COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Conan the Barbarian 13 Universal
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Grade:
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9.6
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Pedigree:
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Don/Maggie Thompson Collection
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Certification #:
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0919394004
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Owner:
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Lee K
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
"Web of the Spider God!" Is it me, or does Conan throw down with the gods constantly? Like he's Greek or something. Don't mind my wandering, I just finished typing the owner comments for issue 3 - so it's two gods in a row (and the other one is a cooler cover). But but but....(I know, motorboat), even as my least favorite of the 25 covers in this run, it's still good. Conan's climbing up a wall (that's so Conan too), while fighting off a mob of crazed cultists following the Spider God - actually pretty sweet. BWS has nicely centered the web in the background on Conan's head, the green of the web is lighter/more chartreuse at the center, and adding a swoople so you can see the path that the sword just took, re-emphasizing the focus of the cover - like a halo on Conan's sexy profile. And - this is important - although the mob is unimportant - notice how they are each individuals? different facial features, different color clothing? The color in their clothes is an important choice to stand out against the garish green of the web.
Conan feels a little bulky for me in this image, and although climbing & fighting at the same time are very Conan - if there's an actual Spider God hiding in the shadows, I would imagine it climbs real good. It's a spider. Seriously. Maybe even some spider minions too.
I can't really opine on the ability to fight and climb at simultaneously - not that I don't go to the climbing gym every week - but I think they'd frown on my bringing a sword along (as would my buddy belaying me below), and I wouldn't be free climbing anyway. But aside from that, I'm trying to come to grips with Conan's swing. See - either he just finished a big swing with the false edge of his sword, or we've caught an image of him after the swing & the rotation of his arm so he can start a return swing in the same arc. I'd like to believe the latter, but I feel like the swoople shouldn't be there then. So I think the image would be a tiny bit better to me, if he was still finishing his sword swing, so his shoulder should be rotated back and his palm up and the sword tip pointing off the page down. Probably this didn't work due to the constraints of the picture frame cover.
Overall - yeah, it's like my least favorite of the run, but it's still all kinds of awesome-sauce.
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