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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 13, 2017 16:02:02 GMT -5
David Wenzel's version is my favourite as far as comic-books go. His Kane is definitely not handsome, and certainly dour-looking. Wenzel drew a few of Howard's stories in SSoC : Wings in the night, Moon of skulls, The one black stain and Blades of the brotherhood come to mind. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 13, 2017 18:26:44 GMT -5
I enjoyed the movie with Purefoy as Solomon Kane, though it wasn't really very similar to the REH character.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 13, 2017 20:46:38 GMT -5
I enjoyed the movie with Purefoy as Solomon Kane, though it wasn't really very similar to the REH character. For what it was it was entertaining enough, i mean anything with Pete Postlethwaite is worth seeing |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2017 23:30:08 GMT -5
I enjoyed the movie with Purefoy as Solomon Kane, though it wasn't really very similar to the REH character. I enjoyed the movie with Purefoy as Solomon Kane, though it wasn't really very similar to the REH character. For what it was it was entertaining enough, i mean anything with Pete Postlethwaite is worth seeing It's a very good fantasy movie with a character who happens to be named Solomon Kane. It is not a very good Solomon Kane movie. -M |
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Post by berkley on Jan 14, 2017 0:14:20 GMT -5
I enjoyed the movie with Purefoy as Solomon Kane, though it wasn't really very similar to the REH character. For what it was it was entertaining enough, i mean anything with Pete Postlethwaite is worth seeing It's a very good fantasy movie with a character who happens to be named Solomon Kane. It is not a very good Solomon Kane movie. -M In contrast to the Kull movie, which was a very bad fantasy movie with a guy who happened to be called Kull - and therefore neither a good Kull movie nor a good movie in any other sense. And to think they wasted the great Tia Carrere in it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 0:21:55 GMT -5
It's a very good fantasy movie with a character who happens to be named Solomon Kane. It is not a very good Solomon Kane movie. -M In contrast to the Kull movie, which was a very bad fantasy movie with a guy who happened to be called Kull - and therefore neither a good Kull movie nor a good movie in any other sense. And to think they wasted the great Tia Carrere in it. Conan the Barbarian was a better Kull movie, it just happened to have a guy named Conan in it  -M |
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Post by berkley on Jan 14, 2017 1:08:48 GMT -5
In contrast to the Kull movie, which was a very bad fantasy movie with a guy who happened to be called Kull - and therefore neither a good Kull movie nor a good movie in any other sense. And to think they wasted the great Tia Carrere in it. Conan the Barbarian was a better Kull movie, it just happened to have a guy named Conan in it -M Are you thinking of the Schwarzenegger one where they had Kull's Thulsa Doom instead of Conan's Thoth Amon? Now I think of it, the bit where Conan was a slave of some kind or something is more similar to Kull's story as well, when he was a galley-slave and a gladiator in Valusia. It just occurred to me that they could have made Brule a Pictish warrior-woman and had Tia Carrere play that part. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2017 2:47:52 GMT -5
Conan the Barbarian was a better Kull movie, it just happened to have a guy named Conan in it -M Are you thinking of the Schwarzenegger one where they had Kull's Thulsa Doom instead of Conan's Thoth Amon? Now I think of it, the bit where Conan was a slave of some kind or something is more similar to Kull's story as well, when he was a galley-slave and a gladiator in Valusia. It just occurred to me that they could have made Brule a Pictish warrior-woman and had Tia Carrere play that part. Yep, the De Laurentiis Conan drew more form Howard's Kull stories than it did form the Conan tales. -M |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 14, 2017 8:08:42 GMT -5
Are you thinking of the Schwarzenegger one where they had Kull's Thulsa Doom instead of Conan's Thoth Amon? Now I think of it, the bit where Conan was a slave of some kind or something is more similar to Kull's story as well, when he was a galley-slave and a gladiator in Valusia. It just occurred to me that they could have made Brule a Pictish warrior-woman and had Tia Carrere play that part. Yep, the De Laurentiis Conan drew more form Howard's Kull stories than it did form the Conan tales. -M Tit for tat: the plot of the Kull movie was essentially that of The hour of the dragon. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 14, 2017 9:16:00 GMT -5
Just finished The Moon of Skulls yesterday. The stand out part of this story for me was beautiful description of Kane's character by Howard:
"He never sought to analyze his motives and he never wavered, once his mind was made up. Though he always acted on impulse, he firmly believed that all his actions were governed by cold and logical reasoning. He was a man born out of this time--a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan, though the last assertion would have shocked him unspeakably. An atavist of the days of blind chivalry he was, a knight errant in the somber clothes of a fanatic. A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, an urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, avenge all crimes against right and justice. Wayward an restless as the wind, he was consistent in only one respect--he was true to his ideals of justice and right. Such was Solomon Kane."
At 70 pages, its damn near a novelette. I haven't read it since 2004 but thoroughly enjoyed it. Any good adaptations of this story in comic form?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 14, 2017 9:28:01 GMT -5
It was adapted in SSoC, starting in issue # 34. Not all chapters are equal, mostly because of the inking, but I thought the mix of pagan exoticism and straightforward action was well handled. It's better when Wenzel inks his own pencils. There was a sequel to Moon of skulls in SSoC 219-220, with a surprisingly successful team-up beyween Kane and Conan, and beautiful art bu Colin McNeil. In that story, Kane is already an old man with gray hair... but he hasn't lost an inch! |
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Post by berkley on Jan 16, 2017 21:16:05 GMT -5
Wasn't Hour of the Dragon itself loosely based on an earlier Kull story, or is my memory playing tricks on me again?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 22:34:11 GMT -5
Wasn't Hour of the Dragon itself loosely based on an earlier Kull story, or is my memory playing tricks on me again? Phoenix on the Sword is a reworking of the Kull story By This Axe I Rule to the pont where most of the conspirators retained their names from one story to the other. -M |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 17, 2017 9:28:43 GMT -5
I've often wondered if Howard would have lived, would he have ever incorporated time-travel (most likely through sorcery) into his tales, allowing Kane and Conan to meet? Now that would have been one hell of fun team-up. Marvel could have done this at the very least back when they had both licenses.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 9:37:08 GMT -5
I've often wondered if Howard would have lived, would he have ever incorporated time-travel (most likely through sorcery) into his tales, allowing Kane and Conan to meet? Now that would have been one hell of fun team-up. Marvel could have done this at the very least back when they had both licenses. I doubt it. REH didn't linger on characters. He wrote them if someone was buying and if there was no market for it or he had no more stories to tell with a character, he dropped it and moved on. He was done with Kane and Kull before he started Conan, and Conan started as a reworking of a Kull tale he couldn't sell. Indications form his correspondence were that he was done with Conan too prior to his suicide and didn't have any more stories he wanted to try to sell (the unfinished stuff later used by his pastiche followers was stuff he either abandoned or Farnsworth Wright had showed no interest in buying) and was moving on to other characters and stories, so had he lived, I doubt there would have been more Conan stories at all, let alone going back to revisit Kane or Kull which he had abandoned 5+ years earlier. -M |
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