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Conan the Barbarian (1970-1993) #127-134, Annual #6
The Chronicles of Conan, Volume 17: The Creation Quest and other Stories
The incomparable Gil Kane (Green Lantern, Amazing Spider-Man) is featured in this special 244-page Chronicles of Conan volume Joining storyteller J.M. DeMatteis on Conan the Barbarian #127, Gil Kane's short but stellar Conan run in 1981 and 1982 thrust readers into a new era of magical quests, strange creatures, and inventive fantasy adventures. In Chronicles of Conan: The Creation Quest and Other Stories, Kane collaborates with DeMatteis, Bruce Jones, and longtime colleague Roy Thomas. In addition to the "Creation Quest" story arc, readers will enjoy the meticulously restored color pages found in "The Ring of Rhax," "A Hitch in Time," and the heartbreaking "Snow Haired Woman of the Wastes" - where Robert E. Howard's mighty barbarian finds himself unraveling horrific mysteries and testing his thresholds of pain and mental fortitude
244 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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Roy Thomas
4,604 books280 followersRoy Thomas was the FIRST Editor-in-Chief at Marvel--After Stan Lee stepped down from the position. Roy is a longtime comic book writer and editor. Thomas has written comics for Archie, Charlton, DC, Heroic Publishing, Marvel, and Topps over the years. Thomas currently edits the fanzine Alter Ego for Twomorrow's Publishing. He was Editor for Marvel comics from 1972-1974. He wrote for several titles at Marvel, such as Avengers, Thor, Invaders, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and notably Conan the Barbarian. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes — particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America — and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's X-Men and Avengers, and DC Comics' All-Star Squadron, among other titles.
Also a legendary creator. Creations include Wolverine, Carol Danvers, Ghost Rider, Vision, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Valkyrie, Morbius, Doc Samson, and Ultron. Roy has also worked for Archie, Charlton, and DC among others over the years.
Also a legendary creator. Creations include Wolverine, Carol Danvers, Ghost Rider, Vision, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Valkyrie, Morbius, Doc Samson, and Ultron. Roy has also worked for Archie, Charlton, and DC among others over the years.
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August 20, 2024
Gil Kane takes over art duties from Buscema. The first half has Kane inking himself, the second half has him being inked or even just doing layouts - Ernie Chan does an issue or two of finishes which are great. The Kane only stuff is pretty bad, just seems very quickly done like most Kane stories.
JM DeMatteis wraps up his lackluster run with a few more high fantasy stories. Bruce Jones comes in with a few good short stories. The final issue being perhaps the strongest with Ernie Chan doing finishes and Bruce writing a pretty good story about Conan rescuing a woman while a god has paused time. It's a bit too much fantasy but it's still fun enough. The stories are pretty dense with lots of text and plot in each issue. Great for a monthly read from the newstand but gets pretty exhausting as a marathon read! I'd prefer to have long stories that go across multiple issues with recurring characters.
Certainly not essential Conan reading... There's 34 of these books... so I'm exactly halfway through. I have no idea where the quality goes from here.
JM DeMatteis wraps up his lackluster run with a few more high fantasy stories. Bruce Jones comes in with a few good short stories. The final issue being perhaps the strongest with Ernie Chan doing finishes and Bruce writing a pretty good story about Conan rescuing a woman while a god has paused time. It's a bit too much fantasy but it's still fun enough. The stories are pretty dense with lots of text and plot in each issue. Great for a monthly read from the newstand but gets pretty exhausting as a marathon read! I'd prefer to have long stories that go across multiple issues with recurring characters.
Certainly not essential Conan reading... There's 34 of these books... so I'm exactly halfway through. I have no idea where the quality goes from here.
April 3, 2021
This hefty volume, by far the largest of the collection, collects the next chunk of Conan the Barbarian issues #127 - #134 plus Conan Annual 6 with an evenly divided set of 4 stories from DeMatteis and 4 stories from Bruce Jones along with the annual written by Thomas.
