this story... A darker, saddened version who's look reflects that...
Next up is the 1st of the set to include mostly "non-Whitman Origin Comic characters," this time with influence from various sources such as the Mark Texeira mini-comics, original card 8-back, & prototypes!
, she is the last her kind!
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Originally Posted by danbrenus
It's nice to see you post my good friend... and get ready because "Part 4" comes out in May!! 
