CONAN Versus The ROYAL MAIL...

Copyright Conan Properties Intl.

Call me cynical, but I'm a suspicious sort of critter.  Royal Mail gets hit with a 21 million pound fine for not fulfilling their delivery obligations and I get a card through my door (which is a neat trick, 'cos I don't have a letterbox - har-har, only kidding) saying I owe a £7 surcharge on a parcel as the sender didn't pay the full postage.  Which is nonsense, as he took it into his local Post Office to have it weighed and labelled and paid what was asked of him.  Something sure smells fishy in Denmark I thought.

Anyway, paid the £7 and collected the parcel, which had no postage label on it, meaning it had either been removed or never put on to begin with.  I asked the seller to send me a copy of the receipt, which he did, and claimed the money back from RM as I could supply the PO reference number.  Well, that's not quite true as regards the dosh - they're sending me a book of stamps worth £13.60 as reimbursement, which I don't mind as Christmas is approaching and it covers the stamps for any cards I send.

The item in question?  Savage Sword Of Conan Reforged #1, which contains coloured strips originally published in b&w, and the colouring is more 'natural' and not quite so garish as some of the Dark Horse reprints of Marvel material were.  However, at the risk of accusations of being pernickety, there's something that slightly irks me about the mag - a minor thing, but irksome nonetheless.  The page number boxes have been cut (which is okay when it's done skilfully), but some have been overlooked.

Whatever happened to consistency?  Three instances in "The Frost Giant's Daughter" (one number 'box' left in but without the number, two blacked out), and the number 7 box overlooked in "The Tower Of The Elephant".  I hate this sort of carelessness and there's no excuse for it.  I hope Titan get their act together and either leave the boxes in or delete all of them less clumsily.  However, that apart, it's well-coloured and Conan fans will be sure to love it, whether they already own the b&w originals or not.

Any of you Crivs buy this mag, and if so, what did you think of it?