"The Snow Haired Woman of the Wastes" begins Gil Kane's artistic run on the title taking over from John Buscema, who DeMatteis says was not too keen on where the writer was taking the book. I remember reading the series monthly and just stunned going from Buscema's pencils to Kane's pencils and not being too happy about it. Kane is an excellent artist, but I always thought he was better suited on heroes like Green Lantern and the Atom from DC comics as opposed to Conan.
But the story has Conan in Cimmeria rescuing a white haired maiden from a polar bear, caught by a group of Vanir, freed and meeting/hooking up with the maiden, getting revenge on the Vanir, and finding out that the maiden was ensorceled melting into water at the end. Sort of a take on "The Frost Giant's Daughter" in way.
Next, DeMatteis begins his multi-part saga with "And Life Sprang From These" in which Conan is nursed to health after a blizzard by his old friend Laynnen, his Khitain wife Noya and their son Dreeme. Laynnen was an outcast who flees Cimmeria and meets a bewitched Noya in his travels. Later, Laynnen is abducted by some bird men and set upon a quest by the evil wizard Pau-Styss to retrieve four powerful objects for him in return for Laynnen ( what it it with DeMatteis and the double letters ?). Noya transports Conan and Dreeme with her to the jungles south of Kush to retrieve the Sword of Strength as the undead looking warriors of eternity rise up from the earth.
In "The Creation Quest", Conan dispatches the zombies after pulling the humongous sword from its sheath with the sword now shrinking to regular length while Pau-Styss transmutes Laynnen into a bird while in his floating castle. Noya transports the party to Anshan, the capital of Iranistan in disguise so they can blend in to retrieve a crown of power from a wizard named Zoroszztor who is on a magic carpet surrounded by a a lot of full book shelves. Noya loses the board game she plays against the wizard to fail at gaining the crown, but Conan take no back seat and sets the books on fire and snags the crown. The wizard flees but not before sealing the party in with the fire.
The last part of the story simply titled "The Quest Ends" has Noya teleporting the party to Khitai and again casting an illusion on the group to make them fit in there while Pau-Styss turns the bird-Laynnen into stone for daring to attack him. Conan battles a female staff wielding warrior and they retrieve the Mirror or Beauty before being transported to some unknown world where Dreeme is able to grab the White Rose due to his purity. The group transports to the floating gray castle. Laynnen is turned back to human form, Conan battles Pau-Styss who attempts to command all the items of power to become a god but crumbles to dust under the strain. Thus ends the story and DeMatteis' run on the book.
Bruce Jones takes over the scripting in a direction of single stories and with #131 we get Ernie Chan inking Gil Kane so the artwork takes a more noticeably darker and "heavier" look more to my liking. "The Ring of Rhax" begins with Conan stealing from a well dressed man on horseback, but getting the man's cursed ring on his finger which he cannot remove. The ring allows the wearer to get what he desires to the letter which Conan finds out by name calling the fleeing man a gibbering baboon who he wished dead. Conan finds the man dead and transformed into a baboon. Later, Conan is attacked by a lone brigand and the ring is stolen off his finger. He is attacked not long after by some Picts and left for dead he reaches out and miraculously the ring on his former attacker appears on his finger again. Conan finds a gypsy shack and learns from the hooded man the story of the cursed ring. Later after a stop at an inn and a night with a wench he awakes to see the woman with the ring on who now cannot remove it. Conan learns from the gypsy that the wizard who created the ring, Rhax, is still alive and the pair go to find the mage to get the ring off before the time arrives for the woman's death. Cue to the monstrous beast, the removal of the ring, the wizards death and the end. Essentially a take on the "monkey's paw" a supernatural story from 1902 by author W.W. Jacobs.
"The Games of Gharn" opens with Conan teaming with Palla in a bar brawl and later learning about a series of games held in the city of Cella. Conan later meets up with a friend of his named Gharn who is hobbled with a broken leg and cannot participate in the games. Gharn tells Conan the game prize is a magnificent sword guarded by a nubian warrior named Loka but to get to him one must compete in series of contests like crossing a rope over a bear pit, swimming across a crocodile infested river and a race to outrun many ravenous rats. Conan successfully completes all three despite major opposition from the nasty Jhara-arn and a woman named Mira who pushes Conan to drink a lot the night before each game. The last contest ends with Conan coming out on top ( naturally) and the defeat of Loka along with Conan finding out that Mira is Palla's brother and that the "magnificent sword" is nothing special. Palla was just using Conan all along.
