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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2018 11:56:04 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypt on Sept 12, 2018 16:39:40 GMT -5
I always wondered if this was actually meant for Savage Sword, but they went ahead and colored it for MP instead. One of the things I included in my generous SSOC mapping that I don't think they're going to do.
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Post by johnnypt on Sept 13, 2018 8:30:22 GMT -5
I always wondered if this was actually meant for Savage Sword, but they went ahead and colored it for MP instead. One of the things I included in my generous SSOC mapping that I don't think they're going to do. Given SK's strange outfit, B&W might've been preferable. ......  Howie drew him the same way in Rattle of Bones so... |
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Post by themirrorthief on Sept 13, 2018 12:55:52 GMT -5
never quite got the striped sleeves but that is the type of shirt sailors used to wear so...?
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Post by deuce on Sept 18, 2018 8:18:16 GMT -5
Red Shadows was the first Solomon Kane tale ever published. It is also, arguably, the first sword and sorcery story ever published, beating The Shadow Kingdom to the punch by several months. A tale of revenge across continents, it remains a favorite among REH fans. A good review here: oakandlavender.wordpress.com/2018/09/12/red-shadows-by-robert-e-howard/
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Post by deuce on Sept 19, 2018 9:27:04 GMT -5
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Post by themirrorthief on Sept 19, 2018 16:04:29 GMT -5
hard to believe that some publishers rejected this awesome, very original tale
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Post by keith on Sept 28, 2018 6:15:53 GMT -5
"Red Shadows" has so many strengths, the ju-ju master N'Longa among them. His fondness for using the infantile lingua franca of the slave coast when he's wholly able to speak in a ringing, dignified way is engaging, and his powers are terrifying, even to Kane.
Then there's the fascinating contrast between Kane and Le Loup, the latter almost like a villainous Kane -- an EVIL man driven, like his Puritan nemesis, to wander, seek adventure and wild experience. His fury when the treasure he gathered through murderous banditry is given to the peasants on whom he has preyed, is tempered by malicious amusement at the thought that "Ho! ho! They will betray and kill one another for it. That is human nature."
Kane agrees with him. That thought has been troubling him, too. "Yes, damn you! Doubtless they will, being fools. But what could I do? Had I left the treasure where it was, someone else would have found it and the result would have been the same."
The final duel between the two masters of the blade, and Kane's characteristic weary disillusion after he has delivered vengeance and justice, rings true and is memorable. It's equal to the relentless knife fight between Kane and the Fishhawk in "Blades of the Brotherhood."
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