Why isn't Dejah Thoris more popular?

Why isn't Dejah Thoris more popular?

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people think she ripped off slave leia?

If only Leia pranced around like that all the time like Dejah.

It's not 1920?

That's so last week.

>indie publisher
>generic writing and art
>countless ongoings making it difficult to figure out a good starting point

Reading Warlord of Mars is pretty infuriating, John keeps getting prime Martian pussy of the whole color spectrum but he keeps saying no, also when his kid was about to get the Black Martian puss, she fucking dies. What the fuck.

Because they keep writing her as Thuvia.

Because it's been a century.

Her being that nude without just showing nipples is annoying

I read the first two books. The first book was okay but the second one was super cliche.

Because Barsoom as a whole isn't particularly popular.

They tried to make her some kind of amazon warrior-queen which is really fucking weird because it's a 100% reversal of Dejah's personality and there were already female warriors in the series who filled that niche.

>bellybutton
Marvel got this right in 70s, how can people still get it wrong today?

I think the books are cliche because they kinda came out first and everyone emulated their tropes, young readers grew up reading them then copied it. I mean, the first came out the same year the Titanic sank.

Now that's a difficult question to answer, and I'm not sure I have a definite answer for that one. I consider Dejah Thoris to be in what I call the "Big Four" of sexy comic book girls: Red Sonja, Lady Death, Vampirella, and Dejah Thoris, I think that those are the biggest and most well-recognized sexy female characters outside of the big two.

But Dejah is definitely on the low end of that list. Perhaps it's her setting, people have really moved beyond the concept of Martains. We know a hell of alot more about Mars now than what we did in 1912, and scifi is usually set in places that are just beyond the grasp of our understanding. Perhaps it would be better to put her and John Carter in a more Star Wars-ish like setting.

She has a brand new comic series by Dynamite, I'm going to add it to my pull list next time I visit my LCS, I'm really looking forward to this one.

The #0 issue wasn't bad. I'm optimistic about it too. Chu hasn't been an amazing writer from what I've read, but she has been solid enough that I expect mediocre at worst.

idk what this is but, i like sexy comic book women, so ill read the wikipedia article at least

>Reading Warlord of Mars is pretty infuriating, John keeps getting prime Martian pussy of the whole color spectrum but he keeps saying no
He is faithful to one woman and when you have an absolute babe like Dejah, why would you ever look at another woman twice?

They also managed to fuck up her story mightly in the original comic where they turned her into a Xena rip-off.

Red Sonja and Vampirella have the advantage of having some of the really great writers tackle the characters. Vampirella especially, at first it was mainly artists that contributed cause she was THE classic horror pinup and all of the greatest artists drew her. Then Harris comics decided to get the greats and had Moore, Morrison, Ellis, Busiek, Carey, etc write the character. She has stories to back her up. So does Red Sonja, who I would argue has overtaken Conan in the comic genre in popularity. Surprisingly, for being at the bottom of the list, I would say Dejah overshadows John Carter of Mars at this point, in comics strictly.

What's all that garbage on her? She was nude in source material.

Carter is just too quaint at this point. It's largely forgotten and the way it's written prevents it from regaining popularity. Even great stuff like Conan and Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser aren't remembered anymore outside of those Arnold movies. What hope does Carter have?

Most of the comics are not that good. Like I think the only run I liked was Marvel's Gods of Mars

That one ended on a shitty note, even worse than the book.

Yeah but it was still better than most of the other john carter stuff that's out there

>sperm literally covering her nipples

They never did a follow up to that, did they?

They just need to hire a Japanese artist to do some of the Dynamite comics.

They canceled them pretty early.

>Japanese Dejah Thoris
I didn't knew I wanted this...

It's 2018, you can make a character nude in comics. Lay people will barely care, and among the people that both buy comics and would read Barsoom stories (i.e. near 100% male audience on both accounts), they'd probably appreciate the authenticity.

Why didn't the Japs adapt it? They actually have adult versions of manga magazines where nudity is OK. It even reads like an old adult/classic shounen manga.

Gold thong bikini looks better than nude anyway

>Atsuji Yamamoto

I see you are a cultured man as well.

It's funny that a few publishers are willing to get their feet wet with risque variant covers, but the insides have to be clean even if the girl's nipples are but just barely covered. I guess they just assume that there's not much of a market for pornography outside of the internet.

They do those covers just so they can change a hundred dollars for a comic, some of them are inflated to stupid amounts.

I won't pay for that, but at least Rothic comics have some of the nude covers in the trades anyway, so who cares. And there is a lot of nudity in the comic unlike say Zenoscope

Isn't he a self-publisher though? It seems like the self-publishers are the only ones with enough balls to produce the real sexy stuff. Now if he could only do something with some memorable characters or a good story....

>someone makes a Dejah thread
>barely any picks
I am disappoint, Sup Forums

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Because she's from a series of books that near a hundred years old and everyone is an illiterate twat

In an age of easily available porn and nude pics being shared on the internet of real and drawn people in all kinds of kinky situations, a nearly nude redskinned girl isn't anything that special anymore.
You'd need to have her get violated a little bit and have it be shown explicitely to make her stand out.