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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 13:35:05 GMT -5
CONAN THE BARBARIAN VOL. 1: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CONAN BOOK ONE TPBWritten by JASON AARON Penciled by MAHMUD ASRAR & GERARDO ZAFFINO Cover by ESAD RIBIC The greatest sword-and-sorcery hero of all returns to Marvel! From an age undreamed…hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet. Conan’s travels have brought him to the far reaches of the unknown, from his birthplace in Cimmeria to the kingdom of Aquilonia and all in between. But as his fighting prowess lets him carve his way through life, so too does it attract the forces of death! And few are more deadly than the Crimson Witch. Robert E. Howard’s legendary barbarian stars in an all-new ages-spanning saga as the destiny of Conan — and King Conan — are forever changed! Collecting CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2019) #1-6. 152 PGS $19.99 Release date: 3 July 2019
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 11:16:41 GMT -5
CONAN THE BARBARIAN VOL. 1: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CONAN BOOK ONE TPBWritten by JASON AARON Penciled by MAHMUD ASRAR & GERARDO ZAFFINO Cover by ESAD RIBIC The greatest sword-and-sorcery hero of all returns to Marvel! From an age undreamed…hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet. Conan’s travels have brought him to the far reaches of the unknown, from his birthplace in Cimmeria to the kingdom of Aquilonia and all in between. But as his fighting prowess lets him carve his way through life, so too does it attract the forces of death! And few are more deadly than the Crimson Witch. Robert E. Howard’s legendary barbarian stars in an all-new ages-spanning saga as the destiny of Conan — and King Conan — are forever changed! Collecting CONAN THE BARBARIAN (2019) #1-6. 152 PGS $19.99 Release date: 3 July 2019 IN COMIC BOOK STORES TOMORROW
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2019 2:19:01 GMT -5
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Post by ascalante on Jul 12, 2019 11:01:48 GMT -5
I've collected every individual issue in this volume and I would not recommend it to anyone. Has anyone been satisfied with this run so far? Would you recommend it to someone? If so, why?
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Post by johnnypt on Jul 12, 2019 11:30:01 GMT -5
I'm so so on it, but definitely do not see how it would read better all in one sitting as opposed to individually. Maybe all 12 once the story is over.
The Savage Sword story is the opposite. Too choppy in separate issues, a little better in one piece.
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Post by darthgall on Jul 12, 2019 13:38:53 GMT -5
Does the collection contain the prose fiction from back of the monthly comics? TBH that's what I'm more interested in than the comic itself...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2019 6:59:12 GMT -5
I've collected every individual issue in this volume and I would not recommend it to anyone. Has anyone been satisfied with this run so far? Would you recommend it to someone? If so, why? I would not recommend any of the new Marvel books to a new reader (I'd probably go for the early REH adaptations in the SSOC). For an old fan of the Conan comics I'd probably recommend Savage Avengers - just for a laugh. I have enjoyed some of the Aaron run probably a little bit less than the early DH run.
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Post by ascalante on Jul 13, 2019 8:54:19 GMT -5
I'm so so on it, but definitely do not see how it would read better all in one sitting as opposed to individually. Maybe all 12 once the story is over. The Savage Sword story is the opposite. Too choppy in separate issues, a little better in one piece. That's cool, johhnypt. So after 12 issues then Conan may die, since the arc is "The Life and Death of Conan"? Has Conan ever died before?
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Post by johnnypt on Jul 13, 2019 9:59:52 GMT -5
There’s the one story/poem in SSOC #8 plus a later story called The Three Deaths of Conan. Neither stuck :-)
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Post by theironshadow on Jul 20, 2019 11:00:14 GMT -5
Guys, good to be back on the forums and enjoying new Conan content again, and my first new purchase from Amazon UK was this compendium of Marvel's relaunch. A couple of questions to those in the know; is this a limited series, and if so, is it to test the market to see if there will be an audience for an ongoing Conan comic (ironic as i have the majority of Dark Horse collections but find collecting individual issues a turn-off) or does Marvel see Conan as a staggered sequence of limited stories? Thanks for your time guys, i'm a huge Howard fan (and outspoken about defending Howard's Conan rather than the thrice-damned Ahnuld films) but have never found time to use the boards.
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Post by terryallenuk on Jul 20, 2019 13:57:49 GMT -5
It's ongoing , the book you have contain the first 6 issues of the initial 12 issue arc. There's also the Savage Sword of Conan , Age of Conan and Savage Avengers featuring Conan out every month so Marvel are giving it a real go.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 11:08:00 GMT -5
Does the collection contain the prose fiction from back of the monthly comics? TBH that's what I'm more interested in than the comic itself... No. Only the the comics. Considering it's the first graphic novel since the return of Conan to Marvel you'd think they'd have an introduction or some extras with preliminary work by the creators. They did include the variant covers at the back of the collection.
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Post by theironshadow on Jul 21, 2019 13:26:54 GMT -5
It's ongoing , the book you have contain the first 6 issues of the initial 12 issue arc. There's also the Savage Sword of Conan , Age of Conan and Savage Avengers featuring Conan out every month so Marvel are giving it a real go. Thanks Terry. I was a collector of the DH Conan trade paperback collections for a number of years, choosing to leave the series when the reviews started to come in around about the time of the adaptation of Queen Of The Black Coast, choosing to return with Xuthal Of The Dusk a number of years later. My last previous purchase was Blood In His Wake and The Devil In Iron, and i waited to see where the new Marvel Conan was going (the idea of Marvel rehashing or re-telling stories already covered by DH a turn-off) with the resukt being that i'm impressed with the series so far, reading issue 4 in The Life And Death Of Conan. The actual title feels like comic book 'click-bait' to use a phrase, which is why i asked if it was a limited series that would spawn an ongoing title. We are actually going to see the demise of Conan at the end of this run? Should be intruiging if Marvel are not talking metaphorically, as Conan has faced death in every issue so far... More thoughts when i finish the book, but so far this is a title that matches the best work of Busiek and Nord from the early days. By the way, my avatar is from an absolutely crappy ZX Spectrum video game from the 80's called 'Storm' that featured a Conan-clone on the cover, and i've always enjoyed how close to my idea of Conan he looks regardless of the game it was featured on!
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Post by theironshadow on Jul 23, 2019 4:32:20 GMT -5
Just got done reading this, and there is some seriously good stuff going on in this title, though it's tiresome with it's 'inching along one issue at it's time' Crimson Witch storyline. The art is good, And So far, Jason Aaron hasn't disappointed. Has there been any indication of when Marvel are going to step in and start adapting Howard's stories, or is that off the board for the moment? I've been waiting years to see Red Nails get the 'Dark Horse at it's Best' treatment...
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Post by johnnypt on Jul 23, 2019 6:07:04 GMT -5
Not on their agenda for the first year anyway. Possibly somewhere down the line, but would they do some of the ones DH did in the not so distant past, or do the ones they didn’t do and basically finish their job?
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