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A ripping SF-fantasy-adventure fraught with dinosaurs, barbarians, Transformers, heavy metal, monsters, spaceships, and all manner of madness.

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Good Scot/Bad Scot: A Retrospective of McFarlane's Conan, Part One

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While I certainly have a great number of Conan-related piece of paraphernalia interned in my household, I'm not what you'd call a...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Bite-Sized Blog: Conan, Theosophy, and Expendables

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Iggy Pop dressed as Conan, looking about as depressed as I do looking at this cover to Conan the Barbarian #10. Well, time for anoth...
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Saturday, 11 August 2012

In lieu of new posts, some links

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Once again, I apologise for the lack of activity on the blog. Essentially, I've been getting ready for a big project not related to Howa...
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Sunday, 29 July 2012

80 Years of Conan at Pulpfest

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Coming up next month is Pulpfest , the annual shindig dedicated to all things pulp: a celebration of Tarzan's and John Carter's ...
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Friday, 27 July 2012

New Howard Days Videos, 80 Years of Conan, Et Ceteratatata

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As I've said probably too many times, "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is a really tough story to do justice, and I was pretty...
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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

80 Years of Conan: "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" - Part Three

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“Who are you to swear by Ymir?” she mocked. “What know you of the gods of ice and snow, you who have come up from the south to adventure ...
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Saturday, 21 July 2012

That's it, I'm calling a moratorium.

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Alright folks, I tried. I really tried this time. But after reading the preview for #7 , I don't think I can talk about Brian Wood'...
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Thursday, 19 July 2012

Connor Coyne's Oberservations on Conan

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I thought I'd share this interesting little link by author Connor Coyne (what a name!) which discusses Howard in context with Tolkien....
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Tuesday, 17 July 2012

80 Years of Conan: "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" - Part Two

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The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak pale su...
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Friday, 13 July 2012

80 Years of Conan: "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" - Part One

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 Sometimes you just have to go with the classics.     “Asgard and Vanaheim,” Prospero scanned the map. “By Mitra, I had almost beli...
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Untimely ripped from the womb in a year where gargantuan metal gods who could transform into engines and mechanisms awakened, Al Harron has made it his quest to drink in all he could from the font of that most exciting of genres: adventure! Be it in the unknown pasts of forgotten ages, the grim unknowable future, on worlds beyond worlds and times beyond time: wherever the promise of discovery and daring undertakings may lie, Al will venture.
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