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These reprints from Marvel's Conan the Barbarian (originally published in the early 1970s) shows the best and worst of sword and sorcery adventure. At its best, S&S fiction enables readers to identify with heroes who fight against vast, cosmic forces. At its worst, it features muscle-bound louts in fur skivvies who bellow insults at each other while waving enormous, phallic weapons. Robert E. Howard, who created Conan in a series of pulp magazine tales, achieved the former level more often than he sank to the latter. Eventually, Thomas and Windsor-Smith did, too. Thomas's informative closing notes explain how, under Stan Lee's editorship, he got permission to write a Conan comic in collaboration with young artist Windsor-Smith. He admits to glitches in the writing and blemishes in the art, but correctly states that the comic hit its stride by issue #4, an adaptation of Howard's "Tower of the Elephant." This archetypal Conan story sets the quick-thinking, tough outsider against a corrupt, over-sophisticated society. The young barbarian is exasperated by the superior attitudes of the experienced rogues in the slums of a decadent metropolis, so he decides to test himself by robbing a powerful, evil sorcerer. This comics adaptation isn't without flaws, but Thomas does preserve Howard's escalating sense of menace and strangeness. Windsor-Smith's pencils do justice to the mood too, making Conan believably muscular enough to prevail against human or superhuman foes. The stories in this deluxe collection are much more spirited and solid than those featured in the original printing.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The List, 9-23 September 2004, review by Matt Fielder: "Fidelity or no, the Thomas/Windsor Smith strips remain the best."
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4.0 out of 5 stars
First impression,
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This review is from: The Chronicles of Conan Volume 1: Tower of the Elephant and Other Stories (Paperback)
The book contains a series of comics. The color is bright, the pages are thick, and the artwork is professional. I would read it over again.In this series, I found "Lair of the Beast-Men" and "Zukala's Daughter" fun to read, but I can't complain about any of them, this was a good set. In a subsequent comic, Zukala returns (in chronicles 3). I like that about these books, and there is coordination for the series, making it better to read them in sequence than randomly and I also noticed that there are additional supplementary books. Conan battles against beast, and he battles with a decietful women that he had rescued. He does not find his kingdom in this set. With all of this trouble in the Hyborian age, it almost equals what we face, but Conan is not detered. I enjoy finding out what is going to jump out and challenge him. We discover some characteristics of Conan over time such as his distrust of magic or his sense of loyalty and pride, but I don't know how close of an approximation he is to the barbarian king in history. I am a novice yet as far as it goes. I heard that the original story teller used history as a background for his fantasy world.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The early comic classics get the treatment they deserve!,
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This review is from: The Chronicles of Conan Volume 1: Tower of the Elephant and Other Stories (Paperback)
Finally, someone has seen fit to give these sword-and-sorcery comic classics the treatment they deserve! Dark Horse has restored the classic artwork of Barry Smith and utilized modern digital colorization to render the definitive published versions.While Smith's early work is a bit derivative or evocative of Jack Kirby, it's fascinating to see his stylistic development nevertheless. Roy Thomas did the fantasy world a great service adapting Conan onto the comics page, with his crisp writing that shows he has a keen ear for the spirit of Robert E. Howard's work. Pour yourself a flagon of wine and savor these Conan classics, by crom!
4.0 out of 5 stars
What? No covers? Shame on you, Dark Horse!,
By The Original Guardian "The Original Guardian" (OA (of course)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chronicles of Conan Volume 1: Tower of the Elephant and Other Stories (Paperback)
My rating would have been 5 stars if Dark Horse included the original covers to the stories. I'm sure Dark Horse has a good reason for their omission.How about it Dark Horse; why'd you drop the ball? Whose brilliant idea was it to omit the covers?
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