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If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mars...
« Thread Started on Mar 15, 2012, 12:24pm »

...it would look like this.

Awesome.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #1 on Apr 1, 2012, 2:32pm »

I've seen it before. The concept of nudity seems fine in a book, but once it gets drawn into pictures I get less comfortable with it. I guess I'm more of a fan of Frazetta or Whelan or other artists where you almost get a look at the naughty bits but not quite.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #2 on Apr 11, 2012, 8:21pm »

I have seen nudity related to this fiction, and I have seen it go two ways: the tasteful way, and the Jim Spratt way - its all about execution. If someone made a fan-comic with full-frontal nudity that goes about it in a tasteful way, then I think folks would better embrace it. I hope I'm not alone with that thought?

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #3 on Apr 12, 2012, 7:51am »

meh.... to me it looks like something a pre-pubescnt boy would draw for giggles. Too outlandish to take seriously.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #4 on Apr 12, 2012, 10:39am »

What I love is that he commits 100%--I, personally, get no sense of lewdness, or even gratuity. This is his personal, fully executed vision of JB's Mars, and the only one that, regardless of potential charges of exaggeration, actually portrays the characters as they are in the novels.

I mean, I don't think he cares if anyone else likes it. Thus my connection to Blake--he's expressing a personal vision, and d**n the detractors. I can respect that.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #5 on Apr 12, 2012, 11:07am »

I'd like to see this artist's take on Carcosa...

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #6 on Apr 12, 2012, 5:21pm »

I liked it Kesher and wish it was in pdf form, but then I'm a pervy little so'n'so.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #7 on Apr 12, 2012, 7:38pm »

Apr 12, 2012, 10:39am, kesher wrote:

actually portrays the characters as they are in the novels

Are you forgetting that Martian women - Dejah Thoris included - lay eggs and thus have no mammary glands?

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #8 on Apr 13, 2012, 1:25am »

Apr 12, 2012, 7:38pm, Zenopus wrote:

Are you forgetting that Martian women - Dejah Thoris included - lay eggs and thus have no mammary glands?

That's a crime and a tragedy.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #9 on Apr 13, 2012, 1:58am »

Apr 12, 2012, 7:38pm, Zenopus wrote:

Are you forgetting that Martian women - Dejah Thoris included - lay eggs and thus have no mammary glands?

Unless they are monotremes, in which case they would lay eggs and have mammary glands.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
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Apr 13, 2012, 1:58am, waysoftheearth wrote:

Apr 12, 2012, 7:38pm, Zenopus wrote:

Are you forgetting that Martian women - Dejah Thoris included - lay eggs and thus have no mammary glands?

Unless they are monotremes, in which case they would lay eggs and have mammary glands.

Of course. All is right in the world again.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #11 on Apr 13, 2012, 10:49am »

Apr 13, 2012, 2:44am, austrodavicus wrote:

Apr 13, 2012, 1:58am, waysoftheearth wrote:

Unless they are monotremes, in which case they would lay eggs and have mammary glands.

Of course. All is right in the world again.

Whew!

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #12 on Apr 13, 2012, 10:52am »

This discussion has become far more awesome than I ever imagined...

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #13 on Apr 13, 2012, 11:59am »

Perhaps I am generalizing too much from the Tharks (Green Martians), who in the Princess of Mars lay eggs that incubate for five years, and from which fully formed 3-4' tall Martians emerge who are raised by foster mothers. The Red Martians may be different, but Carter's son does incubate in a guarded egg for five years at the end of PoM.

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Re: If William Blake illustrated A Princess of Mar
« Reply #14 on Apr 13, 2012, 2:25pm »

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that the question of whether or not egg-laying humanoids would have mammary glands never even entered ERB's head...

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