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Post by Jason Aiken on Mar 18, 2020 19:00:47 GMT -5
Ablaze reminds me of Dynamite back in the day with the typos.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2020 6:56:59 GMT -5
CIMMERIAN QUEEN OF BLACK COAST #2 (W) Jean-David Morvan (A) Pierre Alary (CA) Sunghan Yune Robert E. Howard's famous Cimmerian continues his uncensored adventure! Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual...read the story as he intended!
Conan joins up with Belit to brutally pillage and sail the poisonous river Zarkheba, encountering ancient ruins, lost treasure, and winged, vicious monstrosities.
Bonus Material: The Original Robert E. Howard short story is included!In Shops: Mar 25, 2020 Final Orders Due: Mar 02, 2020 SRP: $3.99 www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP191318 |
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Post by almuric on Apr 22, 2020 19:40:54 GMT -5
Belit looks like Dejah Thoris on that second issue cover.
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Post by Char-Vell on Apr 25, 2020 18:47:55 GMT -5
I finally got this in the mail today. My comic shop mailed me my funny books due to social distancing concerns.
I thought it was an interesting take. They left out a key detail that changed Belit's character.(the seeing a snake bit)
Art was a little cartoony for my tastes
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Post by darthgall on Apr 28, 2020 8:07:17 GMT -5
Art was a little cartoony for my tastes I know what you mean. I didn't mind it overall, b/c the artist came through on the serpent and made it look monstrous. The winged ape, though looked a little scrawny and cartoony and not super threatening to me... wish the would've leaned more into the scary/monstrous aspect. Also gotta admit I thought Conan's kraken tattoo was cool... Mick. |
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Post by boot on Apr 28, 2020 18:09:14 GMT -5
Yeah, cover looks OK, but I checked out the interior art on Amazon. I'm going to pass. Too cartoony.
And, it's not like I haven't read this story a hundred times.
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Post by mindboggled on Apr 28, 2020 21:08:35 GMT -5
I finally got this in the mail today. My comic shop mailed me my funny books due to social distancing concerns. I thought it was an interesting take. They left out a key detail that changed Belit's character.(the seeing a snake bit) Art was a little cartoony for my tastes The clunky translation bothered me more than the art, which was also not to my tastes. |
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Post by charleshelm on May 19, 2020 19:57:28 GMT -5
I was not thrilled with the interior art. Belit was not...Belit. At least not to me. Here are the covers I picked up for #1 and #2: |
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Post by Taurus on May 20, 2020 16:28:11 GMT -5
None of those covers is great.
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Post by theironshadow on Jun 22, 2020 5:22:42 GMT -5
I'm tracking all of the Ablaze translations for when they drop as fully collected comics. I think it's great that they managed to work things out with CPI. Can't imagine that Marvel comics are entirely happy about it, but as long as the adaptations are taken from considered European public domain works, then all the better for us...
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 24, 2020 18:36:01 GMT -5
Read #1 and #2 back to back today and rather enjoyed it. I was impressed with both the writing and illustrations. The art isn't ideal, but I do enjoy seeing different styles and interpretation, especially from foreign artists.
I would gladly buy this in a collected edition for the book shelf if it was printed in the original format.
Also, it was a nice touch including the original yarn as back matter. Hopefully it exposed more people to REH.
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Post by Peter on Jun 25, 2020 0:13:10 GMT -5
Read #1 and #2 back to back today and rather enjoyed it. I was impressed with both the writing and illustrations. The art isn't ideal, but I do enjoy seeing different styles and interpretation, especially from foreign artists. I would gladly buy this in a collected edition for the book shelf if it was printed in the original format. Also, it was a nice touch including the original yarn as back matter. Hopefully it exposed more people to REH.
I am of the same mind Jason, in that I enjoyed the illustrations in the QoTBC adaption and am enjoying all the different styles of the European artists. Perhaps having already seen the original version from Glenat, the artwork was not a shock to me.
I felt that the slightly abstract feel to the artwork set the tone for each part of this story quite nicely.
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Post by emerald on Oct 3, 2020 19:29:37 GMT -5
Finally hit my local comic stores and they had nobly saved stacks of comics for me.
I read this one first.
The art didn’t make me very happy. Belit’s crew are often represented as a tangle of pipe-stem arms and bug-eyes which does them and the story no favors.
Everything is HUGE with numerous details in story and art overlooked. The port city where the story begins has no docks as it’s mounted atop a towering cliff, which you’d think might make dealing with ships and sea trade difficult. Conan’s horse leaps off the cliff, which has to be seventy feet high, and he swims in his armor to Captain Tito’s ship, where the Cimmerian makes a crack about the captain not being his type.
The serpent they encounter on the Zarkheba River is big enough to kill Godzilla by constriction. The treasure they discover would shame the one in Scrooge McDuck’s basement.
Yet they neglect the necklace Belit finds, like clots of frozen blood on a gold wire, that would later be used to hang her if they were focused on adapting REH’s story. They skip that.
The winged-ape loses his jackal minions but gets in an extra-long fight with Conan, who twice demands the demon open its mouth so he can stab it there. It obliges.
Well, at least it’s UNCENSORED! like it says on the cover.
Except Belit stays clothed and soft-pedals her bloody-deck mating dance. Oh, they add a new sex scene, which reduces Conan and Belit’s bond of supernal, literally death-defying passion to Belit saying, “Ugh” and Conan responding with his own “Ugh. That’s some poetry right there.
Oh, and it’s first person. Told by Conan himself. Just like the original tale —or no— not like the original tale at all.
I picked up both issues of Red Nails and the first part of People of the Black Circle. As accurate adaptions of REH’s prose they won’t have to work very hard to do better than this.
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Post by Taurus on May 22, 2023 21:09:51 GMT -5
Queen of the Black Coast was the only story of the whole bunch I did not enjoy. The art looks so silly that it prevents me from reading it again.
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