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Post by boot on Aug 1, 2020 20:56:44 GMT -5
I bought this way back when, and it's been sitting in my stack. I picked it up today and read the first issue. It knocked me on my behind.
I can't believe how much I enjoyed reading that first issue! It's so damn good!
The art alone, is amazing. Giorello. It took me a while to come around to the quality of his work. I think I was just too used to how Conan was drawn in the early days of the Dark Horse stuff (still love Cary Nord's stuff). I was living in an embarrassment of riches.
Now, that I've read much of the new Marvel stuff, I can truly say that I didn't know how well we all had it, when Dark Horse had the reins.
Timothy Truman's take on the Wolves Beyond The Border fragment is so fresh, so interesting, so addicting.
THIS, MARVEL, IS HOW YOU CREATE A FANTASTIC CONAN MAG!
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Post by mindboggled on Aug 1, 2020 23:38:39 GMT -5
I bought this way back when, and it's been sitting in my stack. I picked it up today and read the first issue. It knocked me on my behind. I can't believe how much I enjoyed reading that first issue! It's so damn good! The art alone, is amazing. Giorello. It took me a while to come around to the quality of his work. I think I was just too used to how Conan was drawn in the early days of the Dark Horse stuff (still love Cary Nord's stuff). I was living in an embarrassment of riches. Now, that I've read much of the new Marvel stuff, I can truly say that I didn't know how well we all had it, when Dark Horse had the reins. Timothy Truman's take on the Wolves Beyond The Border fragment is so fresh, so interesting, so addicting. THIS, MARVEL, IS HOW YOU CREATE A FANTASTIC CONAN MAG! Giorello's art is fantastic as usual; But, I found the comic a bit boring after the first issue. Regardless of that, looking back at Dark Horses' latter Conan comics they were really getting back on track, and it's a real same they dropped the licence before making a full turn around. Especial with how it turned out at Marvel.
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Post by Von K on Aug 2, 2020 14:37:52 GMT -5
I was impressed by the way Tim Truman wove REH's larger Pictish worldbuilding into a Hyborian Age yarn in his Wolves Beyond the Border adaptation.
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Post by lordyam on Aug 2, 2020 17:46:19 GMT -5
Indeed. He has that skill. Nai's return was welcome (she hadn't appeared since 2006) and she works as a way of humanizing the Picts
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Post by boot on Aug 2, 2020 20:07:09 GMT -5
Plus, Kwarada is hot! I'd do her!
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Post by theironshadow on Aug 3, 2020 4:24:07 GMT -5
As Tim Truman's farewell to DH's Conan it is an out and out masterpiece, and very emotional. The thing that hits hardest is that knowing this is, in effect Conan's final adventure (i mean, are we ever going to see a series that details his adventures on the continent beyond Hyboria?) plus the fact it ties together three of Howard's legacy characters is masterful. Absolutely brilliant.
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Post by boot on Aug 3, 2020 16:17:16 GMT -5
Indeed. He has that skill. Nai's return was welcome (she hadn't appeared since 2006) and she works as a way of humanizing the Picts Refresh my memory of Nai? In which stories did she appear? I wonder if it some of the stuff I haven't read yet.
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Post by boot on Aug 3, 2020 16:19:47 GMT -5
As Tim Truman's farewell to DH's Conan it is an out and out masterpiece, and very emotional. The thing that hits hardest is that knowing this is, in effect Conan's final adventure (i mean, are we ever going to see a series that details his adventures on the continent beyond Hyboria?) plus the fact it ties together three of Howard's legacy characters is masterful. Absolutely brilliant. Derketo's black teats! Don't call it Hyboria, man! The Hyborian Age is a time, not a place!
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 3, 2020 16:50:15 GMT -5
Indeed. He has that skill. Nai's return was welcome (she hadn't appeared since 2006) and she works as a way of humanizing the Picts Refresh my memory of Nai? In which stories did she appear? I wonder if it some of the stuff I haven't read yet. The two parter from #35-36.
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Post by boot on Aug 3, 2020 19:03:05 GMT -5
Refresh my memory of Nai? In which stories did she appear? I wonder if it some of the stuff I haven't read yet. The two parter from #35-36. If that was collected in The Phoenix On The Sword, I haven't read it yet. I buy the trades. EDIT: I found it. The Spear And Other Stories. Haven't read it yet (but it's my next read, me thinks!).
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Post by johnnypt on Aug 3, 2020 20:36:07 GMT -5
The two parter from #35-36. If that was collected in The Phoenix On The Sword, I haven't read it yet. I buy the trades. EDIT: I found it. The Spear And Other Stories. Haven't read it yet (but it's my next read, me thinks!). That's the one problem with not collecting things in chronological release order, you have to remember where they reprinted it! Tim's WBTB is in part the culmination of the Paul Lee stories he did through the first two series.
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Post by boot on Aug 3, 2020 21:47:20 GMT -5
If that was collected in The Phoenix On The Sword, I haven't read it yet. I buy the trades. EDIT: I found it. The Spear And Other Stories. Haven't read it yet (but it's my next read, me thinks!). That's the one problem with not collecting things in chronological release order, you have to remember where they reprinted it! Tim's WBTB is in part the culmination of the Paul Lee stories he did through the first two series. Those should all be collected together!
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Post by theironshadow on Aug 4, 2020 5:42:47 GMT -5
That's the one problem with not collecting things in chronological release order, you have to remember where they reprinted it! Tim's WBTB is in part the culmination of the Paul Lee stories he did through the first two series. Those should all be collected together! I'm a collector of the trade paperbacks myself. With life so busy over the years i never bothered to search out if there was an anthology of Dark Horse smaller stories aside form the main adaptations of Howard's work. The same was done for the Hellboy sequence, that had books 1-4 being the main narrative, and a further 2 volumes of the 'Short Stories Collection'. Haven't collected single issues of comic books for more than 20 years. :/
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Post by danieljames495 on Aug 4, 2020 11:45:22 GMT -5
Quite the contrary. I don't really like collections and trades, I'd prefer single issues but to each their own.
On the topic of WBTB, it was a great read and I absolutely love the Truman/Giorello team. One of my favorite parts was when Conan used Balthus' sword because Beyond The Black River was the first original Conan story written by REH that I was exposed to and it's quite possibly my favorite.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 6, 2020 11:56:53 GMT -5
You guys have made me interested in rereading this. I'm pretty sure I didn't pick up on some of the Howardian Pictish references the first time through. I definitely didn't register him using Balthus' sword.
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