If you have spent any amount of time reading about the Greek gods the one big takeaway will be that the gods were a bunch of colossal dicks. Take every human foible, explode them way out of proportion, give them all various superpowers and that is basically the Greek gods, but this also made for…
Tag: Fantasy
John Carter of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
John Carter of Mars is the eleventh and final book in the Barsoom series and collects the two stories titled “John Carter and the Giant of Mars,” published in 1941 within the pages of Amazing Stories, and “The Skeleton Men of Jupiter,” published in 1943 also in Amazing Stories.
Doctor Strange (2016) – Review
Despite having a long and illustrious career in comic books the character of Doctor Strange, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko way back in the 60s, has never quite reached mass public consciousness in the way as say Spider-Man or Captain America, but now that the Marvel brand has produced box office hit after…
The Gods of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
The Gods of Mars is considered by most to be the best of the Barsoom series; it fleshes out the hero, introduces new races and gives us more history of the planet, all that and it’s also one of the best attacks on organized religion I’ve ever come across.
A Princess of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
When one thinks of Edgar Rice Burroughs the character of Tarzan readily leaps to mind, but everyone’s favorite ape man was not the first creation of Burroughs, that would be the legendary adventurer John Carter and his awesome stories of Barsoom (Mars to the uninitiated).