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Conan: Road Of Kings #12

Started by Slashing Sword, Oct 26 2011 06:38 AM

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#1 Slashing Sword

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Posted 26 October 2011 - 06:38 AM

Conan: Road of Kings #12

Conan's journey on the Road of Kings concludes, as the Cimmerian finds himself at the end of every sword in a small port city. Once again betrayed by the hypocrisy of civilized men, Conan must embrace barbarism to fight his way free!

* The final issue!

* No prison cell can hold Conan!

* Dark Horse's Conan is the definitive telling of the barbarian's life!
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Writer: Roy Thomas Penciller: Mike Hawthorne Inker: John Lucas Colorist: Dan Jackson Cover Artist: Aleksi Briclot
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 18, 2012 Format: FC, 32 pages Price: $3.50 UPC: 7 61568 17525 7 01211

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Posted 26 October 2011 - 10:29 PM

Final issue already, wow. This run is the shortest yet! As long as they plan on at least a few more, I won't mind, though.

And cool cover! Doesn't look like that's Conan's blood either.
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Posted 28 October 2011 - 05:25 AM

* Dark Horse's Conan is the definitive telling of the barbarian's life!


*cough*

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Posted 19 January 2012 - 03:07 AM

This just might be my favorite issue of the Road of Kings run, and what a bloody finish it was! Conan splitting skulls, gutting fools and generally hacking his way to freedom - great stuff. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and the dialogue was good too. Oh, and Judge Macabrus looks a bit like an evil Santa Claus. ;)
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Posted 20 January 2012 - 02:02 AM

Pretty good ending. I gather from the letters pages that two different people edited the two halves of the series, I think it showed. The second half was better than the first, more cohesive. Plus you get that latest preview of CTB #1 in the back of this issue. I'll try reading this issue and Conan the Barbarian #57 back to back this weekend, see how Roy handled the situation differently 35 years apart.

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 09:06 AM

I'll try reading this issue and Conan the Barbarian #57 back to back this weekend, see how Roy handled the situation differently 35 years apart.


I'm looking forward to that.
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard

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Posted 20 January 2012 - 01:12 PM


* Dark Horse's Conan is the definitive telling of the barbarian's life!


*cough*

lol *cough,b@!!$#it! ,cough*

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Posted 21 January 2012 - 07:54 AM

I got my #12. I like it! Including the art. It is not too cartoony for a comic book. This is not the pure text reprint of REH. This may be the best issue in the series.

When the judge is trying to get Conan to rat out his friend in exchange for freedom, it looks like Conan is actually struggling for an instant. I like that, it makes him seem very human, and a good effort by the artist.

Edited by Ironhand, 22 January 2012 - 07:59 AM.

"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard

Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
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