Ladies and gentlemen, the color art of Thomas A Boatwright.  He’s been itching for us to get to Barsoom.  And not just so he can draw man-butt, oh no!  Check out his take on Burroughs’ yellow, mossy ground.

And we’re back. A little late, but here nonetheless.  I had a lot I wanted to say, but instead Heroes Con (a small success for me) also gave me the parting gift of con crud, so I’m keeping it short.  See you next Tuesday.

Well that kind of sums it up, doesn’t it?  I could make excuses about the extended delay, but I won’t.  We’re back.

ALSO, I’ll be at Heroes Con 2013 this coming weekend in Charlotte, NC. I’ll be doing con sketches and selling stuff, including prints (Princess of Mars is one of them) and the print edition of Chaper 1: On The Arizona Hills. So drop by and see me at table AA-1930.

WAIT, SAY WHAT??

Yep.  They arrived the other day and look pretty dang good.  So I’ll have these for sale for $5 this weekend (20 pages, full color).  I’ll definitely be looking into getting them available to everyone else once the convention is behind me.

11×14 $150, or 9×12 $100

If you’re interested just drop me a message and we’ll work out all of the details.

I’ll open my actual con sketch list for people a week or so before the convention, and thanks in advance!

Well, that’s it!  39 comics in and we’ve come to the end of Chapter 1/2, which I’ve combined and mushed into one installment. Mostly because a lot of chapter 2 was redundant in a lot of ways, and works better as a pulp chapter than a comic, but also because I know everyone wants to get to Mars. Well, here we go!

In about a month. I’m taking a break to tighten up the script I’ve written for the next installment and to work on getting Chaper 1 reformatted into something that I can make available in a print editions for con season. So never fear – I’m still be producing APoM material, just behind the scenes.

Finally, here’s a video review of Chaper One from Webcomics Top 100:

I’ll see you all back here in a month for Chapter 2: Advent on Mars.

I’ve always thought it was a pretty ballsy move by ERB to not bother even explaining what’s going on here.  Quite frankly, I think he just didn’t care — it’s just the final McGuffin to get Burroughs up to Mars by whatever means he felt like.

It’s transition time!  This is another one of those times where Burroughs was a little wishy-washy with his time usage.  So we’re going to take a step back this week and look at Tom render a lovely sunset that sets us up for the final scene of the Chapter (really, Chapter 2).

CON SEASON!

Con season is upon us, and I’m confirmed at two so far.

Heroes Con
As always.  No table assignment yet, but I’ll be there, drawing my boney butt off.

Comic Book City Con
This is the inaugural year of this small, local convention. Comic Book City Con will be taking place on Saturday, October 26th & Sunday, October 27th of 2013 at the Empire Room in historic downtown Greensboro, NC

I’ll let everyone know when I know things like table assignments, and when I open up for pre-con commissions.

Speaking of commissions:

BUY MY STUFF

• Art for sale
• Commissions. My rates are cheap. Sometimes I think STUPIDLY cheap
• Prints

Finally, while I’m at it, it’s a good time to maybe update everyone on what all I’m working on outside of the comic:

SKETCH CARD SETS

DC Legends: Superman
I’m a redemption artist on the set, and as such created an as-yet-unspecified number of oversized (4″ x 6″) sketch cards. Suffice to say, less than 10.  All are jams with the lovely and talented Danielle Gransaull.

Bombshells: Women of War
This set should be out and about any time now.  I completed 2 base (printed) cards, and 11 sketch cards.

Spellcasters
The latest set by Perna Studios. Due for release in about a month. I completed a base card and undisclosed number of sketch cards.

Once Bitten: Art of the Vampiress
I’m on this set by Asylum Studios. Set for release in August. It’s too early for me to discuss my contributions.

I think we’re starting to see why I decided to tag Carter with an arrow. Also, I think my reordering of the final scenes has worked out pretty well. We’re in the home stretch now.  You may also have noticed by now that I’ve eliminated the Apache coming across the cave in the mountain.  In this format it’s kind of repetitive and doesn’t serve much of a purpose in moving the (comic) story forward.

This is one of the comics that kind of flowed out of me. I think I had it fully penciled in an hour, and inked in another 2 or so.  Carter’s arms look a bit long in the first one, but that’s sort of on purpose, as I was playing with perspective a bit. I do kind of wish I had made it more obvious in panel #2 that Powell’s body is covered with Carter’s trenchcoat.