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Post by mindboggled on Aug 14, 2019 17:03:44 GMT -5
This is a beautifully illustrated comic, unfortunately the same cannot be said about the rendition of Conan's face. Defiantly the weakest point of the comic. Even on the main cover Conan's faces looks malformed. That's why I got a variant instead, couldn't stomach that face.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2019 15:35:02 GMT -5
Yeah, he definitely has to work on his facial expressions and faces in general. All his female characters have witch-like look to them, and the male characters seem to have the features of Gollum.
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Post by mindboggled on Aug 15, 2019 23:02:47 GMT -5
This comic could have done well with some minimalist narrative insight into Conan's cogitations.
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Post by Aryeh on Aug 16, 2019 17:28:30 GMT -5
It is really weak. The painting-style is reminiscent of Vicente Segrelles' "El Mercenario" but it lacks Segrelles' sense of the dramatic composition of the painting, as well as mastery of painted details.
Regarding the drama within the composition--just compare this to angles, relations in space between bodies in say John Buscema's Conan comics. Buscema has spectacular fights, knows how to draw bodies from different angles, knows how to select the most dramatic angle. In truth, one cannot compare this to John Buscema...
Story-wise, it is like an introductory chapter of a video-game, where everything is just too easy because one cannot require from someone who is new to the game to go through really difficult fights. But since it is not a video-game, since it is a comic book, then all we see Conan goes through is just pale, because it starts and ends quickly.
Also, it adds nothing to the character, which one can really say for all new Marvel comics.
And yeah, Conan looks either like a not really attractive woman who has her eyes painted, or like Lon Chaney playing the Phantom of the Opera.
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Post by wolfshead on Aug 16, 2019 22:41:38 GMT -5
I agree, it, like all the new comics adds nothing to the character. It feels like the era after RT left Conan. Individual stories unconnected to anything that went before, and no overarching vision for the series (the hate witch hardly qualifies). By Marvel's ignoring the original Conan saga, the character has lost his soul. It's why, after RT, the series lost its way as well as its readership. Marvel has produced nothing memorable this go around. I hope things improve, but I'm not optimistic.
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 17, 2019 7:35:40 GMT -5
It might have worked better at half its length as part of a split Savage Sword issue. Towards the middle my Tom Servo voice kept going off in my head "OK, he's good at hunting animals, we get it!!!" Could've been more with less.
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Post by Erik on Aug 17, 2019 9:34:33 GMT -5
This is a beautifully illustrated comic, unfortunately the same cannot be said about the rendition of Conan's face. Defiantly the weakest point of the comic. Even on the main cover Conan's faces looks malformed. That's why I got a variant instead, couldn't stomach that face. I agree with you guys. Before reading this, when I was initially just flipping through it at the comic shop, I mistook a Conan as a woman in a couple of those panels. Only while actually reading through it did I realize it was him. Still, the rest of the art was beautiful, and I enjoyed this issue overall.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 28, 2019 19:53:05 GMT -5
I don't know, I enjoyed this one-shot. Sure, Conan's face looked odd at times, but the rest of the illustrations and Ribic's storytelling ability made up for it.
It was a fun comic to read. I enjoyed the survival aspects at the beginning the most. Him crossing that commander didn't translate as well, though.
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Post by Char-Vell on Sept 16, 2019 12:41:19 GMT -5
Finally got around to this one. I rather enjoyed it. The art was cool. I enjoyed the non-Conan characters speaking in weird script, that was a nice touch.
The map at the end of the issue bugged me, it didn't seem like he'd travelled that far over the course of the story.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2023 12:41:57 GMT -5
Cartoonist Kayfabe have a look at Conan Exodus:
Best Conan comic book of the 21st century!
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