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The Saga Of Solomon Kane
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$19.99
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$14.99
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Rating:
4.5 / 5
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Dark Horse
Sales Rank:
389127
Binding: Paperback
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
From his pulp-fiction origins in Weird Tales to his latest Dark Horse incarnation, Robert E. Howard's sixteenth-century Puritan adventurer has captured the imaginations of readers for decades. Now all of the Savage Sword of Conan short stories from the 1970s are collected for the first time: equal parts comics adaptations of Howard's formative tales and inspired new chapters from venerable scribes Roy Thomas (Conan the Barbarian) and Don Glut (Kull the Destroyer)! Follow along Kane's restless travels with pistol and rapier as he is compelled to be a weapon of God, ridding the world of evil wherever it may be found - from the jungles of Africa to the high seas, and whether cannibal, demon, vampire, or pirate! |
Customer Reviews
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Uncompromising avenger, Saturday, June 26, 2010
Solomon Kane is one of those iconic characters who transcends the page, like Elric of Melnibone, Druss the Legend and R.E. Howard's other great creation, Conan.
Kane stories are heaped with atmosphere, testimony to Howard's own bleak world view and the circles in which he moved. Fundamentalist morality is pitted against Lovecraftian evil in a relentless series of dualistic conflict.
I first encountered Kane in the pages of "Dracula Lives!" over thirty years ago. Whilst I didn't come across him again until this year, he remained a buried influence, an unconscious inspiration for my own character, Deacon Shader.
Kane is harder than Shader, much more uncompromising. He is an avenger who will cross the oceans to mete our justice. There are elements of Kane in David Gemmell's Jerusalem Man too.
The artwork in this collection is stunning - a return to the beauty of what is for me the golden age of comic books (before computers!) The stories are simple tales of vengeance and horror but perfectly convey the conflicted nature of Kane, a Puritan with wanderlust and a need for danger. It's always great fun to see him breaking away from the embrace of a typically Howardian temptress and cursing her as a succubus.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Kane, Sunday, January 24, 2010
Excellent adventure in Puritan times.Superb artwork and lots of it. Hard to put down adventure with some occasional partial nudity. A good read. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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Great production with bad doses of weak material 3 and 1/2 stars for serious effort, Monday, December 14, 2009
The first thing that has to be said is that Dark Horse is making a noble effort to reprint Marvel's run of Robert Howard related comic tales. Unfortunately, by being the guys trying to reprint it ALL they are mixing some very mediocre efforts with some stellar ones and it drags the package down a bit. This is the curse of the Savage Sword of Conan volumes as well.
Still, despite that, the production value alone is worth the look. Unlike the earlier re-colored efforts in the line-up of Howard inspired work the black and white reprinting job presented here is first rate without the colored efforts complicating the process. Over 400 pages of clean line work and some good storytelling makes this a bargain and worth the effort.
For the Marvel purists it doesn't get any better than this. For the rest of us it's still decent.
My wish is that someone collects a "best of.." volume.
In the meantime this will fill the bill.
Rating: 3 out of 5
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