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Post by theironshadow on Aug 9, 2020 5:18:30 GMT -5
Re-read this last night. Marvel, bring back Truman and Giorello as quick as you can. Marvel should make it an Everything Or Nothing moment and hire Truman and Giorello to adapt Red Nails or other untouched Howard story to rejuvenate the Conan title. If that doesn't lift the sales numbers, then they kind of have a problem. I also think that Truman's run on Old Conan is done and dusted. the only direction for the character is his journey into the west, which, on one hand, could be the best damn Conan we have ever read, as the Cimmerian heads into uncharted waters.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 9, 2020 6:19:31 GMT -5
Re-read this last night. Marvel, bring back Truman and Giorello as quick as you can. Marvel should make it an Everything Or Nothing moment and hire Truman and Giorello to adapt Red Nails or other untouched Howard story to rejuvenate the Conan title. If that doesn't lift the sales numbers, then they kind of have a problem. I also think that Truman's run on Old Conan is done and dusted. the only direction for the character is his journey into the west, which, on one hand, could be the best damn Conan we have ever read, as the Cimmerian heads into uncharted waters. That would be awesome to see, too, but really only Truman and Giorello can do it. I don't trust anyone else to get that right at this point. But yeah, Marvel really needs to get Truman and Giorello back on this character. They have the license, the money, but they don't have the All-Star team they need to take this title and character back to their former glory.
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Post by theironshadow on Aug 9, 2020 7:03:39 GMT -5
Marvel should make it an Everything Or Nothing moment and hire Truman and Giorello to adapt Red Nails or other untouched Howard story to rejuvenate the Conan title. If that doesn't lift the sales numbers, then they kind of have a problem. I also think that Truman's run on Old Conan is done and dusted. the only direction for the character is his journey into the west, which, on one hand, could be the best damn Conan we have ever read, as the Cimmerian heads into uncharted waters. That would be awesome to see, too, but really only Truman and Giorello can do it. I don't trust anyone else to get that right at this point. But yeah, Marvel really needs to get Truman and Giorello back on this character. They have the license, the money, but they don't have the All-Star team they need to take this title and character back to their former glory. The problem is this; you don't throw good money after bad, and this is what sunk Dark Horse and Conan; the sales of the comic drop? Get cheaper creatives onboard. But that doesn't work, and the sales figures fall even further. It's a downward spiral. If the Conan comic sales figures have taken a hit, no way is Marvel going to pay serious money to get Truman and Giorello back onboard. We know it would be a defacto return to form for the comic, but Marvel don't want to admit failure by getting Dark Horse' top talent working on their own title.
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Post by mindboggled on Aug 23, 2020 15:01:21 GMT -5
I disliked how impersonal Conan's departure was near the end. Just didn't seem handle correctly to me.
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Post by theironshadow on Aug 23, 2020 16:43:59 GMT -5
I disliked how impersonal Conan's departure was near the end. Just didn't seem handle correctly to me. That was the only option open to Dark Horse; option 1 was a lead in to further adventures in the western sea with King Conan, Option 2 was closure that suggested that whatever King Conan was to explore, would remain untold to readers and that this was the end of his known career, and the third option we got, a muted resolution that left the door open to boosted comic sales and possible further adventures, whilst at the same time being non-committal.
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Post by danieljames495 on Aug 23, 2020 18:27:39 GMT -5
I disliked how impersonal Conan's departure was near the end. Just didn't seem handle correctly to me. It was weird for some reason that he didn't wait a bit longer. He just did his job and beat it. Conan is an indifferent person a lot of the time but I agree, I also thought it didn't seem right the way he just walked off into the jungle. Didn't seem like proper farewell that Conan would give to an old friend.
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Post by mindboggled on Sept 6, 2020 18:38:48 GMT -5
I disliked how impersonal Conan's departure was near the end. Just didn't seem handle correctly to me. It was weird for some reason that he didn't wait a bit longer. He just did his job and beat it. Conan is an indifferent person a lot of the time but I agree, I also thought it didn't seem right the way he just walked off into the jungle. Didn't seem like proper farewell that Conan would give to an old friend. What disappointed me the most is the single panel of his departure with no hint as to his musings regarding such a huge event. Leaving the soil his sandalled feet has always treaded for utter uncertainty should have some emotional power behind it.
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Post by Condottiero Magno on Sept 27, 2020 12:55:20 GMT -5
Not only that, but in the essay Truman wrote that appears at the back of the TPB, he says that the crown in the story is not only the one Kull gives to Brule the Spear-Slayer, but it is also the same one that Bran Mak Morn wears during the Age of Rome, thousands of years later. Is the essay online? I bought the individual issues back when they came out, but don't recall an essay, and don't want to buy the TPB.
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