tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3798129571242557592.post7359082776594080096..comments2023-10-17T03:57:52.371-05:00Comments on In the words of Tom: My Scale of All Things ConanTom Doolanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03451129317759266295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3798129571242557592.post-47212130730500326712012-10-27T09:01:12.615-05:002012-10-27T09:01:12.615-05:00I actually enjoyed Conan the Destroyer. DIdn't...I actually enjoyed Conan the Destroyer. DIdn't really think of it is a Howard Conan movie but it had all kinds of fun elements. I thought. I appear to be alone in this. I liked Mamoa's version OK. Hated the TV show, read only a limited range of the comics but didn't much care for them. Disliked Red Sonja, liked Kull somewhat better, although it was really a hercules film.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3798129571242557592.post-43420610387159058042012-10-26T23:36:47.953-05:002012-10-26T23:36:47.953-05:00I do have the Conan the Adventurer cartoon for my ...I do have the Conan the Adventurer cartoon for my kids and I have read most of the TOR's.<br /><br />Most of the TOR's are weak, if not awful, but there are some reasonably good ones - the John Hocking and John Maddox Roberts titles are the ones you would like, I think.<br /><br />The cartoon did try some half-ass adaptions of Howards stories but not that it really mattered. The whole premise was based off Conan fighting against Wrath-Amon and the Serpent men and obtaining magical star metal (meteors) which when forged into weapons, banish serpent men back to the other dimensional realm of Set.<br />The only props I could give the show is that it used all the Howardian/Hyborian language and names you could shake a stick at, but that could also be sheer laziness since there wasn't much imagination in how any place would look or act either.<br /><br />Still for the sake of young kids, I don't mind either Conan the Adventuer (cartoon or Ralf's) since that (and Destroyer for that matter) are just introductory material.<br /><br />In a while when they are older, I'll break out the good stuff and say "Here, try this now."<br />nephite blood spartan hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17092519999184585295noreply@blogger.com