Showing posts with label Conan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conan. Show all posts
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Hither Came Conan; A Review

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Also a winner of The Valusian Award from the Robert E. Howard Foundation. Robert E. Howard Days was wonderful for many reasons , but among t...
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Saturday, March 9, 2024

The Savage Sword of Conan no. 1, Titan Comics: A review

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I haven’t bought a new comic book in 33 years, when I purchased the April 1991 Savage Sword of Conan as a high school senior. The venerable ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

50 years of Savage Sword of Conan, and beyond

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Ahh, no. 29, I love you. Love them all... Savage Sword of Conan debuted August 1974.  I was just one year old. Probably a little young to be...
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Saturday, February 3, 2024

The Shadow of Vengeance by Scott Oden, a review

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Some would say there is no good Conan pastiche*, that the only stories of the Cimmerian worth reading are the 21 originals by Robert E. Howa...
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

1979 Ken Kelly heroic fantasy calendar, month-by-month

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Let's look inside, shall we? And return to an age undreamed of ....1979. Among my prized finds at 2023 Howard Days was this bad boy. A ...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023

My Howard Days 2023 haul

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Somewhere under here is a bar... Many amusing escapades and scrapes unfolded during Howard Days 2023, not the least of which was my complete...
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Monday, May 1, 2023

There and back again from Massachusetts to Cross Plains: A recap of 2023 Robert E. Howard Days

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Ken Lizzi, me, and Deuce, on sacred ground. That Saturday morning long ago remains fresh in my mind. The day I stumbled across a hoard of Sa...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Are we in a new sword-and-sorcery renaissance? Not yet. At least commercially.

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Some corners of the internet are speculating whether we’re in a third sword-and-sorcery wave. This assumes a first, unnamed wave in which S&...
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Cross Plains Chronicle: Less than six weeks to go

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Hither Came Conan... and thither I go, to Cross Plains The Cross Plains countdown continues … less than six weeks until events kick off at R...
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Monday, January 23, 2023

Blood of the Serpent: Is the New Conan Novel Really Conan?

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This past weekend I finished the new Conan novel, S.M. Stirling's Blood of the Serpent . And wrote a brief review which you can find on ...
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Friday, September 2, 2022

Fantastic! And thoughts on pastiches

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More witches! Art by Jones. Recently I picked up seven issues of Fantastic. This former digest-sized magazine ran from 1952-1980 before fol...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

A bookish nostalgia

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Humans are on a path of upward progress. This is a good thing. We enjoy material comfort and personal levels of wealth unimaginable 200 year...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

S&S updates: Dunsany, New Edge, book deals, and a fine response to a troubling essay

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Hail to the King of Dreams, baby. A roundup of recent-ish news and updates on the sacred genre. My most recent essay for Tales from the Magi...
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Saturday, May 21, 2022

A rant on the practice of maddening literalism

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I’m not one for rants these days… I try to keep things positive, always, because life is short, and walking around angry is no way to live i...
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