It took me forever to paint this mini, and even with all that work I'm unhappy with the final result. As you can see, I messed up the sk...

  Here is John Carter's pet calot, Woola. He didn't turn out as well as John Carter or Tars Tarkas, but he looks okay on the table. ...

Here's a 28mm John Carter of Mars. I like him well enough, though he didn't turn out quite as well as Tars Tarkas. I do like that he...

Last night I painted this 28mm-scale miniature of Tars Tarkas, one of the savage Green Men of Mars, loyal friend to John Carter. The miniatu...

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Hugh Hudson, 1984) offers a respectful treatment of Edgar Rice Burroughs' original a...

If you've ever wanted to hear me talk about Edgar Rice Burroughs, his creation John Carter of Mars, and roleplaying game systems, you c...

"The sun is an impartial old devil. He shines with equal brilliance upon the just and the banker, upon the day of a man's wed...

Well, it's full disclosure time here at The Earliad: a few days ago I thought I was being clever when I suggested the plots of some hyp...

Last week I noted that Tarzan's adventures could have continued indefinitely, given his immortality. Readers' last glimpses of the ...

In Tarzan's Quest (1935), Tarzan, Jane and a monkey are granted immortality. I've always thought it a shame that the Burroughs est...

Over the course of the last couple of weeks I've read the first twelve of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels. And while I still lo...

Inspired by Jeff's most recent post , I felt the urge to create something retro - in this case, an imaginary paperback from an alte...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. According to rumour , there's a rough beast slouching toward Whyte Avenue's Greenwoods...

I am a very young man; how young I do not know. Possibly I am but twelve, perhaps younger; but I cannot tell, for I have never aged as other...

One day during the golden age of science fiction - that is, somewhere between the ages of 9 and 13 - I chanced upon a copy of Edgar Rice Bu...

When the Harry Potter series began and took the publishing industry by storm, I promised myself that I would read the series when J.K. Rowl...

Jim Hole once asked me if I ever skipped to the last page of a book to read the ending. "I might as well read the whole thing backwar...