And thus begins our week of John Carter and the Princess of Mars, in which blood is spilt and clothing is optional. As we join our hero, he’s mysteriously been transported to the surface of Mars, where he’s found an enormous cache of giant eggs. That won’t be very good for his cholesterol.
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I agree with Dr. Pepper, “Gor” is only a slight parody of PoM. I read all these books in original editions belonging to my father when I was just a boy (about 60 years ago) and loved them then and bow to ERB’s genius even now.
Finally finished my trudge through the archives, and what a long strange trip it’s been.
Nice strip, refreshing change to read something once in a while that makes me hit my search engines to try and figure out why it is I don’t get the joke, heh.
So, can someone tell me whether the Jogn Carter series turned out to be better than the Gor series in the end?
Also, if those eggs were the Green Martians’ actual offspring, I’m amazed they didn’t skewer Carter on the spot.
I’d have said there was never a point where the John Carter series wasn’t better than the Gor series. I have to say, though, that “better than Gor” is setting the bar awfully low.
I would go so far as to say that Twilight is better than Gor.
Gor is essentially a Burroughs parody. In fact, i always refer to it as “John Carter and the Leather Dungeons of Mars”.
Yoshi! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
That egg is fascinatingly non gooey, since it doesn’t look like he’s cooked it. I wonder what that would mean from a biological standpoint.