"The Witch of Widnsor" begins with Conan coming across a number of crucified men who he later finds out failed to scale a glass mountain to rescue princess Seraina residing at the top of it placed there by a witch. Many have tried and failed under the rule of King Wolden. Conan finds the younger daughter of the king, Arianna, who takes Conan to the king to hear the sordid tale of the king's dalliance with a gypsy who later uses black arts to place the favored daughter of the ill queen up on the glass mountain with no way down. Later the king is able to find the gypsy and have her tongue and hands cut off in retribution. Later Conan learns the king's story is bull shit and that the princess was killed by the king finding her to be nothing but a skeleton once he is able to solve the riddle of the glass mountain. The gypsy was actually the queen Lenya who at the close of the tale gets her revenge on the king.
"A Hitch in Time" finds Conan at the Border Kingdom on the trail of a Pelija Lon who killed favored town member Ranj. Conan apprehends Pelija Lon, who is a woman, unbeknownst to him and returns him back to Lucerthan for his bounty after the woman confesses to the killing. Feeling guilt, Conan rides back to the town after a snake bites both him and his horse seeking aid and is shocked to literally see time standing still with a boulder suspended in mid-air ready to crush a bound Pelija Lon. Conan meets Eshe Lon, a wizard, who relates a tale of asking a Stygian snake goddess for aid and getting time to stop for a short period in order to somehow save his daughter. Conan bargains with Eshe Lon to save his daughter and then get the antidote to save his life after doing so. Cleverly, Conan does indeed save Pelija Lon, but is double crossed by the wizard. All works out in the end when the snake goddess appears and sets things right. Conan walks off with Pelija Long at stories end.
Closing the volume and the gem of the book is "King of the Forgotten People" by Roy Thomas which opens with a chase of Conan by Hyrkanians through the desert steppes, getting some timely aid from some large tarantulas, and finding Barlonius, a Nemedian power mad ruler who Conan was sent to find by Barlonius' wife Lady Annia four years back. Barlonius sees himself as the second coming of the conqueror Kenghor and not only used black arts to create large desert spiders but is planning on becoming "ruler of the world". Lala, Barlonius' amour, is not too fond of his wanting Conan to bring Lady Annia back with him to the stronghold and eventually helps Conan escape. A series of monsters and challenges oppose Conan ending with a statue of Kenghor piercing Barlonius with a dagger and the whole place crumbling down not before Conan and Lala escape.
All in all a very mixed bag of stories with rather uneven art.
"The Snow Haired Woman of the Wastes" begins Gil Kane's artistic run on the title taking over from John Buscema, who DeMatteis says was not too keen on where the writer was taking the book. I remember reading the series monthly and just stunned going from Buscema's pencils to Kane's pencils and not being too happy about it. Kane is an excellent artist, but I always thought he was better suited on heroes like Green Lantern and the Atom from DC comics as opposed to Conan.
But the story has Conan in Cimmeria rescuing a white haired maiden from a polar bear, caught by a group of Vanir, freed and meeting/hooking up with the maiden, getting revenge on the Vanir, and finding out that the maiden was ensorceled melting into water at the end. Sort of a take on "The Frost Giant's Daughter" in way.
Next, DeMatteis begins his multi-part saga with "And Life Sprang From These" in which Conan is nursed to health after a blizzard by his old friend Laynnen, his Khitain wife Noya and their son Dreeme. Laynnen was an outcast who flees Cimmeria and meets a bewitched Noya in his travels. Later, Laynnen is abducted by some bird men and set upon a quest by the evil wizard Pau-Styss to retrieve four powerful objects for him in return for Laynnen ( what it it with DeMatteis and the double letters ?). Noya transports Conan and Dreeme with her to the jungles south of Kush to retrieve the Sword of Strength as the undead looking warriors of eternity rise up from the earth.
