During io9's Concept Art Week, we saw the highest echelons of scifi illustration and design. Now that the week's come to a close, it feels right to ease you down to earth with some awesomely bad art...featuring He-Man.

Of course, we love these stupendously ridiculous illustrations by famed He-Man artist Earl Norem, but it's not the same kind of love that Mossman feels towards Ms. Mossman or Man-E-Faces' first face feels for his third face. No, it's the fugitive kind of love you can only experience when you go to a Taco Bell drive-thru and — instead of a Nachos Grande — the clerk hands you a stack of Asia LPs and a snifter of gasoline. I have no idea what that means, but hey, you can't verbalize emotions this profound. This stuff would make Schopenhauer's head explode.

The below link has these prints in face-melting high resolution. If you're looking to test the strength of your marriage, just wallpaper your bedroom with these images. If your spouse doesn't leave you, you are soulmates.

I'm kind of surprised they celebrate Christmas in Eternia. I always assumed He-Man was their Christ analogue.

[Toy Jesus via Nerdcore]