tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162364.post7395615123727341027..comments2023-04-01T03:07:01.062-07:00Comments on Truth, Justice and the American Way: "...a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth..."Jake Shorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00124378230594689452noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162364.post-75843187843772135922008-09-17T09:28:00.000-07:002008-09-17T09:28:00.000-07:00Thanks for the post, I'll check them out. As you k...Thanks for the post, I'll check them out. As you know I love the Conan books, and found him attractive and wanted to be one of his women until I left the fantasy world and met Chris. haa.<BR/>I still love to read the books though, and love to add to my collection any chance I get.<BR/><BR/>KathleenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10162364.post-37676818712745992772008-09-03T11:23:00.000-07:002008-09-03T11:23:00.000-07:00You know, I've still got a lot of those SSoC magaz...You know, I've still got a lot of those SSoC magazines that were strewn around the Ward Dr. house. I've got all of the story arc where Conan gets mixed up (again) with the demon Imhotep who has been cast out from his demon night raiders and is seen by all but Conan as a tall Stygian. It's a great story arc and Buscema's art is at it's best which puts it so far above just about everyone else it's not even funny. I really think that Buscema's art style could be the perfect match with the Hyborian Age and the black and white format. <BR/><BR/>I also think that more often than not the stories in SSoC came a lot closer to Howard's vision of Conan than most. Conan, while still mind-numbingly bad ass, is not a hulking brute. He's often portrayed as the very crafty person that Howard made him. I have a hard time picturing the Conan from a lot of the pastiche material as well as the two films actually claiming the throne of Aquilonia on his own. <BR/><BR/>A lot of what Roy Thomas wrote for the SSoC had a healthy dose of funny irony and gallows humor. <BR/><BR/>I want to say that these collections go for about $13 a pop on Amazon. It's such a good price for the amount of material (500 - 550 pages) that I'm ashamed to say I own none of them. That's right under a buck an issue, which is what I was paying for new issues in the early nineties. Time to shake out the piggy bank, I guess.<BR/><BR/><BR/>tedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com