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Post by scottoden on May 20, 2019 19:27:26 GMT -5
I kinda figured as much, but I never pass up a chance to have a little fun Glad you like "Shadow of Vengeance"! Got another one coming out end of this month, bundled with the Conan Unconquered video game. as for the novels: The Lion of Cairo is closest to Howard in prose, IMO; A Gathering of Ravens is closest in spirit. Both mix a bit of sorcery with the history.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 15, 2019 9:00:21 GMT -5
Read #5 this past week and have to say it wasn't that bad, but the arc didn't need to be 5 issues long. This could have easily been told in a much tighter 3 issue fashion. The plot was okay, Conan seeing the map in his mind felt a bit too high fantasy, but it kind of worked.
My one gripe is that they were in a cache of Valusian weapons and they didn't have Conan pick up an axe and swing it around. It wouldn't have needed to be Kull's actual axe, but it would have been a nice callback.
For this first Savage Sword arc I grade it a 2.5/5 as Ron Garney's artwork was passable and the plot was decent. It felt like this story wasn't worthy enough for the main title and it got put in Savage Sword...which again...Savage Sword should never be the B title.
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Post by Taurus on Jun 15, 2019 9:57:04 GMT -5
Savage Sword being Marvel's B title tells much about how "great" their Conan planning has been.
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Post by jbruel0 on Dec 26, 2019 12:14:09 GMT -5
The black and white issue containing numbers 1 to 5 is available at newcomic.info/Not better than the colored version…
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Post by theironshadow on Oct 25, 2020 15:25:14 GMT -5
I've just got done reading issue 5 of this, and in all honesty i have found it a grind. The hurried, scratchy art from Ron Garney has done nothing for this book, and for a title that was launched with equal standing to the regular ongoing CtB title it really is sub-par. The writing is absolutely solid, and even though the title has been cancelled i'm hping the art improves, but this is a poor start from what should have been a showcase comic. 2.5/5 for me folks.
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Post by danieljames495 on Oct 25, 2020 23:53:54 GMT -5
I've just got done reading issue 5 of this, and in all honesty i have found it a grind. The hurried, scratchy art from Ron Garney has done nothing for this book, and for a title that was launched with equal standing to the regular ongoing CtB title it really is sub-par. The writing is absolutely solid, and even though the title has been cancelled i'm hping the art improves, but this is a poor start from what should have been a showcase comic. 2.5/5 for me folks. At the time of the first 5 issues, people actually liked Ron's art with the savage sword and also the writing better than the Jason Aaron main run. I don't think the art was hurried, I think that was just the style but you described it perfectly when you said "Scratchy". The coloring showed it up a bit, especially the first splash page with the ship but yes, I agree that the art could have been a lot better but I don't really hate it.
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Post by terryallenuk on Oct 26, 2020 13:35:11 GMT -5
I like Garney's "scratchy" style on his Daredevil run but it didn't work as well for me on Conan.
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Post by theironshadow on Oct 27, 2020 6:38:20 GMT -5
I like Garney's "scratchy" style on his Daredevil run but it didn't work as well for me on Conan. I think it looks cheap and hurried, bringing back recollections of the worst work from Dark Horse' run on Conan. I'm onto issue 6 at the moment, and Luke Ross's art is a marked improvement.
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