I’m glad I made time for John Carter of Mars. Barsoom is a fantastic setting, and the Modiphius writing team have done it justice. The adaptation of 2d20 feels spot on too.
Frank Frazetta’s Escape on Venus sells for $660,000
Heritage Auction successfully sold Frank Frazetta’s oil painting for US$660,000. The iconic fantasy painter did the painting as a cover for the novel Escape on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1974. Right now, on Amazon.co.uk you can find the 1984 printing of Escape on Venus with the Frazetta painting for a little as 1p […]
John Carter / Edgar Rice Burroughs tribute art print
John Carter of Mars is all the rage again thanks to Modiphius’ Kickstarter. That’s straight-forward. Less straight-forward is whether it’s possible to be John Carter or even an Edgar Rice Burroughs geekfan with models, art and merch given the tendency of the heroes to wear very little clothes… I think ‘PaladinFreelance’ has the solution. Their […]
John Carter of Mars RPG Kickstarter due
Modiphius Entertainment‘s latest Kickstarter project is ‘John Carter of Mars: Adventures on The Dying World of Barsoom’. This license will use a variant of Modiphius’ 2d20 system, Momentum, with a focus on pulp-action. The British publisher has worked with the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs and with Scott Tracy Griffin, a leading scholar of the […]
Sword and planet: A review of Kane of Old Mars
I’ve seen John Carter of Mars but not read any of the Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. I had the famous title in mind as I started to read the most recent re-release by Gollancz of Michael Moorcock’s “Kane of Old Mars”. Wikipedia tells me that the trilogy was first published back in 1965. The original […]
Six new John Carter pictures
We’ve already had the impressive and scary looking white ape picture from Andrew Stanton’s John Carter. Now we get six more pictures and they include some quirky looking aliens and creatures. The John Carter movie, based on the classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is due out in the first half of 2012.
