Conan: Born on the Battlefield

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I hope you all are ready, we're in for a wild ride.

>>87455972
>Now while I do love to share Conan with you all, I really really really do hate to do this, but I'm in a research methodology course at College and need to get some survey data for a teensy tiny no-personal-information-whatsoever measure that shouldn't take more than thirty seconds to complete. It would be an amazing favor to a fellow anon if you could fill it out. I do apologize, I wouldn't ask this if my grade didn't depend on it, and I won't mention it again

Well that took a bizarre turn.

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We won't be joined by the regular series artist Cary Nord for this tale, instead we have Greg Ruth painting the pictures conjured up by R.E. Howard through Kurt Busiek

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>>87456017
Yeah, I feel extra shitty for doing as such but I gotta do what I gotta do.

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Welcome to your world, Conan

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This story does a great job highlighting some of the best character traits about Conan. His fierce intelligence and insatiable curiosity at the world around him is really what makes Conan, Conan.

Done deal. Now bring on the epic adventures! I love this series, Busiek knocked it out of the fucking ballpark with this one.

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>>87456173
I was eight years old when the series started publication, and I'm happy to say that it was chief among my pull-list at the time. I count myself extremely fortunate to have been following comics during it's run, I couldn't have stumbled upon better fantasy adventure fare if I tried.

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This fuckin' kid

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I'll be posting these letters pages & Robert E. Howard strips because dammit they're worth it.

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Are there many books out there that still do letters pages, what with social media being as it is nowadays? I've become a tradewaiter of late.

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Alright! We're continuing on with the second part of Born on the Battlefield, Conan #15.

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>>87456084
This is probably the best compromise they could have done about the "born on the battlefield" bit. Perhaps it's what REH intended, but pregnant women fighting like regular people bothers me. They lose two Cimmerians if one is killed.

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>>87456508
Yeah, depicting Conan's mother as an actual fighter in the fray at 8-9 months pregnant just doesn't work. There's a level of realism in REH's world where societies act like actual societies, and there's no way any group of people actual field very pregnant women in combat. Field nurse though? Works just fine.

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>>87456565

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No stopping here. On to part 3.

This should have been the basis for the reboot movie. The actors and designs were okay but the writing really brought it down.

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Issue #4, we're past the half-way mark. Anyone still following along?

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>>87457172
The Jason Momoa one? Yeah, I agree completely. Really, any of the early, concise arcs from this run would work.

It's disappointing that that movie had such a shit plot and writing, because Momoa really sold the role perfectly. The one moment where the writing lined up with how it should be was this bit in between the action where Conan's just being his big, grinning boisterous self at a port, picking up women by the armfuls and carousing about. That was good shit, way better than Arnold's interpretation. Well, for an instant.

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I'unno, would you say Conan is at the point of ubiquity where a film wouldn't need be spent focusing on his origins, per se?

>>87455972
Dark Horse's first Conan volume was legit one of the best comics ever made.

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>>87457307
>Kurt Busiek
>Cary Nord
>Dave Stewart
>Mike Mignola
>Timothy Truman

Such a good talent pool. Nord's artwork being just pencils with Stewart's colors right on top was also a truly inspired decision.

>>87457299
Most people don't even think Conan has a "origin".

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>>87457358
Then fuck it, man. Just hop around and spend a movie adapting a single story or chunk of his life. Have a Tower of the Elephant story that also deals with his time as a thief to a good deal, stuff like that. Shit it's been written out so well for people one wouldn't think it'd be difficult.

>>87457299
Once Arnold gets King Conan made, the reboot can skip the origin to avoid the "destroyed hometown" bit.

If Terminator Genisys had done - had been - better, it might be happening right now,who knows.

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Time for the last two issues, this is where the action is. Venarium!

>>87457711
Reminder that Conan is only 15 years old right now.

F I F T E E N

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>>87457791
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>>87457791
Not in most of the series though.

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God this is such a good ending.

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And with that, our storytime comes to a close. Hope you all enjoyed! There are a few more letters pages and that's it.

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Please keep the thread bumped if you please. Just need 6 more people to be able to start my analysis and write-up. Thank you all so much.

As the Dark Horse runs/titles go

Conan > King Conan > Conan the Slayer > Conan the Avenger > Conan the Barbarian

Haven't read all of Marvel's yet but Savage Sword is easily the best

>>87458778
I'd love for them to do more OHCs or omnibis for the Dark Horse material, but 1) Conan is the most well-regarded, and obviously stands out so I can see why they'd stop with it, and 2) Dark Horse isn't doing so hot financially right now and god damn if they don't get those Moebius libraries out before they go under...

This coloring is so good, desu

Thanks, OP.

>>87458778
Conan the Cimmerian was second best.

>>87457417
They should just a Conan movie an anthology, following him through 3-4 different adventures, depending on the movie length.

Bumpin'

Thanks, OP.

Ah boy, time for some Conan.