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The Chronicles of Conan
The Chronicles of Conan, Volume 15: The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar and Other Stories
As Conan pushes his way across the Corinthian desert landscape, the Cimmerian soon learns he is not alone in this vast and desolate wasteland. The clash of swords and the mystery of sorcery collide in this jam-packed collection as the mighty barbarian finds himself face-to-face with the seductive Princess of the Mist, a tenacious abomination, and the god of death, himself
182 pages, Paperback
First published July 8, 2008
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Roy Thomas
4,477 books270 followersRoy Thomas was the FIRST Editor-in-Chief at Marvel--After Stan Lee stepped down from the position. Roy is a longtime comic book writer and editor. Thomas has written comics for Archie, Charlton, DC, Heroic Publishing, Marvel, and Topps over the years. Thomas currently edits the fanzine Alter Ego for Twomorrow's Publishing. He was Editor for Marvel comics from 1972-1974. He wrote for several titles at Marvel, such as Avengers, Thor, Invaders, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and notably Conan the Barbarian. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes — particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America — and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's X-Men and Avengers, and DC Comics' All-Star Squadron, among other titles.
Also a legendary creator. Creations include Wolverine, Carol Danvers, Ghost Rider, Vision, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Valkyrie, Morbius, Doc Samson, and Ultron. Roy has also worked for Archie, Charlton, and DC among others over the years.
Also a legendary creator. Creations include Wolverine, Carol Danvers, Ghost Rider, Vision, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Valkyrie, Morbius, Doc Samson, and Ultron. Roy has also worked for Archie, Charlton, and DC among others over the years.
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May 29, 2020
A new era dawns on the color Conan comic with Roy Thomas departing and J.M. DeMatteis stepping in to write the series. This book is a mixed bag of stories that opens with "The Crawler in the Mist" which is written by Len Wein aided by DeMatteis with great art by Buscema and Neal Adams featuring Conan in the eastern desert of Corinthia captured by slavers and chained to Rasto his captor. The two end up finding a mysterious city, battle a few colorful immense slugs and it becomes more of a fairy tale-like story. I was first introduced to this story in the form of a record/comic book which years later I found out took the part where Conan gets bit by a snake out most likely for not only space concerns but the violence. One of two gems in this book.
Larry Hama writes the next story "The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar" in which Conan is on a rescue mission facing an illusionist, his illusions, and a few cameos albeit fake characters from his past like Sonja and the Yag-kosha from Tower of the Elephant, but the most intriguing was Conan's mother.
Third is "Valley of Forever Night" teaming Conan again with Jenna who always shows up like a bad penny though this time she is diseased and suffers from a physical deformity that Conan ends up getting as well. All turns out well in the end once Conan hurls the gross sorcerer baddie into the force field holding them in that realm.
In "The Voice of One Long Gone" Conan leaves Jenna briefly to travel to another realm with his now de-aged grandfather Drogin who means to switch places with Conan leaving him to the graces of the green rug-like creature Ravenna but changes his mind and both defeat the creature and return to the camp where Drogin departs and Conan tends to Jenna.
In 'The Hand of Erlik" the emissary of death god Erlik is sent to judge Jenna , ends up falling for her charms, perishes and pisses Conan off. Conan takes the high road and leaves clue-less Jenna behind.
"The Price of Perfection" involves the illusion of perfection to Conan in the form of winged horses, princesses, and a perfect life in the far away in the cloud city of Mreead-zza, but Conan breaks through that illusion and leaves that now barbaric city with the princesses challenged brother Atreah as a companion.
The second gem is the Thomas adaptation of REH's first ever Conan tale "The Phoenix on the Sword" originally published in Weird Tales in 1932. King Conan fends off 20 killers solo as well as a giant baboon-like demon sent by Thoth-amon drawn not by John Buscema but by Vicente Alcazar with inks by Yong Montano. Decent enough art. Almost Gil Kane-like. Serviceable though faces don't always match prior renderings by Buscema especially Thoth-amon and Prospero. Still, any REH adaptation is worth its weight in gold so this chronicle is book ended by two really solid stores and some okay ones in between. Nothing to write home about, but nothing horrible.
Larry Hama writes the next story "The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar" in which Conan is on a rescue mission facing an illusionist, his illusions, and a few cameos albeit fake characters from his past like Sonja and the Yag-kosha from Tower of the Elephant, but the most intriguing was Conan's mother.
