What do you guys think about the Conan comics by Titan? There's a crossover coming with Conan and Solomon Kane later this year.
What do you guys think about the Conan comics by Titan?
What do you guys think about the Conan comics by Titan? There's a crossover coming with Conan and Solomon Kane later this year.
It's been pretty good. Though I prefer the Savage Sword book over the main one. Barbarian's been solid but I'd prefer it for the stories were shorter focused.
Not bad so far. Some room for improvement, but already better than the Marvel stuff from a couple of years ago. Like this anon says though, Savage Sword is better and has that sweet sweet newsprint paper
>pulpshit
Every week there's a new schizo.
Cinemaphile has been like this since it's inception
It's the same schizo who's been here for decades
ever consider that most of the board just doesn't like pulpslop?
Seems it's liked well enough on here.
You are objectively incorrect.
You're objectively the same guy making this claim
How? There was a huge Conan storytime last year and pulp threads pop up regularly.
He's trying to do that thing where he pretends to be multiple people and claim something is always hated
>and pulp threads pop up regularly.
Are the pulp threads in the room with us right now, Raz0rface?
Wait there was? I was just about to do every Conan comic ever made but if it's already been done I shouldn't.
Yeah I'm actually the anon that did them. I started with some random The Cimmerian by Ablaze with some old Savage Sword thrown in. Was having doing them, so I committed and did the Busiek dark horse run followed by Timothy Truman's followup ongoing. Had some good convo in those threads
I looked at what you did and
was right. You barely did anything.
Naw that's a big storytime. We can't all be murderanon
Anon I storytimed all of the Ultimate Universe, twice.
That's awesome anon, but you doing that doesn't mean storytiming close to one hundred issues isn't a huge storytime also
>Ultimate universe
Why would you put yourself through that?
Comparatively speaking to the rest of Conan, it is a very small amount given how many comics there are.
I love Ultimate Marvel.
No one said anything about comparing it to the total amount of Conan comics. If you storytimed every Batman comic written by Alan Grant, that'd be a big storytime while still a drop in the bucket compared to Batman comics in general.
Anon, I'm not trying to have a dick measuring contest here. I'm trying to justify in my mind storytiming all of Conan. If I consider yours small, then I feel comfortable doing it.
You kind of started a dick measuring contest tho. No hard feelings I love storytimes and if you can make time for doing ALL of Conan go for it.
No. It was just a few of the Dark Horse stuff. I have no idea why he described it as "huge".
No pulp heroes have maintained any real level of popularity except for Batman and that's because people just aren't interested in pulp adventures.
The problem is that pulp heroes had their style of storytelling evolve via superhero comics which quickly displaced them due to being more fantastical and engaging. Pulp stories, as the precursors to modern cape/action-adventure fiction, just feel too stereotypical and dated in their style to have mass appeal.
Okay but we're on Cinemaphile where people come to enjoy niche things. Who gives a flying frick what normies think?
>where people come to enjoy niche things.
lol...
Yes. I know there's no stop spam, but you can have good discussion about more obscure things of you're not just here to shit post
KEK what are you talking about, pulp shit has nothing to even do with Cinemaphile given it was a literary medium and nothing to do with comics. Nobody here has ever given a shit about it.
>ever consider that most hates pulps and uses the exact same npc words all the time like "slop"
You're not fooling anyone, schizo
What's keeping the omni reprints?
I love it
>This is considered 'amazing' to pulpsloppers
https://x.com/allstarsuperpod/status/1802702745495097384
Might have to check that out. Looks a little low budget, but that's a plus these days
It's okay, just don't expect swordplay choreography on the level of the Banderas films
>uses pulp character to make fun of pulp
moron.
moron.
Batman has not been muh pulp since like 1941.
Tell that to this gaylord
Conan and Howard in general had a pretty good resurgence in the early to mid 00s with the Howard stories getting reprinted in their original versions, Dark Horse, Age of Conan etc. I think what killed the hype was the Momoa reboot
>Momoa reboot
That movie, John Carter, Green Hornet, and the Spirit ruined Pulp's reputation on the big screen. I think that shitty Solomon Kane movie might of even came out in that same stretch of years
>I think that shitty Solomon Kane movie might of even came out in that same stretch of years
That was a good few years earlier.
