Conan and Dark Horse Comics

[lemec]

Hello,

Here is a link for some Conan comic news:

http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/conan/index.php


How are these comics?, I never got any of them. :D

Thanks,

-Lemec

[terryallenuk]

I think they are excellent . I'll miss Kurt on the book but Tim Truman is a big Howard fan so hopefully things will work out fine . The first two arcs are availbale in trade paperbacks and hardcovers though the first HC was a limited signed edition and might be hard to get hold of.

Cary Nord's unpencilled art does have it's lovers and haters . Some panels are very Frazetta ish while the detail in others makes one wish for an inker but Dave Stewart's colouring saves the day in most cases.

Generally reckoned by many fans to be at least as good as Thomas' version at his best , or even better by some.

Terry

The Robert E Howard Comics Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheREHcomicsgroup/

[lemec]

ahh,very cool, thanks alot Terry! :D


I'll check into picking them up at the local shoppe.


-Lemec

[David Mosley]

The only Conan comics I've bought from DH were the P. Craig Russell ones: Conan and the Jewels of Gwahlur:



I must admit I did buy them more for the art than the story, although it was decent enough. I might pick up the Kelly Jones' "Book of Thoth" and Mike Mignola's "Hall of the Dead" though.

[lemec]

very interesting, the comic looks really good. :D

[Emrys]

Hello,

How are these comics?, I never got any of them. :D

Thanks,

-Lemec

All the Conan Comics Published by Dark Horse are great and very well made.
I was in my town comics shop in italy 6 months ago when I my hands stumbled on a english copy of the first dark horse book collectin the first iussues of the new conan series. I was impressed with the work of Cary Nord; I think he is one of the best artist I've seen and for sure is pencil is made for drawing the Conan character.

Now I have ordered all the conan books from US and I suggest you to do the same. They are really worth to have in a library!

[Mario]

My only real problem is that DH started with the idea of adapting the Howard stories, and they are doing an excellent job at that. But I'm worried that they are flooding the market with these side stories.

[Emrys]

My only real problem is that DH started with the idea of adapting the Howard stories, and they are doing an excellent job at that. But I'm worried that they are flooding the market with these side stories.

Sorry, didn't undestood your point...

With side stories you mean those not included in the regular series? If so do you mean that there are too many of those?

I think that those side stories are a nice add to the regular series...expeccially those involving the young Conan or the origin of Thoth Amon. (Didn't like much the jewels of gwalur, I would have liked it much if contained in the original series)

Have you ever heard about Redhand? Its a (new) comic by busiek and Alberti

[devilchicken]

I like that they are true to the Howard stories themselves - and for the most part they do perhaps the best job I've seen of storyboarding Howard's work. The adaptation of The God in the Bowl in particular featured a fight scene that was exactly as Howard described it.

I like too that they create these side stories to add depth to the original tales - its doesn't always work unfortunately. The Frost Giant's Daughter - was very good IMO, but the latest effort for The Tower Of The Elephant (aside from the excellent work on the source material) featured a prologue that wasn't even Howard, but appeared to have been taken from the Clark Ashton Smith story "The Charnel God".

[terryallenuk]

Hi guys , for those of you that haven't heard DH are going to be doing a number of other REH comics . King Kull , Solomon Kane , an anthology title called Robert E Howard's Savage Tales and a graphic novel adaptation of Pigeons from Hell . No creator details yet apart from Joe Lansdale is writing Pigeons . He's currently writing the Conan and the Songs of the Dead series.

Terry

[Emrys]

Hi guys , for those of you that haven't heard DH are going to be doing a number of other REH comics . King Kull , Solomon Kane , an anthology title called Robert E Howard's Savage Tales and a graphic novel adaptation of Pigeons from Hell . No creator details yet apart from Joe Lansdale is writing Pigeons . He's currently writing the Conan and the Songs of the Dead series.

Terry

Thank for the great news!!

Didn't Know that...It would be a must to have!

I have read something about King Kull when I was young but nothing about Salomon Kane!

I have a collection of R.E. Howard stories about Conan (adapted by De Champ & Carter) in my bookshelf and I was planning to buy the new Conan Centenary Edition to read (english) untouched Howard stories...Do you think that is worth book to buy?

[Mario]

Sorry, didn't undestood your point...

With side stories you mean those not included in the regular series? If so do you mean that there are too many of those?

Basically, yeah.

Have you ever heard about Redhand? Its a (new) comic by busiek and Alberti

Yeah, it was announced a while ago. Unfortunately, I don't read French, and Humanoids doesn't have an English distributor.

[Mikey_C]

I've got vols. 1-3 of the collections. I could make some gripes, but overall I think they're well worth getting. There is new stuff to pad out the Howard tales, but that's inevitable as the aim is to have a continuous narrative, and Conan just wasn't written like that.

Personally I probably wouldn't bother if they just stuck to illustrating the Howard tales - it's like "Give me more Conan, please!" And why not? There have been pastiches of varying quality for decades.

[David Mosley]

...I was planning to buy the new Conan Centenary Edition to read (english) untouched Howard stories...Do you think that is worth book to buy?

I too have been looking at this Centenary Edition and as an utter Howard novice - I've only read the Conan/Elric and Jewels of Gwalhir comics - would like to know if this is the one to pick up or are there better editions (ideally in the UK) worth looking at?

[devilchicken]

Apparently that's worth getting - although I don't believe you can get the illustrated Del Rey trades in the UK yet (I could be wrong of course) - those are very nice. Not having the HC I can't say what the differences are (other than its hardcover).

Wildside press has some nice (expensive) Howard volumes - and are currently reprinting all of his Weird Tales output in a 10 book series.