King Conan #4 - The Scarlet Citadel

     "I have my work cut out for me," David thought to himself.
     "I just read 'King Conan' #4, part 4 of 4 of 'The Scarlet Citadel'.  It was pretty good once I forced myself to read it.  It didn't have the same feel as an original Conan story, though.  It was created by a lesser author."
     "The story was told by the King to his scribe.  Conan related his tale, so it is through Conan that the story comes to being."
     "One thing is for sure, Conan is adept at spinning a yarn.  Also, he likes to drink.  At that point, things might become a little fantastic."

     So there it is, the first Conan comic I have read in a while.  It ended up being pretty good.
     It was hard to get into the language of the comic.  It was actually work to read it.
     I had to stand outside, with no other distraction.
     It seems that it would be so much easier to just make the thing into a video, complete with sounds and voices.  They ought to start doing that for comics, and if they don't, I will.
     This comic was hard to read.
     I was a willing audience member, too.
     I don't know what is wrong, I used to whiz through ten comics in an afternoon, straight through.
     Graphically, they don't as easy on the eyes with all of the computer crap they put in.  They think it works, but it doesn't look as good to me.

     It just makes me want to do my own Conan stories, or to just use the original source material, and do something with that, or to just make my own barbarian stories, in my own land.
     That would be cool.

     There were some full-page ads in the comic, which helped to ruin my experience of the story, which was hard enough to read.

     Comics are still popular, though.

     All I know is that it isn't Conan unless there is a naked woman near-by somewhere.
     There wasn't a single naked lady anywhere in the comic, except in one of the pin-up illustrations, so that made up for it a little.

     Once I actually read the comic, it was pretty good.  My eyes kind of hurt after reading it.  Focusing on all of the small detail is not good.  That is what the new comics do to the eye.  That is why they aren't as good.  They just aren't done as well as the old-time masters.

     However, I used to get tired of how Jack Kirby did things, too.  Same old looks and actions and inking style all the time.
     There was only so much of Jack I could take.
     I didn't think of Jack Kirby for years until he had died, and Frank Miller was really into him.