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Post by almuric on Nov 14, 2021 10:16:22 GMT -5
A place to put any non-REH genre comics that come across our radar screens.
I'll start things off with this: a sequel to '80s S&S flick Hawk the Slayer. Never seen the movie myself, but the art looks great.
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Post by alexander on Nov 14, 2021 11:50:37 GMT -5
Interesting. Thank you.
I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago when it was shown on TV here in the UK. Not bad but not great.
According to Wikipedia the writer/director had plans for a sequel in the early 80s that never materialised but back in 2015 there were again talking about comic books, video games and a TV series. Maybe things are finally moving in the right direction.
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Post by terryallenuk on Nov 14, 2021 11:55:07 GMT -5
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Post by garbanzo on Nov 15, 2021 6:34:07 GMT -5
Here's a fantastic resource for S&S comics through the years.
web.archive.org/web/20110519124150/http://gwthomas.org/ssrgcomics.htm
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Post by karasuthecrow on Nov 18, 2021 14:48:35 GMT -5
Here's a fantastic resource for S&S comics through the years. web.archive.org/web/20110519124150/http://gwthomas.org/ssrgcomics.htm Thanks, I will be checking it |
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Post by almuric on Nov 27, 2021 20:57:28 GMT -5
A Twitter thread on the now-obscure early '80s S&S comic Warp, based on the equally-obscure stage play. Never heard of them before today.
(Some NSFW content)
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Post by karasuthecrow on Nov 30, 2021 17:36:15 GMT -5
Nice!
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Post by almuric on Nov 30, 2021 20:39:43 GMT -5
Okay, my link isn't showing for me at all. Is this some fun new Twitter restriction or something?
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Post by bonesaw on Dec 1, 2021 13:20:10 GMT -5
I had a single Turok: Son of Stone comic as a kid that I read a million times. Not sure if it qualifies as S&S, but to my memory it kind of felt like it...is it not? Either way, would love to see a collected edition.
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Post by kemp on Dec 2, 2021 8:22:13 GMT -5
I had this one as a kid.  It was a cool concept, native Americans trapped in some lost valley of surviving dinosaurs, and they gave interesting names to the prehistoric animals, such as honkers for many of the dinosaurs. I always wondered what you would call a heroic fantasy type of story without the magic, I know planetary adventure stories relate to the John Carter of Mars stuff on other worlds. I imagine if ERB did Conan that he would set it a prehistoric lost world that was also populated with Neanderthals and surviving dinosaurs, mammoths and saber toothed cats. Imagine a time like that with lost cities and some civilisation, with more prehistoric elements in outlying wilderness environments, but with little to no real magic. What would you call a Conan story in that type of setting ?!? Sword & Sorcery just doesn't seem to fit, or would it just be a genre of Heroic Fantasy. |
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Post by kemp on Dec 2, 2021 8:46:23 GMT -5
When it came to the soundtrack I love how they just gave Hawk the Slayer a kinda fantasy disco sound vibe and said to hell with trying to do some medieval court and dance/folk/orchestral thing. Very late 70's/early 80's.  |
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Post by Char-Vell on Dec 2, 2021 9:46:57 GMT -5
Turok: Son of Stone is one of the finest achievements of humanity.
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Post by almuric on Dec 17, 2021 12:33:25 GMT -5
A recent indie S&S project:
The Frankenstein Monster ends up in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World where he becomes a sword-swinging hero. Well, it's certainly has more of a literary pedigree than most S&S comics, that's for sure.
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Post by themirrorthief on Dec 22, 2021 22:03:43 GMT -5
Turok: Son of Stone is one of the finest achievements of humanity. so true the dinos had no chance against those poisoned arrows |
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Post by almuric on Jan 2, 2022 12:48:39 GMT -5
Deuce reminds us that DC put out a perfectly good historical S&S comic in the early '80s, the nearly-forgotten and never reprinted Arak, Son of Thunder:
I have a few issues of this and I should really track more down. It's not like DC feels any urgent need to put it back into print, after all.
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