Dave the Rage

NOE The Savage Boy no#1 Wrote by Malachy Coney and drawn by Stephen downey, names that will not strike a chord with your comic collection unless you hail from Belfast Ireland/N.Ireland.  

The Breakdown

Cork, June 1631, the inhabitants of the quite harbour village of Baltimore wake to the sound of the Tullagh parish church bells unaware that this will be their last day of freedom.  Approaching by sea are the boats of the Barbary Corsairs, legendary soldiers called the Janissaries originally religious monks now mercenaries trained and skilled in the art of war.  

Unaware of his future fate Noe spends his last day at home with his family, his world soon to be torn apart, his innocence taken and replaced by a savage fury that will shake the Barbary coast of North Africa to its foundations.

So here starts the story of Noe in a well presented comic with colour cover and shiney printed internal pages that feel like good quality overall.  The story flows well, well written and keeps the reader enthralled throughout.  Nice use of the cross to symbolise the Christian faith of the times when Ireland was undergoing faith and country upheavals from the plantations to religious strife.  The art suits the story well by Stephen Downey, his ship scenes are glorious and well drawn indeed.  The double page spread of the ships battling the waves to reach the coasts of Ireland are impressive.


It is good to see local artists and writers doing a good well rounded piece, and if a Conan fan of his pirate years in the brotherhood and Belit yarn you can't go a miss with this little gem, trust me you won't be disappointed at all. Great story and art by 2 talented guys indeed.


To find out more and obtain a copy please contact the link below.
http://malachyconey....ge-signing.html

I will enquire to find out if there is a PDF version also and post the details later.

Hi all, thought I would drop a brief note on the new Robert E.Howard Savage Sword. It has a nice mix of Howard stuff this time around, but one story that sticks out is:



From a Howard story about Bran.

Enjoy.

Calling all cromrades that have ever put pencil to paper and drew a mighty barbarian (or mini me one), you are welcome to post whatever you consider to be your version of any REH character ranging from his barbarian tales to his horror. I will start off by posting an old El Borak one I did last year. Enjoy.

http://fantasy-unlim...elborak fin.jpg

Hi all,

Thought I would explain before diving into comic strip.

I undertook a small project a few months ago using Ironhands screenplay parody about Conan the Dumb Barbarian.  I really enjoyed doing it, but ran into a few obstacles on the way as I was new to doing colouring and speech bubbles etc.  I had someone lined up for both but it fell through due to time constraints and having to leave it to focus on work and kids.  I worked at it in drips and drabs over the dark nights when I could.

I tried to work it directly from Steve's screenplay, but I ran into a few issues with the timing and speach from the characters, so I had to go back and redo the screenplay as a script and fill in the spaces.  I never realised how time consuming the rest of the grunt work is, I now appreciate comic scripters more now, lol.

I took some text directly from REH TotE story, so as to make the fans of REH enjoy it for what it is.  A parody in Hyboria made by a fan for fans.  So please enjoy and hope you like it, if not go shag a goat by CROM!  

Q music Conan drums action!

Click picture to open next one (ignore the plugin at top of website as advert).

Cronan the Dumb Barbarian

or the plug in version, but hit pause at button to read it:

Plugin version