![]() ![]() Her dialogue is not meaningful, democratic or political it is muddled. It’s honestly hard to tell what she’s wearing at all based on confusing shadows and coloring. Yet she looks as her handmaiden does in this comic: like a pretty woman wearing heels and dressed in armor. There is not uniqueness in the Princess of Mars’ expressions, though Burroughs was very clear in the original stories about her striking gaze, presence, and eyes. Dejah’s majestic beauty is not conveyed in the least her handmaiden, whose hair looks a lot like Motoko Kusanagi’s ( Ghost in the Shell), has a very similar face to Dejah’s. The art in this comic is cheesy, straightforward, and bland. The story in Dejah Thoris #3 involves the Princess essentially getting into a live chess match with a Green Martian leader. This new Dejah Thoris series is more of an “inspired by” comic than a story that truly draws from the original books. If you are going to base a comic on a story that’s over a hundred years old, including characters, landscapes, races, cities, and names, at least do it the decency of thoughtful adaptation. But unfortunately a familiar plot is where the similarities between this Dejah Thoris story and an original Barsoom novel end.Īrt-wise, from the action scenes to alien character designs, Dejah Thoris #3 does a poor job of representing Burroughs and his world. That at least is a call back to her character. The nature of Dejah’s motivation as granddaughter of the great Jeddak (or emperor) of Mars and generally considerate person is such that she would go to a city of her enemies in order to parlay for resources. Her mission is one of planetary unity, based on a simple need for water. Writer Amy Chu does homage to Burroughs with the simple story: Dejah Thoris is visiting Thurd, the city of the Green Martians who have preyed on her people for centuries. This is exactly the type of tale you will find in Dejah Thoris #3, something pulpy and obvious that we have seen before. This was a simple, pulpy plot that repeated itself ten times between 19 in Burroughs’ short, fun Barsoom novels. And who should this Terran man’s love interest be but a brilliant, strong woman named Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars?īurroughs wrote Dejah in a unique way empowered, noble, pure in her intentions for her people, her family, and her planet, yet still capable of being whisked away by any number of bad guys so that her love interest can rescue her. The original tale, A Princess of Mars, followed the adventures of a Terran man who ends up on Mars, or “Barsoom” in the language of the Martians. This stage is taken from a series of novels written in the early 20th century by Edgar Rice Burroughs, called The Barsoom Series. The setting for the emerging Dejah Thoris comic book series is our solar system the backdrop is a dusty alien city on a red planet we call Mars. Dejah Thoris #3 Amy Chu (writer) Pasquale Qualano (illustration) Valentine Pinto (colors) ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |