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#41 krommtaar

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Posted 26 September 2010 - 04:20 PM

:o ... is Chuck Dixon the writer of the story? by the way what are they looking for in the entrails of the creature?


No it's by Larry Yakata, and the rogues are looking for the key to the W.C. , hence the great hurry ;)
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Posted 26 September 2010 - 06:10 PM

Did anyone else spot Alfred E. Newman in the monstrous procession?


Talking about monstruous procession, you've noticed it's a tribute not only to Bosch and Bruegel but especially to Matthias Gr?newald , some characters are very resembling
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Posted 26 September 2010 - 06:22 PM

Larry Yakata, glubs... along with Larry Hama the worst writer in the Conan comics, artists from Philipines were absolutely great for the comics but asian american writers were the worst...

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Posted 26 September 2010 - 07:46 PM


IAnd I must ask, as my memory is uncertain, if Conan holding up a head is iconic, which real Conan story did he do it in?


I don't remember Howard doing any beheading scenes in Conan or any other character, but he does love to have a guy's skulls cleft down the middle. Seems an eerie effect where the poor sap is starlede and is left staring up at Conan Cormac or El Borak


I must ask, does there have to be a specific REH story where Conan cuts a guys head off? Some things (like for instance, a picture of Conan holding up a severed head) are just cool. No need to over think it.

Yes I agree in fantasy art its a cool image.But seeing it in real life is a horrid expereance.

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Posted 26 September 2010 - 08:30 PM

Yes I agree in fantasy art its a cool image.But seeing it in real life is a horrid expereance.


Agreed! A friend of mine (a cop) recently sent me a video of some Mexican drug cartel cutting off the head of a man they were interrogating, and its extremely gruesome. Not something I ever want to watch again.
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Posted 26 September 2010 - 09:43 PM

Yeah, and seems that Les Edwards love to draw severed heads B) :) ...Look here:
http://www.lesedwards.com/showpic.php?id=4&pid=660

and here:
http://www.lesedwards.com/showpic.php?id=4&pid=661


Man, the guy in the first pic looks like Fernando Collor - who was President of Brasil between 1990 and 1992-; and the woman in the 2nd one looks like his wife Rosane Collor! :o :P

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Posted 26 September 2010 - 10:29 PM

Yes I agree in fantasy art its a cool image.But seeing it in real life is a horrid expereance.


Depends on who we're talking about. B)
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Posted 28 September 2010 - 02:40 AM

Artist Pat Lee (Conan and the Demons of Khitai) turns up the volume with his Widow Warriors #3 cover (available Dec. 2010):

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 10:45 AM

Artist Pat Lee


*snorts derisively*

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Posted 28 September 2010 - 12:01 PM

I like how Conan looks in that first pic of the thread.


But the head is disturbing only since it looks too much like Conan himself.

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Posted 29 September 2010 - 06:19 PM

Those who think the painting by Les Edwards is "disgusting" will satin their pants if they happen to read Savage Sword #118. This must be the strangest issue, drawn by Gary Kwapisz.

Here's one panel showing a guy who apparently can't stop blabberin' even though his bald head is loose:
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Apparently a tribute to Gustave Dor?'s "The severed head of Bertrand de Born speaks" from the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy
There are other tributes to G.Dor?'s Inferno art in this issue (the winged creature with a bearded head warning Conan on page 32 resembles the poets riding Geryon's back and Dante confronts the lion, the demons flying above on page 35 evoke other visions of Dante as well and some H. Bosch as well , etc )

Here's one tribute again by G.Kwapisz, this time of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the elder in issue 118, perhaps the WEIRDEST Conan art ever! (well apart from Enrique Alcatena's Bosch inspired monsters in Conan the Savage (marvel) ) :
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A little surprise for the member who made this topic , a bit of disembowelment and some opportunists searching with great freny the creature's entrails while they're still hot and juicy. Imagine the delicate smell of these innards...
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I dont have this issue,must get.before marvel kwapisz worked for Mad mag.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 02:36 AM


Artist Pat Lee


*snorts derisively*


Indeed, you're a Transformers fan, so you'd have special reasons to dislike Pat Lee's "art".
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Posted 30 September 2010 - 08:28 AM


Did anyone else spot Alfred E. Newman in the monstrous procession?



Before:
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After his demonizing, and commitment to Set (or rather "Emak" in this story):
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And so art comes full circle. I believe it was Frazetta who either invented Alfred E. Newman or made him famous.
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Posted 30 September 2010 - 10:50 AM

Indeed, you're a Transformers fan, so you'd have special reasons to dislike Pat Lee's "art".


You don't have to be a Transformers fan to see he has no sense of basic body proportions, or continuity, or any facial expression beyond Dull Surprise. Not to mention his scoundrelly business dealings...

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 11:32 AM

Artist Pat Lee (Conan and the Demons of Khitai) turns up the volume with his Widow Warriors #3 cover (available Dec. 2010):


That was Paul, not Pat.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 12:41 PM


Artist Pat Lee (Conan and the Demons of Khitai) turns up the volume with his Widow Warriors #3 cover (available Dec. 2010):


That was Paul, not Pat.



Pat was the cover artist for Demons of Khitai.

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Posted 30 September 2010 - 02:32 PM

Lets not forget the great severed head seen in Marvel's adaptation of "Shadow of the Vulture".
A severed head even turns up in Shakespeare, in MacBeth, when at the end MacDuff enters , holding MacBeth's head.
OTH, I think the talking skull in the Ralf Moeller Conan series is just plain disgusting and barfy! In fact, "barfy" describes a lot of things in that series. It makes the Ahnuld movies look good.

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Posted 01 October 2010 - 03:21 AM

I note with dull surprise the expression on the severed corpse's face . . . :P
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Posted 04 October 2010 - 08:33 PM

Those who think the painting by Les Edwards is "disgusting" will satin their pants if they happen to read Savage Sword #118. This must be the strangest issue, drawn by Gary Kwapisz.

Here's one panel showing a guy who apparently can't stop blabberin' even though his bald head is loose:
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Apparently a tribute to Gustave Dor?'s "The severed head of Bertrand de Born speaks" from the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy
There are other tributes to G.Dor?'s Inferno art in this issue (the winged creature with a bearded head warning Conan on page 32 resembles the poets riding Geryon's back and Dante confronts the lion, the demons flying above on page 35 evoke other visions of Dante as well and some H. Bosch as well , etc )

Here's one tribute again by G.Kwapisz, this time of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the elder in issue 118, perhaps the WEIRDEST Conan art ever! (well apart from Enrique Alcatena's Bosch inspired monsters in Conan the Savage (marvel) ) :
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A little surprise for the member who made this topic , a bit of disembowelment and some opportunists searching with great freny the creature's entrails while they're still hot and juicy. Imagine the delicate smell of these innards...
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Got issue 118.I really liked it.I use to not like Kwapisz.But years latter he has growen on me.Its not REH,but still the story was cool.Im pretty sure that they did another story of Conans return to the land of howling shadows.

Edited by tank666, 04 October 2010 - 08:34 PM.

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Posted 05 October 2010 - 01:28 AM

Got issue 118.I really liked it.I use to not like Kwapisz.But years latter he has growen on me.Its not REH,but still the story was cool.Im pretty sure that they did another story of Conans return to the land of howling shadows.


Well when inked by mister Chan it went often sloppy , I prefered when Kwapisz inked himself his own pencils (for example #118 ).
The issue you're talking about I guess is #161 "call of howling shadows" but I have to get my hands on it.

Edited by krommtaar, 05 October 2010 - 01:29 AM.

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