Third is "Valley of Forever Night" teaming Conan again with Jenna who always shows up like a bad penny though this time she is diseased and suffers from a physical deformity that Conan ends up getting as well. All turns out well in the end once Conan hurls the gross sorcerer baddie into the force field holding them in that realm.
In "The Voice of One Long Gone" Conan leaves Jenna briefly to travel to another realm with his now de-aged grandfather Drogin who means to switch places with Conan leaving him to the graces of the green rug-like creature Ravenna but changes his mind and both defeat the creature and return to the camp where Drogin departs and Conan tends to Jenna.
In 'The Hand of Erlik" the emissary of death god Erlik is sent to judge Jenna , ends up falling for her charms, perishes and pisses Conan off. Conan takes the high road and leaves clue-less Jenna behind.
"The Price of Perfection" involves the illusion of perfection to Conan in the form of winged horses, princesses, and a perfect life in the far away in the cloud city of Mreead-zza, but Conan breaks through that illusion and leaves that now barbaric city with the princesses challenged brother Atreah as a companion.
The second gem is the Thomas adaptation of REH's first ever Conan tale "The Phoenix on the Sword" originally published in Weird Tales in 1932. King Conan fends off 20 killers solo as well as a giant baboon-like demon sent by Thoth-amon drawn not by John Buscema but by Vicente Alcazar with inks by Yong Montano. Decent enough art. Almost Gil Kane-like. Serviceable though faces don't always match prior renderings by Buscema especially Thoth-amon and Prospero. Still, any REH adaptation is worth its weight in gold so this chronicle is book ended by two really solid stores and some okay ones in between. Nothing to write home about, but nothing horrible.
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May 27, 2020
The Chronicles of Conan, Volume 15: The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar and Other Stories is an bare knuckled book that continues straight after the previous book that has Conan venturing forth and exploring the land of the Princess with a Mist as well as dealing with Jenna who is out for all she can get, Conan as King and fighting a rebellion etc! :D Prepare to stay up late seeing what happens! :D Brilliant Sword Fights, Daring Do, Mysteries, Plot Twists, Cunning, World Building, Character Twists And Development, Action and Epic Adventure with twists at every stage! :D Crisp High Five! :D Get it when you can! :D
May 4, 2019
Now that I've read them all and can look back on it, it's amazing just how good the first 100 issues where of the Marvel Conan comic. It maintained a continuity that was rare for the time, really rare for any time. I also liked the way Thomas adapted both Howard Conan and non-Conan stories as well as other authors novels that had nothing to do with Conan. He also worked originals in a well.
That being said, this isn't a bad volume but you can already sense a change of direction as far as tight continuity goes. Buscema is still on art, but Ernie Chan isn't inking and while the art is still good, you can really see that Chan had a bigger impact on the art then most would realize as it's not quite the same.
The stories aren't bad but lack the provenance of the earlier stories, but we do get an adaptation of Howard's "Phoenix on the Sword." Overall a good volume, but I do already miss the Roy Thomas run.
That being said, this isn't a bad volume but you can already sense a change of direction as far as tight continuity goes. Buscema is still on art, but Ernie Chan isn't inking and while the art is still good, you can really see that Chan had a bigger impact on the art then most would realize as it's not quite the same.
The stories aren't bad but lack the provenance of the earlier stories, but we do get an adaptation of Howard's "Phoenix on the Sword." Overall a good volume, but I do already miss the Roy Thomas run.
August 15, 2024
Roy Thomas hands the writing duties off to J.M. DeMatteis - who promises to not do any adaptations of the bad Conan novels! Thankfully John Buscema is still on board.
This is a collection of mostly unrelated stories, just a new adventure every week. The connecting link is Conan meets up with a lady from the early Conan comics (6-11 I think). She's pretty interesting, not a Red Sonja/Belit style hero but also not useless. She uses her sexuality to manipulate men and get ahead. Conan also meets his grandfather (again? I forget if he was mentioned before), but unfortunately just for a single issue.
This is a collection of mostly unrelated stories, just a new adventure every week. The connecting link is Conan meets up with a lady from the early Conan comics (6-11 I think). She's pretty interesting, not a Red Sonja/Belit style hero but also not useless. She uses her sexuality to manipulate men and get ahead. Conan also meets his grandfather (again? I forget if he was mentioned before), but unfortunately just for a single issue.
August 21, 2020
Meh.
This collection picks up right after Roy Thomas left, and you can feel it. The writing is not nearly as strong, some is just bad. You can feel the new writer trying to get his sense of things, floundering a bit. Hopefully it gets better.
