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Titfortat 13: Mantenna vs Snake face

Titfortat

Two of the shortest evil monsters of Eternia are in the ring.

This titfortat is for sure not about size, it’s about black magic, about the power to fight without muscles. Monsters are they for sure, not many creatures are less human than these two. Mantenna, an insectoid with huge humanish eyes, Hordaks spy and hypnosis expert is only 1.6m and 70kg. He’s smart and fast, but a weak fighter. 34 points in total.

Snake Face is easily King Hiss’ most feared follower. Medusa could be his little sister, and nightmares are his hobby. 32 points, because his magic is weak. Fast and smart is he too.

We can only guess that this titfortat is happening to eliminate at least one of them. Who ever decides on the matches will it do it with humanity in its mind. Or cruelty? We will see how if one of them manages to survive here. Start.

In the ring, both opponents appear with their eyes closed! Are we seeing a fight in the dark?! That could be a smart move! Both, insects and snakes have the senses for it. They are both super fast, and that’s what we see here. A quick back and forth, careful, evaluating. Without any physical contact, Mantenna and Snake face are in a kind of a dance. They haven’t met before, I’m sure they want to know who’s in front of them. It’s like a ring fight, but a blind one. Mantenna’s movements look a bit weird, his four legs are tipping in a hypnotic way. Snake Face is much more elegant, like a cobra, keeping his head up high. Then the insectoid jumps! Two legs wrapping around the Snake man, while the other two legs stabilize the duo to not fall. It remains a dancing act, but the horde member hammers his tiny fists onto the medusian face. Snake Face uses his hand for defense, obviously doesn’t know how to react. He unleashes the face snakes, but they can’t turn Mantenna into stone when his eyes are closed. But who would have guessed, they’re snakes, so they can bite! Tiny snakes aiming for Mantenna’s eyes, the red and blue insectoid has to retract. He jumps off his opponent, who is now in full fight mode. Mantenna knows that, because of the bite attack. The Snake man’s answer to Mantenna’s attack is a weird forward move, and it seems like he’s reaching for the eyes! Is the Medusa monster so limited to the turn-to-stone thing? He’s obviously trying to open Mantenna’s eyes, to make him look at the snakes! And then an elbow-to-the-chin initiates the horde members response. Another elbow, the little insectoid is on the move. He reaches for one of the tiny face snakes, squeezes it until it dies, and continues one by one, while the snake man slowly bleeds to death. A sight Mantenna doesn’t get, because he found a way to fight without his hypnosis eyes.

M.A.S.K color switch: Razorback*Bullet

Color switch, M.A.S.K.

Razorback was one of my favourite cars from M.A.S.K! The combination of a white front and a red back is just a perfect fit for this Ford Thunderbird stock car. For a proper stock car Razorback’s appearance is even a bit reserved. Usually these cars are overflowing with sponsors. Razorback does have a few stickers, one of them mentioning ‘driver Brad Turner’, and we have the number 5 on the hood and the doors. Then there is ‘KENDALL motor oil’, and a single ‘R’. Another one is ‘M.T.’. ‘Escort’, ‘Simpson’, and ‘Gumout’ complete the decoration. At least some are real car related brands!

Bullet though is a street bike with no ads on it. The ‘1’, some stars, and stripes do quite well look like a racing design. And there we go, Bullet’s street bike design on Razorback! It looks much colder then the original, but I kind of like it.

The so called ‘aero bird’ from NASCAR came with up to 800 hp, going from 0 to 60 mph in 3.4 seconds! The famous Bill Elliott went as fast as 212.8 mp/h or 342.5 km/h with this car.

M.A.S.K color switch: Stinger*Slingshot

Color switch, M.A.S.K.

Orange was one of the most popular colors amongst M.A.S.K vehicles, just after blue and black. Gator, Dynamo, Firecracker and Firefly were all in Matt Tracker’s team. Stinger though was VENOM’S only orange vehicle, and I changed that to white. I used the design of Slingshot, some red, orange and yellow lines, that’s all. The second generation of the Pontiac GTO was available in several yellow, orange, gold, beige colors, as well as in different shades of blue and green. I believe Stinger has features of the 72 and 73 GTO combined, and it is a bit more edged or angular than the original car. Anyways, I find Stinger*Slingshot looks very descent!

M.A.S.K Color Switch: Detonator*Jackal

Color switch, M.A.S.K.

The VW Käfer was built in numerous colors from 1938 to 2003. Detonator was released in 1987. In 1984 a special Käfer, the yellow ‘Sunny bug’, came out. The 50 years anniversary bug from 1985 was grey though. So my color switch is kind of a Jackal Bug. Not as awesome as the original Detonator, but it also works well, especially since I was never too much a fan of the M.A.S.K motorbikes. I never owned a Jackal, but I’d go for a Jackal bug! Oh and for sure we’ll see Detonator’s colors again in another hefarts color switch!

M.A.S.K. – Monochrome Monitor Images

M.A.S.K.

Since the Monochrome Monitor Images were so much fun, I decided to make a new category for M.A.S.K. on hefarts.com! Here are some vehicles, mostly from VENOM, which of course were never selected for any mission. A shame VENOM didn’t have a similar sequence… I started with Wolfbeast, Manta, Outlaw, Stinger and Detonator, who was a M.A.S.K. vehicle of course.

