Jason Waltz’s Reviews > THE CONAN COMPANION: A Publishing History and Collector's Guide > Status Update

Ugh. Almost 7 pages of authorial diatribe in what's supposed to be a closing chapter on 'The Millennial Conan' is then followed by discussion and praise of an untitled/non-identifed book, followed by zero acknowledgement of the books & publisher the supposed 'most important event ever seen in Conan paperback publishing' books reprinted. WTF WTF?

Stating here and now (1) not a single cover of the Random House Legend Robert Jordan Conans features The Man himself and (2) very cool acknowledgement of Earl Norem's SSOC covers and the sad fact he never got to do a paperback cover.

Author opinions get much more intense as the book progresses. Several more instances of pages that discuss the cover yet require lots of searching to find that cover. Book could have used another editing eye before going to publication. For the most part have agreed with the author thus far, but disagree with him on the Ken Kelly 1993 CONAN THE SAVAGE cover which has always been one of my favorite Kelly pieces.

See now, if you're going to specifically reference a book cover you better dang well include it. Including none-Conan cover art was totally unnecessary in this book and I am disappointed by that, as it's a waste of space, not tied into the material in any way of merit, and obviously prohibited putting on the same page covers discussed.

Berkeley section was awesome, and the Ace section is pretty good, though I wish pages that discuss a cover had that cover on them rather than having to search for it. I also wonder why the Gor books got a whole color spread in a Conan cover collection. And this is obviously a very opinionated author.

Pretty cool book I'm thinking. Very informative, though strongly opinionated, and great covers. The history of UK's Sphere was illuminating.