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Post by rom on Oct 22, 2016 7:44:35 GMT -5
Pre-order on Amazon for Burrough's followers: Tarzan: The Buscema Years Omnibus Hardcover – December 20, 2016 by Roy Thomas (Author), David Anthony Kraft (Author), Bill Mantlo (Author), & 3 more See all formats and editions Hardcover $61.32 Beginning in June 1977, the creative team of Roy Thomas and John Buscema astonished readers with perhaps the most spectacular escapades of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs' fabled Lord of the Jungle, ever captured on the four-color page! In the Mighty Marvel Manner, "Big John" delivered peril, romance, and heroics month-in and month-out, culminating in the ten-part "Blood Money and Human Bondage" saga, an epic that saw an artistic passing of the torch to his younger brother, Sal Buscema -- who would continue to visualize the feral hero's exploits until the series' thrilling final chapter in October 1979. Tarzan: The Buscema Years celebrates two of the greatest comic artists of all time, collecting in its entirety their classic 29-issue run of Tarzan (plus all three Tarzan Annuals), a massive tome bursting with mind-blowing thrills on every page! Thanks for the info. - I pre-ordered this from Amazon in the last week. I was a big fan of Marvel's Tarzan comic back in the late '70's - being a little kid at the time, this was actually my first exposure to the character - given that I hadn't read any of the ERB books yet. My individual floppies are long gone, so I'm really looking forward to this release. However, note that I would recommend everyone that orders this takes the release date with a grain of salt. This Amazon solicitation still doesn't have a cover up yet, and this release is only 2 months away. Also, after I pre-ordered this, the confirmation notice I got from Amazon didn't specify a date. So, I question whether this will actually be released on time - if at all. Just my .02...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 22, 2016 11:57:54 GMT -5
Pre-order on Amazon for Burrough's followers: Tarzan: The Buscema Years Omnibus Hardcover – December 20, 2016 by Roy Thomas (Author), David Anthony Kraft (Author), Bill Mantlo (Author), & 3 more See all formats and editions Hardcover $61.32 Beginning in June 1977, the creative team of Roy Thomas and John Buscema astonished readers with perhaps the most spectacular escapades of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs' fabled Lord of the Jungle, ever captured on the four-color page! In the Mighty Marvel Manner, "Big John" delivered peril, romance, and heroics month-in and month-out, culminating in the ten-part "Blood Money and Human Bondage" saga, an epic that saw an artistic passing of the torch to his younger brother, Sal Buscema -- who would continue to visualize the feral hero's exploits until the series' thrilling final chapter in October 1979. Tarzan: The Buscema Years celebrates two of the greatest comic artists of all time, collecting in its entirety their classic 29-issue run of Tarzan (plus all three Tarzan Annuals), a massive tome bursting with mind-blowing thrills on every page! Awwwwwww... I got most of those issues already... This is still a sweet book, though! What to do, what to do?
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 23, 2016 14:02:54 GMT -5
My intro to Tarzan was Johnny Weismuller, when I was very young. I saw the Gold Key and DC Tarzan comics before I ever saw many of the movies or the Ron Ely series. that tv series always disappointed me, as it never seemed to have the kind of action and wonder that those comics did. It was only years later when I saw the later Sy Weintraub films that I started to see more of the Tarzan I liked. The most recent film had plenty of that.
I watched Land that Time Forgot on a late tv movie broadcast and loved it, even with the puppet dinosaurs. That's what got me to start reading Burroughs, as well as Phillip Jose Farmer's Tarzan Alive!, which I found, in my younger days (which had me, briefly, believing Tarzan was based on a real person).
I read the first few John Carters, a couple of Tarzan's, the Caprona stuff and maybe one or two more. Having been a bookseller for 20 years, I have stacks of unread material and gave away stacks more, including most of my Burroughs. I do have digital editions of his entire output, though. I just haven't gotten around to it (any more than the digital Shadow and Doc Savage books I have). I love his pacing and ability to create the world in your head, though dialogue is very much of the era. For me, I still often view his material through other interpretations, especially comics.
I saw Murphy Anderson's John Carter stuff, at DC, first, which is why I started reading those books, before Tarzan. Seeing a half naked Dejah Thoris and flying attack ships left an impression. I had some of the Marvel editions, though the ones I had were later in the series and less satisfying. Dave Cockrum was doing the cover, but not the interior, apart from #11, with that same Dejah Thoris intro, in a new light. Dave's cover was awesome and would turn up as the cover for a Penguin Book edition of John Carter.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 21:33:35 GMT -5
Well I finally watched The Legend of Tarzan. I quite liked it. It departed from Burroughs in details but retained the spirit of Burroughs material throughout. Good performances, good action, good pacing and a villain who fit Burroughs style that it was easy to root against.
-M
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Post by brutalis on Dec 9, 2016 8:03:40 GMT -5
In this months King's Crossing from IDW they have 2 pages devoted to advertising upcoming ERB series.
The first due out February 27th 2017: John Carter: the End. Written by Brian Wood with art by Alex Cox. John Carter and Dejah Thoris with centuries having passed are watching as Barsoom suffers and is heading into extinction.