Still gets 3 stars, because of the well-done Roy Thomas issue at the end, a bit of a bonus for an otherwise iffy collection.
This collection picks up right after Roy Thomas left, and you can feel it. The writing is not nearly as strong, some is just bad. You can feel the new writer trying to get his sense of things, floundering a bit. Hopefully it gets better.
Still gets 3 stars, because of the well-done Roy Thomas issue at the end, a bit of a bonus for an otherwise iffy collection.
March 3, 2013
Das Ende kommt schneller als gedacht
Ehrlich gesagt, ich wurde gewarnt; und ich habe die Warnungen als die Kassandra-Rufe einiger Nostalgie-Fans abgetan. Leider stellt sich nun heraus, dass diese Rufe ernst gemeint waren. Vom Conan der Roy-Thomas-Ära ist nicht mehr allzuviel übrig geblieben; innerhalb weniger Ausgaben wandelt sich das doch recht nah an Howards Originalconan orientierte Comicbuch in ein generisches, "Monster-of-the-Month"-Blättchen. Conan selbst wechselt zwischen existentialistischem Philosophen, glotzäugigem Weiberbegrapscher und blutgeilem Stiernacken wie es dem Autor passend erscheint. Die Handlungsorte werden immer abgefahrener und aberwitziger, die Gegner immer noch außerirdischer und wie aus einem LSD-Trip kommender. Die noch unter Thomas gepflegten Handlungsbögen werden durch einzelne "Schlagdasmonstertot"-one-shots ersetzt.
Warum die Neuauflage die titelgebende Geschichte weg von "The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar" hin zu "Valley of Forever Night" geändert hat, weiß ich nicht - ich hoffe aber nicht, dass das mit dem aktuellen weltpolitischen Hintergrund zu tun hat.
Letztlich bleibt hier nichts mehr übrig von Conan, außer den Zeichnungen von Buscema. Für diese allein, und nicht für die völlig wertlosen Geschichten, sollte man sich diesen Band zulegen; und man kann sich daran ergötzen, dass man miterlebt, wie eine Ära zuende, und eine künstlerisch wertvolle Comicreihe den Bach runtergeht.
Ehrlich gesagt, ich wurde gewarnt; und ich habe die Warnungen als die Kassandra-Rufe einiger Nostalgie-Fans abgetan. Leider stellt sich nun heraus, dass diese Rufe ernst gemeint waren. Vom Conan der Roy-Thomas-Ära ist nicht mehr allzuviel übrig geblieben; innerhalb weniger Ausgaben wandelt sich das doch recht nah an Howards Originalconan orientierte Comicbuch in ein generisches, "Monster-of-the-Month"-Blättchen. Conan selbst wechselt zwischen existentialistischem Philosophen, glotzäugigem Weiberbegrapscher und blutgeilem Stiernacken wie es dem Autor passend erscheint. Die Handlungsorte werden immer abgefahrener und aberwitziger, die Gegner immer noch außerirdischer und wie aus einem LSD-Trip kommender. Die noch unter Thomas gepflegten Handlungsbögen werden durch einzelne "Schlagdasmonstertot"-one-shots ersetzt.
Warum die Neuauflage die titelgebende Geschichte weg von "The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar" hin zu "Valley of Forever Night" geändert hat, weiß ich nicht - ich hoffe aber nicht, dass das mit dem aktuellen weltpolitischen Hintergrund zu tun hat.
Letztlich bleibt hier nichts mehr übrig von Conan, außer den Zeichnungen von Buscema. Für diese allein, und nicht für die völlig wertlosen Geschichten, sollte man sich diesen Band zulegen; und man kann sich daran ergötzen, dass man miterlebt, wie eine Ära zuende, und eine künstlerisch wertvolle Comicreihe den Bach runtergeht.
May 2, 2014
Roy Thomas said bye bye to Conan the Barbarian and first Larry Hama and then J.M. DeMatteis step`in. Filling those boots must have been one helluva job.
Sadly, boots were not filled. DeMatteis brought in stuff like travelling between dimensions. Even the ever trustworthy art by John Buscema seems rushed.
Oh well, maybe things get better with the next collection.
Sadly, boots were not filled. DeMatteis brought in stuff like travelling between dimensions. Even the ever trustworthy art by John Buscema seems rushed.
Oh well, maybe things get better with the next collection.
October 26, 2011
Wein y DeMatteis asumen el relevo de Roy Thomas, cuya adaptación para "El Fénix en la Espada" destaca como lo mejor del tomo.
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