Why on earth would a writer/editor like Van Plexico want to take a 1980 Saturday morning cartoon television show and meld it with a classic Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy series? The answer to that perplexing question is found in this book, which by the way, is the result of that odd pairing.
In the introduction, Plexico tells of his love for an old Jack Kirby created TV series called
“Thundarr the Barbarian” and how, for whatever twists of the muses, it seemed to plague his thoughts over the years.
Enough so that he decided to one day do something with the concept, adding a new and fresh spin to the plot.
It would be another few years for that final element of this eclectic brew would reveal itself to him when one day he started thinking of Burroughs legendary Martian series.
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