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Post by brutalis on Nov 28, 2016 7:49:02 GMT -5
Kudos you cheese raiding fiend! Your love and joy of Conan shines through in every review you provided and this is one loooong historical review by Crom!!! It is also one along with Confessor's Star Wars reviews that i shall constantly go back to time and again in reading through. The insights and thoughts of all that were involved in this are superb! Well done sir and congratulations on surviving the many tribulations this adventure took you upon...
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 28, 2016 7:50:11 GMT -5
Thanks, senator (and mrp and Confessor). This was indeed a labour of love, and like the series I will miss it. I don't believe I will follow with a review of Conan the barbarian for the foreseeable future, though. This activity was a serious chronophage and I'd like to devote more time to my own comics now that I have actual readers! Perhaps someone else will be interested in handling that even longer run, which includes years and years of very good material! I just re-read Conan the barbarian 273-275 this morning, and man, were they good comics! They didn't feel like the end of an era, but rather like the beginning of one! The script is still fresh and solid, as if Roy had just begun writing the title and the art by Docherty and the amazing Ricardo Villagran was amazing. Good days indeed, even if "summer's lease hath all too short a date". Alas, I lack both a complete run of the series and the scholarly skills necessary to do justice an "Annotated Conan the Barbarian" thread. However, perhaps I should blunder through a few issues, so that you or someone else would be compelled to tell me step aside and then take over the reigns? There is also Conan (1995), which has a 11 issue run and Conan the Adventure, which has a 14 issue run - either run should be pretty cheap to purchase. I know I have some of these issues, as well as most of the mini-series, which were sort of the last hurrah for Marvel and Conan. These might make good practice runs. I know I could handle a review thread of the cartoon series, which was actually quite good (it was my gateway to Conan), but this is a comics forum, not a cartoon forum. Regarding your own work, RR, I clicked on your blog page. I liked what I saw, but I don't read French. Do you plan on paper publishing in English eventually? Alas, an English language print run would be beyond my financial means (the profit margin in these things is almost nil, as shipping to the US costs me ten bucks per book...) a translated PDF file is the closest I got to it. Regarding the other Marvel Conan series, do by all means give it a shot! That's one thread I would definitely be interested in! |
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Post by shaxper on Nov 28, 2016 20:34:52 GMT -5
I can't believe it's over. This is the end of an era here at the CCF, RR.
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Post by berkley on Nov 28, 2016 23:34:14 GMT -5
If we ever have a vote on all-time best CC thread ever this one might get mine. Not only was it fun and informative to read as it went along, but what a resource RR has left for anyone curious about these magazines. I know I'll be making extensive use of it when I start hunting for SSoC back issues in the near future.
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Post by coke & comics on Nov 29, 2016 12:40:36 GMT -5
Well, that's the end of an era.
Luckily for me, I fell behind several months ago, so still have plenty of good reading ahead.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 29, 2016 16:47:05 GMT -5
I don't comment on things too much here (as y'all are just amazing in your Conan scholarship) but this is a great thread... I agree it's one of the best ever for CCF! COngrats getting through to then end!
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Post by jbruel0 on Nov 30, 2016 9:39:00 GMT -5
This is awesome!!! What you did RR is tremendous. I was coming here everyday to find the follow on of your chronicles, now it's being ended, I will feel a big lack...
What you did is capital for French speaking people who can't understand 100% of the subtilities in those comics. Moreover when you added precisions on chronologies, discrepencies, characters evolution, geo, history... in your notes.
I will never tell you enough my recognition. We were in contact several times, I hope we will have the opportunity again.
Thanks for all RR
And all the best !!!
Jb
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 30, 2016 15:16:08 GMT -5
Another message of thanks and congratulations here! This thread is a treasure; it deserves to be published as a book. I know that the people at TwoMorrows are aware of it (because I told them).
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Post by jbruel0 on Dec 1, 2016 3:06:00 GMT -5
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Post by ArizonaTeach on Dec 2, 2016 13:47:31 GMT -5
Holy cow...someone actually noticed that? That's been my project for ages now and it was really just an excuse to read all the stuff in order. I thought there were like four people on the planet that even knew about it...But yeah, I've been trying to get to it every day lately. |
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Post by senatortombstone on Dec 3, 2016 21:30:42 GMT -5
Another message of thanks and congratulations here! This thread is a treasure; it deserves to be published as a book. I know that the people at TwoMorrows are aware of it (because I told them). Excellent suggestion! I would buy that book and pay extra for an autographed copy. |
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Post by jbruel0 on Dec 7, 2016 9:30:28 GMT -5
Holy cow...someone actually noticed that? That's been my project for ages now and it was really just an excuse to read all the stuff in order. I thought there were like four people on the planet that even knew about it...But yeah, I've been trying to get to it every day lately. Free advertizing. Excellent work there too, please keep on updating  Jb |
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Post by Warmonger on Dec 7, 2016 11:10:23 GMT -5
And I thought I was a Conan fan...now I feel like a total amateur.
Great, great reviews
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Post by senatortombstone on Dec 10, 2016 7:52:32 GMT -5
I did not realize this resource existed. Very nice to know! Say, I was going through my Conan the Adventure back issues, finished reading issue 1, then went on to 2, only to discover it was a reprint of CtB #2. Well, I was reading the synopses of the CtA series and realized there was an actual new story in CtA #2, so I checked another copy of the book I had, and there it was, the new (at the time) story. I re-checked the issue of that had the CtB #2 reprint and at the bottom of the first page, it indicated the issue as Conan Classic #2. Has anyone ever seen this error before? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 10, 2016 8:46:05 GMT -5
I did not realize this resource existed. Very nice to know! Say, I was going through my Conan the Adventure back issues, finished reading issue 1, then went on to 2, only to discover it was a reprint of CtB #2. Well, I was reading the synopses of the CtA series and realized there was an actual new story in CtA #2, so I checked another copy of the book I had, and there it was, the new (at the time) story. I re-checked the issue of that had the CtB #2 reprint and at the bottom of the first page, it indicated the issue as Conan Classic #2. Has anyone ever seen this error before? I've never seen an error like it elsewhere, but I do have that misassembled comic. There are correctly assembled copies of CtA #2 out there, though. |
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