The Saga Of Solomon Kane
by Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas, Don Glut, Others, David Wenzel, Howard Chaykin, Alan Weiss, Steve Carr
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Author: Alan Weiss, David Wenzel, Don Glut, Howard Chaykin, Others, Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas, Steve CarrArtist: Others
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-08-18
ISBN: 1595823174
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Dark Horse
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Book Review: Uncompromising avenger
Summary: 5 Stars
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.
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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!Fantasy Books
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