Conan and chill
Conan the Barbarian
John Lopez
Jackson Perez
scans because the recoloring is a crime against god and nature
Asher Cook
Isaiah Stewart
Asher Williams
Went back and read the latter part of Dark Horse Conan (Brian Reed's run, Fred van Lente's run, Cullen Bunn's run) and holy shit they were terrible. I want everyone who pretend's Aaron's Conan is bad to go back and read that crap so you have a reference point of what Conan comics have been like this decade pre-Marvel. Aaron's Conan is a fucking masterpiece compared to that stuff.
Benjamin Roberts
Isaiah Nelson
>Bunn
Man they really scraped the bottom of the barrel for that.
Aaron's Conan is great and the only good Marvel thing I've read from him, he's got the narrative style down
Leo Martinez
Jaxon Ramirez
Carson Sanchez
Daniel Sullivan
Angel Rodriguez
Ian Taylor
Xavier Rodriguez
Brody Perez
I'm with you, Aaron's Conan is genuinely fantastic. It's the best thing I've ever read from him and it's the Marvel book I look forward to the most month-to-month. You can really tell he's a Conan fan.
Unfortunately he's on Yea Forums's shitlist so people will go >Aaron and say it's shit even though they haven't read it. I just wish Marvel would do a better job with Savage Sword. Issues 1-5 were awful. 6 was bad too but at least it was a one-shot. 7 by Zub was the best so far, with 8 also being by Zub so should be good as well. 10 coming up is written by Roy Thomas so that should be a treat. Really wish they would just set up a consistent team for this book. Right now it looks like cancellation fodder after it hits its #250 milestone.
Cooper Sanders
Julian Wright
Gabriel Stewart
Ian Rodriguez
I love it, but then its also the first Conan book I've ever read.
Andrew Rivera
Make sure to go back and read the Roy Thomas stuff, especially Savage Sword. Also the Dark Horse stuff by Busiek & Truman. Conan is just the best, man.
Cameron Moore
Shit I was gonna go pick up the run of Savage and Belit because I was enjoying this so much, bummer that it's not good. It's a shame because I love the idea of having a secondary book with a rotating team for characters like Conan that lots of people want a shot at writing a story for.
Tyler Walker
Angel Gutierrez
Liam Harris
Levi Martin
Gavin Cox
I mean I'm only speaking for myself, you may as well read that stuff online to see if you like it. I just thought it was crap. However, issues 1-5 have Alex Ross covers which is probably worth the price alone.
Isaac Clark
letters page (before letters arrive)
one thing I appreciate about Aaron is his dedication to the letters pages
Dominic Morris
awesome, have been on a heavy Conan kick lately, reading the Lancer book series, Roy Thomas stuff, even the Milius script for the 3rd Conan movie
Christopher Jenkins
Wait, Savage is getting cancelled? Fuck.
Oliver Allen
recoloring?
Lucas Nelson
No no no, I'm just speculating.
Dominic Long
Really since I was a kid I just love anything with a map or infographics like this, I would have loved this stuff
The Dark Horse reprintings of the Marvel stuff got a godawful recoloring that makes everything look brown and muted, which I think is kept in the current digital versions.
Marvel is reprinting the series in omnis with the original coloring guides
Jose White
Dark Horse released the BWS run on Barbarian in these hardcovers with just horrible recoloring. Not as bad as the Neal Adam's Batman recolor, but pretty bad. Old inks and modern colors do NOT mix and I don't know why anyone ever thought they did.
Samuel Lewis
Oh. Hope not. But at least they'll get to finish the casino arc. AKA Yu-Gi-Co.
Hunter Reyes
Joseph Perry
Daniel Mitchell
Oh hell yeah. Conan is about to send some mutts to the shadow realm.
Ian Sanchez
Aaron Allen
Jordan Powell
This stuff is like Bronze Age Jonah Hex where i just enjoy every single issue, you just get a good story told by people who know what they're doing
Samuel Jenkins
Jason Peterson
Fucking all of Neal Adams' shit is recolored like this.
Jayden Hughes
Jonathan Murphy
jesus christ we need to start outlawing recolors
Jack Powell
Yup as is Simonson's Thor, it's baffling to me, like who is that even for
Collectors are half the market for this stuff
Caleb Butler
Ryan Myers
The baffling part is that it was done so by Neal Adams request. Not just that, it was re-inked, by Neal Adams, at his request. If you put the original issues besides the recolored collections, the art literally looks different because he re-did the inks and fucked everything up.
Why did Adams want to do this? Did he really think it would improve on something that is a sacred cow of comics? Did he want extra money by also getting inking credit? Is he just insane and wants to watch the world burn? Tune in to next week's episode of Dragon Ball Z.
Jaxson Torres
Evan Robinson
Connor Miller
Evan Hall
James Perry
Luis Long
it probably started out as a money thing (I think his wife also worked on his recolors) but now I think ego is also a factor. Anything I touch turns to gold sorta shit. Its sad to say but I kinda hope he dies soon so itll be easier to release original colors
Alexander Kelly
Isaac Flores
Logan Cruz
Man, these ads...
Xavier Phillips
The comic was literally completely 100% ruined. It is no longer readable. I am seething with anger.
Nolan Evans
Carson Hughes
>The baffling part is that it was done so by Neal Adams request
Well, we all know Adams is a bit silly by now
Lucas Reed
Evan Jackson
Carson Baker
>Well, we all know Adams is a bit silly by now
No kidding. I tried reading Batman Odyssey and wondered what prescription cocktail I would have to down for it to start making sense. There's fever dreams, then there's Batman Odyssey.
Noah Bailey
Nolan Murphy
Julian Johnson
>August Derleth
Booooo.
David Gray
Oh shit no way, the Cthulhu fanfic maniac!
Best part of old letters pages is spotting cameos!
Elijah Johnson
Blake Davis
Ryan Russell
James Thompson
I think I know what these are for
Ayden Miller
was never crazy about the helmet
Alexander Bell
Thomas Green
Joshua Peterson
I wish Kull the Conqueror got more exposure. Not that I don't love Conan, but Kull was the progenitor
Camden Powell
Michael Wright
Brandon Morales
Grayson Reed
Gavin Miller
Truth.
Austin Martinez
Wyatt Phillips
I wasn't aware of that character outside of being in DC sometimes, but reading about him I think I'm gonna have to get on reading those RE Howard stories, looks super interesting
Robert White
Nathaniel Hill
Wait the DC version isn't even like tangentially the same character apparently
I had actually thought they were the same for years now
Charles Martin
Gavin Jackson
Lincoln Thompson
Gavin King
Logan Morgan
Daniel Parker
Caleb Scott
Hudson Ramirez
Connor Peterson
Luke Hill
I know this one's recoloring was particularly offensive and you'll see why
David Ward
Aaron Smith
Nolan Bailey
Julian Moore
Noah Powell
Andrew Ward
Nathaniel Lewis
Carson Morris
Leo Ortiz
Jack Ward
Gabriel Lopez
Dominic Turner
Jack Phillips
(Green) elephants on parade
Thomas Green
Samuel Fisher
Gavin Powell
Brandon Barnes
Christopher Green
Dominic Rogers
Fun fact: this elephant is implied to be an Old One.
Jose Parker
Michael Brown
Joshua Torres
That's all for tonight. Thanks for reading.
Jayden Kelly
Thanks for the thread, Texas
Lucas Sanchez
Insufficient bumps
Jaxon Rodriguez
The Marvel Omnis have the original colors. But much brighter than the scan, obviously.
Hunter Thomas
Agreed. I just read up to 51. It’s all great.
Ethan Williams
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