DVDs and Comics
In 2003, Contender Entertainment Group asked James to co-produce the UK release of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe on DVD. Liaising with Contender he was responsible for the extra content, which included DVD commentaries (two on each volume) on which he and Dave Newman attempted to give insightful, and at times humorous comments on specific episodes. The DVDs were popular at the beginning, but due to a slow release schedule the interest level vanished and the DVDs were canceled with Volume Six in late 2004. However at the beginning of 2006 Contender decided to release the remaining episodes of season one on three DVDs but only available as a Boxset exclusive to play.com with all the previous releases. Understandably this was not met with a positive reaction, and even though James and Dave recorded new commentaries, many of these would never be heard until Contender finally released one final He-Man DVD boxset which contained volumes 7-9 and it completed the first season. James and Dave's commentaries for those episodes featured in the exclusive boxset was included in the extras. The set was released in September 2007.
At the beginning of 2004, James and Dave were asked to appear on the commentaries for the UK release of Dungeons & Dragons (TV series) on DVD.
Alongside co-producing the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe DVDs James was also writing the Masters of the Universe Encyclopedia for MVCreations. Unfortunately due to disagreements with Mattel the series was canceled after only one issue, even though all five issues had been written. Initially the plan had been for James to write an Encyclopedia based on the classic He-Man properties, but legal problems led to this idea being shelved after James had written the first issue.
James also worked alongside Val Staples to create The Energy Warrior and came up with concepts, stories and designs for a proposed comic series which sadly never saw the light of day.
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