Skeletor is basically a skeleton with muscles and I don't know about you but I am very interested in learning about the origin of a SKELETON. WITH. MUSCLES. Irving kills it from page one with an amazing image of a friggin' face melting off. He keeps the party going with beautiful panels in heavy oranges, blues and pinks that do a tremendous job of mirroring the tone of the key story beats- destruction, secrecy and a brother’s endless loyalty, respectively. Interspersed are flashbacks to Skeletor's childhood, rendered in sparse, not quite black and white. Fialkov’s story tends to deal in broad strokes, not getting too caught up in the details. Essentially, Skeletor was born as Keldor, a half-breed bastard son. He is never able to live down this fact and is denied opportunities that he believes he is owed, including being crowned King. All of this is precursor to Keldor allying himself with Hordak, betraying his own and murdering his brother, the King. Our story ends with a bit of a Darth Vader-y moment as Hordak transforms his newest acolyte from Keldor to Skeletor- the skeleton with muscles. I am still a bit on the fence with the generally sympathetic origin provided for this character. There are some characters who, to me, should be evil through and through, for all time, without difficult life experiences nudging them down that path. This is one of those characters. At the end of the day, though, I loved this issue and it gets my full recommendation. I’d like you to meet Skeletor. As he likes to remind us in his animated form, his power is “beyond your understanding”.