In "The Creation Quest", Conan dispatches the zombies after pulling the humongous sword from its sheath with the sword now shrinking to regular length while Pau-Styss transmutes Laynnen into a bird while in his floating castle. Noya transports the party to Anshan, the capital of Iranistan in disguise so they can blend in to retrieve a crown of power from a wizard named Zoroszztor who is on a magic carpet surrounded by a a lot of full book shelves. Noya loses the board game she plays against the wizard to fail at gaining the crown, but Conan take no back seat and sets the books on fire and snags the crown. The wizard flees but not before sealing the party in with the fire.
The last part of the story simply titled "The Quest Ends" has Noya teleporting the party to Khitai and again casting an illusion on the group to make them fit in there while Pau-Styss turns the bird-Laynnen into stone for daring to attack him. Conan battles a female staff wielding warrior and they retrieve the Mirror or Beauty before being transported to some unknown world where Dreeme is able to grab the White Rose due to his purity. The group transports to the floating gray castle. Laynnen is turned back to human form, Conan battles Pau-Styss who attempts to command all the items of power to become a god but crumbles to dust under the strain. Thus ends the story and DeMatteis' run on the book.
Bruce Jones takes over the scripting in a direction of single stories and with #131 we get Ernie Chan inking Gil Kane so the artwork takes a more noticeably darker and "heavier" look more to my liking. "The Ring of Rhax" begins with Conan stealing from a well dressed man on horseback, but getting the man's cursed ring on his finger which he cannot remove. The ring allows the wearer to get what he desires to the letter which Conan finds out by name calling the fleeing man a gibbering baboon who he wished dead. Conan finds the man dead and transformed into a baboon. Later, Conan is attacked by a lone brigand and the ring is stolen off his finger. He is attacked not long after by some Picts and left for dead he reaches out and miraculously the ring on his former attacker appears on his finger again. Conan finds a gypsy shack and learns from the hooded man the story of the cursed ring. Later after a stop at an inn and a night with a wench he awakes to see the woman with the ring on who now cannot remove it. Conan learns from the gypsy that the wizard who created the ring, Rhax, is still alive and the pair go to find the mage to get the ring off before the time arrives for the woman's death. Cue to the monstrous beast, the removal of the ring, the wizards death and the end. Essentially a take on the "monkey's paw" a supernatural story from 1902 by author W.W. Jacobs.
"The Games of Gharn" opens with Conan teaming with Palla in a bar brawl and later learning about a series of games held in the city of Cella. Conan later meets up with a friend of his named Gharn who is hobbled with a broken leg and cannot participate in the games. Gharn tells Conan the game prize is a magnificent sword guarded by a nubian warrior named Loka but to get to him one must compete in series of contests like crossing a rope over a bear pit, swimming across a crocodile infested river and a race to outrun many ravenous rats. Conan successfully completes all three despite major opposition from the nasty Jhara-arn and a woman named Mira who pushes Conan to drink a lot the night before each game. The last contest ends with Conan coming out on top ( naturally) and the defeat of Loka along with Conan finding out that Mira is Palla's brother and that the "magnificent sword" is nothing special. Palla was just using Conan all along.
"The Witch of Widnsor" begins with Conan coming across a number of crucified men who he later finds out failed to scale a glass mountain to rescue princess Seraina residing at the top of it placed there by a witch. Many have tried and failed under the rule of King Wolden. Conan finds the younger daughter of the king, Arianna, who takes Conan to the king to hear the sordid tale of the king's dalliance with a gypsy who later uses black arts to place the favored daughter of the ill queen up on the glass mountain with no way down. Later the king is able to find the gypsy and have her tongue and hands cut off in retribution. Later Conan learns the king's story is bull shit and that the princess was killed by the king finding her to be nothing but a skeleton once he is able to solve the riddle of the glass mountain. The gypsy was actually the queen Lenya who at the close of the tale gets her revenge on the king.
