John Carter

Chris Roberson, you're not alone. During a recent interview, Roger Langridge announced that, like the Memorial, iZombie and former Superman writer, he will no longer work for Marvel or DC Comics due to concerns over creator rights at the Big Two...

On sale now from Marvel Comics is the first issue of John Carter: The Gods of Mars, an official adaptation of the classic science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book comes courtesy of acclaimed Sacrifice and newly minted Ultimate Comics Ultimates co-writer Sam Humphries and features the manifestly excellent storytelling of Ramón Pérez in his first work since Archaia and Jim Henson's b

Much like Tintin, Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter stories have always been one of my pop cultural blind spots. I've got a lot of friends that swear by them, and I've always been vaguely aware that there were characters named "Dejah Thoris" and "Tars Tarkas," but beyond that, I'm a pretty blank slate...

Before the film that became known as Disney's John Carter ended up in the doubtlessly capable hands of WALL-E and Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton, the live-action adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic adventure hero was to be a Paramount Pictures production called John Carter of Mars, helmed by Kerry Conran, director of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow...

Yesterday, Mondo continued its tradition of blowing our minds when it debuted its commemorative movie poster for the IMAX version of John Carter at the LA Times blog Hero Complex. Illustrated by J.C Richards, the poster evokes the epic scope and interstellar adventure of sci-fi novel covers, and will be distributed for free to moviegoers at select midnight debuts in IMAX theaters...

We were hugely impressed by the initial teaser trailer for John Carter, the new film by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E) based on the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, A Princess of Mars. Truly arresting images contrasted with a haunting cover of Arcade Fire's "My Body is a Cage" (performed by Peter Gabriel) suggested a sophisticated science fiction adventure on an epic scale, and

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Disney has released the much anticipated first teaser trailer for John Carter, based on the classic pulp novel A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Directed by Andrew Stanton, an Academy Award winner for his work on Finding Nemo and Wall-E, the live-action film stars Taylor Kitsch (a...