author: Robert Place Napton
name: Wayne
average rating: 2.50
book published: 2013
rating: 2
read at: 2013/07/21
date added: 2013/07/21
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
Dejah Thoris is the Princess of Mars from the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. This book collects issues 16-19 of the series, but it's a complete story arc. This book is mature because Dejah wears her traditional costume from the Barsoom novels, which amounts to a cape and not much else. This seems a little silly when she's wandering around in the ice, but maybe Martians are tougher than me.
In the book, Dejah is in a self-imposed exile in the frozen north. She is captured and enslaved by one of the yellow men. She escapes and then is captured and taken to Saturn which is run by a race of alien vampires who have their sites set on taking over Mars and turning the residents into a living blood farm.
It's all over the top. There are huge prehistoric looking alien creatures. There are fights in the skies. There are allies and betrayals. In fact, it seems like everyone Dejah teams up with is out to betray her in some way, and that gets a little tedious by the end of the story arc. The art by Debora Carita is good, and the book includes a cover gallery from each of the covers by Paul Renaud and Fabiano Neves.
via Wayne's bookshelf: read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/631878757?utm_medium=api&utm_source=rss
No comments:
Post a Comment