Savage Sword of Conan Omnibus #1: Do we FINALLY have a good Conan reprint?
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Savage Sword of Conan Omnibus #1
Hardcover / 1072 pages
ISBN-10 : 1302915320
Item Weight : 2.68 kg
Publisher : Marvel (April 2, 2019)
ISBN-13 : 978-1302915322
Product Dimensions : 19.69 x 5.08 x 28.58 cm
Language: : English
*A bit of the timing on my voice-over is off. I may mention artists while the page that is currently being shown is actually the work of another artist in some cases. - Zábava
For me the magical issues were Buscema drawing and Chan inking. They just complimented each other so well.
The thing with books as thick as that omnibus is that even with a sewn binding, the weight of the body will still cause the book to destroy itself over time if it sits on a shelf like other books. Glued bindings will fail even faster like you say. The best way to keep books like that is to lay them flat and they will last a long time.
Thank you for the tip, man.
I lie all my Omnibuses editions down. It is better for the binding and for using shelf space because you can stack right up to the top of the shelf.
I became a Conan fan when I first discovered the paperbacks in 1968, with the Frank Frazetta covers, and which led me to the very first Marvel Conan with Barry Windsor Smith (my favorite artist...) and onto Jordan's Chronicles, and than the Dark Horse issues #1-#50, which I consider he greatest graphic stories of all!, and on.........You must remember that the Marvel re-leases were not printed as an artist perspective, but as getting the old material out to younger and newer fans so they could be exposed to these classics. For that I applaud them. But you are correct in the fact that SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN, oh yeah, is a fantastic retelling of the Conan canon! Thanks for the review!
As soon as you showed the SSOC omnibus I exclaimed, "Fuck Yeah!"
I *loved* ssoc. My earliest issue was 34. Could not find earlier.
Out of all of the characters and comics and whatever I've seen in my life, Conan in SSOC is by far my #1 favorite.
This reprint is excellent. Top quality. Nothing to nitpick about it.
I liked the recolouring on the Dark Horse collections of Conan.
Great review! Just discovered your channel and was on the fence about these new “Savage Sword of Conan” hardcover omnibuses because I owned the previously released softcover omnibus that were just very low quality.
The Original Marvel Years Omnibus line is not recolored, only touched up for scans, covers are included too.
Thanks man gorgeous artwork
One of the greatest comic series ever. I still buy one copy every time I visit my local comic shop. (They got an area in the back full of Savage Sword and 2000AD issues for sale.)
The art is truly unparalleled. They gave so much love to the Conan universe with this series.
Some of my favorite comics of all time. Grew up with them in my house, Dad had a bunch in a box. I am still trying to collect them all.
I had several dozen issues of SSOC when I was in my early teens, and I miss having them to read and to enjoy the artwork. Thanks for bringing this omnibus to my attention! Edit: Wow, I really have to acquire a copy!!!
Completed my Savage Sword of Conan collection last year and they have been a blast reading through! CROM COUNT THE READ!
Volume 1 is the only one I missed. Hopefully it’ll be a reprint one day. But I look the omnibus. All the stories are there, and I’m loving them.
Ey. Just in case you are still interested. I can see en Previews the Volume 1 is available for preorder.
What about Tomás Giorello's art? I think he's one of the best to ever depict Conan.
I think he is overrated. He is not good in fighting scenes, he does not draw Conan with the dynamics Buscema does during fight scenes and here and there he depicts Conan as a hunchback. I hate that.
So out of all the SSOC volumes, which volume would you say has the best entertainning stories and art? Btw, SSOC Vol. 5 omnibus comes out in July.
Great video!
Absolutely right, nothing cooler then Conan!!!!
Alien vs Predator original comics. Absolutely legendary. Good talk.
I have to dig into those. Man... it's been ages...
I preorderd this from Titan, the new publisher. They're doing a print run right now. This will be get it now or lose out
Greg Ruth did Conan? Nice. Maybe I need that one, pal!
Great review
Yeh, the red panel is in the original Savage Sword. And it works great. I suppose it's to drive home the point that Conan has just splattered his ace into the Wizards face! Didn't Schindler's List use a similar idea? Much later of course...
I want you to know that I really enjoyed your wonderful video.
Lasted a little longer with the Dark Horse stuff than you did, but did fall off as well. Purchased the collected Savage Swords in Paperback off Amazon probably 6 or 7 years ago. Still haven't gotten through them all yet. (Still have all the originals I bought back in the day as well.)
It looks so weird on bright white pages, my Savage Swords all have yellowed pages and it gives it an antique look. Might have to get this so I don’t have to handle my originals anymore. Great stuff. 👍
Crom! We have grown up reading CONAN Every single version printed. My brother and I and all my mates love Conan!
