He-Man and the Masters of the Multiverse writer Tim Seeley revealed why the future Skeletor, Prince Keldor, is the real hero of the miniseries in which he and He-Man join forces to stop Anti-He-Man, who hails from a sinister version of He-Man's home called Anti-Eternia.
"I felt like if you're going to tell the story of what makes someone a He-Man, you have to put someone in that position who is challenged by it," Seely told CBR. "Having Anti-Eternia He-Man be the villain -- to see a He-Man that's been corrupted or ruined -- I thought it'd be interesting to see the other side of that. What if you could see a Skeletor who was in the process of that and had to resist that sort of temptation and really play around with this idea that Skeletor is as important to this as He-Man is."
Anti-He-Man and Anti-Eternia were not invented for the miniseries but instead come from a very obscure corner of the franchise: a 1985 German audio play. Additionally, Seeley and artist Dan Fraga revealed the miniseries will feature Dolph Lundgren's He-Man from the 1987 Masters of the Universe live-action movie and even the version of the character from the iOS game Tappers of Grayskull.
The first issue of the six-issue mini-series will be released on November 20.
He-Man and the Masters of the Multiverse #1, by Tim Seeley, Dan Fraga and Richard King, is now on sale from DC.