tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post4567117746093416899..comments2024-02-20T10:12:20.623+00:00Comments on The Blog That Time Forgot: Howard and Red Sonja are Curious BedfellowsTaranaichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-34412151100290071542011-02-24T23:52:58.401+00:002011-02-24T23:52:58.401+00:00I think Sonja as written by Roy Thomas when she wa...I think Sonja as written by Roy Thomas when she was just an occasional guest star in the Conan book was fairly decent.. but she of course also wore real armor at the time.. <br /><br />It just got silly once they introduced the whole chainmail bikini thing.. her continuity, comics wise, is a total charlie foxtrot too..Lagomorph Rexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06385231158384929598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-87686396021698142152011-02-24T23:25:56.581+00:002011-02-24T23:25:56.581+00:00I never liked red sonja even when i thought this v...I never liked red sonja even when i thought this version was the howard version. when i found out the facts a few years back that it is loosely inspired from a howard story(to my relief), it's strictly non entity that only adds to the misconceptions about howards work, though intentions may have been good at its genesis.-MarioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-22402008333005022342011-02-24T23:14:48.599+00:002011-02-24T23:14:48.599+00:00If REH had lived longer what direction I wonder wo...If REH had lived longer what direction I wonder would he have taken with Son(y)ja? Would she have been a space filler for my old Savage Conans or have a mantle of books of her own? I WONDER!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-40799771827492876502011-02-24T16:18:46.555+00:002011-02-24T16:18:46.555+00:00"Used" should be "sued".
Als..."Used" should be "sued". <br /><br />Also, I wonder why <i>Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword</i> (anyone else feel the Freudian implications go too far when directly projected onto the author?) didn't adapt "Sword Woman" directly, but only showed it as backstory flashbacks.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315348028756856231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-14542963576657873242011-02-24T16:12:51.740+00:002011-02-24T16:12:51.740+00:00Online sources say the rights-holders for Sonja us...Online sources say the rights-holders for Sonja used Paradox for owning the rights to Howard's Sonya. Then the two parties paid each other $1 and now Paradox doesn't have the rights to Sonya anymore. <br /><br />No Shadow of the Vulture adaptation in Dark Horse comics, no team-up with Agnes or Kane (though I doubt the chronology allows for that)... it's a shame, they could have had the original and the derivative versions out side by side. Sonja helps the literary reputation of Conan/Howard little with the <a href="http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee163/aaron_boruque/womeninrealisticarmor.jpg" rel="nofollow">mail bikini</a>, sexual baggage, etc.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315348028756856231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-10736957671041485482011-02-24T14:03:14.952+00:002011-02-24T14:03:14.952+00:00I'm sorry. The whole thing sounded good until ...I'm sorry. The whole thing sounded good until I saw the sample page. I just can't take a story seriously that has a woman fighting with sword against spears while wearing a bikini. It doesn't matter how good she looks doing it.<br /><br />So all the high-minded ideas about "breaking the skin" of civilization, the political chess game -- all that sounded intriguing but the visuals (and I know that I'm the pot calling the kettle black here, I have been just as guilty of perpetuating such images) tripped my intellectual gag reflex.<br /><br />I hope the comic does well and all, but I won't be chacking it out.M. D. Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13820831338678743992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-40813601075945782142011-02-24T07:39:25.520+00:002011-02-24T07:39:25.520+00:00well that oddly almost makes a bizzare sort of sen...well that oddly almost makes a bizzare sort of sense.. since Ymir is a Hyborean Age God.. and he was the one that the ones you mention replace.. <br /><br />It could be an interesting angle honestly.. to subvert that hole bit from Snorri's edda about the "Aseir" coming from 'Asia' and being great cheiftans and the indigenous populations worshiping them.. <br /><br />but I doubt they would put that much effort into it.. Red Sonja more or less post Roy Thomas has always been more about the T&A than about the writing..Lagomorph Rexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06385231158384929598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-38100604175773757022011-02-24T06:31:54.340+00:002011-02-24T06:31:54.340+00:00I think that's what they're going for, bef...I think that's what they're going for, before they started putting in Thor, Odin and Loki in the Hyborian Age...Taranaichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-1315094097150335052011-02-24T06:19:05.553+00:002011-02-24T06:19:05.553+00:00I thought the Dynamite Red Sonja series was basica...I thought the Dynamite Red Sonja series was basically Volume 4 following the old Marvel series.. so that would have it set more or less in the same universe as the Marvel series.. or if nothing else in the same universe as the 6 novels.. <br /><br />or am I totally mis remembering things?Lagomorph Rexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06385231158384929598noreply@blogger.com