I actually looked it up after I made this list and it goes
>The Spirit 08
>Solomon Kane 09
>Conan 11
>Green Hornet 11
>John Carter 12
So almost four years straight of Pulp adaptations and only John Carter comes out decent, but bombs.
>he didn't like john carter
>he didn't like the spirit
I didn't even know there was a Solomon Kane film.
>literally made by a troony
>is doing red sonja next
Grim.
>it's fricking real
The absolute state of pulpsloppers
He wasn't a troony yet when he did Kane
I don't actually hate John Carter I think it's a fine movie.
>I didn't even know there was a Solomon Kane film
It's got big direct to video vibes. Pretty sure the former dude who directed it is doing the Red So(y)nja reboot.
>Empire rated the film at 3 out of 5 stars, complimenting writer-director M. J. Bassett as handling the film "with the same level of commitment Peter Jackson brought to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the darker moments of which are an obvious influence on Bassett's film"
>3/5
>just like lord of the rings
What?
Wasn't there a bunch of studio meddling for the Momoa reboot?
Probably. There almost always is. The whole movie did feel like it had the taint of executives all over it.
So outside of Conan any other sword and sorcery type comics worth picking up?
The Mercenary comes to mind, other than that maybe the new Elric books are worth checking out.
New Elric books have good art, but are glossing over too much stuff from the books.
>The Mercenary
Now that's a comic. Everyone on Cinemaphile should read at least one album of that
Are the other volumes translated yet? I've been waiting on 3 for a while now.
I really ought to look more into eruo stuff
Slaine is pretty good and I enjoyed the new Death Dealer.
You ever read the Danzig one?
Kek no. Is it good?
It's awful but in a really impressive way
Den Neverwhere/ Muvovum
Black Beth, she's a Red Sonja but she actually wears armour.
I'm surprised by Worley's commitment to this character she seems to show up in whenever Rebellion do a Scream special or a treasury of British Comics Annueal over the past couple of years
I've been enjoying it. Can't wait to see Thulsa Doom next issue.
That crossover is gonna have some other REH characters, too. I can't believe I've never heard of John Kirowan and John Conrad before.
How Canon was he?
I can't take it seriously enough because they don't show his uncensored penis.
better than marvel stuff
>Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics are pleased to announce the launch of a new Conan mini-series, CONAN THE BARBARIAN: BATTLE OF THE BLACK STONE. This four-issue series is written by critically praised CONAN THE BARBARIAN writer, Jim Zub(Dungeons & Dragons), with art by the talented Jonas Scharf(Dark X-Men, Basilisk).
>Conan of Cimmeria is haunted by shadows, living nightmares connected to a mysterious eye symbol etched in Black Stone. An unspeakable evil looms over the Hyborian Age and every age connected to it… And it will take more than a lone barbarian to stop its relentless march upon time, space, and sanity.
>CONAN THE BARBARIAN: BATTLE OF THE BLACK STONE continues from the Free Comic Book Day special issue, where the strange Black Stone sigil revealed itself across space and time to multiple iconic Robert E. Howard characters, including Conan himself, Solomon Kane, and Dark Agnes. Readers can expect to find out more in THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN#4 before the release of CONAN THE BARBARIAN: BATTLE OF THE BLACK STONE #1 in September 2024.
>“The mysteries and powers of the Black Stone are one of the pillars I put into my original proposal for the series and, now that we have momentum, we can really go all out in telling this epic tale of pulp-inspired adventure across the ages. Black Stone is a mysterious material that showed up in multiple Robert E. Howard prose stories and we’re using it to link not just Conan’s Hyborian age to Kull’s Thurian age, but other points in time and characters from those eras as well.
>Issue #1 goes on sale September 4th 2024, with sensational covers by Gerado Zaffino, Sedat Oezgen, Stuart Sayger, Samwise Didier, and Tony Fleecs. Fans can pick up a copy from their local comic shop andForbidden Planet for UK & Europe.