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King Conan: The Hour of the Dragon #1 is An Almost Perfect Mix of the Subtle and Bombastic

King Conan: The Hour of the Dragon #1 Writer: Timothy Truman Artist: Tomas Giorello Colors: Jose Villarrubia Cover: Gerald Parel Publisher: Dark Horse Comics King Conan: The Hour of the Dragon is a six issue miniseries that adapts Robert E. Howard’s only Conan novel The Hour of the Dragon which is considered one of his greatest Conan stories. …

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‘Solomon Kane’ weighed down by its exceedingly morose and self-serious tone

Solomon Kane Directed by Michael J. Bassett Written by Michael J. Bassett, Robert E. Howard France/Czech Republic/UK, 2009 Solomon Kane is lugubrious, inclement, drab, dour, dark, violent and macabre. The eponymous character, played by James Purefoy, epitomizes all of the above and is very much the same. Having had its world premiere at the Toronto …

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