Free Chronicles Of Solomon Kane Scripted By Roy Thomas Offered As Text
adore Solomon Kane and was very excited to read this collection, though I can't say I ended up caring for it all that much,
The art work was fine, About average for the time periods the stories came from, The problem was in the actual adaptation of the stories, In some ways, the stories lend themselves to the comic format rather well, Pages of Howard's, admittedly wonderful, solid description ends up being a picture so the stories flow much faster,
The stories also end up a little wonky because they retain the racism present in Howard's original stories, which honestly could have been worked around in the retelling, and they actually played up the Christian elements.
There are far more mentions of Puritan persecution in this slight volume than there is in the entirety of the prose stories, Also, I'm not sure if the people adapting these stories were super Christian, but these stories make me think they were, People preaching about God seems to be a much bigger part of these stories than it ever was in the original,
Recommended for Kane purists only, Anyone else should read the originals, It was great to go back and revisit these stories which hold up very well in my opinion, The artwork Mike Mignola, Bret Blevins, Howard Chaykin, Al Williamson, among othersis all perfect for the tone of these stories, Ralph Macchio really gets the character and does a couple of his own stories based on the Robert E, Howard character. "And Faith, Undying" a werewolf/friendship story, comes across much better than "The Prophet" but in all of them the core of the character comes through and I'm reminded why I loved these stories when I first encountered them.
In the introduction, Macchio says "What appealed to me about the dour Puritan was that he was so many things I was not, " which certainly makes sense to me, This is a nice volume collecting the six issues of The Sword of Solomon Kane that Ralph Macchio wrote in, and the Roy Thomas adaptation of Robert E, Howard's story Red Shadows from Marvel Premiere from, One of the Macchio stories is also a Red Shadows adaptation, so it's interesting to compare the way the two writers and artists handled the material, I preferred the Thomas, probably because Howard Chaykin illustrated it, Two of the Macchio stories are original I rather liked And Faith, Undying, a good werewolf tale, and didn't much care for The Prophet, despite the Mignola art, which is a religious story that I didn't feel was true to Howard's character.
The other stories adapted here are Hills of the Dead, Wings in the Night, and Blades of the Brotherhood, which I thought was the best of the lot, Howard's stories are from thes, and there are some leftover racist bits that come through, I thought Macchio could have solved that and reworked some elements a bit more by staying closer to Howard's vision, if that makes sense, My favorite piece is Howard's poem Solomon Kane's Homecoming, a lovely and stirring bit of doggerel which serves as a nice coda to the book, Da sempre un appassionato di Howard, quando hanno raccolto in due volumi le storie apparse sui magazine in b/n Marvel degli anni ', non ho potuto resistere,
Tra l'altro il folle puritano spadaccino è da sempre tra i miei personaggi preferiti,
Qui Roy Thomas, principalmente, adatta al fumetto i racconti originali, e ai disegni troviamo tanti grandi nomi del fumetto americano di quegli anni, tra cui spicca Neal Adams, ma non solo.
Quattro stelle e mezza ben meritate, Nice art, overwritten pulp prose, weird religion amp race issues, The usual Robert E Howard thing, Great Roy Thomas amp Mike Mignolia art, This volume collects a two volume series called The Mark of Kane and a later six issue miniseries called The Sword of Solomon
Kane,
Despite scripts by Roy Thomas, the former is a little on the cheesy side, but I was pleasantly surprised by the Sword of Solomon Kane series, With only six issues to work with, I found it baffling that they spent time making a few original stories one called The Prophet was particularly sleight and disappointing, despite excellent Mike Mignola artwork rather than sticking with adaptations of the original Robert E.
Howard short stories, but the comic versions of Red Shadows, Hills of the Dead, and Wings in the Night were well done,
The highlight of this volume was the characterization, however, While the authors of the current Dark Horse series seem to be struggling with how to present Kane, the staff of this old Marvel comic got him right, Dour, vengeful, and above all driven,
While I wouldn't recommend this volume as an introduction to the adventures of Solomon Kane, it's certainly worth a look for those already familiar with the character, "Back, ye minions of hellin the name of the Lord and Solomon Kane!" Continuing in the vein of the successful Chronicles of Conan collection series, Dark Horse is expanding its Robert E.
