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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 25, 2024 6:42:22 GMT -5
Bloom
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 25, 2024 5:54:07 GMT -5
Savage sword of Conan #189, September 1991 Cover by Ovi Table of contents Eye of the storm, in which Conan meets the wizard Zukala again. Featuring a cameo by Elric of Melniboné! (sort of). What can one do, in which Conan faces an army. In the letters page, the editor states that “Barry Windsor-Smith was the first artist to draw Sonja for comics, in Conan #24”. That was of course in issue 23, “The shadow of the vulture”, which adapted the Robert E. Howard story that introduced Red Sonya of Rogatino, the model for Red Sonja. That issue #24 is the one that gets reprinted all the time shouldn’t keep an editor from getting such basic facts straight. But hey… any editor who brings Roy Thomas back to the Conan mags must be a good person deep down (see the announcement at the end of this review). I don't know if this ever got mentioned when you wrote this review so long ago, but i think this story was retconned out of the Conan canon in issue #241 on the top-left panel of page 11. Karanthes mentions that Conan had been to Zukala's castle twice and Conan corrects him, telling him once was more than enough. That is so cool! I love the way Roy would sidestep other writers' continuity errors not by flatly claiming they were wrong, but by dropping a suggestion that they might have been. He did the same after the disastrous "year one" story arc, the last issue of which saw Roy's return under the pseudonym of Justin Arthur; he had the whole thing be a story told to Prince Conn by his dad. Queen Zenobia, overhearing, just said "that's not exactly the way you told me of those events" or words to that effect, leaving the veracity of the tale left in doubt but not outright negated. That shows, on Roy's part, both attention to continuity and respect for the work of his colleagues.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2024 9:47:47 GMT -5
Would
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2024 9:24:23 GMT -5
Demon
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2024 8:37:36 GMT -5
I'm watching 1965' The Nanny with Bette Davis, a thriller from Hammer Films. It's a haunting thing, with a preternaturally calm nanny taking care of a psychologically disturbed woman and her extremely creepy kid. The tension in there could be cut with a knife, and the actor who plays the boy is so scary that he could give lessons to Damian Thorne!
Really good stuff. Davis is excellent, and the script is spooky as can be.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2024 8:30:32 GMT -5
Heart
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 24, 2024 5:51:01 GMT -5
Scraper
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2024 19:50:45 GMT -5
Internet
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2024 10:19:56 GMT -5
Purloined
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2024 8:12:19 GMT -5
Hook
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 23, 2024 5:22:50 GMT -5
Madonna
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 22, 2024 12:48:00 GMT -5
Indeed, berkley , it's from an American perspective but we also see how other countries would be affected. For example, a counter-attack against North Korea would cause millions of death in China, South Korea and possibly Japan from fallout alone; that is something to consider when considering retaliation and how even allies might react. It's been decades since I read Hackett's book so I'm hazy on the details; I just remember a wave of Russian tanks entering Germany. At the time it scared me because I was convinced that war was coming with the USSR... but at least the "good guys" were expected to win according to Hackett. (Sir John Hackett''s a retired British general, by the way, which gave his book an extra dose of credibility). I should look for it the next time the Rotary club has a book sale. I think it had quite a good print run.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 22, 2024 11:06:36 GMT -5
Martin has said that the complexity of the story kind of got away from him. And to be honest, all the related and separate side work he's been doing is the kind of thing I do when I'm stalling about going back to something that I haven't finished but have pretty much lost interest in. Plus, whereas Robert Jordan left very detailed notes so that Wheel of Time could be completed by someone else if necessary, Martin has also said that nobody but him will finish the series. So, this kind of thing is one reason I tend to wait for serial series to be completed before I read them. Martin is 75 and hardly the picture of good health...I think the tv ending is likely to be the only one we are ever going to get. I tend to agree with you. It's too bad, because there used to be a huge following for the series in the early '00s. They are really very good! Or at least the first three books were, and I enjoyed the fifth. The world building is much better than anything I've seen in a fantasy context outside of Tolkien. (The Encyclopedia published several years ago was very cool, too). After the third book, however, Martin brought even more characters and parallel plots to his story. This caused the fourth book to be such a huge thing that it was decided to split it in two. Alas, not in a Book IV-part I, Book IV-part 2 fashion; instead, chapters devoted to characters x,y, and z were put in book IV and characters a, b,c had their chapters in... ...a much delayed Book V, even if Martin had claimed that the two would be published practically back to back. This meant we had to wait even longer to know what was happening to certain characters, and it hurt the general flow of the story. Then we all went "and now my watch begins", and 13 years later we're still waiting. Though certainly not as eagerly as before. I mean, I'd love Martin to finish his tale, but if he prefers to devote his time to other pursuits, more power to him. From his blog posts a few years ago (I used to visit his blog-not-a-bog), he seemed to have lost interest. References to the ongoing work were not enthusiastic, and instead made it all sound like a chore. He much preferred to talk about football! At his age, he's entitled to do whatever he likes; I'm already thankful for the good time he gave us with the early books.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 22, 2024 10:38:51 GMT -5
carmelites
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 22, 2024 10:00:41 GMT -5
Seven
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