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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 8:38:13 GMT -5
Patrick Zircher has tweeted he is back at Marvel (after issues working with DC) and will be working on a Conan title. No word if it is an already existing Conan title or something new. hopefully it has nothing to do with the launch of Savage Avengers a team book featuring Conan, Punisher, Venom, Elektra, and Doctor Voodoo (shudder). -M He may be on the arc after Ron Garney in Savage Sword of Conan. Which BTW I loved the first issue that came out yesterday!
Well I guessed that one wrong. Meredith Finch and Luke Ross are the creative team on SSoC in June... |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 29, 2019 17:39:25 GMT -5
I thought I'd put this here... I picked up this month's books:
Conan #4: Excellent! A little superhero-y for a Conan story, but I love the 'civilization flu' and his antidote. Plus, the lion was super cool. Excellent art. If there was a downside, they did talk about the crimson witch uber story in the intro, but not at all in the story. I'd prefer to either get that resolved or drop it.
Savage Sword #2: I loved the librarian with the crossbow.. potentially a great new character. The sidekick I can do without. THis is a bit decompressed for my taste, but it's coming along nicely. If I didn't want to vote with my dollars to have the book continue I think I'd probably trade wait, but still pretty good.
Age of Conan: Belit #1: Awesome Cover, but the interior are is cartoony and doesn't match the Hyborian Age at all.. feels more like Faith Erin Hicks than Robert E. Howard. Also, why the heck is Belit white? I mean, she can be pale, but WHITE? I mean, she's not the great grandmother of Solomon Grundy or anything.
The prose stuff is growing on me.. The one in Conan is the weakest, but I'm starting to get into it. The Savage Sword one is slow, but has potential, and the Belit one seems FAR better than the comic, and is written by Michael Stackpole, who I like, so it may be worth it just for that.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 1, 2019 15:31:14 GMT -5
I thought I'd put this here... I picked up this month's books: Conan #4: Excellent! A little superhero-y for a Conan story, but I love the 'civilization flu' and his antidote. Plus, the lion was super cool. Excellent art. If there was a downside, they did talk about the crimson witch uber story in the intro, but not at all in the story. I'd prefer to either get that resolved or drop it. Savage Sword #2: I loved the librarian with the crossbow.. potentially a great new character. The sidekick I can do without. THis is a bit decompressed for my taste, but it's coming along nicely. If I didn't want to vote with my dollars to have the book continue I think I'd probably trade wait, but still pretty good. Age of Conan: Belit #1: Awesome Cover, but the interior are is cartoony and doesn't match the Hyborian Age at all.. feels more like Faith Erin Hicks than Robert E. Howard. Also, why the heck is Belit white? I mean, she can be pale, but WHITE? I mean, she's not the great grandmother of Solomon Grundy or anything.The prose stuff is growing on me.. The one in Conan is the weakest, but I'm starting to get into it. The Savage Sword one is slow, but has potential, and the Belit one seems FAR better than the comic, and is written by Michael Stackpole, who I like, so it may be worth it just for that. She's a Shemite. She should definitely have a healthy tan. But Dark Horse did depict her as very pale, so maybe that's where they got the idea. |
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Post by majestic on May 14, 2022 17:54:42 GMT -5
And it's done. King Conan #6 will be the last Conan issue at Marvel according to bleeding cool.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2022 18:48:50 GMT -5
And it's done. King Conan #6 will be the last Conan issue at Marvel according to bleeding cool. There's a lot of confused and contradictory reporting in that article (no surprise it's Bleeding Cool). So it looks like there are no new Conan solo series planned. But a new Savage Avengers series featuring Conan and set in the Hyborian Age was announced to start this summer and Marvel is still publishing the collected editions of older material (which have releases announced through the end of this year at least), so it seems Marvel still has the license, but is just choosing not to put out new Conan solo material, which considering how sales plateaued quickly then collapsed during the pandemic and never really recovered shouldn't be all that surprising. The fact that Conan's parent company can't get their act together to get new novels published that were completed 2-3 years ago and can't get a pilot made at 2 (or is it now 3) different streaming companies now and with all the legal questions concerning copyright and public domain that are circulating out there (hence the Ablaze stuff in the US), it doesn't seen like there is any vision as to what to do with Conan anywhere, which makes this move by Marvel completely unsurprising. In the current market, Conan is not a property that is going to sell in sufficient numbers to sustain it at a big publisher like Marvel with high overhead and operating costs. It's a niche product in the current market environment, which may make it viable for a smaller niche publisher (like Ablaze) but not a company like Marvel/Disney. I don't see Marvel letting the license go until their contract is up, and milking the collected materials for all they can until it expires. So I wouldn't expect another publisher to get the license or produce new Conan material for some time. I'd guess 2023 at the absolute earliest (Marvel's deal began Jan. 1, 2019 though they had the deal in place prior to that and had material ready to be released immediately), and if it were a 4 year deal, it won't expire until the end of this year (unless it expires at the date the other deal was agreed upon which was a few months earlier). The owners of Conan properties seem to prefer big name partners rather than small, so I don't see them negotiating with other comic publishers until after the Conan deal is expired on the odd chance Marvel changes their mind and seeks a renewal (unlikely but then the owners of Conan properties don't have the firmest grasp on reality from demonstrated past behavior, so I wouldn't put it past them holding out hope long after its settled. The return of Conan to Marvel was a mixed bag, and a bit of a disappointment in most respects, but selling pastiche material of pulp characters with sensibilities more at home in the early 20th century than the 21st century is going to face an uphill battle finding an audience other than consumers who are already fans of the character, and that's just not a large enough customer base to make a mass market title or even a niche title at a big publisher viable these days. -M |