"A Hitch in Time" finds Conan at the Border Kingdom on the trail of a Pelija Lon who killed favored town member Ranj. Conan apprehends Pelija Lon, who is a woman, unbeknownst to him and returns him back to Lucerthan for his bounty after the woman confesses to the killing. Feeling guilt, Conan rides back to the town after a snake bites both him and his horse seeking aid and is shocked to literally see time standing still with a boulder suspended in mid-air ready to crush a bound Pelija Lon. Conan meets Eshe Lon, a wizard, who relates a tale of asking a Stygian snake goddess for aid and getting time to stop for a short period in order to somehow save his daughter. Conan bargains with Eshe Lon to save his daughter and then get the antidote to save his life after doing so. Cleverly, Conan does indeed save Pelija Lon, but is double crossed by the wizard. All works out in the end when the snake goddess appears and sets things right. Conan walks off with Pelija Long at stories end.
Closing the volume and the gem of the book is "King of the Forgotten People" by Roy Thomas which opens with a chase of Conan by Hyrkanians through the desert steppes, getting some timely aid from some large tarantulas, and finding Barlonius, a Nemedian power mad ruler who Conan was sent to find by Barlonius' wife Lady Annia four years back. Barlonius sees himself as the second coming of the conqueror Kenghor and not only used black arts to create large desert spiders but is planning on becoming "ruler of the world". Lala, Barlonius' amour, is not too fond of his wanting Conan to bring Lady Annia back with him to the stronghold and eventually helps Conan escape. A series of monsters and challenges oppose Conan ending with a statue of Kenghor piercing Barlonius with a dagger and the whole place crumbling down not before Conan and Lala escape.
All in all a very mixed bag of stories with rather uneven art.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 18, 2019
This volume was an all Gil Kane art issue, and really, I don't think his art has ever looked better. The first thing I noticed was how different his art looked depending on who inked it. When Kane inked his own art, it looked like the Gil Kane art I know. In some cases with other inkers, I'm not even sure if I would have known it was Kane's art without careful study.
J. M. Dematteis did most of the writing along with Bruce Jones, and while some of Dematteis's later writing were a little too far out for me, his Conan stuff I like. He didn't really feel he fit the character, however, so I think he left the title right after these issues.
Overall this volume doesn't have the consistency of the Thomas/Buscema run, but I still really enjoyed it. Maybe surprisingly so, since I was expecting a huge drop in quality once Thomas and Buscema left. While there is a slight drop, it's still good material.
J. M. Dematteis did most of the writing along with Bruce Jones, and while some of Dematteis's later writing were a little too far out for me, his Conan stuff I like. He didn't really feel he fit the character, however, so I think he left the title right after these issues.
Overall this volume doesn't have the consistency of the Thomas/Buscema run, but I still really enjoyed it. Maybe surprisingly so, since I was expecting a huge drop in quality once Thomas and Buscema left. While there is a slight drop, it's still good material.
September 10, 2014
Grabschändung
Bisher hat sich die Reihe ja eh nicht wirklich durch Werkstreue ausgezeichnet. Doch nun, auf pp.50-51, kommt ein Schlag ins Gesicht jedes Howard-Fans: Dinosaurier en masse! Besser konnten Autor und Zeichner nicht sagen: F*** dich, Howard! Wir machen jetzt unser eigenes Ding, und Du kannst uns mal.
Sicherlich kann und darf sich eine Adaption von ihrem Vorbild trennen. Doch wenn sie das tut, muss sie schon etwas halbwegs neues, interessantes machen. Hier hat DeMatteis wohl gedacht, ach, Conan ist doch fast dasselbe wie Tarzan, und Tarzan hat doch auch mal gegen Dinosaurier gekämpft. Dass Howard sich viele Gedanken um die zeitliche Verortung Hyborias gemacht hatte, und er Hyboria als eher Jahrtausende als Jahrmillionen vor unserer Zeit sah, interessiert einen Comichack wie DeMatteis nicht, der sich ja sonst eher nur drum sorgen muss, dass Superheld A schon in Ausgabe #5423 der Reihe "Superheld vs Supervillain" gegen Superbösewicht Z gekämpft hatte, oder es überfordert ihn. Selbst so einfache Dinge, wie nicht das Wort "Moschee" zu verwenden für einen iranistanischen Tempel.
