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Post by salant on Mar 1, 2024 8:11:42 GMT -5
It was a damn fine BIG read! Arcudi's Conan tale would've been right at home in the original SSOC back when he was writing for it then. Zub's prose story based on Jusko's cover was IMO 1 of the best of the short stories we've recently been getting, 2nd only to Scot Oden's CONAN: SHADOW OF VENGEANCE that walked fully in REH's footsteps! For me the highlight was Zircher's Solomon Kane back-up, perhaps his career best art & a great showcase of how good a writer he also is, along with his spot-on understanding of REH's Puritan. I'm glad there's more SK by Pat to come!
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Post by boboldman on Mar 2, 2024 1:32:39 GMT -5
Man, I really enjoyed this issue. I got three Conan comics in the mail yesterday - this and CtB 7 and 8. They were all great! I really hope this sells well enough that they can continue it past issue #6.
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Post by kemp on Mar 2, 2024 3:42:32 GMT -5
I couldn't make it down to Big City Comics the other day, didn't want to wait the next few days when I could go down so had my brother get it for me on his way home from his work. He was surprised Joe Jusko was still doing the covers, having remembered he used to do em decades ago when we got the mags back in the 80's and 90's. I mean this is three decades later, and Joe hasn't lost a beat. Fun and engaging read old SSOC style, some great pin up art, intro by Roy Thomas, that detailed Hyborian Age map, can't wait for the continuation of Master of the Hunt featuring our favourite Puritan swashbuckler, yeah, also liked the short story by Jim Zub, not to mention that the mag did smell like newsprint, what's not to like. I put the mag away right next to my collection of the original SSOC. Hope the series catches on, would like it to last, definitely a great trip down memory lane, but something new and good in it's own right too. Thanks to the people at Titan.
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Post by mindboggled on Mar 2, 2024 17:07:36 GMT -5
The highlight for me from this issue was Jim Zub's prose tale "Sacrifice in the Sand"; it's now in my top three favorite prose Conan pastiches. I would defiantly like to read more from him. "Conan and the Dragon" horde was middle of the road for me. It felt like the type of story that would be in a latter issues of the original "Savage Sword of Conan" magazine, one written by Chuck Dixon, but not his better work. There being trouble in the mines instead of gold felt far too predictable, and Conan falling for it made his intelligence appear inconsistent. It has its moments though. Part one of "Master of the Hunter" was good, refreshing for me to read a Solomon Kane comic.
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Post by Taurus on Mar 2, 2024 23:19:15 GMT -5
I read the story and I enjoyed it. Well written, good pace and the art, though different when compared to the classic SSoC, it still felt like an old magazine from the 70s. The one thing I didn't like and thought to be even silly were dinossaurs. We all know humans and dinossaurs never cohabited, so seeing those among humans feels like something not very well thought out. They really had no good reason to be a part of the plot.
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Post by kemp on Mar 3, 2024 4:17:07 GMT -5
I don't think there is anything silly about mixing a few surviving dinosaurs into Conan's time. There is a base relief of what appears to be a stegosaurus like creature on a medieval Khmer temple monastery, a few other oddities, so you never know. They are always revising what we know about the past.
Even if that is not the case, the Hyborian age is a quasi fantasy setting, although there is something historical about it too due to REH's extensive research, ancient place names and so on, but it is full of magic, monsters, lost and primitive races and all manner of the weird so a stomping T Rex or two in some wasteland setting seems ok.
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Post by kemp on Mar 3, 2024 4:28:13 GMT -5
I recall a T Rex like creature in SSOC 138, a story set in the wild Pictish wilderness so you can work the lost land thing.
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Post by garbanzo on Mar 3, 2024 7:13:57 GMT -5
Uh, Red Nails had a dinosaur in it, so the precedent is pretty clear
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Post by mindboggled on Mar 3, 2024 13:12:56 GMT -5
I agree with Garbanzo and Kemp. In Howard's tales there are many creatures and beasts featured that are from a bygone era, as well as the mythical type. And dinosaurs have appeared thorough out Conan comics multiple times already.
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Post by bichoes78 on Mar 5, 2024 11:05:15 GMT -5
The new Conan's partner and lover called Ineah. I think she is Hyrkanian.
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Post by hun on Mar 5, 2024 11:18:11 GMT -5
A very discerning review by Todd Luck of the 1st issue by Titan, especially some concerns regarding the quality of printing for the main story:
Savage Sword of Conan #1 Review (Titan Comics)
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Post by johnnypt on Mar 5, 2024 11:49:45 GMT -5
A very discerning review by Todd Luck of the 1st issue by Titan, especially some concerns regarding the quality of printing for the main story: Savage Sword of Conan #1 Review (Titan Comics) Legit criticism. B&W magazine printing would certainly be somewhat of a lost art on modern publishers.
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Post by hun on Mar 5, 2024 14:45:51 GMT -5
A very discerning review by Todd Luck of the 1st issue by Titan, especially some concerns regarding the quality of printing for the main story: Savage Sword of Conan #1 Review (Titan Comics) Legit criticism. B&W magazine printing would certainly be somewhat of a lost art on modern publishers. I don't do digital but this could prove to be the exception - nah, I could wait for the collected edition which I'd imagine will not be printed on newsprint style paper? The printed version of the pin-up by Rebecca Puebla and the Hyborian Age Map suck. The pin up by Torre and Zircher's Kane story turned out a lot better. There's loads of reviews on YouTube, seems like there's a lot of interest out there.
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Post by garbanzo on Mar 5, 2024 16:12:09 GMT -5
Good review, he mentions a lot of the same things that bothered me about the print quality.
Even the digital has issues though, especially the Conan story. Very dark art, and even the "whites" have texture and grey mottling that really doesn't work well.
Still, very happy to have Savage Sword back! It was a fun issue to read and I'm looking forward to more.
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Post by Von K on Mar 9, 2024 20:43:36 GMT -5
A very discerning review by Todd Luck of the 1st issue by Titan, especially some concerns regarding the quality of printing for the main story: Savage Sword of Conan #1 Review (Titan Comics) Thanks Hun, great review!
Hope Patch Zircher's Kane gets enough good feedback from Savage Sword that Titan can consider giving him his own run.
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