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Post by Von K on Nov 18, 2023 20:08:33 GMT -5
To me the gun looks most like a Model 1917 Colt 45 Caliber Revolver. My guess would be it and the sword to the right belong to El Borak.
Here's a high res pic of the cover for reference (from Terry's link above):
Edit: actually cromfelge is probably right about the sword being Dark Agnes.' If so that would give us a full lineup of Conan, Brule, Kane, Agnes and El Borak for FCBD.
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Post by salant on Nov 29, 2023 18:48:51 GMT -5
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Post by salant on Dec 3, 2023 18:58:58 GMT -5
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Post by salant on Apr 21, 2024 9:47:22 GMT -5
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Post by alexander on Apr 22, 2024 5:16:18 GMT -5
To me the gun looks most like a Model 1917 Colt 45 Caliber Revolver. My guess would be it and the sword to the right belong to El Borak.
Here's a high res pic of the cover for reference (from Terry's link above):
Edit: actually cromfelge is probably right about the sword being Dark Agnes.' If so that would give us a full lineup of Conan, Brule, Kane, Agnes and El Borak for FCBD.
"we now have a better idea of the extent and scale of The Battle Of The Black Stone. Specifically that it is not just Conan and not just the Hyborian Age. As Conan comes to the jewelled city of Aquilonia and seeks battle against the Children of Crom, revisting lost memories of the everpresent Black Stone in previous issues of Conan. And a sigil seen that echoes through the ages. Not just by Conan. But also by Solomon Kane. Dark Agnes De Chastilion, El Borak. Professor John Kirowman. All Robert E Howard characters, all from different time periods and all part of this story. Including a focus on James Allison created by Robert E. Howard as a 20th century Texan novelist with an extensive recollection of his past lives, a curse of reincarnation placed upon a previous version of him by Koth-Serapis during the Hyborian Age." Source: bleedingcool.com/comics/conan-black-stone-event-crosses-over-with-other-robert-e-howard-characters/
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Post by Von K on Apr 22, 2024 20:56:44 GMT -5
"we now have a better idea of the extent and scale of The Battle Of The Black Stone. Specifically that it is not just Conan and not just the Hyborian Age. As Conan comes to the jewelled city of Aquilonia and seeks battle against the Children of Crom, revisting lost memories of the everpresent Black Stone in previous issues of Conan. And a sigil seen that echoes through the ages. Not just by Conan. But also by Solomon Kane. Dark Agnes De Chastilion, El Borak. Professor John Kirowman. All Robert E Howard characters, all from different time periods and all part of this story. Including a focus on James Allison created by Robert E. Howard as a 20th century Texan novelist with an extensive recollection of his past lives, a curse of reincarnation placed upon a previous version of him by Koth-Serapis during the Hyborian Age." Source: bleedingcool.com/comics/conan-black-stone-event-crosses-over-with-other-robert-e-howard-characters/Thanks for the info Alexander! Glad to see I guessed right about El Borak, and Cromfelge about Dark Agnes. No mention of Brule so far?
I'd never have guessed Professor Kirowan from that pic - but he's a surprising yet logical inclusion to the overall narrative considering the concepts at play!
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Post by alexander on Apr 23, 2024 6:33:22 GMT -5
"we now have a better idea of the extent and scale of The Battle Of The Black Stone. Specifically that it is not just Conan and not just the Hyborian Age. As Conan comes to the jewelled city of Aquilonia and seeks battle against the Children of Crom, revisting lost memories of the everpresent Black Stone in previous issues of Conan. And a sigil seen that echoes through the ages. Not just by Conan. But also by Solomon Kane. Dark Agnes De Chastilion, El Borak. Professor John Kirowman. All Robert E Howard characters, all from different time periods and all part of this story. Including a focus on James Allison created by Robert E. Howard as a 20th century Texan novelist with an extensive recollection of his past lives, a curse of reincarnation placed upon a previous version of him by Koth-Serapis during the Hyborian Age." Source: bleedingcool.com/comics/conan-black-stone-event-crosses-over-with-other-robert-e-howard-characters/Thanks for the info Alexander! Glad to see I guessed right about El Borak, and Cromfelge about Dark Agnes. No mention of Brule so far?
