Over at the news site Comics for Sinners, you’ll find my review of Jungle Girl: Season 3 #1, currently available from Dynamite Entertainment. Created by fan favorite “good girl” artist Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows, Shanna the She-Devil) scripted by Doug Murray (Savage Red Sonja), and illustrated by Jack Jadson (Vampirella: Feary Tales), the bikini-clad Jana Sky-Born fights cannibals and dinosaurs and aliens in the latest in this series of miniseries that continue to be, at heart, a tribute to 1940s “jungle girl” comics and the sort of savage female warriors you’d find in the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and the author of such novels as The Land That Time Forgot and At the Earth’s Core. Head over to C4S to learn more.
Speaking of Edgar Rice Burroughs and provocative action heroines, are you familiar with his creation Dejah Thoris, sword-wielding princess of the Martian city of Helium and the costar of Burroughs’s classic science-fantasy novel A Princess of Mars—one of StarWarp Concepts’ most popular titles in our Illustrated Classics line of books? No? Then allow me to introduce you…
A Princess of Mars, originally published in 1912, is the first in Burroughs’s “John Carter of Mars” ten-novel series about a post–Civil War era American who suddenly finds himself on the Red Planet, battling to stay alive against all sorts of alien threats. It served as the basis for Disney’s 2012 film adaptation, John Carter, and inspired a century’s worth of SF works, including Flash Gordon, Star Wars, and James Cameron’s Avatar. The special StarWarp Concepts edition—available in both print and digital formats—features six incredible illustrations by SWC artist supreme Eliseu Gouveia (Carmilla, The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1, Lorelei: Sects and the City), and a special introduction by Mars-fiction expert John Gosling, author of Waging the War of the Worlds. Here’s the back-cover synopsis:
Captain John Carter thought his days as a fighter were over. The South had lost the Civil War, and as a soldier now without a battle to fight or a cause to believe in, he journeyed west in search of a new life.
But not even Carter could have expected that his new life would begin with his death in the Arizona desert, and his inexplicable arrival on the barren plains of the planet Mars. Or that he would find love in the eyes of the beauteous Dejah Thoris, princess of Helium.
A prisoner of the giant, green-skinned warrior race called the Tharks, Dejah Thoris is meant to be used as a pawn in the ongoing war between the Tharks and her people, the red Martians—unless the gentleman from Virginia takes sword in hand to free her…and thus unite a divided world.
Once more, John Carter has a cause to fight for—and this time, a love to win, as well….
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