Howard reprint line by presenting all of the originals ands Marvel color comic books featuring Solomon Kane in one awesome volume! This graphic novel features the landmark stories "The Mark of Kane" and "Fangs of the Gorilla God," by Roy Thomas and Howard Chaykin, and the entire Sword of Solomon Kane miniseries, by Ralph Macchio and a host of talented artists including Mike Mignola, Al Williamson, Bret Blevins, John Ridgeway, and others! From the French countryside to the Black Forest in Germany, from England to Africa, follow Robert E.
Howard's solemn, driven Puritan, Solomon Kane, as he cuts a path of vengeance across the globe! I have sitelinkpreviously lamented the fact that the excellentseries The Sword of Solomon Kane remained uncollected.
Dark Horse remedies my complaint in The Chronicles of Solomon Kane, which contains all six issues of the series plus the Solomon Kane stories from Marvel Premiere.
Produced by an impressive array of talentsitelinkRoy Thomas, sitelinkRalph Macchio, sitelinkHoward Chaykin, Brett Blevins, John Ridgeway, Al Williamson, Sandy Plunkett, Kevin Nowlan, Jon Bogdanove, and sitelinkMike Mignola, The Chronicles of Solomon Kane reprints the extant of the Marvel's superior full color renditions of sitelinkRobert E.
Howard's dour Puritan hero,
The Reformation comes alive!!
Puritan asskicker Solomon Kane because of his religious convictions is no longer welcome in his native England, so he travels around the known world beating up Papists and Infidels when and where ever the good lord wills it.
Amen!
He also runs into pirates, vampires, manbats Fact: Africa was plagued by both vampires and Manbats in thes and werewolves, His beliefs are put to the test when he encounters and is saved by an African voodoo priest, whos magic runs counter to what the good book says,
Zounds!
Robert E, Howard, best known for creating Conan, was given the Marvel comics treatment via Solomon Kane twice once in the early seventies by Roy Thomas, then again in the eighties by Ralph Macchio.
Aside from two tales by Macchio, all were adaptations of existing Howard stories,
Interestingly, you can compare Thomas and Macchios reworking of the same story, “Red Shadows” Howards tale of Kanes pursuit of justice across continents, Thomas tacks on a different beginning and I almost thought I was reading a different story when I started Macchios version, which irons out some plot points that get jumbled in Thomas version.
A note on the art Howard Chaykin illustrated Thomas tale Mike Mignola Mr, Hellboy drew one of Macchios renderings,
Bottom Line: If you dig pulpy swashbuckling stories with the added monster or two, this ones for you,
Bewährte DarkHorseQualität
Dieser Sammelband, der zwei "Marvel Premiere"Ausgaben aus denern und die SolomonKaneMiniserie mitAusgaben aus denern bündelt, hat meines Erachtens zwei Highlights, die ihn über die Masse der sonstigen DarkHorseSammlungen herausheben.
Erstens, das interessante Gegenüberstellen der alten RoyThomasVersion von "Red Shadows" und derJahre später erschienenen von Ralph Macchio, Sehr nett zu sehen, wie sich die Comicwelt zeichnerisch, aber auch beim Plotting weiterentwickelt hat,
Zweitens, die Ausgabe, die von Mike Mignola gezeichnet wird, Ich bin ein MignolaFan, und auch wenn diese Zeichnungen noch weit von sitelinkHellboy entfernt sind, erkennt man doch schon das Potenzial, das in ihnen steckt viel Schwarzraum, glühende Augen im Dunkel, sehr atmosphärische Charakterisierungen den portugiesischen Piraten finde ich besonders gelungen.
Ein sehr eigener und erkennbarer Stil, den die anderen Zeichner Ridgway, Bogdanove, Chaykin und Blevins nicht erreichen, deren Werke eher einheitlich wirken und kaum zu unterscheiden sind, Doch auch sie schaffen es, die düstere Stimmung der Originalgeschichten ins Comicmedium zu transferieren,
Die Aufmachung ist im inzwischen sehr ausgereiften "Chronicles"Stil von Dark Horse da gibt es wirklich nichts zu meckern in Bezug auf Bindung, Papier und Druck einige wenige Seiten sind etwas verwischt worden, vielleicht ist das aber auch nur mein Exemplar.
Tolle Umsetzung des R, E. HowardHelden in Bildern diese Reihe gefällt mir deutlich besser als die "Kull"Reihe oder die späteren "Conan"Comics, .