I really enjoyed your thoughts on this arc especially your passion for Queen of the Black Coast, that's my favourite Howard Conan tale as well. I just finished reading the issue 9, and I think it will be just as awesome. I think De La Torre' art is perfect for an epic sweeping story which arc 3 seems to be and Braithwaite art is a suitable claustrophobic cityscape art and a more personal Conan story. Shame you didn't enjoy Savage Sword as much. What do you think of the Solomon Kane story? I think that and Jim Zub's short story carried the issue for me and of course Joe Jusko's cover. The Conan tale was decent enough, could've been better.
@tennesseefats
4 ай бұрын
I liked the Jim Zub story and definitely enjoyed Solomon Kane. I think I may have just been very hyped for the comic while I wasn’t as hyped for the magazine so it’s likely just a me thing. I’m definitely giving it the time it deserves through the next few issues though. It totally deserves its due as it’s definitely time we had Conan back in black and white magazine format.
@cgb1966
4 ай бұрын
I have recently gotten into variant covers. Went back and bought a few from Marvel's second Conan run. I personally buy the ones that appeal to me from an art standpoint. I have a number of Titan variants as well. When you get to issue 9 there is a great variant cover tied to the Thurian Age. As for Belit, have you seen the Brom art of Conan and Belit. in my opinion It is the most accurate portrayal of her I've seen( but not the prettiest).
@tennesseefats
4 ай бұрын
That is totally the right reason to get those variants. If they speak to you, then that's the one you should totally be buying. I haven't taken a look into the Marvel ones but the Titan ones are here. I now the issue 9 cover you're talking about, the Thurian Age Map! I want that one but my supplier did not get any in! Boo! I'll have to go to the secondary market now. oh well... I haven't see that yet! I'll have to give it a Googling!
@williamtilton4469
4 ай бұрын
Yeah, Tiatan is definitely doing a great job.
@tennesseefats
4 ай бұрын
oh Absolutely! They are nailing it! It's great to have a company put the resources behind the IP that it truly needs and deserves!
@ottohoulihan2743
4 ай бұрын
Good stuff T.F. I enjoyed this arc though i think Rob de la torre and Dean White are the better team. I just hope Titan can drag Savage Sword up to this comics standard
@tennesseefats
4 ай бұрын
Oh De La Torre definitely nailed it. Absolutely puts out fire level material. I'm still not 100% gung ho on the Savage Sword book yet. I think I need more of that under my belt prior to having an opinion on way or another on it. Weird. I usually can call it pretty quick but with that one, not so much...
@Wabin22
4 ай бұрын
This was.. not bad, but not for me. It's really hard to explain because I can't say that the art was bad, but it's just not the style I prefer. However it's better than many other styles I've seen. As for the story, it was okay. I really like all the Howard connections and such, but after the first story arc I'm getting really filled up with this black stone. I want to see other stories, not sit an entire year worths of books just about this black stone, zombies and other stuff like that. This is dark and I like that, but sometimes it just gets way too much into horror and gore than what I think Sword and Sorcery should be about. But the team is doing a great job so I just put this one aside as a story arc I wasn't very fond of, but the overall quality of their work is amazing. Also, am I the only one thinking the gold coins in this story looks kinda like Werthers Original? xD I also love the fact that you have Godzilla covering up both HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe ;)
@tennesseefats
4 ай бұрын
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! Someone's been watching in 4K! It's true: Godzilla does make his way around the bookshelves a fair amount depending on what I've been reaching for that he may be in the way of. I can totally see how this story may not check all the boxes for a lot of Conan fans. The story itself was really a "Ghost" issue and dealing with them was the majority of the action within it. I have a suspicion as to why we're seeing this stone play so much a role but I'm not going to be proven right or wrong until we see the end of the tale here. I do totally agree with you about the gore. I find as I've gotten older I've become more and more sensitive about that. I can't even stand to see it in movies any more which is ruining entire genres for me. I tell my son all the time "That was dark just for the purpose of being dark." He rolls his eyes at me and I'm sure he wonders what my problem is, but I have definitely started calling that out more and more these days (take that, stupid Batman movies...). This one stood out to me though because of the Queen of the Black Coast connection. To me that was the story here and although there was a whole epic tale on top of that, the closure of that loop for me was huge. And you're totally right, there were Werthers all over those pages. Once you've seen it, you can never un-see it!
@Wabin22
4 ай бұрын
@@tennesseefats Haha well, watching your video on my HD TV during my first coffee of the day AND being a massive Godzilla fan.. well it's not hard to miss ;) I don't mind Conan facing ghosts and stuff like that, but there's a big difference between the mystic and dark eerie feeling that the old stories gives us, such as Rogues In the House and Iron Shadows In the Moon. Thak is not a ghost but you don't know what he wants or what he feels and thinks, you just know him as a savage beast who kills for no reason. These ghosts in this Conan run just kills and possess for Thulsa Doom and they talk way too much, taking away the eerie feeling of it. I don't know, it's extremely hard to explain. I'd say it like Stan Lee would: Keep it classy. Classy gore ;) I don't mind the gore if it serves a bigger purpose and the story holds it up, but I see that if you have children and such.. then it'll change your view on it. I love the old classic Conan the Barbarian series and it barely have any, it only relies on the story and art. Yea and I totally get that if Queen of the Black Coast holds such a deep feeling for ya, then this is right there! I'm also reading through the Belit years of the original Marvel series and it's getting a bit too much now, I want to see other adventures :P Haha lol you're right! I hope I didn't ruin it for ya now ;)
@kudlatykid
4 ай бұрын
new savage sword was ok but not great and print quality was on fanzine level
@ottohoulihan2743
4 ай бұрын
Agreed....but give it time. I think we'll see an improvement over the next few issues
@tennesseefats
4 ай бұрын
OH! Perhaps that's what left me still on the fence with that title! I'll have to go back and take a closer look, as I was too busy being agog with the black and white goodness!
@tennesseefats
4 ай бұрын
I know I'm in for giving it time to see what comes out of it.
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