I am 44 years old and I think is time to go back to some old good black and white magazines. 👊👊👊👊👊
i have a full run of ssoc in good shape it is one of my most prized possessions
upside of collecting the originals is no money goes to marvel
These books aren't meant to be handled as aggressively as you did here and definitely not meant to be dropped, let alone down some stairs.. lol the dc sandman omnis aren't a good point of comparison because those had notoriously bad binding and that's not the norm. Marvel specifically is better about their binding and this book in particular didnt have any issues. And there are ways to read omnis without it being a chore or uncomfortable. Also, unless you're outside the U.S. there are places to get these books for half off the cover price and they come in immaculate packaging that preserve the mint condition.
Edit: also, this omnibus is sewn AND glued binding and you can see it in the fact that the book does not try to close on its own. If handled properly, it should last a while. All about how you treat your stuff djdn
Hi where do you order your omnibus. Looking for good packaging / protection during shipping.
where's a good place to get these for half the cover price?
@@DapaChrons InStockTrades if you're in the U.S. Anywhere else, you have to pray and hope you get lucky on Ebay or some other secondary market.
@@GorditoCrunch343 sweet, good thing I'm in the US :P
Guys clueless
That’s what got me in the Conan what is the cover art
nice but any idea where you can get it at? Amazon sold out
@Timothy Dexter thanks
The Savage Sword of Conan is my favorite. Nothing like it anymore. I used to get them years ago in the 80s.
Agreed. Wonderful stuff.
The book that you have is. Rarity. I too bought this one before it went out of stock. Now only epic collections are available to the late starters.
No, he has the regular run first edition. The rare one has a different cover that looks like the old magazine.
Hoping this gets a reprint or an epic collection release
I did come here because I watched Dagon.
But I am a massive Conan, Robert E Howard, and Retro comics fan.
Amazing work man!! Amazing!!
It's a trade mark now. Not an I.P.
Interesting. It looks like they reprinted the entire magazine, back up stories and all. Nice, but not enough for me to upgrade since I already have the earlier Dark Horse reprints in TPB.
Reprint this!!!!!
Imagine a time when companies accepted criticism but still didn't let the critics dictate how hey ran their business. It's what we'd call good business or common sense.
Idk I like alot of the dark horse conan material. It was one of my favorite books for a long time. Particularly the busiek and truman stuff. But that's just me. Cary nord just crush's it on art.
Buah with the date and the number of sheets they reduce the size of the book, in the Spanish version not happen that....
I've read Omnibus editions for ten years and they are not falling apart.
Amazon will damage any book from a mass market paperback to a valuable artisan edition it doesn't matter. Don't order books from Amazon, problem solved.
Agreed that a magazine- size edition would be better.
And for me personally the art would look better on matte pages with some tooth.
Why did you put IP in air quotes? Are you implying it's not really IP?
Just saying "IP" feels like a cheap commodification for something I love so much.
I have all of the Savage Sword omnis to date..they are all sewn binding so not sure what your talking about there..they also use some glue but they are all sewn.These books are not going to fall apart unless you abuse them..I mean why would you throw it down a flight of stairs?Lol.enjoy the review but you were just off a little .
This guy doesn't know what he's talking about
Right on!
DARKHORSE'S BEST WORK IS DISAPPOINTMENT
I've never read anything from Marvel/DC/Dark Horse that had really GOOD stories. Something that gives you some impact. If you want to read something legit good, check out comics released by Humanoids. Best comics in the industry. We are talking "book quality" storytelling.
The quality of the reprint is good but I wonder who thought it was a good idea to reduce the pages to add a totally innecesary frame with the date of the comic and a darker tone. It gives me the feeling of reading a photocopy and it totally puts me out of the story. Terrible idea, at least they didn´t do this on the CTB omnibuses,.
Not sure where you got your info, but the Conan Original Marvel Years Omnibus have the original colors, as far as I can tell. czcams.com/video/KZKkGBvZ3YQ/video.html
And I'm glad these books are as thick as they are, because thinner books means there would have to be more volumes. No thanks.
It's kind of annoying that marvel reprinted the kurt busiek conan run ( which I love) but put all these orphaned issues in it. It's not nearly as good as the collosal conan books by dark horse which collects the whole series. Including the Truman stuff which I like. Hopefully marvel will continue reprinting the dark horse stuff. Kind of sucks for dark horse to loose out on that .
Those other short stories should be left out of the book. They only add page count, nothing else.
I only bother with the Roy Thomas written stories from Marvel.
Dam all I here is complaining!!
So much toxic masculinity 😂I had a subscription when I was 12 years old and I turned out fine. 😅
Kurt Busiek is pretty good at adapting Howard's works. His retelling of the Frost Giants Daughter was fascinating. But it added so much content that it shocked me to learn half the graphic novel doesn't happen in the actual story.
That said, yes. Busiek has terrible political takes and should fuck off of Twitter.
You spent the first 12 minutes of a 30 minute (WAY too long!!!) video expressing your individual personal feelings about at least a dozen topics. These were (mostly) related to the main topic, but I didn't come here to learn how you feel about any of them. I came here because I believed you were going to give me your impressions of the Marvel published omnibus of The Savage Sword Of Conan comics series. In other words, you wasted 12 minutes of my time. There is a time and place for the kinds of ancillary information you expounded upon in the first half of this video. Not always, but usually, it is better placed at the end, and FAR better if heavily abridged from the form in which you presented it. What you did was entirely self-serving. It took the needs/wants/desires of your viewers into account not at all. That is fine, of course. It is YOUR video, after all. But don't expect my patronage if this is the kind of amateurish drivel you intend to produce.
