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2.8 AVERAGE
2.8 AVERAGE
By Dejah Thoris' gold nipple rings and skimpy micro-bikini bottoms, this title doesn't half demonstrate how constant T&A can get a bit boring when it's, you know, constant.
Dejah is in peril! Quickly, bend over and stick your ass out!
Dejah is pensive! Quickly, pout lips and perform blow-job face!
Dejah is kicking ass! In a thong? Really?
There's a fun action adventure story in here somewhere, but as it stands the story part is a little underwhelming. And I do wish she'd buy a few more clothes. Might make it more fun when she takes some of them off again.
Dejah is in peril! Quickly, bend over and stick your ass out!
Dejah is pensive! Quickly, pout lips and perform blow-job face!
Dejah is kicking ass! In a thong? Really?
There's a fun action adventure story in here somewhere, but as it stands the story part is a little underwhelming. And I do wish she'd buy a few more clothes. Might make it more fun when she takes some of them off again.
Well blow me down, we actually got some character development in this volume.
With all due respect to the artist, I hope they go and do a body drawing class, and learn how to draw bodies. Particularly if they're working on a title that features a whole bunch of mostly naked people who actually have to look al ittle bit like people and bend in the right sorts of places.
And boy the writing on an already not exactly brilliantly well written title took a serious nose dive here too.
Almost unreadably awful.
And boy the writing on an already not exactly brilliantly well written title took a serious nose dive here too.
Almost unreadably awful.
Okay this actually improves quite a lot over the previous terrible terrible volume. And goes out and tells a genuinely quite interesting sci fi story set on Barsoom in which characters do stuff that makes sense and Dejah's nipple glue remains as secure as ever.
I first read this almost 10 years ago when it was coming out, so it was nice to revisit it, even if it's a bit lacking. The art is serviceable, nothing special but by no means bad. The plot is suitably sweeping and epic as befits Barsoom, but the supporting characters are very unmemorable. I have to think that valian being an out of shape and clumsy dork, but smart and loyal, was some kind of wish fulfillment by getting to marry Dejah. This was ridiculously cliched and I didn't care for it.
In regards to the appearence of Dejah here, I find it a bit much. All of the characters, including the men, are scantily clad, and most all are hot. I don't mind Dejah being drawn having a huge bust and butt if the male characters are also over the top attractive. However, even by the standards of this comic, she is wearing practically nothing at all times. Yes, this is based on a pulp fiction story where sexuality was used to shock readers in an overly modest time. However, even burroughs didn't attend for Dejah to be practically nude throughout the whole story. It just got distracting
In regards to the appearence of Dejah here, I find it a bit much. All of the characters, including the men, are scantily clad, and most all are hot. I don't mind Dejah being drawn having a huge bust and butt if the male characters are also over the top attractive. However, even by the standards of this comic, she is wearing practically nothing at all times. Yes, this is based on a pulp fiction story where sexuality was used to shock readers in an overly modest time. However, even burroughs didn't attend for Dejah to be practically nude throughout the whole story. It just got distracting
Va-va voom! Behind the titillating artwork there is an exciting sword and planet adventure. The story is interesting as it takes place before John Carter shows up on Mars, so the reader gets to see only Martian civilizations fighting and interacting. Don't expect anything too deep, but the story moves fast and is full of action. I am definitely interested in vol. 2.
An entertaining pulp title utterly ruined by some of the worst art I have seen in comics and I've read a lot of comics too.
My husband and I saw the John Carter movie and thought it was reasonably good. I didn’t expect the movie to hold true to the book, but I didn’t expect to dislike the book quite so much. Pulp fiction clearly doesn’t work for me, but apparently I’m as much a sucker for Dejah Thoris’ lovely face and jewel-covered pretty bits as John Carter and every male in her universe.
In fairness, the cover art for this series is really beautiful. Unfortunately, it stops at the cover. If you’re going to have a buxom woman run around in nothing but some carefully placed pieces of metal held up by hope and a smile, I’d have liked the artwork to help me overlook the ridiculous outfit. If I can’t have that, then at least give me an interesting character and story.
Eventually, I resigned myself to ignoring the attire, since no one else in the book noticed that she was almost naked. Even Dejah herself comments on how glad she is to have furry boots and a cape to keep her warm while she traipses through the ice and snow. The only person bothered by her almost nudity is me. The men and women (uh wait a minute… there weren’t any other women except for the three bloodslaves) of the story see beyond her T and A to the strong-willed, brave and noble woman behind them. Even the vampire who falls in love with her is in love with the passion and strength he tasted in her blood. Unlike John Carter in A Princess of Mars, he didn’t merely fall in love with her the moment he saw her boobies.
As the story goes, the Princess of Barsoom is on a self-imposed exile after forced to commit murder while her mind was controlled. The guilt of her sins is mentioned initially, but eventually forgotten when she is kidnapped to Saturn by a race of vampires. At least she was able to get out of the snow. Edgar Rice Burroughs intricate political plotting and world building is sorely missing from this comic. The vampires are just evil creatures who subjugate the race of purple people and put Dejah in chains.
I suppose I was hoping that, in spite of the (lack of) outfit, the comics would take influence from the movie and make Dejah Thoris slightly more than just a trophy princess. She does get to be a self-rescuing princess, freeing herself from chains that make her pose awkwardly not once, but twice (or was it three times?) in the story. But in the end, when the vampires threaten her kingdom of Helium, she is forced to unleash her ultimate power: selling herself to a man to save her kingdom.
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In fairness, the cover art for this series is really beautiful. Unfortunately, it stops at the cover. If you’re going to have a buxom woman run around in nothing but some carefully placed pieces of metal held up by hope and a smile, I’d have liked the artwork to help me overlook the ridiculous outfit. If I can’t have that, then at least give me an interesting character and story.
Eventually, I resigned myself to ignoring the attire, since no one else in the book noticed that she was almost naked. Even Dejah herself comments on how glad she is to have furry boots and a cape to keep her warm while she traipses through the ice and snow. The only person bothered by her almost nudity is me. The men and women (uh wait a minute… there weren’t any other women except for the three bloodslaves) of the story see beyond her T and A to the strong-willed, brave and noble woman behind them. Even the vampire who falls in love with her is in love with the passion and strength he tasted in her blood. Unlike John Carter in A Princess of Mars, he didn’t merely fall in love with her the moment he saw her boobies.
As the story goes, the Princess of Barsoom is on a self-imposed exile after forced to commit murder while her mind was controlled. The guilt of her sins is mentioned initially, but eventually forgotten when she is kidnapped to Saturn by a race of vampires. At least she was able to get out of the snow. Edgar Rice Burroughs intricate political plotting and world building is sorely missing from this comic. The vampires are just evil creatures who subjugate the race of purple people and put Dejah in chains.
I suppose I was hoping that, in spite of the (lack of) outfit, the comics would take influence from the movie and make Dejah Thoris slightly more than just a trophy princess. She does get to be a self-rescuing princess, freeing herself from chains that make her pose awkwardly not once, but twice (or was it three times?) in the story. But in the end, when the vampires threaten her kingdom of Helium, she is forced to unleash her ultimate power: selling herself to a man to save her kingdom.
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