No Drucker. Lots of Sergio, a fair bit of Don Martin and a lot of someone named Kerry Callen who I am not familiar with but whose stuff seems to be of recent vintage. It looked to be all DC parodies except 1 Spy vs. Spy strip.

-M

Awesome FCBD haul....our are getting shipped....my dealer probably got about 2/3 of the whole lot (I think that's 42).

Took my niece to Comics Warehouse and she let me have a couple of her selections:




Then I hit up Age of Comics solo:

The Howardverse "crossover event" is built on things Howard himself did in his stories. Kull projecting through time to meet with Bran Mak Morn and aiding him. James Allison projecting through time to inhabit the bodies of his past incarnations, most famously seen with Bjorn from Valley of the Worms but in other stories as well, the ring of Thoth -Amon appearing in the 20th century and causing problems in Haunter of the Ring, his Black Stone and Unspeakable cults appearing in several stories featuring different characters, different times and different genres, but they all shared the same world, so I see no problem with writers continuing to build on those elements to tell stories featuring more of Howard's characters beyond Conan. Roy Thomas did it in fact in stories having Conan meet Kane and Kull, and in spirit by adapting stories from other Howard characters and attempting (sometime ham-fistedly) to turn them into Conan stories.

This isn't "moderns who don't understand Howard trying to exploit his works in ways he never would" this is creators building on the foundations that Howard established and played with in his own stories. Anyone who has read widely of Howard full oeuvre (or his correspondence) and not just limited themselves to Conan or the sword & sorcery stuff and comics, wouldn't be surprised by seeing these elements in continuations of Howard stories. It's a far cry from something like Savage Avengers that mixed Hoawardian elements with the Marvel Universe, it's a story drawing purely on Howardian elements that Howard himself used in the same way.

And Titan and Heroic Signatures reason to exist is to sell books, so if they have to tap into the current zeitgeist to market what they are doing, that makes them smart business people who know how to drum up interest in their products, which are staying very true to what Howard himself did and celebrating and embracing Howard's rich legacy rather than ignoring the source material to use stars like Arnie to promote the brand, then more power to them and I would find that very difficult to classify as a "mistake" in any way.


-M

Titan and Heroic Signatures is offering a free PDF download of the Conan FCBD issue Battle of the Black Stone here

-M