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ftp://ftp.funcom.com/media/Age_of_Conan/comic/AgeofConanComic.pdf
Age of Conan Comic - Free
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Sir Hackalot
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Looks good.
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Jacek said:
I'm reading those now. I just finished graphic novel 2 (Conan: The God in the Bowl and Other Stories). If I run across it, I'll let you know.
It's supposed to be a bridge between The Hour of the Dragon and the start of the Age of Conan MMO. References to the Howard story are made as the tale starts off just after Dragon has ended. The mark that the child's father bears is part of the central story to the online game.
Your character, in that game, also starts with a similar mark, but you avoid Thoth-Amon's control by dying for a moment (The Stygian sorcerer impales your body with a soul from fated Archeron. The tatoo on your chest and shown in the comic is a rune to keep the soul under control. In the beginning of the game, your character is a slave on a ship during a storm. The boat hits the rocks, and you nearly drown. While you are dying, the ancient soul leaves your body, and you wash up on the shore of one of the Barrachan Islands, free of Thoth-Amon's control, but with a mystery to solve. You can't remember anything about your life prior to being on the boat. It's an effect of the magic and the stress you've gone through.)
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According to this web site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(Dark_Horse_Comics)
That one-off, published freely by Funcom, acts as a prelude not only to the MMO game but to the graphic novel Conan And The Midnight God: http://www.amazon.com/Conan-Midnight-God-Graphic-Novels/dp/1593078528/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271522623&sr=1-1
I've purchased all the Dark Horse Conan collections, but I haven't read this one yet (I've been going through them in order). But, maybe I'll skip and see what happens in that tale (I played mucho hours of the MMO, too, but quit before I finished the main quest).
I finished Born on the Battlefield (Book 0) and The Frost Giant's Daughter And Other Stories (Book 1), plus The God In The Bowl And Other Stories (Book 2). Now, I'm on to Book 3: The Tower of the Elephant And Other Stories.
There was a moment in Book 2 that really got me. It was a new character introduced, Janissa. And, the Bone Woman. Wow.
What the Bone Woman did to Janissa to train her got me in my gut. Incredible. Repulsive. I was amazed it was in the comic.
I wasn't buying Janissa as a character before that sequence. It legitimized her and her skill. The character felt, at first, like a throw back to the 1970's, more super-hero Marvel version of Conan and the people he encounters. Had there not been that squeamish sequence, I would have kept on thinking that of Janissa. But, masterfully, they transformed a 2-D character into something very interesting by telling us how she got to be the way she is. She's sort of a Mara Jade on steroids, with a much darker background than just having been a servant for the Dark Side of the Force :wink2: .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(Dark_Horse_Comics)
That one-off, published freely by Funcom, acts as a prelude not only to the MMO game but to the graphic novel Conan And The Midnight God: http://www.amazon.com/Conan-Midnight-God-Graphic-Novels/dp/1593078528/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271522623&sr=1-1
I've purchased all the Dark Horse Conan collections, but I haven't read this one yet (I've been going through them in order). But, maybe I'll skip and see what happens in that tale (I played mucho hours of the MMO, too, but quit before I finished the main quest).
I finished Born on the Battlefield (Book 0) and The Frost Giant's Daughter And Other Stories (Book 1), plus The God In The Bowl And Other Stories (Book 2). Now, I'm on to Book 3: The Tower of the Elephant And Other Stories.
There was a moment in Book 2 that really got me. It was a new character introduced, Janissa. And, the Bone Woman. Wow.
What the Bone Woman did to Janissa to train her got me in my gut. Incredible. Repulsive. I was amazed it was in the comic.
I wasn't buying Janissa as a character before that sequence. It legitimized her and her skill. The character felt, at first, like a throw back to the 1970's, more super-hero Marvel version of Conan and the people he encounters. Had there not been that squeamish sequence, I would have kept on thinking that of Janissa. But, masterfully, they transformed a 2-D character into something very interesting by telling us how she got to be the way she is. She's sort of a Mara Jade on steroids, with a much darker background than just having been a servant for the Dark Side of the Force :wink2: .
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Supplement Four said:
I just looked through Midnight God, and, indeed, that free comic is the Prologue in Midnight God.
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I'm about half way through Conan And the Midnight God. Wow. Damn good story!
It'd make a good, epic, adventure for someone's game. The story centers around King Conan, but the emissary in the beginning could easily come to the PC's villiage instead of the throne at Tarantia. The breath-taking Aquilonian army could be a hoarde of screaming, blood-thirsty, savage Cimmerians, pissed because one of their own has been killed by sorcerous means. Instead of the River Styx, it could be a stream at the foothills of a mountain, and instead of Stygia, it could be the Border Kingdom.
Same plot. Same monsters. Same bad guys. All on a smaller scale.
It'd make a good, epic, adventure for someone's game. The story centers around King Conan, but the emissary in the beginning could easily come to the PC's villiage instead of the throne at Tarantia. The breath-taking Aquilonian army could be a hoarde of screaming, blood-thirsty, savage Cimmerians, pissed because one of their own has been killed by sorcerous means. Instead of the River Styx, it could be a stream at the foothills of a mountain, and instead of Stygia, it could be the Border Kingdom.
Same plot. Same monsters. Same bad guys. All on a smaller scale.
