As a huge fan of the books, I was disappointed that they felt they had to cram a dead family subplot to the main character. In doing so, I felt they ruined John Carter's character and motivation. The book was pretty much a straight up love story, like if Star Wars was a romance. Carter gets to Mars and, not really…

"It is a charming science-fiction adventure that makes no apologies for what it is." Apparently, only the previews are making apologies for that.

There's about 50 seconds of it that was included in a making of or something, so you can hear that much on YouTube. There's also 30 seconds of the afore mentioned Crashing Down which was used in a tv advertisement for the album. But as of yet, neither the full versions of these two songs, or the several other songs…

And as someone who had a hissing cockroach get lost in my pants on a stage at the mall when I was 7, I respond: No. Big bugs are not good, either.

I'm still waiting for the B-sides compilation from Plastic Beach. There was a song with the Horrors which never got released.

That really is some mighty fine cape physics.

I'd almost say all of those things have their place (however small those may be), I'm just sick to death of them being the mainstream, especially in certain areas where they are thematically opposite of what it feels certain genres they should be (Superhero comics come to mind. There's enough angst-ridden misery to…

That is true, but I wasn't saying make her look underage, I just meant I pictured the character as more slender and graceful. She was supposed to have incomparable beauty, the Dynamite interpretation was overly voluptuous to a degree that was resulting in unattractive art.

Yeah, it kind of boils down to that, though I might say that (with a few notable exceptions), the proportions in mainstream comics are still a little better than here. Power Girl is the worst offender, but her bust came about as a joke so it almost doesn't count. Dejah in these was much worse than any official Power…

Your take on the use of the word "naked" I can understand totally. I prefer these characters to be at least somewhat respectably clothed (when they're in their regular attire, moments of spontaneous interplanetary travel notwithstanding), mostly because I always pictured the books as something that was aimed for…

"No depressive ending, no preaching, no agendas, no angst-ridden misery". Could we implement this as a new rule in Western literature?

I will say, I really hate Dynamite's artwork for Dejah in these. I was reading them regularly until they finally introduced her and she was wearing the most salacious and ridiculous outfit they could think of. They took the "destitute of clothes" part (which, to be fair, didn't quite mean the same thing at the turn…

Who hasn't been on Family Guy in a bit involving a toilet?

Just to clarify, in the book A Princess of Mars, Dejah Thoris is set to wed Sab Than, and I think that's still how it is in the movie. Matai Shang is involved with other stuff, and the costume designer sounds like she just made a sudden leap in conversation from wedding dress Dejah to Matai Shang, so for any of the…

I know. Someone online earlier suggest the trilogy could be titled as "John Carter and", such as "John Carter and the Princess of Mars", "John Carter and the Gods of Mars", and finally "John Carter: Warlord of Mars". Interestingly, Disney is already beginning early work on the second, and the working title is…

I would have stressed fun and fantastical. J.J. Abrams bright, colorful, and just plain fun interpretation of Star Trek was hugely popular, and we should be expecting something along those lines. Granted, this movie is going to the trouble of adding a tragic backstory to a previously carefree character, so they…

Polymath wins.

I think there's the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the book itself) in the bottom right corner near the dead battle droid.

Yeah, not gonna lie; I would love to see Johnny Depp as Captain Crunch. I also suddenly have a mental image of Steve Buscemi as the Trix rabbit.

Good to hear someone else thinks the same way. The New 52 initiative seemed so radically removed from my comic sensibilities in every corner of the new Universe that I thought I was the only one.