And it's come to this

Ho-Man

photo of Kevin Smith with reversed baseball cap
Ho-Man: not for babies.

In my own, admittedly shallow, opinion, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was a lame, cheaply-animated '80s cartoon for kids. It was primarily made as a tie-in to shift Mattel's plastic crap. I didn't watch it, since I was no longer a child at the time, and both the cartoon and the plastic crap were too cringe-inducing to be cool. Shitbag, they were too cringe-inducing to even acknowledge their existence.

Above all, He-Man is a totally gay name for a hero. Or any character for that matter! (pipe)

Almost forty years later, and Kevin Smith has rebooted the He-Man chronicles as Masters of the Universe: Revelation. And he's pissed off at least some of the fanbase as a result. Yes indeed, folks, there's a fanbase for a lame, cheaply-animated '80s kids cartoon. Who'd've thunk it?

For his part, Smith claims that, as a young teenager during the original show's '83–'85 run: I almost hate-watched it, because I was like, this show's for babies. Yet, now in his fifties, he still wears his baseball cap backwards, while he baits the sad bastards fandom. What a guy! (SMH)