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Post by lordyam on Dec 14, 2016 22:19:51 GMT -5
I'm thinking of revisiting my old recap and review; in hindsight they were very uneven
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Post by deuce on Dec 14, 2016 23:33:48 GMT -5
Picked this up in the morning (for some reason the omnibus was released a week later in London). The Omnibus contains issues 0-15, and the rest of the 'Born of the Battlefield' story arc; issues 23, 32, 45 & 46. For now, they appear to be presenting Conan's adventures in chronological order. The one-shot and mini series from the early DH era are not present - which I think is a good thing. Definitely. I'll never read "Daughters of Midori" or "The Swamp King" again, short of a gun to my head or a knife to my throat. |
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Post by lordyam on Dec 15, 2016 2:07:31 GMT -5
True. Midora was just....mean. The plot twist at the end with the wizard and the princess being in love was cool but Conan killing the poor bastard even though he's broken and clearly loved her was a "dude. WTF." Moment. Even by Conan's standards that's cruel. Don't think I've ever read the swamp king.
Some of the mini series worked. Midnight God had great atmosphere, a twistedly evil antagonist, and a surprisingly good character study of Conan being pushed to the limit by Ra Sidh. Book of Thoth was divisive but I respect Busiek trying to give Thoth Amon a backstory and while I agree some of the choices were out of place on their own they worked (Thoth being a From Nobody to Nightmare, the fact he sacrificed everyone he loved for power). I understand why more learned Howard scholars disliked it but I personally enjoyed it.
One thing that always bugged me. I get why issues 26-28 were filler: Busiek was leaving (I think DC offered better health insurance and given the poor bastard was sick I don't blame him) but why were issues 35-36 and 39-40 filler? 35-36 is a King Conan (that granted introduces Nai, a rather awesome character) and 39 was a standalone featuring Janissa (which actually had good action scenes);; 40 was I think a comic relief story (albeit a dark comedy). Why were those added to the run?
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Post by johnnypt on Dec 15, 2016 9:06:02 GMT -5
True. Midora was just....mean. The plot twist at the end with the wizard and the princess being in love was cool but Conan killing the poor bastard even though he's broken and clearly loved her was a "dude. WTF." Moment. Even by Conan's standards that's cruel. Don't think I've ever read the swamp king. Some of the mini series worked. Midnight God had great atmosphere, a twistedly evil antagonist, and a surprisingly good character study of Conan being pushed to the limit by Ra Sidh. Book of Thoth was divisive but I respect Busiek trying to give Thoth Amon a backstory and while I agree some of the choices were out of place on their own they worked (Thoth being a From Nobody to Nightmare, the fact he sacrificed everyone he loved for power). I understand why more learned Howard scholars disliked it but I personally enjoyed it. One thing that always bugged me. I get why issues 26-28 were filler: Busiek was leaving (I think DC offered better health insurance and given the poor bastard was sick I don't blame him) but why were issues 35-36 and 39-40 filler? 35-36 is a King Conan (that granted introduces Nai, a rather awesome character) and 39 was a standalone featuring Janissa (which actually had good action scenes);; 40 was I think a comic relief story (albeit a dark comedy). Why were those added to the run?
I remember Cary needed a lot of time to do his issues towards the end. He had Tom Yeates helping out most of the first year, Kurt contributed some layouts in the pre-Tower issues and then needed Tomas to start his Conan work early, filling in with #43. Rafael's #39 issue was actually laying around for a couple of years.
Midora had almost the exact same plot as an early CTB issue, a very drab effort for a first one shot. Swamp King was the DH Presents story (my guess is it might have shown up in Savage Sword #11 had it been done) and yeah, not the best quality material. Art was very nice though.
I like the idea of seeing all this done chronologically, that's what these kind of collections are for.
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Post by lordyam on Dec 20, 2016 14:31:59 GMT -5
Have bought it on ibooks (so Dark Horse hopefully will get at least some revenue from it.) $14.99's a good price
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