This is a Calot? More like a Banth, but John Carter is treating it like Ka-Zar's Zabu, last of the Sabre-Teethīe careful what you want… Remember the Monkey’s Paw, folks! Huh, it seems Pixar has gotten hold of Iss, Okar, Kaol and Korus as well as the rest of the Fourth Planet according to the gospel of ERB and wrenched it into their fashion – taking a piece here and a smidgen there and crafting it this way and revising that way, unlike Peter Jackson’s devotion to Bilbo and crew in Tolkien’s worlds with the live-action version of LOTR.ĭon’t get me wrong – parts are good, but if they stay along the path. Because you are trying to kill the wrong man, you are not using the right method. Tars Tarkas while fearsome was to be trusted and Dejah Thoris was the sexiest thang on two planets and ye olde John Carter most ancient badass around before even Duncan or Conor MacLeod, Dorian Hawkmoon or Logan/Wolverine!īut I was six and while I may have had those thoughts, I did not have the words to bring them out, and when I tried to read the books it was like trying to discern hieroglyphs without the Rosetta Stone. Well, I will tell you a secret something that Rapas and Ur Jan do not dream. The illustrations in Tarzan’s Strange Worlds by Murphy Anderson left me a bit cold however… Then I saw my father’s Doubleday hardcover of Gods Of Mars/Warlord Of Mars with the Frank Frazetta cover! I was an instant addict to Frazetta’s art and felt the emotions from his Barsoomians. For the first time the action of the series goes off-planet, as Ur Jan and Gar. While I thought they were so neat in robbing rich evil folk and outsmarting dumb guards and dodging Old Gods & Demons… It was the Red Planet which caught my soul, just like that old Virginian in that Arizona cave hundreds of years gone by… A lovely 1948 reprint of the eighth Barsoom novel, an exciting science. 'They left Barsoom at least a full day ahead of us and while it is only a remote possibility, still they may have made some disposition of their prisoner already. If the fight goes our way, we must not kill them all until we are positive that the princess is with them. Fritz Leiber’s classic Sword & Sorcery misfits – to this day I think of them as drawn by Howard Chaykin ( I later read the duo when I was 13, I also learned Chaykin and I had the same Birthday, no wonder he’s so cool). 'There may be only Gar Nal and Ur Jan, or there may be more.
'Ill-Met in Lankhmar' is probably a modern-day Classic from Fritz Leiberīoth were adapted by DC at the time – there was Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser from Newhon. Works (57) The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Golden Rendezvous by Alistair MacLean The Greatest Adventure by Bill Willingham A Guide to Barsoom.
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