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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2015 19:40:39 GMT -5
BCDecember will see the first issue of King Conan: Wolves Beyond the Border, an expansion of the REH fragment (not sure if they will follow the deCamp completion or go their own way).  -M
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Sept 21, 2015 9:09:15 GMT -5
Giorello channelin his inner Jorge Zaffino? Count me in!    From my favorite Savage Sword of Conan issue ever, #162! |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 23, 2015 20:19:52 GMT -5
Hah! Good call, Arthur! That Zaffino issue was one of the best- pencilled SSoC ever!
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Oct 24, 2015 6:11:09 GMT -5
If you gonna have one and only one SSoC issue, that should be the one indeed.
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Post by senatortombstone on Oct 25, 2015 20:51:52 GMT -5
So is this going to be another King Conan story, just when he is an old man, or is this to be his last hurrah? Was there ever any resolution regarding the the prince and the wazir (Thoth-Amon)?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 26, 2015 19:34:52 GMT -5
So is this going to be another King Conan story, just when he is an old man, or is this to be his last hurrah? Was there ever any resolution regarding the the prince and the wazir (Thoth-Amon)? is set during the civil war that put Conan on the throne, so unless Truman decides to rewrite a part of it it should be another tale that the aging king Conan tells the scribe Pramis. Alternatively, since the original story was left unfinished, perhaps the tale will begin when Conan was in his early 40s and conclude when he's very old! Regarding the prince and the wazir, the latter was seen burning the scrolls he had been reading to the prince a few years ago. It was really Kurt Busiek's framing device, and I don't think anyone else really wanted to use it as the series went on. Too bad: I liked those guys. I actually much prefered the Nemdian Chronicles being read ages after Conan's era that seeing them being written during Conan's time. It just doesn't make any sense to me that a text saying "after the sinking of Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of" would be contenporary to said "age undreamed of" instead of having been written after the rise of the sons of Aryas! |
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Post by senatortombstone on Oct 29, 2015 23:18:20 GMT -5
So is this going to be another King Conan story, just when he is an old man, or is this to be his last hurrah? Was there ever any resolution regarding the the prince and the wazir (Thoth-Amon)? is set during the civil war that put Conan on the throne, so unless Truman decides to rewrite a part of it it should be another tale that the aging king Conan tells the scribe Pramis. Alternatively, since the original story was left unfinished, perhaps the tale will begin when Conan was in his early 40s and conclude when he's very old! Regarding the prince and the wazir, the latter was seen burning the scrolls he had been reading to the prince a few years ago. It was really Kurt Busiek's framing device, and I don't think anyone else really wanted to use it as the series went on. Too bad: I liked those guys. I actually much preferred the Nemdian Chronicles being read ages after Conan's era that seeing them being written during Conan's time. It just doesn't make any sense to me that a text saying "after the sinking of Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of" would be contemporary to said "age undreamed of" instead of having been written after the rise of the sons of Aryas! I see; I was confused regarding Conan's age [due to the artwork above] in this Wolves beyond the border. So then, it should detail his ascension to the throne? Awesome! I enjoyed the SSoC version of that event, but not so much the mini-series Conan the Usurper, as that seemed to inaccurately portray Conan, who would never fight his own people, on behalf of a foreign nation. It also seemed to be very abridged. Hopefully, the prince and wazir story-line will be resolved. I believe that the wazir is supposed to be Thoth-Amon, right? It seems to imply that there was some epic battle between Conan and Thoth-Amon, which I know never occurred in REH's work, but the Marvel Conan did kill him twice. Sigh, sometimes I love the villain more than the hero. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 30, 2015 5:42:38 GMT -5
Wolves beyond the border is set during the civil war that put Conan on the throne, so unless Truman decides to rewrite a part of it it should be another tale that the aging king Conan tells the scribe Pramis. Alternatively, since the original story was left unfinished, perhaps the tale will begin when Conan was in his early 40s and conclude when he's very old! Regarding the prince and the wazir, the latter was seen burning the scrolls he had been reading to the prince a few years ago. It was really Kurt Busiek's framing device, and I don't think anyone else really wanted to use it as the series went on. Too bad: I liked those guys. I actually much preferred the Nemdian Chronicles being read ages after Conan's era that seeing them being written during Conan's time. It just doesn't make any sense to me that a text saying "after the sinking of Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of" would be contemporary to said "age undreamed of" instead of having been written after the rise of the sons of Aryas! I see; I was confused regarding Conan's age [due to the artwork above] in this Wolves beyond the border. So then, it should detail his ascension to the throne? Awesome! I enjoyed the SSoC version of that event, but not so much the mini-series Conan the Usurper, as that seemed to inaccurately portray Conan, who would never fight his own people, on behalf of a foreign nation. It also seemed to be very abridged. Hopefully, the prince and wazir story-line will be resolved. I believe that the wazir is supposed to be Thoth-Amon, right? It seems to imply that there was some epic battle between Conan and Thoth-Amon, which I know never occurred in REH's work, but the Marvel Conan did kill him twice. Sigh, sometimes I love the villain more than the hero. Regarding Wolves beyond the border, Truman will no doubt add a lot of his own into the plot since it is not an actual Conan story. The fragments that Howard left feature a young frontiersman fighting Picts in the Westermark; Conan is just mentioned as being leading a rebellion against the king of Aquilonia. Being fondly remembered after the events of Beyond the Black river, the Cimmerian has the support of the locals. You're right about Thoth-Amon, who did indeed seem to be the wazir. This is not as outrageous as it would seem, since Howard did allow Thoth-Amon's evil (if nothing else) to survive the Hyborian age; in his short story the haunter of the ring, set in modern times, he shows how the infamous serpent ring of the Stygian mage was still extant and still capable of influencing mortals. And if the ring can survive, why not the mage himself? |
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