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Title: Rogues in the House & Other Stories (Chronicles of Conan, Book 2) by Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith ISBN: 1-59307-023-3 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Essential Conan Comics
Comment: These reprints of the early Marvel Comics Conan series are essential for any fan of comics in general and Conan in particular. As has been noted, the only drawbacks are the absence of the original covers and digital color that virtually crushes Barry Smith's art. That's a shame because these stories could have been greatly enhanced by digital color in the right hands. We can only hope that Dark Horse will correct the problem before they get around to reprinting "Red Nails" which I understand is part of the plan.
Rating: 3
Summary: Digital recoloring is a mixed bag.
Comment: I wish that I could give this book 4 stars but it has two medium flaws that make it only earn three. 1.The original covers have not been included. Why not? 2. The computer applied color interferes with seeing the original artwork clearly. By this I mean that the color is many times so dark that it overwhelms Smith's work. Also, the effort to make the figures more volumetric by modeling from light to dark quite often makes the pen strokes vanish. Hopefully, someone at Dark Horse will fix this in the next two volumes because it's in these issues where Smith hits his early stride and I'd hate for Smith's pen work to be obscured by some dcomputer colorist attempting to demonstrate his/her anime flavored virtuosity.Even after my rant, I recommend this book and volume one too. They ain't perfect, but still damned good. Just take it with a grain of salt.
Rating: 4
Summary: No Elric, but still some great stuff!
Comment: For some reason issues #14 and 15 of Conan The Barbarian are omitted from this volume - my guess is for stylistic reasons - but this is yet another wonderful collection of these graphic Hyborean classics.
Like the first volume, the digital recoloring is absolutely gorgeous and renders the breathtaking artwork with stunning clarity. The original comics were printed on newsprint, which as most comic coinnoseurs know, does not render the images with the utmost fidelity. These volumes give these stories the treatment they deserve, with good white paper and care taken in the art restoration.
In the afterword, Roy Thomas (the writer who adapted Conan into comics) promises that issues #14 and #15 will be in volume three, so fear not at the omission of the stories featuring Michael Moorcock's Elric. Simply read and savor the golden age of the comic-book Conan.
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Title: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 1) by Robert E. Howard ISBN: 0345461517 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Monster of the Monoliths and Other Stories (Chronicles of Conan, Book 3) by Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, Gil Kane ISBN: 1593070241 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Chronicles of Conan Volume 4 : Red Nails and Other Stories by Roy Thomas, Barry Windsor-Smith, John Buscema ISBN: 159307025X Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Young GODS and Friends by Barry Windsor-Smith ISBN: 1560974915 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 (Comic) by Alan Moore ISBN: 1401201172 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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