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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 5, 2015 12:25:06 GMT -5
Bor'Aqh Sharaq doesn't believe it's possible to escape Torture rock, and so he has Conan keelhauled to force him to admit that he's a spy. (It seems to me that leaving a man to swim in shark-infested waters on the off-chance that he might be taken aboard a pirate ship on which he could then play the spy would be a remarkably stupid plan. It would be far easier to simply send a would-be spy to port Tortage and have him enlist as a sailor on any pirate ship. But then Bor'Aqh Sharaq is known for his cruelty, not for his common sense). The Cimmerian survives the keelhauling and Bor'Aqh Sharaq has him tied to "the mizzen mast" for further questioning. The boat clearly doesn't have a mizzen mast, as it's a one-mast vessel... but who's going to tell the captain that? He's foul-tempered enough as it is! A squall that batters the ship for many hours prevents a new torture seance and allows Conan to recover his strength. When the captain comes to torment him again, the Cimmerian challenges him to a duel. Bor'Aqh Sharaq imprudently accepts, certain of his victory, and he loses the first in a long list of bodily parts and assorted belongings. A sudden wave then washes him overboard, and although Conan jumps in the sea to try and recover him, the captain vanishes from view. As per the laws of the brotherhood, the ship and the captain's mistress now belong to Conan, as happened with Zaporavo's ship Wastrel and his mistress Sancha in SSoC #22-23. Bor'Aqh Sharaq's woman, the Princess Leia-like Nahrela, is not overly hostile to her new captain; she's however certain that Bor'Aqh Sharaq is still alive, and that when he comes back he'll murder his successor. Nahrela feels she belongs to Sharaq and is loyal to him even if over time she develops some affection for the Cimmerian. Meanwhile, her prediction comes partly true: the pirate did indeed survive his stay in the water and the sea deposits him on the beach of a tropical island. There, he first collapses from exhaustion but regains some energy over the following six days, surviving on fruit and wild game that he brings down with his knife, thrown left-handed. Two indigenous warriors come to inspect his makeshift camp one night and Bor'Aqh Sharaq brutally kills them, swearing that he'll do the same to Conan. But Bor'Aqh Sharaq's bad luck streak isn't over. Having signalled his presence to a passing boat, the captain is recognized by its crew of Zingaran soldiers. (These guys bear proper Zingaran names, but keep swearing by Ishtar). Insulted that they might think a mutiny caused him to be abandoned on this island, Bor'Aqh Sharaq protests that his predicament is the fault of that (expletive deleted) Conan. The Zingarans first don't believe him, thinking Conan dead, but then ask where that infamous pirate might be found. Sharaq refuses to answer, insisting on being the one to kill the barbarian, and the Zingarans start torturing him to get information... in a nice reversal of the situation from the story's beginning. Bor'Aqh Sharaq loses an eye in the ordeal. Even that is not enough to stop him, though: one night, the one-handed pirate manages to escape his bonds and steal a rowboat. Insert your jokes about rowboats going round and around here. It's not all tea and crumpets for Conan either, since his newly obtained ship hits a typhoon (which... really shouldn't be a typhoon, since these occur in the Pacific ocean). The ship sinks and the survivors squeeze into a lifeboat, drawing straws to decide who will be thrown to the sharks. Two weeks later, the survivors see land in the distance; but just at that moment, a giant squid capsizes their craft. Conan slays the beast, and all that's left of the crew makes it ashore. There, four sailors decide that they've had enough of their ill-starred captain; but when one attacks Conan, the Cimmerian throws him to the ground, snapping his spine. The other three run away, and Conan is left alone with Nahrela.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 5, 2015 12:25:39 GMT -5
Bor'Aqh Sharaq also makes it to the continent. Finding a smith, he has the man forge certain unusual contraptions: a full-face helmet and a prosthetic appendage that will replace his hand, and that can be fitted with a sword, an axe or a spring-powered throwing iron (collect them all). Naturally, he kills the smith after the job's done. Before his new ship sank, Conan had decided to pursue his predecessor's quest to find the Isle of the Twelve-Eyed thing on which a temple to a weird-looking god is to be found. The god in question has twelve jewels for eyes. The Cimmerian and Nahrela commandeer a small fishing boat and get to the temple, where a priest looking very much like one of Lovecraft's fish-people of Innsmouth warns them not to do anything improper. The priest tries to call for help but is suddenly hit by a throwing iron... For yes, captain Bor'Aqh Sharaq has arrived as well, having guessed the temple would be Conan's destination. Nahrela, elated to see her lover back, runs to him in joy; but the dastardly villain slays her on the spot for her "betrayal". Conan and Bor'Aq then start fighting, with the