#kull of atlantis

[barbarianhorde]

HAPPY 119TH BIRTHDAY ROBERT E HOWARD

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[tomoleary]

Ned Dameron “The Behemoth and Kull” Kull of Atlantis (1985) Source

[kingbryancroidragon]

Head Canon

Fred and Daphne are Robert E. Howard fans and one thing they always argue about is which of his barbarian heroes is better: Kull of Atlantis or Conan of Cimmeria, with Fred being in the Kull camp and Daphne in the Conan camp. Whenever this happens, Shaggy, Velma and Scooby all leave the room rolling their eyes.

[curtvilescomic]

King Kull by Cary Nord

[siryl]

"Kull the Conqueror" by Rei Zernan.

[siryl]

What’s up with the Rorschach patterns on the stairs?

KULL OF ATLANTIS

Art by JUSTIN SWEET

[wanderingmind867]

DC and Marvel both love Atlantis. And their interpretations of Atlantis are usually pretty similar, but I see some differences. I still want to compare it to the Greek and Roman stuff Rick Riordan writes about. DC's Atlantis feels more Grecian, I guess. Aquaman's Orange Chainmail or whatever reminds me of Camp Half-Blood. And Namor is Roman backwards, and he just screams the regal and imperious attitude of characters like Octavian at Camp Jupiter.

But there's so much more than that. DC and Marvel both delve into the prehistoric culture of Atlantis. Paul Kupperberg created Arion, the ancient sorcerer from DC's Atlantis. But Marvel's Atlantis has Kull the Conqueror and figures like the sorceress Zhered-Na (who died for predicting atlantis's fall, and then led a cult onto the mainland). Roy Thomas and Steve Gerber really fleshed out Marvel's Atlantis. So we have different writers, and different backstories, but it all goes back to sword and sorcery style mythos.

So this is why I really think we just need to have a reveal that DC and Marvel's two seperate versions Atlantis were seperated by the gods ages ago, perhaps during the time of Kull and Arion. The gods knew there would be fighting between their children, should they ever meet, and so they hid them from each other. I mean, come on! It makes so much sense! Rick Riordan's ideas and concepts just work perfectly in this setting! Why do I feel like I'm the only one who's noticed this!?

[cryptocollectibles]

Kull the Conqueror #1 (May 1983) by Marvel Comics

Written by Bruce Jones and April Campbell, drawn by John Buscema, Bob Wiacek and Dan Green, cover by Joe Jusko.

[kyliafanfiction]

Kull needs to be a lot more easily tricked than Conan.

[thetygre]

Michael Moorcock characters when they crossover with each other:

Robert E. Howard characters when they crossover with each other:

They are so similar in nature that they can't actually agree on anything Conan the Barbarian 68

[barbarianhorde]

Alex Horley

[cimmerian-war-shrine]

[tomoleary]

2nd part of Kull of Atlantis by Barry Windsor-Smith, original art.

[vaults-of-zin]

Kull of Atlantis miscellaneous thoughts

Being an earlier prototype of Conan the Barbarian most of the sotories are just straight up worse versions of later Conan stories.

There's about a dozen or so stories yet they all end up repeating themselves a lot. Probably a result of how they were/weren't published.

Like a full 50% are about scheming nobles sneaking into the palace to kill Kull and Kull beating the shit out of them.

Conan gets a lot of pre-kingship adventuring stories but every Kull story involves him being king so when he decides unseal ancient evils and plunder their cursed treasure he has a full royal court coming along with him telling him this is a bad idea.

Conan also gets to have a sexuality whereas Kull is wrtten to show how resiliant he is to the manipulating charms of womankind.

This comes off as very gay.

The only type of women in the Empire of Valusia are whiny teenage noblewomen.

The only type of political issue Kull everdeals with involve said whiny teenage noblewomen running off and having affairs.

For all Robert E. Howard loves to prattle about the degeneracy of civilisation, the only example of this he can throw out is scheming noblemen plotting to assassinate Kull. Which doesn't really contrast well with Kull since he also assassinated the last king.

The best story is The Cat and the Skull. Kull gets tricked into diving into a cursed lake full of seamonsters on the advice of a talking cat.

I think the best way to read Kull stories is to imagine them as a strongman dictator's propaganda puff-pieces. That's why the writer is so concerned with describing Kull as strong and virile. That's why every second story is about a consiracy to murder Kull. That's why they never discuss any of Kull's actual policy decisions.

[trve-grimdark]

Honestly as much as I love the Solomon Kane movie...

We seriously need a Bran Mak Morn movie.

Preferably based off the one story he time nabs Kull of Atlantis to lead Nordic mercs alongside his Picts to defeat a Roman legion.