@emery I did it! My last one was in May 2016 so I was due anyway. But that was a painful reminder.

Well, I guess if I'm going to step on something like that in bare feet I should get a tetanus shot.

@emery I'm assuming it's worse than typical pulp SFF.

@emery I read about them somewhere when I was maybe 15 and I remember there was not a hint of "wink wink nudge nudge" in the descriptiong. Considering that at that point I was voraciously reading Heavy Metal and various "men's interest" magazines I wouldn't have been able to buy legally it must have been pretty strongly phrased to make me not seek them out.

@emery I never could bring myself to do it. I knew that he was heavily inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs and I'd read the John Carter books (I will never, ever forgive Disney for making a very good adaptation and then completely bungling the marketing of it that badly) but from what I heard of the content...