I think we've all been there.
The pair of them having been grabbed by Phra, he and the captive Wing-Man Chak are taken to Phra's secret lair where, while the monster's napping, Jones switches on a handily-placed computer that promptly tells him the entire history of Mars.
It seems that, long ago, disaster befell that world's inhabitants and so they fled their cities and went their separate ways, before evolving into the many and varied forms that now inhabit the planet.
That dealt with, Jones soon makes short work of the newly awoken Phra, and he and Chak walk off to have a sulk about things.
It's clearly an issue for major changes, as, after producing just two instalments of the strip, the original creative team of Roy Thomas and Gil Kane are gone, replaced by George Effinger, Gerry Conway and Ross Andru.
It has to be said, this is vaguely annoying. It's one thing for a socially inept youth in New York to be talking like that, it's a whole other thing for a military veteran on an alien planet to be doing so.
To be honest, as giant menaces go, Phra's something of a wash-out, being stupid, clumsy, ineffectual and lazy in equal parts. The truth is he spends most of the story asleep before being blown up. Clearly, you just can't get good monsters these days.
On the other hand, it is nice to see him appear on the cover's top left corner box, rather than Jones being there - a pleasing nod to the title's origins as a monster mag, rather than a super-hero one.
But that's enough of him. The person you have to most feel sorry for is poor old Princess Heru.Just two issues after Gullivar Jones was announcing his undying love for her, he seems to have now forgotten all about her.
As the last time we saw her, she was being abducted to be handed over to a ravenous ravisher, of ruddy complexion and no-doubt ruddier mind-set, such behaviour on Jones' part seems most ungallant, to say the very least.
Something that's become
blatant by this issue is that the good guys all look like Earth people and the
bad guys decidedly don't. This feeling's strengthened when it's revealed that
Chak, the only nice Wing-Man we've encountered so far in the strip, just
happens to have a human head, and his pterodactyl face is in fact a mask
designed to conceal his true appearance. You can't help feeling that, in the
interests of tolerance and open mindedness, it would have been nice for him to
be depicted as having a pterodactyl head just like his more morally dubious
brethren.This is an added element created by Marvel Comics and not present in
the original novel.Allot that happens in the next few issues,was created by
Marvel
.The adaption of Lt.Gullivar Jones-his Vacasion just off center and never get back anywhere near the sourse material.
But that's enough of him. The person you have to most feel sorry for is poor old Princess Heru.Just two issues after Gullivar Jones was announcing his undying love for her, he seems to have now forgotten all about her.This maybe why the comic was unsuccessful.Not saying Armold Edwin Lester was anywhere near the storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs was,but in no way is this adaption anywhere was good as the sourse material,which is saying much,since that is poorly written aswell.
As the last time we saw her, she was being abducted to be handed over to a ravenous ravisher, of ruddy complexion and no-doubt ruddier mind-set, such behaviour on Jones' part seems most ungallant, to say the very least.
.The adaption of Lt.Gullivar Jones-his Vacasion just off center and never get back anywhere near the sourse material.
But that's enough of him. The person you have to most feel sorry for is poor old Princess Heru.Just two issues after Gullivar Jones was announcing his undying love for her, he seems to have now forgotten all about her.This maybe why the comic was unsuccessful.Not saying Armold Edwin Lester was anywhere near the storyteller Edgar Rice Burroughs was,but in no way is this adaption anywhere was good as the sourse material,which is saying much,since that is poorly written aswell.
As the last time we saw her, she was being abducted to be handed over to a ravenous ravisher, of ruddy complexion and no-doubt ruddier mind-set, such behaviour on Jones' part seems most ungallant, to say the very least.
