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<blockquote data-quote="Iron_Chef" data-source="post: 1318249" data-attributes="member: 4530">I just looked through Rogues In The House at my FLGS, and thought the Barry Windsor-Smith art sucked big time (like a bad version of John Buscema!), but it looked pretty standard for the early 70s as far as generic comic book art goes. I'd never seen it before; maybe I'd have liked it if I grew up on it, but as it is, I immediately lost all interest in buying the Conan comic reprints. I do think Barry did some nice stuff later in his career (thumbing through his &quot;best of&quot; art book a few minutes later to reassure myself that I'd liked his art at some point).I am more a fan of the Savage Sword of Conan B&amp;W magazine Esteban Maroto/Alfredo Alcala style of art, and some of the really beautiful art that appeared sporadically in the Marvel comics for Conan and Conan The King later (early-mid 80s).I just ordered the Conan reprints with the new Mark Schultz art; it didn't look that special from the cover image, but the image was so small, I couldn't make out all the details, even after blowing it up. I bought it for the stories, just so I could get them without all the awful L. Sprague de Camp/Lin Carter tampering of Howard's stories in the twelve volume set from ACE.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iron_Chef, post: 1318249, member: 4530"] I just looked through Rogues In The House at my FLGS, and thought the Barry Windsor-Smith art sucked big time (like a bad version of John Buscema!), but it looked pretty standard for the early 70s as far as generic comic book art goes. I'd never seen it before; maybe I'd have liked it if I grew up on it, but as it is, I immediately lost all interest in buying the Conan comic reprints. I do think Barry did some nice stuff later in his career (thumbing through his "best of" art book a few minutes later to reassure myself that I'd liked his art at some point). I am more a fan of the Savage Sword of Conan B&W magazine Esteban Maroto/Alfredo Alcala style of art, and some of the really beautiful art that appeared sporadically in the Marvel comics for Conan and Conan The King later (early-mid 80s). I just ordered the Conan reprints with the new Mark Schultz art; it didn't look that special from the cover image, but the image was so small, I couldn't make out all the details, even after blowing it up. I bought it for the stories, just so I could get them without all the awful L. Sprague de Camp/Lin Carter tampering of Howard's stories in the twelve volume set from ACE. [/QUOTE]

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