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(Posting early…<\/i> )<\/p>\n

If your travels don’t bring you within certain specific nerdy circles, today’s post will be particularly obscure. Basically, in the early 70’s, the large sized GI Joe line<\/a> gave rise to a toyline in Japan called Henshin Cyborg<\/a> (in which Henshin<\/a> means “transformation”). Henshin Cyborg eventually gave rise to Microman<\/a>, which in turn gave rise to Diaclone<\/a>, and then Transformers<\/a>. And in fact, Microman’s 3.75″ scale figures had probable influence on GI Joe converting to that scale in the 80’s<\/a>, bringing things full circle, but I digress.<\/p>\n

Today’s post is Dokuro King (dokuro is Japanese for skeleton, incidentally), a villain from Henshin Cyborg:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I drew this some time ago, shortly after the Skeletor sketch that I used to launch this blog<\/a>. Back then, my thinking was focused on skull-themed villains rather than He-Man in general, believe it or not. The coloring was something I only got around to recently, and hopefully it is clear that his guts are visible through his transparent purple body, as per the original toy. As is my custom, I have given a bad-ass villain a bat-cape, in the hopes of making him even more bad-ass. hopefully you will find this to be the case. In retrospect, I wish I had deviated from the toy and drawn a skeleton under the King’s transparent skin as well.<\/p>\n

There will be more skull-themed villains and Henshin Cyborg to come in the future, I assure you–though it might not be soon<\/i>.<\/p>\n

For More on Henshin Cyborg and Dokuro King<\/b>:<\/p>\n