Before Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, and prolonged sooner than “Dune,” “Star Trek” and “Star Wars,” there was famed sci-fi writer Edgar Rice Burroughs’ cosmic adventurer John Carter of Mars.
First exhibiting in 1912 inside serialized tales in The All-Story journal titled “Under The Moons of Mars,” this stalwart Virginian and former Civil War captain was magically teleported to the distinctive world of Barsoom (Mars) when hiding out in an Arizona cave from Apaches whereas looking for gold.
The story was first revealed in novel sort in 1917 as “A Princess of Mars.” The heroic character went on to star in a sequence of epic Burroughs novels all set on Barsoom, the place John Carter is elevated to the standing of immortal warrior and savior of the planet’s alien inhabitants.
Now following a few years of tie-in books and spinoff comics, and 10 years after an ill-fated $250 million “John Carter” attribute by Disney starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, and Willem Dafoe, the charismatic Martian warlord is charging once more right into a model new ongoing comic e e-book sequence this spring from the mother and father at Dynamite Entertainment.
Written by the Eisner Award-winning Chuck Brown (“Bitter Root,” “Aquamen”) and joined by acclaimed illustrator and colorist George Kambadais (“Firefly”), “John Carter of Mars #1” lands in comic retailers this April with a model new slate of adventures throughout the realms of Barsoom and Earth.
The plotline takes place in 1919 as an odd asteroid made up absolutely of the essential substance “Ninth” streaks in the direction of Earth. Its mysterious outcomes start to uncannily combine and swap the inhabitants on every Earth and Barsoom.
John Carter, The Warlord of Mars, discovers himself torn from the bedrock of his life and relations. He struggles to make sense of this cosmic conundrum whereas he’s abruptly transported once more to Virginia the place he clashes with Martian apes. If these bizarre events are occurring on his home planet, then what odd calamities is more likely to be befalling his beloved Barsoom?
“I’ve always been a huge fan of sci-fi and adventure,” talked about writer Chuck Brown in a Dynamite press release. “Like many of us, as a kid I was obsessed with Mars and the other planets in our solar system. Barsoom has such amazing characters and backstories. So it’s a huge opportunity for George and I to play in this world.”
Dynamite’s “John Carter of Mars #1” arrives in April with explicit variant covers by Junggeun Yoon, Jonathan Case, and two further by “Dejah Thoris” veteran Joseph Michael Linsner and sequence inside artist Kambadais.
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