"Caravans of Gor" - a new low.

[bellatrys]

There was a lot of initial confusion over the format of Dark Horse's Gor release, because they're a comic book company and the Gor books are prose. So let's muddy the waters some more, with this parody in comic book form:

Caravans of Gor (1 MB pdf) Pairings: Kazrak/Tarl, Talena/Some Random Wagonmaster.

Sample image:

Comments

[acaciaonnastik]

I get the feeling my having avoided the originals like the plague may be leading me to miss something. But it was still very funny, and that's some damn good art!

well, thanks! You can get pretty much

[bellatrys]

all the context you need from "Planet of the Complete Bloody Psychopaths", which isn't as exhaustive as Fred's "Left Behind Fridays" but still has way more inadvertently slashy badfic moments than a Chaotic type like me can walk away from. This is set during the first one, Tarnsman of Gor, when Tarl-Stu has joined the merchant's caravan as a guard

Re: well, thanks! You can get pretty much

[acaciaonnastik]

And now it's even funnier. Thanks!

(...are there ever problems with slave-girls accidentally swallowing?)

[matociquala]

I love you.

[fledgist]

Feminist-Communist Industrial Complex? Ye gods, what does that produce? Gender equality combined with common ownership of the means of production, and pockets.

Silver masks (for ladies) and silver kangs (for gents)

[bellatrys]

slaves to work in the silver mines digging up this luxury silver and gladiatorial games to make sure the males know their place at the bottom of the pecking order, according to Norman, see "Return to the Planet of the Complete Bloody Psychopaths" aka Outlaw of Gor. No, none of it makes any sense, but this is the place where Tarl-Stu not only stood up and defied the rulers under the weight of a solid silver kang, but fell 20 feet onto a stone floor without injury!

Re: Silver masks (for ladies) and silver kangs (for gents)

[fledgist]

Kangs chafe the neck (we used to make wooden ones in a -- largely futile -- effort to keep goats from straying).

Truly, only a superior being, with bones made of sugar of imaginarium, could managed to carry a solid silver weight around his neck and survive a jump of nearly three stories uninjured. How does a man manage to write doorstopper novels with only one hand?

Truly it is a wonder

[bellatrys]

that there aren't more typos and fragmentary sentences in them (tho' the sentences are often quite short.)

How does a man manage to write doorstopper novels with only one hand?

I suspect that the later ones are (or so it is said) decreasingly edited not because Norman was such a megastar, but because they couldn't pay anyone high enough hazardous duty bonus to attempt it any more...

[nenya_kanadka]

Heh. Not *entirely* sure I get all the jokes, but it's still funny. And Talena's dress is exactly how I imagined it!

*scurries off to catch up with slashersofgor, the which I am entirely glad to see being associated more & more with the rerelease of the novels!*

[sajia]

bellatrys, why waste your awesome talents turning Gor's sow ear into a silk purse when you could be developing your own convention-shattering POC fantasy comic? In other words, nice work.

baby steps, bandhobi. baby steps!

[bellatrys]

Before this, I'd never actually done a whole series of drawings conveying sequential action, except for a short storyboard, and I'd never done anything requiring lots of dialogue to be meshed into the graphics before either, only single-panel cartoons with plenty of room for a couple of lines. This is me figuring out if I can manage everything, one-woman-band style, story/pencils/inks/coloring/lettering *and* the "prepress", without throwing a gear and ending up going "gik...gik...meeble!" somewhere in the middle

Re: baby steps, bandhobi. baby steps!

[sajia]

Modhur Bangla, mon ami - you do have some French in you, don't you?

so they told me when i was a kid -

[bellatrys]

not sure when or where from they emigrated, but there's a branch of my family that went west through Canada, to which our Gallic ancestry is ascribed - this has complicated things for myself and my sibs, having moved to a place where "being French"[-Canadian] is a kneejerk insult, a marker of ethnic inferiority, and thus something to be indignantly denied by the younger ones who absorbed it, where my reaction was to indignantly say "what's wrong with being French-Canadian?" in school...

--People! Oy!