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Post by kesher on Mar 15, 2012 11:24:21 GMT -6
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Post by Finarvyn on Apr 1, 2012 13:32:03 GMT -6
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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Post by Malcadon on Apr 11, 2012 19:21:58 GMT -6
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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Post by Sean Michael Kelly on Apr 12, 2012 6:51:08 GMT -6
meh.... to me it looks like something a pre-pubescnt boy would draw for giggles. Too outlandish to take seriously.
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Post by kesher on Apr 12, 2012 9:39:16 GMT -6
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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Post by Mushgnome on Apr 12, 2012 10:07:44 GMT -6
I'd like to see this artist's take on Carcosa...  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2012 16:21:56 GMT -6
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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Post by Zenopus on Apr 12, 2012 18:38:41 GMT -6
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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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2012 0:25:48 GMT -6
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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Post by waysoftheearth on Apr 13, 2012 0:58:32 GMT -6
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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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2012 1:44:56 GMT -6
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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Post by jasmith on Apr 13, 2012 9:49:15 GMT -6
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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Post by kesher on Apr 13, 2012 9:52:01 GMT -6
This discussion has become far more awesome than I ever imagined... |
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Post by Zenopus on Apr 13, 2012 10:59:22 GMT -6
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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Post by kesher on Apr 13, 2012 13:25:16 GMT -6
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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Post by jasmith on Apr 13, 2012 21:50:31 GMT -6
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... Dejah wouldn't be incomparable, without 'em! ;D |
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Post by Achán hiNidráne on Apr 14, 2012 10:45:41 GMT -6
I don't mind depictions of nudity or sex what so ever.
However, those freakishly huge areoleas are off-putting.
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Post by geoffrey on Apr 14, 2012 15:12:46 GMT -6
If Dejah Thoris did not have female breasts, I think John Carter would have mentioned something about that. He goes into considerable detail regarding the physical differences between the Green Martians and earthlings. Surely he wouldn't let it pass in silence if there were such a difference between Red Martians and earthlings. Could a red-blooded Virginian go on and on about the great beauty of Dejah's face and form, but never mention her form's lack of breasts?
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Post by jmccann on Apr 14, 2012 21:52:03 GMT -6
ICould a red-blooded Virginian go on and on about the great beauty of Dejah's face and form, but never mention her form's lack of breasts? I am going to go out on a limb here and say NO. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Apr 15, 2012 5:26:45 GMT -6
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... What an odd twist this thread has taken. This never entered my head until I read your post, either.  |
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