tricked out pirate uttering decidedly unkind things about Conan's mother. As the two pirates hack away at each other, the dying priest mutters an arcane incantation that -naturally- brings the twelve-eyed thing to life. Bor'Aqh Sharaq is incensed that anyone but him would kill the Cimmerian, and he throws himself at the creature, which throws him out a window (a good 100 feet above knife-sharp rocks and the sea). Conan then faces the thing, and it turns out that cutting the two small antennae-like protrusions it had on its head is enough to cause it to collapse. All that's left for him is to make his way out, grabbing a few shiny souvenirs as he goes. Notes: - Conan is 35 or 36 at the time. - Once again, Zingarans swear by gods that are not worshipped in Zingara. I think the fact that Conan, who is a well-travelled bloke and something of an iconoclast, swears by several gods gave many writers the impression that the Hyborian Age pantheon was shared by all its nations. - It would have been a shame for a character like Bor'Aqh Sharaq, whose "origin" this story basically is, to be killed liked that and never heard of again. But I still feel like he's too much like a Mego toy with interchangeable parts to be taken seriously. I'm glad he was made a fool of in subsequent issues. - Just how many ships can Conan lose? This is the third one we've seen, and the SSoC series is still young...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 6, 2015 9:49:07 GMT -5
Savage sword of Conan #76, May 1982 Cover by Joe Chiodo, who contributed many paintings and B&W illustrations in the early 80s. This one is a bit stiff. Frontispiece by Bill Sienkiewicz. Table of contentsDominion of the bat, a Conan desert adventure Demons of Ghost Swamp, part II of the Hyborian Age tale Wolves beyond the borderEasley does it, a one-page illustration by Jeff Easley Island of pirates' doom, part III, continuing a Valeria story.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 6, 2015 9:50:04 GMT -5
Dominion of the batScript by Michael Fleisher Art by John Buscama, Alfredo Alcala, Ricardo Villamonte and Joe Chiodo. The art for this issue is uneven due to three inkers with different styles whose pages sometime alternate with those of their colleagues. Alfredo uses his light ink wash style; Ricardo goes in with his usual heavy ink wash shading, and Joe's approach is minimalist. It is still by no means unpleasant to look at. The story is fine, with a smile-inducing finale. Conan is leader of the desert-roving brigands known as the Zuagirs. We open as his band plunders a caravan, and to reconcile the idea of Conan as a good guy with his job as a bandit we see him condemn one of his men for hurting a priest, and provide for the basic needs of the people he's just stolen everything from. Among the people travelling with the caravan was also a pretty dancing girl named Raylenna, who'd rather stay with Conan than return to the city she's just left, where she expected to be arrested for thievery. The next night, Raylenna plays the flute for Conan and throws herself at him, saying "use me, barbarian! Put your..." (and since Conan already has his arms around her, she's not talking about that. Naughty, naughty)! But before the comic can get its R-rating, an old beggar arrives and begs an audience with the Zuagir chief. Conan the very well-behaved asks his paramour to delay their love play while he entertains the old beggar. The man reveals himself to be the king of the neighbouring city of Q'Alid Del B'Har (Oh, those apostrophes...) and he tells a tale of woe. His son by a first marriage having been born with a physical imperfection, he sent him away to be raised by peasants instead of having him slain as per the place's customs. A second marriage with a much younger woman did not produce any offspring, and what's worse is that this young wife is ambitious and is plotting against him. Now elderly and sensing that his end is near, the king wishes his trueborn son to come back to him and be made his heir; he just doesn't trust anyone in his own city to charge them with the lad's safety. That's why he came to Conan, whose reputation is that of a man who keeps his word (and no need of weird oath of blood and thunder as in SSoC#74). Conan agrees to the mission (for a fee), and is given the signet ring he must give the prince. He will recognize him by his physical peculiarity and by a birthmark on his neck. The king goes back home, where he is welcomed effusively by his devoted dwarf and very coldly by his beauteous wife Fanetta. The queen chases the dwarf away and insists that her husband go see the new addition to the royal menagerie. The king wearily agrees and goes to see the beast, a hideous dragon kept at the bottom of a well. As we'd expect, an acolyte of the queen pushes the king to his death. Conan is on his way to recover the lame prince when he learns of the king's "accidental" demise. He is certain that foul play is involved, and is comforted in his opinion when he reaches the farm where the prince is to be found: the place has just been attacked by troops sent by the queen. Conan saves the prince from his would-be assassins, verifies that he wears the birthmark, and gives him the signet ring.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 6, 2015 9:50:29 GMT -5
