tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post5017040304789313513..comments2024-03-29T07:58:31.156-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: Pulp Fantasy Library: The Weird of Avoosl WuthoqquanJames Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-84631818232302106462010-08-09T18:53:14.018-04:002010-08-09T18:53:14.018-04:00I'll have to see if I can get a hold of those ...I'll have to see if I can get a hold of those comics ...James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-19428245392458573262010-08-09T17:22:22.615-04:002010-08-09T17:22:22.615-04:00"...the two large emeralds started to roll aw..."...the two large emeralds started to roll away from their companions on the smooth, level table of ogga-wood; and before the startled money-lender could put out his hand to stop them, they had vanished over the opposite edge and had fallen with a muffled rattling on the carpeted floor."<br /><br />i.e.: My dice.Deltahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705402326320853684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-38511106747134288252010-08-09T11:22:44.969-04:002010-08-09T11:22:44.969-04:00This story was adapted for comics in Conan the Adv...This story was adapted for comics in Conan the Adventurer #8 from 1994 (one of the darkest years in a century of fairly dark ones for American comics). Its worth checking out if you can get over the mightily-thewed Cimmerian shoe-horned into the story. The art by fill-in artist John Watkiss is excellent, noirish and moody. A high point in what was for me a pretty disappointing series. Issue 12 of the series adapts The Abominations of Yondo(less successfully, if I recall...)jasonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01547485448319713658noreply@blogger.com