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    bobhir has commented on a review: King Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword #1
    Feb 5, 2012 at 6:50pm

    my reply had paragraphs which were removed when I pasted it in ;(

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    bobhir has commented on a review: King Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword #1
    Feb 5, 2012 at 6:49pm

    Instead of reviewing this on its own merits, a lot of your review compares it to the upcoming "second coming of Conan" (my term not yours) compliments of Wood and Cloonan which surely "most people who have never read Conan will be buying". I get that you are excited for what you think is coming from Wood and Cloonan, but it hasn't happened yet, beyond a few preview pages, and you didn't give this particular book coverage based on its own merits in the review. You spent one paragraph of eight actually talking about what someone would actually find in the book, and artwork got a two sentence description. I can?t imagine you?d be too happy with someone going on Amazon and writing a review of your chicken book, and proclaiming in the first paragraph that it?s not good with no justification as of yet, and then spend most of the rest of the review talking about an yet to be released chicken book, which will surely be much better. If the story and it's telling seems a bit dated to you, it's because it is based on a story written in 1932. It was the first Conan story, and I don't know that it really needs to be punched up for a newer audience who likely isn't going to buy it anyways. I'd say that if anything, the King Conan series is Dark Horse hedging their bets and offering a Conan comic which will keep the long term Conan audience happy, because if message boards are any indication, the old timers don't seem very happy with the previews of the new book so far. It's also a little elitist to proclaim that this book is likely fine for us old "cavemen" (my term not yours), but for the new hip crowd who have been reading the "current age of mainstream comic books" it doesn't work. You might have wanted to let us in on what exactly this new current age of mainstream comics is. Are you referring to the complete about face that DC is doing with a lot of their titles which comes off as a desperate cash grab, or perhaps something revolutionary marvel is doing currently that I?m now aware of. Maybe something happening with some indy publisher I'm missing out on. I'm in any number of comic stores every Wednesday to shop, and not seeing this renaissance occurring. There are surely some gems out there, but there are a lot of stinkers put out every Wednesday. I looked through your other reviews on the site, and didn't see anything you were truly excited about, so I?m not sure if you?ve reviewed any of the premier titles yet. Your website link in the bio points to an anime related site, so I didn't think it'd be covered there. I'm not even trying to say that the impression you would get if you parsed your review down to the one paragraph on its contents and two sentences on the artwork is way off, it's an okay book which would appeal more to long term fans of Conan. It?s not going to revolutionize the Conan character and bring it into the 21st century and make it appealing to a whole new audience, but I don?t think it was intended to be that from the start, and it?s kind of the whole point of this particular run of this book. A recent multi-million dollar movie tried to revolutionize Conan and attract a whole new audience, and in the end it got too far from what Conan essentially is in trying to capture an audience who really wasn?t interested and didn?t care, and was a flop.

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