Product Description: The Cimmerian finds himself ensnared in the dark intrigues of a city-state where the powerful will stoop to any depths to keep what they have stolen. When a young, idealistic noble offers Conan a ticket to freedom in exchange for a favor, Conan leaps at the opportunity - and into a labyrinth where he must fight to keep not only his word, but his very life. A favorite of fans and critics alike, the seminal Conan story "Rogues in the House" first appeared in Weird Tales. Now, writer Timothy Truman and artist Cary Nord bring you the tale of the Red Priest, as you've never seen it before.
Pretty good, well worth reading ^ Conan has stolen some very valuable magical elixirs, which has gained him a very powerful enemy. And when Conan in approached by a young nobleman who wants a certain priest killed, he takes the offer without blinking an eye. But, there's more than one who wants the priest out of the way, and soon Conan will find himself fighting for his very life.
Overall, I found this to be a quite good book. True, as far as Conan stories go, this one is not among the best. There's a monster, but not much magic. The fight scenes are pretty good, though. As far as Conan stories go, I though that this was a pretty good one, well worth reading.
Conan is still OK here ^ I think that the criticism heaped upon this volume is undeserved. The drawings are still very attractive (wait till you see vol 6) and the storyline is quite intriguing.
A little preamble has Conan settling matters with Jiara in a boisterous manner. This leads on to the main storyline. This has a terrific fight scene involving Conan with an apelike creature. The artwork here is tremendous.
I can't really fault or see any decline in overall presentation of the on-going Conan adventures here, despite the perturbation which must have been caused by changing the creative writing/drawing teams.
Very good book indeed ^ Well, first of all I`d say that I`m not disappointed at all as some folks here must have been. The story is great, better than the original adaptation by Thomas/Smith, with lots of suspense, terror and intrigue, and the art team really stands out as one of the best in the series. Giorello work is up to Cary`s standard (just check out Giorello`s apes, awesome!)and the coloring is definetely not bad, it is just different, maybe Conan fans didn`t get used to it, but I like it, and consider it just a shift in style, nothing else. I must also say that the last chapter of the book is one of the best in the whole series, the fighting scenes are superb! To sum up things, I`d say buy this book, you won`t regret it, just be open-minded.
The last good album... ^ I would disagree with some comments saying that this tome doesn't have the qualities of the previous ones in this series, because of a change of the artists (drawer and scenarist).
- Drawing : Tomas Giorello had a very small intervention here. He's not an awful artist, but compared to Nord, he just doesn't stand a second. I agree choosing him was a questionable choice, but the fact is that this choice had an impact on volume 6, not on this specific volume.
- Story : It may be not the best story of the series, but it's still a quite good one. Actually, I don't have any critics about it, except something that was in the original plot (about Conan's Vengeance against a woman. I won't say more to be sure not to give any spoiler).
To sum up, well it's a good volume. And unfortunately the last one of the series. 6th volume is indeed very deceptive. So enjoy this 5th volume. It's worth it.
If I could give it no stars... I would- BUYER BEWARE THIS IS NOT UP TO THE STANDARDS OF OTHER CONAN COMICS ^ I am an avid reader of Conan. I own every volume of the Dark Horse series to which this volume (unfortunately) belongs. The others are excellent, deserving of at least four-star reviews for the most part. This volume, however, is not. It suffers from, at best, the syndrome of many good titles; shifting creative staffs. It could be blamed on the fact that Conan lost Kurt Busiek, Cary Nord, and Dave Stewart at once, as they worked incredibly hard to define the storytelling and art style of the title. The replacements, or dare I say _Stand-Ins_, are Timothy Truman as writer (co-creator of the little known GrimJack comic and laughable Turok comics of the 90s), Tomas Giorello as artist, and Richard Isanove as colorist. Although I know very little about Truman and Giorello, I am a fan of Isanove and was disappointed to see his _amateurish_ coloring of this volume, which appears to be halfheartedly painted in in Photoshop rather than approached with any degree of care. He worked on the Dark Tower limited series, which has achieved great success and made him known as possibly the best colorist in the business, which makes it seem even more baffling how this project turned out so _poorly_. Recovering from Lasik eye surgery, perhaps? In short, the quality of this book is disgusting. It almost feels like a betrayal by the original creative team that they would leave a character with a legacy as strong as Conan in such poor, ill-equipped hands, especially after the praise and awards heaped on them by fans.
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