Not Comics: DHC Republishing Gor

Dorian Wright catches what has to be the strangest comics publisher prose project news of the year: Dark Horse Comics apparently re-publishing John Norman's Gor series in omnibus editions.

I'm not even sure how to describe the Gor series in a way that doesn't end up with me getting e-mail from ding-dongs except to say it's kind of like early 20th Century pulp fantasy as written by the most openly misogynous man in the entire world. Kind of a "slaves are slaves and they like it" situation. Pages upon pages upon pages of delving into this notion and its underpinnings as the series progresses. So, yeah: odd choice. I suppose there's a chance there's all sorts of Gor distinctions to be made, like maybe the early books don't have that same quality or something.
 
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