On their way back to the city, the Zuagirs make camp for the night. A man tries to poison the prince, but before he can be forced to reveal who paid him to do the deed he collapses, dead. Back on the road to the prince's coronation, the Zuagirs are attacked by the queen's army and Raylenna catches a stray arrow between the shoulder blades. Conan manages to scatter the attackers but he and the prince fall down a cliff down into a rushing stream. The lad drowns, but to the Cimmerian's surprise his birthmark washes away! The boy was an impostor! Next, Conan uses the signet ring to gain access to the royal palace, where he exposes the queen's duplicity and reveals what he has understood: it is the dwarf who is the king's real son. The peasant boy was a decoy to fool those who would do the real heir harm. The queen is naturally infuriated, and activating a certain secret door she throws Conan and the true prince down into the dragon's pit. The beast is dealt with, but when the two heroes go back to the queen's chambers they must face Zorchakk the crusher! The crusher having been crushed, the new king decides he may just keep the queen as a chambermaid, which is a fate more enviable than the headman's axe. Conan leaves, laughing heartily. Notes - Conan is around 31 - We don't get to learn the new king's name: he's either "dwarf", "lad" or "your majesty". - On two occasions people are inappropriately called "sirrah" when "sir" is clearly meant. "Sirrah", if I am not mistaken, is used to address someone with some measure of contempt or someone who is much younger. - People swear by Ishtar at the beginning, which is appropriate for the desert; but then people at court have to muck it up by invoking Mitra. We're in the east, between Turan, Shem, Stygia and Vendhya! Go for Asura, Ishtar, Astoreth, Bel, Tarim, Set, Ibis, Erlik, even, but leave Mitra alone!!!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 6, 2015 9:55:44 GMT -5
Demons of Ghost SwampScript by Roy Thomas Art by Ernie Chan Part II of the adaptation of the Robert E. Howard story Wolves beyond the borderThis is the only Hyborian Age non-Conan tale written by Howard, although Conan is mentioned in it. It is a frontier tale opposing Aquilonians colonists and Pictish natives at the border between the territories of either. Part 1 of the adaptation was seen in SSoC#59, more than a year prior, and part 3 would be seen... never! Which isn't so bad, as Howard also left the tale unfinished. Easley does itA pin-up by Jeff Easley, who as I understand did a lot of work for the people who produce the Dungeons and Dragons books. Easley had previously provided a few nice pictures to SSoC.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 6, 2015 9:56:13 GMT -5
Island of pirates' doom, part III Script by Roy Thomas Art by John Buscema and Danny Bulanadi Continuing the adaptation of a XVII-XVIII century pirate story by Robert E. Howard, turned into a Hyborian Age adventure. As you can see we should add to the credits the name of Joe Chiodo (if I'm any judge) for this uncredited added splash page. Just as with part II, this part III doesn't seem to have been meant to be presented as an independent chapter. It starts with a small panel in the middle of a fight and ends in the middle of conversation. The most interesting part of this chapter is what Valeria tells her companion Metallus about the only two men she has feared in her life. The first is Gowar, the pirate she struck last issue, and the other is Conan of Cimmeria, "the finest rogue who ever lived". As Valeria really didn't like Conan before Red Nails, we can deduce that this tale is placed after that particular adventure. Oddly enough, she is very upset when Metallus suggests that she and Conan might be lovers (something I thought was pretty obvious at the end of Red Nails). Sure, as most women adventurers in Howard's stories, the one whose place Valeria occupies here is as virtuous as she is deadly. But I feel this adaptation does Valeria a disservice by negating her character's evolution as seen in Red Nails. What's more, I don't much care for this thing about Gowar (a total nobody) being one of the two men she has feared in her life; room shoulda have been left for more scary figures in her yet-relatively unexplored past. It's also particularly strange to see Valeria defend her reputation and go so far as to slap Metallus, saying "Damn you! Conan would cut your heart out for that... were he here!" In the original tale, the she-pirate Helen Tavrel wasn't talking about a potential love interest but rather about a father figure. That would not apply to Valeria and Conan's relationship. What's more, if Valeria and Conan did not become intimate after Red Nails, and someone suggested that they did, I'm sure that she would have replied "HAH! In his dreams!" Don Kraar would further explore Conan and Val's post-Red Nails relationship in issue #127, and Roy Thomas would bring her back in SS0C #201, down on her luck, in an episode placed after Island of pirates' doom. In between, Chuck Dixon would use a she-pirate named Valeria in several issues, but she was written so far out of character as to possibly be a different person altogether.
