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Post by themirrorthief on May 23, 2021 14:32:06 GMT -5
Ive read them and wrote them...IMO Kane would be perfect for a tv series...I would be there
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Post by alexander on May 24, 2021 6:32:18 GMT -5
Ive read them and wrote them...IMO Kane would be perfect for a tv series...I would be there So what do you think of the stories written by Gianluigi Zuddas? I've found them really disappointing. I'd even call the 1st one a very poor S& S adventure.
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Post by themirrorthief on May 24, 2021 15:22:48 GMT -5
sorry I havent checked them out
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Post by alexander on May 29, 2021 11:58:55 GMT -5
I've just read "observable things" by Paul Di Filippo, one of the very few pastiches I'm aware of. It is set a century after Kane's adventures: the explanation is that "his Afric exploits earned him undying youth from Pagan sorcerers". The story is told from the point of view of a young Cotton Mather, a convenient trick to avoid any comparison with REH's style (why not?).
I've found it good and yet disappointing at the same time. It's a good story (an English colony in the New World is at war with the natives and has called Kane for help as an Indian sachem seems to have made a pact with evil forces). There are a few fight scenes (e.g., against a Deep One, a Cthulhu-like creature and a final duel between Kane and the Sachem). Why disappointing? Because I feel it could have been much better: for instance the fight scenes are very shorts (a couple of paragraphs), the duel ends in a very anti-climactic way and there is no "coup de theatre".
IMHO it's not a must have but still worth reading (the story is part of an anthology of short-stories that can be purchased used for £3.4 on Amazon).
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Post by alexander on Jun 6, 2021 6:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by alexander on Jun 12, 2021 5:41:17 GMT -5
I had thought of continuing this thread on the 2 pastiches I mentioned last week but with the great news that more pastiches will come next year I thought it better to focus on the future.
Which authors you’d wish would write these new SK pastiches?
3 come to my mind: - Ramsey Campbell seems obvious to me as he completed 3 Howard fragments and wrote the novelisation of the movie. - I think Pierre Pevel could be a good writer. I have no idea whether he’s a REH fan but he has written several sword & sorcery novels taking place in the 17th century (what I call rapier & sorcery). His Wieldstadt trilogy has some horrific moments and the main character – a swordsman with a mysterious past fighting evil with flintlock and magic - is not too dissimilar from Kane (at least until you learn who he is). - I’d like to see William King write some SK stories too. He is clearly a fan of REH and his Kormak is obviously based on Solomon. Plus I find his S&S stories often frightening. I think it’s important as I find Solomon Kane’s adventures to be darker than Conan’s.
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Post by KiramidHead on Jun 12, 2021 10:20:28 GMT -5
Mike Mignola, maybe?
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Post by alexander on Jun 12, 2021 10:48:29 GMT -5
Baltimore is on my reading list.
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Post by KiramidHead on Jun 13, 2021 13:14:27 GMT -5
The one Dark Horse Solomon Kane comic I read certainly looked like it was trying to mimic Mignola's art.
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Post by alexander on Jun 14, 2021 8:13:51 GMT -5
The one Dark Horse Solomon Kane comic I read certainly looked like it was trying to mimic Mignola's art. I was thinking of the prose version (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Baltimore-Mike-Mignola/dp/0553804715/ref=sr_1_11?crid=R5958UDLBOW6&dchild=1&keywords=baltimore+omnibus&qid=1623676152&sprefix=baltimore%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-11). I'm read a few Dark Horse SK but I just can't get into it, especially the monsters with many mouthes used in a couple of these stories. I've read here that Solomon Kane had been an inspiration for Baltimore 13thdimension.com/13-greatest-monster-hunters-by-christopher-golden/
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Post by alexander on Jan 15, 2022 7:11:33 GMT -5
As I mentioned in the first post, this thread started from a discussion about SK clones in movies, notably Captain Kronos.
I recently discovered a sequel to “Captain Kronos, vampire hunter” was made in comics and published in Hammer’s magazine (“House of Hammer”). I read it yesterday and it’s quite good. It’s in B&W like most SK comics and the characters really look like the actors who played them in the Hammer movie (except Carla that doe snot lool too much like Caroline Munro). It is available on the Internet Archive (issues 1 to 3). Kronos is not Kane but I recommend this comic to any REH fans that know by heart Kane’s adventures and would settle for a good pastiche.
I've purchased the Titan Comics (another sequel) but I've not read it yet.
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Post by karasuthecrow on Jan 20, 2022 16:28:15 GMT -5
You have created me a need, because am intriged to now how would married Solomon Kane . XD
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Post by alexander on Mar 12, 2022 5:14:00 GMT -5
I've just discovered that someone "finished" Redflame and made it a novel. Unfortunately for me - and I guess most of us? - it's in Spanish Link here Redflame pastiche
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Post by alexander on Apr 3, 2022 11:31:08 GMT -5
I’ve just read another non-official adventure of SK: “the Anti-Pope in Avignon” in Tales of the Shadowmen 4.
It’s really not good.
First of all the plot is highly convoluted, confusing even probably because the author put too many elements in it: a totally unbelievable plot by the villain to become anti-pope (the villain is Fausta from The Pardaillan books, i.e. a woman!!!!) an evil spirit, a plague, a henchman who killed a kid who tried to help Solomon, the wars of religion in France as background… Second despite all those elements not much happens: it’s endless chatter like in a Tarantino movie. There is only one fight scene at the end, a sword fight between Solomon and the henchman then possessed by the evil spirit.
Read it only if you want be able to say one day to your grandchildren you’ve read all existing SK pastiches :-)
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Post by mingerganthecat on Jun 22, 2022 12:09:02 GMT -5
Solomon Kane was old enough to sail with Sir Francis Drake. Sonya of Rogatino was a young woman at the Siege of Vienna.
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