If you are going to talk about something, talk about IT!... get to the main topic quickly. Keep any preface short and strictly business. I have to watch the rest of the video (I stopped at about 13:30), but it seemed to me that once you finally started to talk about the actual book, you were doing well. You began with purely factual information. How it is bound. What's on the dust cover. What's in the preface and so forth. If it turns out that you keep to this format, I will be more pleased with this video. But that still means it is just about TWICE as long as it needs to be.
It seems as if you'd like to monetize your videos and maybe do this for profit. If so, I offer this critique as a way to help you improve. I am an educated, older, experienced gamer, comics, sci-fi, fantasy art and literature fan. I think it highly likely that you will fail to retain many CZcams consumers (I pay for a subscription) like myself if you continue to produce videos that are this poorly made. Do you honestly believe that your subscriber base and patrons (if any) will be composed purely of teen comics fans who have little to no appreciation for 1970's era comic stories and art? Barry Windsor Smith is one of the most famous illustrators of the 20th century. You treat his style, which is dated compared to the trash that passes for comic art today, I admit, as if it is something to be dismissed as "quaintly eccentric". You know nothing.
Incidentally, the plates to print these pages were produced photographically. You may or may not know it, but to the camera's eye, red and black are identical. This may account for the red square you noticed. In general, it is clear you know little to nothing about how these books were originally produced. From what I could see (at 4K on an 80 inch TV), they went to great lengths to reproduce the pages as they appeared on pulp paper, in the books as they were sold in the 70's. That matters.
Study the material. friend.
Incidentally, your androgynous, metro-sexual nature is showing.
You will undoubtedly consider my words here to be harsh. I actually think you might have the ability, with lots of practice and a five gallon jug of polish, to actually do the CZcams thing if you wish. For now, however, the best part of this video, for me, has been writing this critique.
I hope you learn from it.
Sam Ash Looks like you wasted more time writing this comment than you had wasted by the slightly tangential opening ;)
@@alpertroncp2198 Did it take me more than 13 minutes to write my post? Yes. Was it wasted time? In my opinion, that depends entirely on your point of view. From mine, taking the time to write as I did demonstrates a couple of things... one; that I feel strongly enough about the subject to take the time to write a detailed post. And two; that I think the recipient (and/or his video) is worth the time and effort I expended to write it.
A blunt, or even harsh critique is not necessarily purely pejorative. Your post suggests that you think my critique was, at least, a waste of (my) time, and it also seems likely that you feel it (my post) is unnecessarily negative. An attack. This is not the whole truth. My critique was harsh. It happens that I know quite a bit about this particular subject and the related history. Hearing someone so far removed from the time and circumstances which prevailed when these books were released new speaking as if he has real knowledge of the books, or how they were produced, is frustrating, and frankly, just the tiniest bit infuriating.
So, if you feel that my critique is unduly harsh, and that is the reasoning that prompted you to respond as you did to my post, you need to go back and read my post more carefully. If you do this, you will realize that, for one thing, it absolutely is NOT purely negative.
I could go on to explain this further, but I think you have enough information now to understand how I feel about your post, and how I feel about mine. I have a question for you, now.
Why did you feel obligated to try and dissipate the intensity of my post? Do you think the owner of this channel requires your protection? Did I assail you, indirectly, with one or more of my opinions in my post?
I ask out of genuine interest, but I will tell you in advance that a part of the reason I ask is because I am always astounded when I get responses to posts which are specifically directed at a channel's owner from someone who is not that person. To someone with your intelligence, the difference between a post that is a general comment on a video (which, by it's nature, invites responses), and one aimed specifically at the owner of a channel are two completely different things. To make my point succinctly, a post that is addressed to the channel's owner is none of your damn business.
I wasn't speaking to you, slick. So why chime in?
Sam Ash You're making a massive assumption to think that I thought that your post was overly negative, or that I'm jumping to the defence of the channel - your points were all valid. I just couldn't help but notice the irony, and thought it was a little funny. And I chimed in because this is a COMMENT section that you opted to chime into as well.
I also understand how essay-writing can also be quite fun, and how a comment section can be a channel for it. I just keep mine to literary criticism, slick ;)
@@alpertroncp2198 I won't argue. Your explanation is too fine a fit, Cinderella. I accept what you say and withdraw my previous, contentious response.
Not one in twenty that I pose that question to offer any answer at all. I'm not sure I like yours, but I suspect that may have to do with the fact that the channel owners are ALL uniformly mute when I post. Cowards.
Literary, huh?
See you around sometimes.
Sam Ash Literary yep, albeit at an undergraduate level (I'm working on my dissertation this year). I've already got a dissertation idea for my Masters next year on how Literature, including comics, changed in response to the growing popularity of films. Too many people quickly dismiss them as trashy, cheap entertainment.