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Kinda off topic, but Howard's fight-king sailor & the hillbilly mountain man stories drag you in by the sheer absurdity of the action & never break character tone. The fight-king sailor just fights and fights and watches out for his pet dog. The hillbilly mountain man stories, welp, think redneck conan wrecking people who done him/his family wrong.
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Zoro posted:I know this is John Carter, not Conan, but I feel they would be a lot of overlap in readers between those series. I bought one of his collections today and -- whoo boy -- is this book old school racist. "Reds", "savages", "fiendish tortuous ways", etc. and the hero is a fictional Confederate solider who was "rightly worshiped" by Edgar Rice Bourgh's slaves in the introduction. And I'm not even done with chapter one. Just a warning to anyone considering picking up this series: this guy don't like nor respect non-whites. Burroughs grew up a long time ago, and yes his stuff is dated beyond belief, however when first published it was genre breaking and a clean break from Victorian era stories. Just remember that for Burroughs, electric lighting was only perfected when he was a kid, and telephones only became a big thing in his twenties. Radio & home refrigation were INTERNET style-world changing wonders for him.
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Davros1 posted:Marvel announced they Marvel had at least 3 different Conan series running at the same time during the 1970s-80s. Illustrated versions of the Howard & DeCamp stories, Young Conan, and their own Marvel Conan stories.
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hatelull posted:Was Savage Sword of Conan the Howard & DeCamp stories? I liked those much better than the Marvel run (which I think eventually put Conan on his promised throne and then he got boring). Can't recall. I remember the Howard & DeCamp stories usually being printed in a larger Black&White format, the Young Conan stories having Conan as a teenage Adventurer hanging out with his male & female buddies at generic AdventuringVillage with a generic artstyle for everything notEvil(including Young Conan). Don't remember anything about the Marvel run except for a WhatIf about "What If Conan was transported to modern (1980s) times?".
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Jan 23, 2018 01:09
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bloom posted:I wonder how they're planning to turn a bunch of short stories into a coherent series. A few of the longer ones could be stretched to a full season each I guess, but there's very little connecting them. Use the story where Conan reclaims his kingdom from the unDead-unAlive sorceror, it has the fullscale of conan's career path, and could easily be chunked into a season or two. quantumfoam fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Feb 15, 2018 |
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