On the evening of Thursday March 1, 2012, I went with perhaps a couple hundred other lucky Phoenix fen to see a sneak preview of John Carter of Mars.  JCM is a film that I and a lot of other science fiction fans have been excited and hopeful about for years.  I practically had to [...]

I’d like to know what’s going on.  Suddenly (within the last year) not one, but two companies are publishing John Carter of Barsoom comics.  The movie doesn’t come out  until next summer, and 99% of America has no clue who JC is, nor do they care.  The essence of Barsoom in one picture–swordsmen, naked women, [...]