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Short Takes

March 13th, 2012 · No Comments

Carter. John Carter. Captain, First Virginia Cavalry. Ten minute trailer with lots of gratuitous Yankee-bustin’. and Looks like John Wilkes Booth won’t be bob-bob-boblin’ along at the Gettysburg store any more. Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors’ center bookstore. […]

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The Confederacy on…Mars?

February 16th, 2012 · No Comments

Yup. John Carter, former Confederate officer, is somehow transported to Barsoom, which we know as Mars. There his muscles, formed in the heavier gravity of Jasoom (Earth) give him an overwhelming advantage given the primitive sword-and-shield technology of the other world. As told by Edgar Rice Burroughs via Disney.

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