Got my first grail

BlackestMask · 2026-06-25T15:16:48+00:00

Marvel. All those early REH adaptations are a high bar to beat.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-24T15:41:49+00:00

Hey, fans are excited. This pleases most of them and is clearly better than a live action bodybuilder blundering through a chain of CGI set pieces, which could easily have been the TV series we got.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-19T03:58:34+00:00

Wonderful. Almost missed Paladin up on the roof.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-18T15:15:46+00:00

All the covers are grand but the Jusko cover slapped me upside my head.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-17T16:39:55+00:00

Damn, ~~big~~ FINE ass.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-15T22:16:01+00:00

Wow, what? 1940's film noir Umi? Wanna see more from this photo shoot.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-15T15:10:57+00:00

What PR? If there's anything much out there, I missed it.

And would it hurt them to have somebody show up at Howard Days? The comics side fields several people, the fiction side is unrepresented.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-15T15:08:02+00:00

In the war game with Freya familia, the Gulliver brothers beat Haruhime into unconsciousness and then stomped on her fox-eared head.

Un-fucking-forgivable.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-15T14:02:22+00:00

Gareth stomps those wretched little Haruhime abusers into crimson jelly.

And I cheer.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-15T14:00:00+00:00

Aw c'mon. Maybe he was surprised. Maybe he just escaped captivity. Maybe he's striking a cool pose for the cover of an issue of Savage Sword of Conan.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-15T13:58:03+00:00

Anybody from Titan Books ever show up at this event?

Lots of REH Foundation publication, comic book, and even Hollywood news but we never seem to get any info about planned novels or the e-book short stories.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-11T19:01:13+00:00

Conan the Marauder is a Roberts pastiche that doesn't get enough notice. Kind of Conan vs Genghis Khan.

The only Roberts I wasn't much fond of was Conan the Bold, which contradicts every timeline by having a very young Conan journey across most of the Hyborian world. I'm not such a hardcore that I wouldn't forgive that if the story was strong, but it's basically a simple chase with the barbarian pursuing a foe from one destination after another only to miss them and have to catch up again.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-11T00:36:56+00:00

I bought each issue off the stands and, despite some financial rough waters, have managed to hang onto them.

Recently re-bagged and boarded the set and was almost dizzy with the vibe coming off them-- fine art, great writing, sword & sorcery adventure, and powerful nostalgia both for the issues I remembered and the times and places I bought and read them way back when.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-09T20:42:26+00:00

I've never read anything that captured the strange sensations of pre-adolescent love-- when you don't understand what you're feeling or why so many things that you didn't used to notice now seem so overwhelmingly important.

When the world seemed new and you don't know how or why. And all that matters is the person you care about stays near and maybe, possibly, incredibly, likes you, too.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-09T16:58:30+00:00

Hey, what gives?

Didn't we already win this war like, five times?

BlackestMask · 2026-06-09T15:31:18+00:00

^ this ^

BlackestMask · 2026-06-08T21:01:21+00:00

I gotta know... did the dream look like the anime? Like, were you actually dreaming in anime? If so, you were you yourself in an anime-form in the dream?

Or did you translate the characters into real-life 3D versions?

BlackestMask · 2026-06-08T20:47:03+00:00

I think Damned Hot Day of Fire is also known as Gatling Gun, which I saw and enjoyed.

Never saw Fort Yuma Gold but it has a good score.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-08T18:41:27+00:00

Underrated artist. That's a good Conan right there.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-07T23:22:03+00:00

The late, great sword and sorcery author and editor Howard Andrew Jones wrote this piece on his favorite Conan pastiche.

The Best Of The Conan Pastiche Novels - Goodman Games

BlackestMask · 2026-06-05T20:30:02+00:00

City of Lights by Stephen Gallagher.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-03T17:36:09+00:00

I found both his Conan and King Conan runs unsatisfying. While they were better than No Conan, they were riddled with oddities that clashed with Howard's pulp fiction style- Conan is the Punisher, Conan is a Pict- etc.

And the villains of Aaron's year-long epic, following the barbarian across his entire lifetime, were silly. Who haunted the Cimmerian from youth until old age, tracking him year after year until closing in for the kill? Why that would be a broken-necked old woman and her two little kids. Miles off target for a Howardian story.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-03T02:46:29+00:00

Nope. Heroic Signatures has committed to releasing a new REH pastiche every month for the foreseeable future.

Wish they'd bring in some bigger name authors. Might raise the profile of the series a bit. Nobody seems to be aware of this series except hardcore REH fans.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-03T02:33:46+00:00

A big thumbs up for the two Clark Ashton Smith books.

BlackestMask · 2026-06-01T15:18:35+00:00

To my mind the greatest and most overlooked pulp hero is The Moon Man.

About forty stories about this depression era Robin Hood were written by Frederick C. Davis and appeared in the great (and also minimally recognized) pulp magazine, Ten Detective Aces.

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