“They will continue to think that I serve them, until our present task is completed. Who are they to match wits with Ascalante? Volmana, the dwarfish count of Karaban; Gromel, the giant commander of the Black Legion; Dion, the fat baron of Attalus; Rinaldo, the hare-brained minstrel. I am the force which has welded together the steel in each, and by the clay in each, I will crush them when the time comes. But that lies in the future; tonight the king dies.”
Wouldn't it be amusing (well, irritating to an extent, but amusing in the long run) if a future comic adaptation took "dwarfish" and "giant" altogether too literally? Conan and the Midnight God made the Giant-Kings into literal giants, after all.
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Volmana! I'll know that dwarf in hell!
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Those were supposed to be statues in Conan and the Midnight God, not the actual Kings. You'll notice that in issue #5 they don't move, the balloons don't go to their mouths and they're colored as if they're made of rock.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm getting mixed up with Age of Conan: it depicts them as literal giants. Even Akivasha's 8 feet tall!
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