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Post by foxley on Mar 6, 2015 18:32:59 GMT -5
Pretty much. According to my dictionary, it's a variant of 'sir' used to express anger or contempt (there isn't necessarily any connotation of age). But Fleisher is not alone in this. I've seen a lot of fantasy authors misuse this, thinking it's just an oldey-timey version of 'sir'. They probably picked it up from Shakespeare, without noticing the context in which Shakespeare used it.
Neil Gaiman always uses it correctly in Sandman.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 6, 2015 20:15:04 GMT -5
Trust Gaiman to use English properly!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 7, 2015 15:42:41 GMT -5
Savage sword of Conan #77, June 1982 Cover by Joe Jusko, from a scene in the magazine. That lady's outfit looks extremely uncomfortable and is unlikely to keep the evening chill away. It must chafe like hell, too. Frontispiece by Pablo Marcos. Table of contentsThe cave dwellers, featuring a young Conan Island of pirates' doom, part IV, featuring Valeria At last- the movie, more photos from the first Conan film Through a glass darkly, a short tale of the Hyborian Age
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 7, 2015 15:43:19 GMT -5
The cave dwellersPlot and pencils by John Buscema Inking by Ernie Chan Script by Michael Fleisher John Buscema manifested on several occasions the desire to exert more control on the Conan stories he drew. That would translate in his sometimes doing both pencils and inks for a few stories, or in plotting a Conan the barbarian or Savage sword of Conan tale. The result was always quite decent; it wasn't a case of, say, Neal Adams writing a comic. But it never lasted very long... Doing more work on a single comic means fewer comics done every month, and John always made it clear that drawing comics was his job; he was in it to provide for his family. And so before long, he'd go back to pencils only or even just breakdowns. This particular Buscema-plotted story is all right, with a nice message beyond pure adventuring. Michael Fleisher provides his usual kind of dialogue, which means one can expect to smile at some clever repartee and to be annoyed by continuity errors. Conan is still young, a seventeen-year old thief in the Zamoran city of Shadizar, although you wouldn't know it by looking at him. He looks the same age as in any other Conan comic. Our story opens late one night in a Shadizar street as Conan is telling tall tales to a pair of laughing prostitutes. Seeing a small man being pounded on by a group of bigger fellows, the inebriated Cimmerian decides to intervene. One of the prostitutes insists on being paid before Conan walks away, but he protests that she hasn't done anything deserving payment yet. The angry professional is comforted by her colleague, who amusingly enough turns out to be her own daughter. Conan starts punching men while indulging in a comedic monologue, but in his state of intoxication he is rapidly subdued and wakes up in jail. The men were city guards and their small victim was a known thief, one Pharak the Brythunian. (This is not the only time Conan would save a small, weasely man from an angry gang in a John Buscema-plotted story; the same thing happened in Conan the barbarian #155, "The anger of Conan"). Pharak has however been jailed so many times that he knows how to escape this particular gaol, and he and his Cimmerian companion run away on stolen horses. They are pursued by riders all the way to craggy cliffs where they have to abandon their mounts and start climbing. They enter a series of caverns. A monster-of-the-month interlude occurs when Pharak and Conan decide to cross a chasm by way of a giant spider's web (something I'd have been careful not to do, personally). Eventually reaching the end of the subterranean conduits, the two thieves find themselves in the ruins of an ancient city. There, in an open plaza, a pair of naked girls sobbingly await a dreary fate: a long dragon-like beast is inching toward them. As is his wont, the Cimmerian jumps into action and slays the beast; but to his surprise, the girls burst in even more tears, believing that now the dragon god will doom their entire city. (They were meant as a sacrifice to the god in question, you see). Shabbily-dressed locals then show up timidly, not quite believing that the dragon could be slain. Before anyone can answer Conan's questions about this isolated place, a group of thugs appear. They are led by one Darkon, "ruler of this city", who invites Conan to have a drink with him (while Pharak is enticed to go another way, a knife-point to his ribs). Darkon explains that he's the leader of a band of brigands who, fleeing justice, happened