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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3865071" data-attributes="member: 18280">Just to point out:*&nbsp; Conan has a comic again for the first time in over a decade.&nbsp; It is doing well, and is an excellent tribute to Howard.&nbsp; To be clear, it is doing well enough that Dark Horse will be bringing out Kull and Solomon Kane next year.&nbsp; At the same time, DC brought out its Conanesque Warlord again, and Dynamite is doing several Red Sonja titles.&nbsp; IDW is planning a comic adaptation of A Princess of Mars, and there is even talk of a John Carter film.*&nbsp; Both Burroughs and Howard are currently being reprinted.&nbsp; Howard is, by far, getting the better treatment, with beautiful books in both hardcover and softcover, covering the gamut not only of his Conan work, but all of the work published in Weird Tales and even his boxing stories.&nbsp; Some of these volumes include unpublished fragments, as well as drafts, and interesting critical commentary.&nbsp; *&nbsp; I'm not aware of any resurgence of Leiber or Vance either.*&nbsp; In the wake of the LotR movies, a lot of older work is being re-examined in light of what might become the next big Hollywood property.&nbsp; Hence, the Narnia films and The Dark is Rising (based off the Susan Cooper book), as well as several others I'm too addle-pated to recall at this moment.&nbsp; The rights to REH's work had been bound up in legalese for a bit, but now that they are clear again, I'd not be too surprised to discover a new Conan film in the works for 2010 or so.*&nbsp; League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (comic/graphic novel, not film) has certainly provoked renewed interest in characters like Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain and Verne's Captain Nemo.*&nbsp; In selling short stories, I have found that those cleaving closer to the pulp era dynamic sell better than those cleaving to a more Wahoo! dynamic.&nbsp; Of course, this might be due to my writing style/prefered markets.I agree with those who've said that 4e seems to recall some of the tropes of earlier fiction more than 3e; the points-of-light setting being one of those tropes.&nbsp; I am somewhat encouraged by James Wyatt's comments (in the Influences article) about I1.&nbsp; Fleshing out the Forbidden City, to tell multiple stores, and to be tackled in the way that the DM and players involved want to tackle it, is what I want from a module.&nbsp; It also makes the setting seem more pulp-era to me.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 3865071, member: 18280"] Just to point out: * Conan has a comic again for the first time in over a decade. It is doing well, and is an excellent tribute to Howard. To be clear, it is doing well enough that Dark Horse will be bringing out Kull and Solomon Kane next year. At the same time, DC brought out its Conanesque Warlord again, and Dynamite is doing several Red Sonja titles. IDW is planning a comic adaptation of A Princess of Mars, and there is even talk of a John Carter film. * Both Burroughs and Howard are currently being reprinted. Howard is, by far, getting the better treatment, with beautiful books in both hardcover and softcover, covering the gamut not only of his Conan work, but all of the work published in Weird Tales and even his [i]boxing stories[/i]. Some of these volumes include unpublished fragments, as well as drafts, and interesting critical commentary. * I'm not aware of any resurgence of Leiber or Vance either. * In the wake of the LotR movies, a lot of older work is being re-examined in light of what might become the next big Hollywood property. Hence, the Narnia films and The Dark is Rising (based off the Susan Cooper book), as well as several others I'm too addle-pated to recall at this moment. The rights to REH's work had been bound up in legalese for a bit, but now that they are clear again, I'd not be too surprised to discover a new Conan film in the works for 2010 or so. * [i]League of Extraordinary Gentlemen[/i] (comic/graphic novel, not film) has certainly provoked renewed interest in characters like Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain and Verne's Captain Nemo. * In selling short stories, I have found that those cleaving closer to the pulp era dynamic sell better than those cleaving to a more Wahoo! dynamic. Of course, this might be due to my writing style/prefered markets. I agree with those who've said that 4e seems to recall some of the tropes of earlier fiction more than 3e; the points-of-light setting being one of those tropes. I am somewhat encouraged by James Wyatt's comments (in the Influences article) about I1. Fleshing out the Forbidden City, to tell multiple stores, and to be tackled in the way that the DM and players involved want to tackle it, is what I want from a module. It also makes the setting seem more pulp-era to me. RC [/QUOTE]

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