Outlaw Monochrome Monitor Image
Manta Monochrome Monitor Image
Stinger Monochrome Monitor Image
Detonator Monochrome Monitor Image
Wolfbeast Monochrome Monitor Image

Crossover: Monochrome Monitor Images 2

Crossovers

The MASK Monochrome Monitor Images got me for a while. The figures are somewhat challenging to draw, because I’m still no hero when it comes to hands and faces, so I went for the vehicles. I never bought one (or better said wished for one) when I was young, but I got a second hand Wind Raider in poor condition once. Computer, select the best suited vehicles for the next mission in Eternia.

Wind Raider

WIND RAIDER – HE MAN’S ASSAULT LANDER, COMES WITH A GRAPPLING HOOK AND WINCH

Battle Bones

BATTLE BONES – COLLECTOR’S CARRY CASE FOR 12 CREATURES AND WEAPON STORAGE

Land Shark

LAND SHARK – EVIL MONSTER AND VEHICLE. JAW WILL OPEN AND SNAP SHUT WHILE MOVING.

Crossover: Ravos

Crossovers

I just realised I was never too much into flying vehicles or action figures. It wouldn’t stop me from buying those as a kid, but they weren’t my favourites. MOTU had just very few, Buzz Off, Zoar, maybe Hordak, and of course Stratos. The rest needed a Wind Raider.

MASK had many more, Thunderhawk, Stiletto, Firefly, Manta, Condor, Dynamo, Slingshot, Switchblade, Goliath, Buzzard, Meteor, Wolfbeast, Vampire, and the amazing Corvette Raven brought your imagination high up.

I combined Stratos and Raven, creating Ravos, THE airborne superhero. Stratos was never in my collection, though I do like the gray color. But the fly-theme in my opinion was not well visible. He’s more like some hairy guy who clipped feathers to his arms.

Raven’s colors were perfect for a more serious looking hero. The Gulliver mask of Calhoun Burns might look a bit like a biker helmet. It hides Stratos’ ape-like face. Ravos is using one of the immobiliser discs, which might return to him like Thor’s hammer. If I’m not mistaken Stratos in the original version had no weapon at all.

I came up with a raven logo, because it always bothered me how little MASK vehicle names were connected to their design. Isn’t it weak to have nothing but black color on a car called Raven?

Stratos is represented in the feather attachments, and the harness.

Crossover: beastBeast

Crossovers

My holy grail of drawing so far is the crossover of MOTU and MASK, I’ll call it MASTrs. MASKERS. Besides MOTU, MASK was the second toyline that made my childhood. The cartoon was like He-Man in a typical 80s format. Another similarity is the annoying side kick T-bob, whom I like as much as Orko. So far I haven’t seen any new MASK yet, not sure why. I know there are many enthusiasts waiting!

For this crossover I combined Beastman with Wolfbeast, resulting in beastBeast! Wolfbeast is Mayhems dark blue Corvette Stingray with neon pink flames, and Mayhem is wearing a skull mask, called New Viper (why would things make sense here?! Where’s the wolf-reference?). BeastBeast is a dark blue version of Beastman, including some neon pink pattern. He is wearing New Viper, and carries an axe inculding wheels of Wolfbeast as weapon. This time I learned drawing an almost entirely dark character. I highlighted the edges with lighter blue and it worked fine. Motivated by that I also tried some more shading. He wears the spider like symbol Mayhem has on his uniform (OK what is the theme, Wolf, Stingray, Viper or Spider?), and the arm accessories are green like the clone, one with Beastman-like spikes, the other with the alien-like skull from Wolfbeast’s hood. Having that done I realised that the three main colors suddenly resembled Trapjaw’s color mix. I totally avoided any of Beastman’s orange, so I used itfor thebackground. May (hem, hehe) beastBeast be the start to a new series of crossovers on hefarts.com.

Crossover: Family horde

Crossovers

I totally understand that some people don’t like watching Family Guy. They go far to far sometimes, no, often. I love it. I do not like my crossover. Not because it is especially bad, or boring, no because it happened to be quite scary. Mostly Chris, who is now Creech, and even that name sounds intimidating, His leechy teeth look awesome, and he’s got green suction cups. Peter is Horde Pooper, the red bat goes well with his white shirt. He looks funny with no neck.

Megstor, Dragstor as Meg works well too. Both are kind of permanent victims of evil people.

Mosquitor and Stewie, that makes Mosqwie. His face impression is a bit weird. Maybe he’s insecure with the snozzle for his nozzle.

But his Teddy, Rupert, is the cutest Grizzlor ever. Lets call him Ruzzlor. He could easily tear them all apart, but he decided to enjoy the family life.

And last but not least Herbert with four legs and eyes apart, that’s Manbert the Hypno!

I made this drawing some years ago, and looking at it now I wished I had made it a bit more MOTU, and less Family Guy. What do you think?

Crossover: Warfield

Crossovers

The grumpy, selfish, but also kind of self-confident 80s cartoon-cat Garfield had a very different relationship to his hooman John compared to Cringer and Prince Adam. While John was a truly innocent guy, who was more or less abused by Garfield, Adam with his two identities had full control over Cringer. I would say both John and Cringer were poor creatures under the control of a strong character.

As well as the crossover of roles worked in this sketch, the crossover of both cartoons has worked out well too. I managed to draw a warm back-light, suggesting a cozy TV evening. Both Warfield and Adam seem very happy and peaceful. Adams boots were replaced by slippers, and the pink sword is unnecessary. I guess they might transform to He-man and Battle cat to go for more-action activities?