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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 14:12:16 GMT -5
Has anyone been reading Conan the slayer? Cullen Bunn is said to be a very good writer, but the solicitation blurbs I've read were so riddled with bad continuity that I feel wary to give this new run a try. I have and I have enjoyed it for what it is. I liked it better than the early issues of Avenger, which I dropped. As for continuity, well we've had this discussion before, Howard viewed the Conan stories as that of someone telling tales around a fire and while he was happy to let fans try to piece together a timeline of events it never seemed to matter to him as being necessary to a god ripping Conan yarn, and it doesn't matter to me as long as the tale is enjoyable and makes the time around the fire better so to speak. -M |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 7, 2017 15:46:14 GMT -5
Has anyone been reading Conan the slayer? Cullen Bunn is said to be a very good writer, but the solicitation blurbs I've read were so riddled with bad continuity that I feel wary to give this new run a try. I have and I have enjoyed it for what it is. I liked it better than the early issues of Avenger, which I dropped. As for continuity, well we've had this discussion before, Howard viewed the Conan stories as that of someone telling tales around a fire and while he was happy to let fans try to piece together a timeline of events it never seemed to matter to him as being necessary to a god ripping Conan yarn, and it doesn't matter to me as long as the tale is enjoyable and makes the time around the fire better so to speak. -M True, but I was more referring to Dark Horse's own continuity. Things like Conan not knowing what a Kozak is, or being supposedly "is a situation he never faced before, wounded and surrounded by enemies" just suggested that the copy writer hadn't even read DH's run! Does Bunn himself do that kind of thing? I'm willing to give the run a chance if you vouch for it, though. (But I loved Avenger... after the train wreck that was Conan the barbarian, it was like a salve on a wasp sting)! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 15:58:51 GMT -5
I have and I have enjoyed it for what it is. I liked it better than the early issues of Avenger, which I dropped. As for continuity, well we've had this discussion before, Howard viewed the Conan stories as that of someone telling tales around a fire and while he was happy to let fans try to piece together a timeline of events it never seemed to matter to him as being necessary to a god ripping Conan yarn, and it doesn't matter to me as long as the tale is enjoyable and makes the time around the fire better so to speak. -M True, but I was more referring to Dark Horse's own continuity. Things like Conan not knowing what a Kozak is, or being supposedly "is a situation he never faced before, wounded and surrounded by enemies" just suggested that the copy writer hadn't even read DH's run! Does Bunn himself do that kind of thing? I'm willing to give the run a chance if you vouch for it, though. (But I loved Avenger... after the train wreck that was Conan the barbarian, it was like a salve on a wasp sting)! It reads a bit like Bunn's Helheim (which I love), but he seems to be recycling some tricks he has used elsewhere for plot twists, and I have liked each successive issue less than the previous, but I am still holding on to reading it. The artist to me, has a glaring weakness in that a lot of his faces look alike and at times the villain look like Conan with facial hair, but my complaints about the book seem to get shouted down by the crew at Swords of REH who seem to adore the book. I think it's solid, but not spectacular and I want to see the second arc before deciding my long term future with the book. -M |
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