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 Vision's Gor Magazine
GOR MAGAZINE IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN MANHATTAN. We here at THE GOREAN VOICE have been in contact with Darrell Benvenuto, owner of Vision Entertainment, the company who is working to publish the 26th Gor novel "Witness of Gor" and who has plans to publish "GOR MAGAZINE" a graphic-novel type publication which will illustrate stories based on the novels. The newest info we have:
| Our readers are asking us for an update on the Gor Magazine, as well,
| Would you be so kind as to update us, so we may answer the many thousand John Norman, aka. Dr. Lange, has expressed a desire to write new material to appear regularly in the back of the Magazine, once we've recovered from the Random House situation. So, there will be an immediate presence of new John Norman material, in every issue of the magazine. It's been a pleasure working with him, and his comments to our artists have been extremely helpful in bringing the world of GOR to life in visual form. The material that we discussed would cover the first coming of the Priest-Kings to our Solar System. How they viewed Men, and what led to the Voyages of Acquisition. He would also answer letters, discuss the technology of the Priest-Kings, such as how the satellite defenses were used to enforce the limited technology of the Gorean Castes, and the like. The Random House affair in 1997 cost us over $400,000 of working capital, and, left without the necessary funds to continue production, as well as print the full-color magazine, things slowed and were put temporarily on hold with Issue #1 of GOR Magazine complete, and Issue #2 half-done. We had originally planned to have Issues #1-4 completed before we went to press with the Magazine. On the strength of the rumored presence of tens of thousands of Gorean fans on the Internet, we have tried to get folks to advance-subscribe and thereby launch production of the magazine... but unfortunately, we have received only a handful of subscriptions. We had expected a warmer response; it was rather disheartening to the staff, especially coming on the heels of the whole Random House crisis. As a result, we are being forced to wait until an excerpt from Issue #1 appears in Heavy Metal Magazine, which will be followed by a direct subscription offering page. Assuming some fraction of Heavy Metal's 230,000+ readers subscribe, we hope to be able to launch the magazine in that fashion. It's been a long wait. Heavy Metal is mapped out many, many issues in advance, and the whole FAKK 2 movie that Kevin Eastman has been pursuing has backed things up further yet with FAKK Special Issues. As of yet, with the tepid response from the internet fan base, I'm beginning to wonder if the Heavy Metal fan base, which is not as targeted, would have a similar, ineffectual response... that subscription may not be the way to go in terms of launching the magazine. If we could secure a group of investors that would be interested in working with us and John Norman to help bring out both GOR Magazine and the next novel, "Witness of Gor", I would be very interested in speaking and working with them toward that end. The whole delay for Heavy Metal could be bypassed, and the first Issue could hit the presses right away, almost simultaneously with Witness of GOR. Should you have any further questions, feel free to ask! ---
Darrell Benvenuto Direct subscription info as we currently have it:
Cost: $39.00 / 6 issues.
John Norman's Gor
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