Doch DeMatteis ist wenigstens noch geradeso erträglich, wenn auch mit Mühe; im Gegensatz zu Bruce Jones, der zeigt, dass man überhaupt keine Ahnung von Conan, Sword & Sorcery im Speziellen, Fantasy im Allgemeinen und Comics im großen und ganzen haben muss, um in dem Feld als Autor arbeiten zu können.
Eine spannende Sache kann man anhand dieses Bands aber wunderbar verfolgen. Gil Kane zeichnet alle Geschichten in diesem Band. Dabei inkt er sich einige male selbst, dann wird er von Ernie Chan geinkt, und schließlich von Danny Bulanadi. Alles völlig unterschiedlich, und Gil Kanes Alleingänge finde ich ziemlich gruslig. Wen wunderts hingegen, dass Ernie Chans Tuschung alles, was Kane an Schrott fabriziert, wieder ausgleicht. Chan ist ein echter Künstler, der selbst aus Mist Gold macht. Doch trotz Chan und der wie üblich hervorragenden Qualität der Dark-Horse-Reprints - manchmal ist man froh, dass Howard das nicht erleben musste.
Bisher hat sich die Reihe ja eh nicht wirklich durch Werkstreue ausgezeichnet. Doch nun, auf pp.50-51, kommt ein Schlag ins Gesicht jedes Howard-Fans: Dinosaurier en masse! Besser konnten Autor und Zeichner nicht sagen: F*** dich, Howard! Wir machen jetzt unser eigenes Ding, und Du kannst uns mal.
Sicherlich kann und darf sich eine Adaption von ihrem Vorbild trennen. Doch wenn sie das tut, muss sie schon etwas halbwegs neues, interessantes machen. Hier hat DeMatteis wohl gedacht, ach, Conan ist doch fast dasselbe wie Tarzan, und Tarzan hat doch auch mal gegen Dinosaurier gekämpft. Dass Howard sich viele Gedanken um die zeitliche Verortung Hyborias gemacht hatte, und er Hyboria als eher Jahrtausende als Jahrmillionen vor unserer Zeit sah, interessiert einen Comichack wie DeMatteis nicht, der sich ja sonst eher nur drum sorgen muss, dass Superheld A schon in Ausgabe #5423 der Reihe "Superheld vs Supervillain" gegen Superbösewicht Z gekämpft hatte, oder es überfordert ihn. Selbst so einfache Dinge, wie nicht das Wort "Moschee" zu verwenden für einen iranistanischen Tempel.
Doch DeMatteis ist wenigstens noch geradeso erträglich, wenn auch mit Mühe; im Gegensatz zu Bruce Jones, der zeigt, dass man überhaupt keine Ahnung von Conan, Sword & Sorcery im Speziellen, Fantasy im Allgemeinen und Comics im großen und ganzen haben muss, um in dem Feld als Autor arbeiten zu können.
Eine spannende Sache kann man anhand dieses Bands aber wunderbar verfolgen. Gil Kane zeichnet alle Geschichten in diesem Band. Dabei inkt er sich einige male selbst, dann wird er von Ernie Chan geinkt, und schließlich von Danny Bulanadi. Alles völlig unterschiedlich, und Gil Kanes Alleingänge finde ich ziemlich gruslig. Wen wunderts hingegen, dass Ernie Chans Tuschung alles, was Kane an Schrott fabriziert, wieder ausgleicht. Chan ist ein echter Künstler, der selbst aus Mist Gold macht. Doch trotz Chan und der wie üblich hervorragenden Qualität der Dark-Horse-Reprints - manchmal ist man froh, dass Howard das nicht erleben musste.
