
Writer: Dan Abnett
Artist: Alessandro Miracolo
Dejah is now the Jeddara of Helium and needs to unite all of Barsoom for the fight with the Longborn. She finds that Kurz Kurtos was in alliance with an evil scientist and prepares to confront him. First she visits John Carter who is still recovering from his ordeal.
“Young Dejah/Young Carter”
Writer and Artist: Will Robson
A young Dejah and Carter are both on a hunting trip. They manage to save their fathers respectively from predators.
“Family Legend”
Writer: Jeff Parker
Artist: Jonathan Lau
Tars and Sola are chased by a white ape. Sola tells about how she heard from Dejah that Tars slew one singlehandedly. The truth was the ape collapsed a rock bridge and got impaled on a rock formation. The white ape finds them, and Sola kills it.
“Bound”
Writers: Nate Crosby & Jacob Edgar
Artist: Jacob Edgar
John Carter has just transported to Barsoom and has to learn how to walk in the lower gravity.
“Afterlife on Mars”
Writer: Jeff Parker
Artist: Jordi Perez
Sabal Than enjoys her time as ruler of Barsoom and thinks back to how she killed Dejah. Only she finds out her apprentice is keeping her alive with some plant to continue gaining her knowledge.
This anthology is a filler between two series. Sets up the characters of Dejah and John Carter. Can’t say I am impressed. Carter seems to be a broken man and the woman is going to save everything. This type of post-modern story continues with denigrating Tars Tarkas at the expenses of building up the female Sola.
The Bound story is pretty worthless, and I can’t believe it took two people to write it. The Sabal Than one was somewhat interesting. The worst for me was the young story. Burroughs always had Carter as never remembering being a child. He was supposed to be timeless and so is Dejah. There is supposed to be this mystique about them being timeless. This story just throws that out the window. Hopefully the next series will be good.