Rob David and Tim Seeley talk Mondo’s SCARE-MARE Mini-Comic and tease a future appearance for the Evil Steed

At last year’s Power-Con, the collectibles company MONDO revealed design art for some of their upcoming six scale figures.

The most interesting design out of the bunch was Scare Glow’s new steed Scare Mare (formerly known as “Nyte-Mare“) not because of how frightening he looked, but how Mattel surprisingly endorsed Mondo in creating a brand new character in the MOTU Universe.

Then in June at the annual MONSTERPALOOZA Convention at Pasedena, California, not only did we receive our first look at the Masters of the Universe 1:6 Scale Deluxe Scare-Mare in the form of a 3D Print, but we also learned it would include a Mini-Comic: A Scare-Mare origin story!

Coming from Dark Horse Entertainment and written by veteran Masters of the Universe comic writer Tim Seeley, both Tim and Mattel’s Vice President of Creative Content over at Mattel Television Rob David spoke to ComicBook.com about crafting this new Scare-Mare origin story in this mini-comic and more. Here are some highlights:

ComicBook: Tim, I know you are a huge fan of the Masters of the Universe franchise, and you have contributed to so many different types of stories within it. How does it feel to be able to introduce an entirely new character?

Tim Seeley: Well, this one is extra cool, because it’s tied to a character I’m already familiar with, and it has a big deluxe action figure. So it’s like multi-levels of cool. But for me, just as a fan and a nerd, the figure of Scare Glow was — it was a hard one to get when I was a kid. When you got it, you were the only kid on the block who had it. And then for years after, he was this legendary toy. I’d be like, “Remember the glow-in-the-dark skeleton guy with the giant scythe?” and people would like, “What are you talking about?” And now he’s coming back with his deluxe Mondo figure, and you get his big scary horse with wings.

Dark Horse was like, “Hey, we have this thing. What you want to do?” I was like, “I’ve already got it figured out. I didn’t even need a pitch. I know exactly what this is.” And so anytime I do a mini-comic Masters of the Universe thing, it ties back to the fact that the reason I read comics is because of Masters of the Universe mini-comic

Rob David: I love working with Tim. Anytime we have a MOTU — we call it MOTU, as I know the fans know what that is — story to tell in comics or whatnot, I always go to Tim because I love working with him and he knows the materials so well. So when Mondo wanted to do this figure with the toy team, they asked if there were any people that we thought would be perfect for it. So they come to me. I work in television. I’m not on Mattel, I don’t work on the toy team, but I’m such a huge MOTU fan and I’m such a huge comic fan that I can’t help myself but be involved anytime there are comic books. So when they came to me and asked me who would be perfect for it, I’m like, “Tim Seeley.” He pitched a whole bunch of different stories, and he knows the lore backwards and forwards, and he knows how to make it tie things together in knew and fresh ways. I think he had three different ideas, and this was the one that just rose from the top. I love the bitter irony of the ending to the tale, which I don’t think I’ll give away, but I thought it was just a great idea. That’s the beauty of a property like Masters of the Universe. It’s forty years old, but there’s still such a demand for new characters. It’s still fresh. It’s always surprising you, and people like Tim are so great at bringing that to life.

What was also interesting is during this interview, while Scare-Mare was mentioned to be appearing in six-scale figure form, a Funko Pop!, the Funko Fusion video game and this mini-comic… the interviewer seemed to know Scare-Mare was coming to another medium. Could Scare-Mare be coming to the live-action film in development…. or the next installment of the Revelation / Revolution Netflix animated series? Check it out:

ComicBook: We know Scare Mare isn’t just confined to the comics or confined to the figure, he’s already going to appear elsewhere. Rob, I was wondering if you could speak to that.

David: Oh yeah, especially if it connects. I would want to use them in everything we’re doing, more comics, more animated shows, anything, movies, you name it. When you’ve got something that rich, you should go with it. And that’s how it starts to feel nostalgic, but never retro. It’s always fresh, because if you can’t surprise the audience with new characters, then it might as well be a game over. Just go re-watch the old show, and it’s a museum piece. But when you have something that is vital, it just opens up more avenues for storytelling.

Very interesting! You can Click Here to check out the full interview… and be sure to stay tuned to ForEternia.com for preorder information for Mondo’s Scare-Mare (once it becomes available.)

We’ll see you next time!