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Post by boboldman on Jul 14, 2017 8:03:04 GMT -5
Has anyone read this yet? It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it wasn't great either. One question - was Brule black in the original REH stories? I was always under the impression that the Picts were a darker variety of Caucasian, and not specifically African in origin.
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Post by johnnypt on Jul 14, 2017 9:00:18 GMT -5
Has anyone read this yet? It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it wasn't great either. One question - was Brule black in the original REH stories? I was always under the impression that the Picts were a darker variety of Caucasian, and not specifically African in origin.
Your impression is correct. In the DH Kull series, the Picts were *AHEM* reinterpreted into this new version. The term for this creation has come to be know as "Pictafarian"
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Post by Char-Vell on Jul 14, 2017 9:39:56 GMT -5
I didn't know there was a IDW Kull series happening......
Looks like I'm not missing much.
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Post by Char-Vell on Jul 14, 2017 9:41:16 GMT -5
Thanks Johnnypt. Here's the cover. CBR has the first details of “Kull Eternal,” a new series set to launch in June from the creative team of writer Tom Waltz (a veteran of IDW’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” books) and artist Luca Pizzari (Marvel’s “Black Knight”). It’s a time-traveling “weird tale” that will place Kull in a modern setting, in action against the sinister Serpent Men. What? he goes to the future? Gross.
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Post by lordyam on Jul 14, 2017 12:13:15 GMT -5
You know the dh kull had problems (The dancing scene in cat and the skull) but it still felt far more like sword and sorcery than this pigshit
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Post by terryallenuk on Jul 18, 2017 12:59:12 GMT -5
269 KULL ETERNAL #1 [*] $3.99 IDW 6,314
Hardly a record breaking start for a first issue for Kull though they might be OK figures for IDW.
Terry
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jul 18, 2017 14:54:14 GMT -5
269 KULL ETERNAL #1 [*] $3.99 IDW 6,314 Hardly a record breaking start for a first issue for Kull though they might be OK figures for IDW. Terry I'm thinking unlike the several thousand of us loyal fans keeping the Conan book consistently afloat, IDW won't have that luxury with their abomination. This will probably sink pretty quick.
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Post by boboldman on Aug 20, 2017 14:06:41 GMT -5
What has happened to this series? The first issue came out in June. Comixology has issue two scheduled for late September. What gives? I get that nobody here is into this series for obvious reasons, but it's just weird that it's so late on its 2nd issue
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 20, 2017 19:40:06 GMT -5
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Post by mrp on Aug 20, 2017 20:19:00 GMT -5
Yeah, they have all three remaining issues set for end of September. How do you do that: schedule a four issue mini and NOT have all four ready to go? The pre-orders for #1 were OK for a Kull book at IDW, but I would not be surprised at a major fall off either The economics of the industry and the razor thin margins on books are such that nobody has issues in the can ahead of time, just by the deadlines needed for the next issue to get to the printer and if something unexpected happens it blows the deadline and the release dates. Depending on whether a series pays page rates up front or on the back end, creators can't make ends meet if they aren't getting paid for work as it is released and cannot stockpile issues up ahead without revenue for the issues coming in. This is especially true of artists because of the time it takes to pencil an issue (or pencil and ink an issue) compared to how long it takes to write an issue for a writer. So if the artist completes the first issue it goes to the printer and he starts working on #2, but if something happens (illness, accident, computer crashes, or whatever) and the artist cannot complete #2 on time, then #1 is still going to go into print and get released and there will be a delay on #2 unless they hire a replacement artist to do a rush job to get the book to print on time. No publisher holds a mini series until all the issues are in the can before releasing #1. I don't know what the nature of the delay is, but I am not surprised the whole series was not done before #1 was released because that is almost unheard of in the industry. -M
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 21, 2017 7:59:18 GMT -5
Sorry, misunderstanding on my part, will delete.
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Post by mrp on Aug 21, 2017 9:08:10 GMT -5
Sorry, misunderstanding on my part, will delete. Trust me, I wish it were like that, and in an ideal world, it would be, but the economics of comics, especially for creators, don't allow it. Now if the comics industry worked more like the book industry, where writers (creators) are paid an advance while they work on the book once they are under contract, something like that could be possible. From what I understand, some of the European publishers work like that on long standing properties that sell well (like Asterix, where a new Asterix album has pre-orders in the millions across Europe) where they know they will make their money back, and some of the US book publishers who have developed graphic novel imprints (like Simon & Shuster, First Second, etc.) operate that way, but the major comics publishers who put out monthly comics and operate through Diamond Distribution's monopoly do not and cannot really with the current economic and market model. -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 12:26:07 GMT -5
I managed to find this page from the first issue online. Here's what the writer Tom Waltz has to say about Robert E. Howard, Kull and his intentions for the series.
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Post by lordyam on Aug 21, 2017 14:01:46 GMT -5
The DH Kull series had problems but it felt like sword and sorcery. It also tried to add to the main conan stories by making the Bone Woman one of Kull's enemies
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 22, 2017 19:23:38 GMT -5
I have a theory on why #2 hasn't shipped... it involves whoever came up with the concept at IDW going:
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