Anyone know when DEJAH THORIS & GREEN MEN OF MARS is set?

[ChastMastr]

Just wondering... is it during the other Dejah Thoris series (~1400s AD), during the current Warlord of Mars era (~1800s AD), or some other time?

[Ralok]

well according to the plot synopsis

http://www.tfaw.com/Profile/Dejah-Th...-Of-4___418715

this takes place after the peace between Thark and Helium is established, so at the very least it takes place after "a princess of mars".

I am under the impression that if the title is "Dejah Thors and (blank)" that it takes place in the ten years between princess and gods where john carter was stranded on earth."

but . . . I suppose it could take place during the ten years before teh atmosphere factory was destroyed, it all depends on if carthoris, or john carter is in it.

[ChastMastr]

Aha! Thank you! I am very far behind on the ongoing Dejah Thoris series but is that still set about 400 years before John Carter arrives?

[positronic]

As far as I can tell, all those adventures of Dejah Thoris, from issue #1 on, continue in order sequentially. In other words one story seems to happen more or less right after the preceding one, unless I'm missing something. I'm not sure if that answers your question.

[ChastMastr]

Well, the ongoing Dejah Thoris series started off set about 400 years before JC arrived, right?

[positronic]

I can't recall exactly when they said the series began. It may be printed on the inside front cover, but I tend to just gloss over that and get right to page 1. Some large, significant chunk of time before JC. It's far enough in the past that the series will never catch up to the regular Warlord of Mars title, unless they start skipping huge blocks of time between stories. Dates aren't really mentioned in the stories themselves.

I don't think the WoM timeline is anywhere near as complicated as Dark Horse's Star Wars timeline. I haven't even worried that much about it. Except for White Apes (which had Carthoris in it), it just seems to be 2 discrete eras, the 'Dejah Thoris Era' and the 'John Carter Era'. Well, there is the 'Gullivar Jones Era' too (Warriors of Mars), which is before the Dejah Thoris Era, since it involves her mother.

OK, fair enough then. It just seems like you have to figure out where to wedge the miniseries in as they come out. For some reason I've never felt any confusion over when it's taking place. White Apes needs to be wedged somewhere in between the regular story arcs of WoM, and so does the middle part of Warriors of Mars, but everything else so far seems pretty straightforward. It's not like they're jumping around back and forth in time in the 2 ongoing books.

[ChastMastr]

Hmmm. Does anyone know, then, when the Dejah Thoris series is set?

As for Warriors of Mars, I found it so disappointing and a poor fit that I'm just treating it as some sort of non-continuity What If story or the like.

[ChastMastr]

Aha! It is definitely 400 years before the events of the Warlord of Mars books.