by accident on the caves that Conan crossed earlier. There he found a mound of strange eggs that hatched to reveal that they were dragon eggs. Darkon found the city at the end of the caverns: the place had fallen far from its glory days and had become so decadent that its people lived in an incessant state of violence and corruption. He and his band quickly became masters of the city, imposing law and order (even if it was their law and order, and that the townspeople were brutally ruled by the newcomers). The dragons, carefully nurtured in a separate cave, became a tool of domination when Darkon made the townspeople believe that they were avatars of a dragon god and that only he (and a human sacrifice from time to time) could protect the city from the god's anger. Inviting Conan to join his little scheme, Darkon takes it quite poorly when he is rebuffed. Swearing to kill his guest with his own hands, he is then pummelled to the ground; but before the Cimmerian has time to choke the life out of him, a dozen brigands show up and put Conan in chains with his friend Pharak. The two thieves escape again and try to raise the populace against its masters; but the cowardly lot prefer to live in servitude than return to the state of lawlessness they knew before. Disgusted with the lot of them, Conan takes his leave. Darkon would have been well advised to leave matters end there, but he decides to chase after the Cimmerian. Led by tracking leopards, the bandits find Conan and Pharak's spoor, and the little thief is killed. Conan then starts climbing the cliffs that surround the city, with the brigands right behind him; they quickly learn how foolish it is to try to outclimb a Cimmerian, and even worse, to try to outfight him on a cliffside. The stubborn Darkon meets a fitting end, and Conan reflects on those who would not be free of the yoke of their own fears. The lesson is fitting, in these times of paranoia regarding terrorism and such. Notes: - Michael Fleisher frequently makes inappropriate references to other Conan stories. Here, in the opening scene, a city guard hits Conan on the head while saying "this oaken club of mine would give the Xuchotl dragon a headache!" All right. The dragon in question is the beast that we see in the opening pages of the story Red Nails. It is not a famous creature like the Loch Ness monster, it's just one of those freaks that sometimes pop up in fantasy stories. And the city of Xuchotl from that story is totally unknown to the outside world; its people live behind sealed doors and never venture outside, never having any kind of exchange with the rest of the planet. Nobody but Conan and Valeria could make a reference to the Xuchotl dragon, and then only after they've met it, something that wouldn't happen for another good twenty years. - A point that annoys me is when writers treat Conan's world as an "anything goes" fantasy universe, even if Howard made it clear that magic and monsters were rare in that make-believe era (because familiarity breeds contempt, and we want our wizards and our creatures to remain fantastic and scary). Here, the giant spider is met with great equanimity; Conan even allows himself to make a few zoological remarks. Look, he almost crapped his loincloth when he met the pig-sized spider from the tower of the elephant; how could he face a car-sized spider here and off-handedly mention that "the female of this Zamorian species is far hungrier than the male and devours many mates before she dies"? - Conan is 17 during this adventure.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 7, 2015 15:59:30 GMT -5
Island of pirates' doom, part IV Script by Roy Thomas Art by John Buscema and Danny Bulanadi Adapted from the pirate story by Robert E. Howard. Once again, this story is chopped up in tiny pieces. This chapter four is three pages long, including a splash page! Island of pirates' doom would probably have been helped by being presented in only one or two parts, because it's a weak story to begin with and isn't helped by being presented piecemeal. I previously said I didn't much care for this Valeria adventure, but let me amend that: I really don't like it. It retcons away Valeria's development from Red Nail so that she will conform to the role of Helen Tavrel from Howard's original pirate tale, and that's unfair to a great character. Here we see Valeria break out in tears because a random sailor doubts her virtue. What the hell? That woman used to murder men who annoyed her in any way! And it was pretty clear at the end of Red Nails that she and Conan were going to bump uglies right after the story's ending. Retcons don't end there, which is surprising for a Roy Thomas story. Adapting Helen Tavrel's story, Valeria tells her