The
Warlord #76
Dudes fighting on dinosaurs! What more do you need?
How about this! It’s a freaking D&D Bard using Song of Rest to heal his comrades!
Anyway, this issues precedes the ones I reviewed earlier (5-30-20). It’s more fun fantasy sci-fi-ish adventure. Unfortunately, all the issues I’ve seen were after series creator, Mike Grell, left the book. I’d like to see his original version of the character and his artwork. Warlord had a pretty decent run at DC, but there wasn’t much of a market for kind this title and other non-superhero ones like it at the time. Conan at Marvel was about the only one that was ever really successful. Speaking of which . . .
Conan
#29
Marvel let Conan go for a while to Dark Horse. (They got him
back later, as I reviewed King Sized Conan and the Life and Death trade.) DH
seemed to be trying to stay very close to Conan’s life timeline, so they were
respecting the material. The art in this
issue has a painted quality that looks like something out of an issue of Heavy Metal. The story though is the problem, specifically
the lack there of. It’s written by Mike Mingnola, who’s better known for
this artwork. I can’t wholly blame him
as it’s based on “a fragment” of an REH
story, and it’s been turned into a three-part tale. It’s decompressed storytelling to the
extreme.
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