Bernard Barbarian of Mars

For many years Swedish comic-book artist Åke Rosenius has enlivened the pages of gaming magazine Fenix with the misadventures of Bernard the Barbarian, a beer-quaffing overweight rogue, whose antics poke fun at fantasy and gaming clichés left and right. Åke knows of my interest in all things Martian and he has graciously given me permission to publish Bernard’s recent encounter with a certain heroic warlord on a Red Planet far away. (Click on the strip to get a larger version.)

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