The second is The Greatest Adventure written by Bill Willingham and art by Cezar Rezak coming in early Spring of 2017. A planet hopping adventure where Tarzan discovers that a mysterious cabal has secretly weaponized Jason Gridley's ray turning it into a disintegration ray that can bypass distance and on a galactic scale destroy a single person or an entire world. Gridley seeks the aid of Tarzan and Jane to stop these villains from finding the final piece they require to fulfill their devious evil plan. Tarzan puts out the call to assemble a crew to man Gridley's Martian Flying ship and the galaxy's greatest fighters and adventurers come together. Starring Tarzan, Korak, Jane, John Carter, Dejah Thoris and more...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 9, 2016 10:52:23 GMT -5
In this months King's Crossing from IDW they have 2 pages devoted to advertising upcoming ERB series. The first due out February 27th 2017: John Carter: the End. Written by Brian Wood with art by Alex Cox. John Carter and Dejah Thoris with centuries having passed are watching as Barsoom suffers and is heading into extinction. The second is The Greatest Adventure written by Bill Willingham and art by Cezar Rezak coming in early Spring of 2017. A planet hopping adventure where Tarzan discovers that a mysterious cabal has secretly weaponized Jason Gridley's ray turning it into a disintegration ray that can bypass distance and on a galactic scale destroy a single person or an entire world. Gridley seeks the aid of Tarzan and Jane to stop these villains from finding the final piece they require to fulfill their devious evil plan. Tarzan puts out the call to assemble a crew to man Gridley's Martian Flying ship and the galaxy's greatest fighters and adventurers come together. Starring Tarzan, Korak, Jane, John Carter, Dejah Thoris and more... It's being written by Wood and Alex Cox. The artist is Hayden Sherman. Alex Cox used to be a very regular long-time poster on CBR who went by Kid Kamandi for a long time.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 9, 2016 12:25:41 GMT -5
That sounds pretty good... I've been often tempted by the Dejah Thoris comics Dynamite puts out, but they tend too far to cheesecake for me... this might be right up my alley.
I read a trade of the 90s Malibu Tarzan series this week.. Tarzan: The Beckoning by Thomas Yates. It was a bit 90s (Jane especially), but it was pretty good. They got a little over the top with the crusading against the Ivory trade, but the actual comic plot, which featured a god named Loc that seemed a combination of Loki and Ananzi, was pretty good. it could just be I like Tarzan in the jungle more than in 'civilization' though.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 15:40:56 GMT -5
That sounds pretty good... I've been often tempted by the Dejah Thoris comics Dynamite puts out, but they tend too far to cheesecake for me... this might be right up my alley. I read a trade of the 90s Malibu Tarzan series this week.. Tarzan: The Beckoning by Thomas Yates. It was a bit 90s (Jane especially), but it was pretty good. They got a little over the top with the crusading against the Ivory trade, but the actual comic plot, which featured a god named Loc that seemed a combination of Loki and Ananzi, was pretty good. it could just be I like Tarzan in the jungle more than in 'civilization' though. Hmm I knew Yeates did Tarzan for Dark Horse in the 90s, but I thought someone else did the MAlibu version. I could be wrong. I've only seen 1 issue of the Malibu version and I sent it along to someone as part of the CCE (I can't quite remember who, might have been Fanboy Stranger though) as the creator was one of his favorites and he couldn't find a copy locally. -M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 9, 2016 18:58:12 GMT -5
The trade was released by Dark Horse (I think it was from this month's releases, actually) but the original text prologue indicates that it was writing for Malibu, for the French audience. Not sure if it actually came out in French originally or not... it's actually kinda hard to find information about it.
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Post by foxley on Dec 9, 2016 19:35:58 GMT -5
There were actually three different Tarzan series from Malibu: Tarzan the Warrior, Tarzan: Love, Lies and the Lost City, and Tarzan the Beckoning. The Beckoning is one reprinted by Dark Horse.
The Warrior was written by Mark Wheatly, Love, Lies and the Lost City by Henning Kure, and The Beckoning by Thomas Yeates.
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Post by brutalis on Dec 29, 2016 8:17:18 GMT -5
Update: the newest solicitation date for Tarzan: The Buscema Years Omnibus Hardcover – July 11, 2017
by Roy Thomas (Author), David Anthony Kraft (Author), & 4 more
See all formats and editions
Hardcover
$61.32
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Post by berkley on Dec 31, 2016 1:02:51 GMT -5
The other day I came a cross an old press release for a film version of Carson of Venus. It was about 5 years ago, and I've never heard of any Carson movie being made so probably it never happened. Still an interesting idea. I like the Venus series almost as much as the Barsoom.
Also, did I hear somewhere that the rights to John Carter have been acquired by another studio or production company or whatever they call them these days? Wiki doesn't say anything but I seem to remember reading something about it not too long ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2017 19:08:42 GMT -5
-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 4, 2017 19:35:00 GMT -5
I love the Norman Rockwell reference!
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Post by foxley on Jan 4, 2017 20:16:54 GMT -5
For my money, Joe Jusko is best Burroughs' illustrator. His trading card series (which included illustrations from most of Burroughs novels, not just the big series) was great, and the illustrations where later collected as a book.
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