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Post by majestic on May 14, 2022 18:54:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense and provides detail and context that BC article doesn't.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2022 18:39:06 GMT -5
Apparently Cabinet Entertainment (the parent company of Conan Properties) is taking the license for new Conan comic content back and going to publish their own Conan comics. With their track record, I expect to see the first issue hit the stands some time in 2026 or so... Cabinet asks who you want to write, draw and color Conan comics?-M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 16, 2022 18:46:18 GMT -5
Apparently Cabinet Entertainment (the parent company of Conan Properties) is taking the license for new Conan comic content bank and going to publish their own Conan comics. With their track record, I expect to see the first issue hit the stands some time in 2026 or so... Cabinet asks who you want to write, draw and color Conan comics?-M And they’ll maybe get out one issue. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2022 20:33:36 GMT -5
Oh and it looks like that Savage Avengers series with Conan has the first issue drop this week, so my guess is Conan will be part oft he first arc only or the series ends after 6 issues.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2022 13:01:12 GMT -5
From what I've seen the license at Marvel ends at the end of 2022, so unless something happens, Marvel's reprint editions of Conan stuff will end at the end of the year and will no longer be available to order after 2022. Existing stock at that point will still be available to buy. There's always a chance the license could be extended for reprint material only, but right now it ends in 2022.
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Post by majestic on Jun 21, 2022 15:31:53 GMT -5
And Titan Comics will be getting the license to publish Conan in 2023.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 22, 2022 9:00:47 GMT -5
Apparently Cabinet Entertainment (the parent company of Conan Properties) is taking the license for new Conan comic content back and going to publish their own Conan comics. With their track record, I expect to see the first issue hit the stands some time in 2026 or so... Cabinet asks who you want to write, draw and color Conan comics?-M I nominate our very own Roquefort Raider for the next Conan creative team...perhaps even written and illustrated? |
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Post by badwolf on Jun 28, 2022 17:41:33 GMT -5
I thought I'd put this here... I picked up this month's books: Conan #4: Excellent! A little superhero-y for a Conan story, but I love the 'civilization flu' and his antidote. Plus, the lion was super cool. Excellent art. If there was a downside, they did talk about the crimson witch uber story in the intro, but not at all in the story. I'd prefer to either get that resolved or drop it. Savage Sword #2: I loved the librarian with the crossbow.. potentially a great new character. The sidekick I can do without. THis is a bit decompressed for my taste, but it's coming along nicely. If I didn't want to vote with my dollars to have the book continue I think I'd probably trade wait, but still pretty good. Age of Conan: Belit #1: Awesome Cover, but the interior are is cartoony and doesn't match the Hyborian Age at all.. feels more like Faith Erin Hicks than Robert E. Howard. Also, why the heck is Belit white? I mean, she can be pale, but WHITE? I mean, she's not the great grandmother of Solomon Grundy or anything.The prose stuff is growing on me.. The one in Conan is the weakest, but I'm starting to get into it. The Savage Sword one is slow, but has potential, and the Belit one seems FAR better than the comic, and is written by Michael Stackpole, who I like, so it may be worth it just for that. She's a Shemite. She should definitely have a healthy tan. But Dark Horse did depict her as very pale, so maybe that's where they got the idea. In the original story "The Queen of the Black Coast" and she is described as white/ivory. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 28, 2022 21:48:58 GMT -5
And Titan Comics will be getting the license to publish Conan in 2023. That's not terrible. I don't love Titan, but they seem to at least be able to get comics out on time. Mostly it will be about the creative team, of course. I just hope they don't decide to 'start over' and re-do the classics, since Ablaze just did that. We'll see. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 29, 2022 6:20:13 GMT -5
She's a Shemite. She should definitely have a healthy tan. But Dark Horse did depict her as very pale, so maybe that's where they got the idea. In the original story "The Queen of the Black Coast" and she is described as white/ivory. You're absolutely right, my friend, but I don't think Howard meant that Bêlit could pass for Morpheus's big sister, the way Marvel coloured her in her limited series; my impression is that he was waxing poetic. After all, he often described his heroines as being ivory-skinned; Atali has skin like ivory, Salomé has an ivory brow, Muriela literally impersonated an ivory goddess and Zenobia is even paler, with skin like alabaster. In all cases, though, I think Howard just meant that they were fair-skinned, not chalk white; Marvel's decision strikes me as an artistic choice more than a case of sticking to the original material. |
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