January 10, 2020
Chronicles of Conan Volume 17: The Creation Quest and Other Stories: v. 17 sees Conan encountering his old friend Laynnen and his wife the Princess Noyo and their child who have more of a secret going on than you would realise, encountering a woman named Xean being hunted with a watery secret and encountering a maniac wizard Berlonius with dreams of being the Reborn Kengor! :D Chronicles of Conan Volume 17: The Creation Quest and Other Stories: v. 17 has more twists and turn than you can guess at, with change of scenes on every page and is loaded up with daring do, adventure, action! :D The art pops off the page and the recoloured pages pop with colour and action bringing the action to the forefront! :D The story never lets up and the art brilliant ties into it! :D Crisp High Five! :D Highly Recommended! :D Get it if You Can! :D
December 22, 2024
Rhax'ın Yüzüğü bölümü bana efsanevi yüzüklerin hikayesini anımsattı. Malum özellikle Tolkien'in sıkça başvurduğu tılsımlı eşyalar aklımda dönüp durdu. Yüzük birinin parmağından ancak başka biri istemeden çekip çıkarırsa çıkıyor yoksa parmağındaki kişiyi sonsuza dek tutup lanetliyor veya ölümüne sebep oluyor.
Bir başka öykü olan Gharn'ın Oyunları sayısında bir tür Olimpiyat oyunları gibi yarışlar yapıldı. Antik Yunan göndermeleri gizli gizli vurgulanmış gibi hissettim. Ama oyunlar çok sert ve kesin ölümlüydü. Wındsor Sihirbazı'nda ise çarmıha gerilmiş ölü insanlar vardı ve altta lanetli bir ölümün nedenleri yazıyordu. Conan hikayeleri Pagan dönemlerin bile ötesinden geliyor oradaki alegorimi demeliyim bilemedim ama garip geldi bana. 9 sayıdan oluşuyordu ve oldukça fantastik bir sayıydı. Çizimler zayıflamıştı evet ama hikayeler sanki biraz daha güçlenmiş gibiydi.
Bir başka öykü olan Gharn'ın Oyunları sayısında bir tür Olimpiyat oyunları gibi yarışlar yapıldı. Antik Yunan göndermeleri gizli gizli vurgulanmış gibi hissettim. Ama oyunlar çok sert ve kesin ölümlüydü. Wındsor Sihirbazı'nda ise çarmıha gerilmiş ölü insanlar vardı ve altta lanetli bir ölümün nedenleri yazıyordu. Conan hikayeleri Pagan dönemlerin bile ötesinden geliyor oradaki alegorimi demeliyim bilemedim ama garip geldi bana. 9 sayıdan oluşuyordu ve oldukça fantastik bir sayıydı. Çizimler zayıflamıştı evet ama hikayeler sanki biraz daha güçlenmiş gibiydi.
December 18, 2022
I think this was my least favourite of the Marvel Conan I've ever read. Don't get me wrong - the writing was still fun, if simple, especially the first issue, a take on the Frost Giant's Daughter story that we've all read so often before, and the later issue in which Conan has to win a competition in order to win a special sword - but the art, much touted in the introduction, left me incredibly cold. When Gil Kane inks his own art in this volume it looks flat, overly simple, and almost childish. It's much improved by the work of other inkers later in the volume but it still didn't do Conan or the world he inhabits any kind of justice.
I still had fun with this volume but it wasn't even close to the quality of other earlier volumes, and that's primarily down to the art.
I still had fun with this volume but it wasn't even close to the quality of other earlier volumes, and that's primarily down to the art.
January 3, 2021
Mostly more of the same, which, if you like nerdy sword and sorcery comics, is good.
J.M. DeMatteis is not a good writer for this series, and it's good to see his brief tenure come to an end midway through this one. Gil Kane's art is quite good, which makes up for some of the bad stories.
Relaxing way to spend a few hours on a holiday weekend.
J.M. DeMatteis is not a good writer for this series, and it's good to see his brief tenure come to an end midway through this one. Gil Kane's art is quite good, which makes up for some of the bad stories.
Relaxing way to spend a few hours on a holiday weekend.
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