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When you’re trapped inside an inn that’s been the scene of multiple murders and is now surrounded by a pack of evil, gruesome demons, the last thing you want to find out is that there’s something equally gruesome trapped inside with you! Solomon Kane and a frightened priest may not live through the night! One will rely on his guts and guile, while the other will feel that consecrating the building with prayer will be enough to protect them. The Cleft Skull tavern seems to attract the deadliest sort of troubles Germany’s Black Forest can offer-and the dangers found within and without the Cleft Skull threaten to destroy our strange hero and his frightened, new companion! Scott Allie (The Devil’s Footprints, Exurbia) expands upon Robert E. Howard’s classic Solomon Kane tale “Rattle of Bones” and the unfinished “Death’s Black Riders” fragment, as Mario Guevara (Lone Ranger and Tonto) and Juan Ferreyra (Rex Mundi, Small Gods) join him to illustrate another horror-tinged adventure.
* Covers by Darick Robertson!
“Solomon Kane is a welcome addition to the other excellent Howard properties produced by Dark Horse… ” – Comics Bulletin
Writer: Scott AlliePenciller: Mario Guevara
Colorist: Juan Ferreya
Cover Artist: Darick Robertson
Price: $3.50
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I actually haven’t even read 1 and 2 yet. Looking forward to reading all three ( or possibly all four) back to back.
I loved the first mini series last year.
I think they will read better back-to-back. The first issue left me a bit flat, with some confusing action and no where near enough Kane. The second was an awesome adaptation of a Howard story, really creepy, very Kane-y. I bet if read all in a row the first issue will just serve as introduction and not feel quite so empty of the really good stuff.
I think thats a consistant trend with the R.E. Howard stuff from dark horse. That’s partly why I actually dropped Conan the Cimmerian. The first issue of the last arc definately fell flat and I couldn’t get back into the strory reading the 2nd and 3rd issues individually. I ended up being so uninterested at the end though, I didn’t even want to go back and re-read. Maybe I’ll read future trade paperback editions if Im in the mood later down the road though.
Some great Puritan vs. Catholic Priest tension in this one, setting up for the final battle. Definitely will read better collected, I think. Written in four acts, not really a serialized comic form. I am not in love with Guevara, but it is the colorist that is really dropping the ball for me. Of course the interior color artist is heads above the cover color artists, who has managed to take four Darickson covers and make them muddy, ugly, boring messes. Maybe the printers deserve some blame, I don’t know, but the art is not working for me.