{"id":165,"date":"2013-11-04T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/?p=165"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:46:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T07:46:18","slug":"king-conan-the-hour-of-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"King Conan &#8211; The Hour of the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/King_Conan_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-166\" alt=\"King_Conan_2\" src=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/King_Conan_2-194x300.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/King_Conan_2-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/King_Conan_2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>Every once in a while, a comic comes along that reminds me why I started collecting comic books in the first place. \u00a0Great art, great story. \u00a0With the recent series\u00a0<em>King Conan &#8211; The Hour of the Dragon<\/em>, we have this combination in spades.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Truman, Tom\u00e1s Giorello, Jos\u00e9 Villarrubia and Gerald Parel &#8211; acting on behalf of Robert E. Howard &#8211; pack a serious punch in this book. \u00a0Check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/Comics\/22-196\/King-Conan-The-Hour-of-the-Dragon-6\">preview of the sixth installment of the series<\/a>\u00a0at Dark Horse for yourself. \u00a0The art is reminiscent of Gene Colan with Tom Palmer, and even has shades of Frazetta, Hal Foster, and Everett Raymond Kinstler in there (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/Comics\/Previews\/22-195?page=1\">this page<\/a>\u00a0in particular,\u00a0from issue 5, reminds me of Kinstler). \u00a0It is just fantastically well done. \u00a0Sure, part of it is personal taste&#8230;but there is just no denying that this crew is top notch.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you get a chance to give this book a look. \u00a0They are in the middle of an adaptation of Robert E. Howard&#8217;s only Conan novel, <em>The Hour of the Dragon. \u00a0<\/em>The second half of the adaptation will commence in February&#8230;so you have plenty of time to catch up!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, a comic comes along that reminds me why I started collecting comic books in the first place. \u00a0Great art, great story. \u00a0With the recent series\u00a0King Conan &#8211; The Hour of the Dragon, we have this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conan","category-dark-horse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/comics\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}