I'd never have guessed Professor Kirowan from that pic - but he's a surprising yet logical inclusion to the overall narrative considering the concepts at play!
Like others here I have reservations about this Howardverse Titan is creating. Also though I liked the Black Stone Conan story I was not enthralled by their take on black stone and I'm not eager to see all REH heroes fight it over and over again.
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Post by Von K on Apr 23, 2024 18:12:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the info Alexander! Glad to see I guessed right about El Borak, and Cromfelge about Dark Agnes. No mention of Brule so far?
I'd never have guessed Professor Kirowan from that pic - but he's a surprising yet logical inclusion to the overall narrative considering the concepts at play!
Like others here I have reservations about this Howardverse Titan is creating. Also though I liked the Black Stone Conan story I was not enthralled by their take on black stone and I'm not eager to see all REH heroes fight it over and over again. Re Titan's Howardverse it does seem kinda meta in some ways - though it is based on hints in REH's own work.
Both ERB and REH were building meta narratives with shared elements and characters between their yarns. REH did this to a certain degree with his boxing yarns, hinted at more with Kings in the Night and Tuzun Thune and even extends beyond his own fiction by co-world building with HPL using aspects of the Mythos. It wasn't until Michael Moorcock's Multiverse that the concept of shared universes started to get formalized and popularized, but even he used crossovers sparingly.
One issue with character crossover in meta narratives is that if they are pulled too far out of their original creative context or timeline the "dissonance" can be jarring.
I can see why Titan would want to do crossovers but hopefully they will be sparingly used for one off special events rather than becoming too much of a main focus.
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Post by johnnypt on Apr 24, 2024 11:44:52 GMT -5
It’s WAY more connected than it appears on the surface. This episode of the podcast tried to deal with as much of it as I could:
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Post by Von K on Apr 24, 2024 16:53:19 GMT -5
It’s WAY more connected than it appears on the surface. This episode of the podcast tried to deal with as much of it as I could: Thanks, look forward to checking it out johnnypt.
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Post by alexander on Apr 25, 2024 7:13:28 GMT -5
It’s WAY more connected than it appears on the surface. This episode of the podcast tried to deal with as much of it as I could: For me this is the perfect example of people seeing ties where they aren't any: it's not because Howard re-used the same names over and over again (including for his pen names when he couldn't sign REH) that they are the same people/members of the same family. It's not because Howard's characters are very similar that they are reincarnations. That's the kind of over-stretched thinking I'm worried about.
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Post by johnnypt on Apr 25, 2024 7:37:52 GMT -5
It’s WAY more connected than it appears on the surface. This episode of the podcast tried to deal with as much of it as I could: For me this is the perfect example of people seeing ties where they aren't any: it's not because Howard re-used the same names over and over again (including for his pen names when he couldn't sign REH) that they are the same people/members of the same family. It's not because Howard's characters are very similar that they are reincarnations. That's the kind of over-stretched thinking I'm worried about. I’m following in the footsteps of Howard scholars like Steve Tompkins, Deuce Richardson and Rusty Burke. This number of ties isn’t a coincidence. It may not be a mapped out plan like Tolkien but they’re there.
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Post by salant on Apr 28, 2024 11:43:53 GMT -5
A couple sneak peek pages that don't look SPOILERish at
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Post by Erik on Apr 28, 2024 12:51:24 GMT -5
Read it yesterday (got my hands on an early copy) and it was a decent intro to that new storyline that's going to cross over with several REH characters, like Kull, Agnes and El Borak (each depicted in this issue). Also contains a two-page article by Jeffrey Shanks and some rough sketches for an upcoming issue.
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