companion Metallus of the two men she respects: Captain Rogarth and Conan. Captain Rogarth "took her off of a sinking ship when she was a baby and raised her as his own daughter." Rogarth??? When Roy decided to give us a very early "origin" story for Valeria, she was taken in as a young child (not quite a baby anymore) by her uncle, the Aquilonian nobleman Brandus turned pirate under the name Captain Kirkos. Not a Rogarth in sight. And Kirkos didn't save her from a sinking ship! (That was seen in Red Sonja vol. 2, #2, published in March 1983... another story Marvel recovered from Roy's files). Oh, and say, what a coincidence... That beast, there, on the bottom left corner of this last image? That's the Xuchotl dragon!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 7, 2015 16:22:01 GMT -5
At last- the movie!Three stills from the John Millius Conan film. Through a glass darklyScript by Bruce Jones Art by Joe Chiodo A tale of the Hyborian Age, quite in the vein of Jones' short stories ending with a twist (twists which I generally like a whole lot). The art by Joe Chiodo looks nice as well. An old travelling seer is taunted by two local roughs who steal his money before they are stopped (and beaten) by a lightly-dressed woman warrior, Tanya the fox. To thank her, the seer shows her the future in a crystal ball: therein, Tanya sees her future daughter Aryal as she's born, as a six-year old little girl, and as a young horseback riding woman. Unfortunately, the crystal shows Aryal fighting a man near a cliff, and even though she defeats her opponent, the coward strikes the girl's horse and she falls to her death. Very upset, Tanya insists on knowing more about her future daughter's killer. The crystal shows her the killer's father, a man named Brandais, whose wedding day happens to be today! Determined to save her unborn daughter Tanya rides to Brandais's honeymoon spot, where she finds the man napping as his new bride is enjoying canoeing with her handmaid. She defeats him, but before she can deliver the final blow she hears a cry for help: the canoe has tipped over! Tanya swims to save whoever she can, and she brings back one of the women while the other one drowns. It turns out the survivor is the handmaid, and since Brandais' wife is gone Tanya assumes her daughter's future is now safe. A second visit to the seer shows that it is not so: the crystal ball shows that Aryal's fate is unchanged. That is because Brandais had slept with the handmaid, and that she is the mother of the future murderer! Tanya returns to the site of Brandais' camp, where the handmaid reveals that her lover has slain himself out of despair. Inventing a story meant to save her own daughter, Tanya gives a pouch of money to the handmaid, saying that her son will grow to be a fine and stong man if he is raised on "the island of Fhana", on condition that he never leaves it. That should do it... but a third visit to the seer, now travelling with a carnival, shows that it was all in vain. This time, it is a thunderbolt that causes Aryal's horse to collapse and to throw her down the cliff. Fate, apparently, cannot be changed. Tanya swears that she cannot bear such maternal guilt and vows never to have children. The seer, feeling responsible for her anguish, uses a spell to make her forget the entire episode. That's when she meets a certain dark-haired man... Yes, Aryal is the second daughter of Conan that we meet in these pages, after Ra Morgana in SSoC#29. Cool! We'll have to make a list of all these kids Conan left here and there during his wanderings. Small gripe: Jones has Tanya swear by Crom. Well, that's just wrong. Only Cimmerians swear by Crom, and although it could be argued that Tanya is a Cimmerian too despite her blond hair and Hyrkanian name, she remarks upon seeing her daughter that "she is very dark", Well, to a Cimmerian it would only be normal to have a dark-haired child, strongly suggesting that Tanya is no Cimmerian herself.
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Post by cromagnonman on Mar 7, 2015 16:46:03 GMT -5
nice thread, are you scanning from the Dark Horse reprints? Or are you lucky enough to have pristine mags with no yellowing. Or are you doing some kind of post-editing trick?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 7, 2015 17:01:37 GMT -5
nice thread, are you scanning from the Dark Horse reprints? Or are you lucky enough to have pristine mags with no yellowing. Or are you doing some kind of post-editing trick? No reprint, I'm working from my collection of old SSoC issues. I can't say that I ever noticed any yellowing of the B&W mags, although some of my colour Conan the barbarian issues did. Guess I'm indeed lucky!
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