Slashing and 'Sexing' With Conan The Barbarian [Video]

Here's the newest theatrical Conan The Barbarian trailer who stars Jason Momoa in the lead role. 

It looks pretty cool I must say, with a lot of sword-slashing, magic, snake action and some nice effects and production values. But the thing I'm pretty sexcited... err.. excited rather, are the sex scenes this trailer teases. Yes folks, when you talk about Conan, there's plenty of that and of course, those sexy women every man would want to get their wants on to.

And to be honest, the women and the sex is all I'm after. Fuck Conan. Hehehe.  

[courtesy of Yahoo! Movies via ToplessRobot]

Intergalactic Romance: The Lost Worlds of Al Williamson, 1931-2010

Flash Gordon 1, page 12, panels 1 and 2

I just came across the sad news that comic book artist extraordinaire, Al Williamson, passed away recently, on June 12. Al Williamson has been one of my favorite artists ever since I read Flash Gordon 5 (King, 1967). So in memory of one of the greatest of the greats, here's the cover and one of the stories from that book:

Al Williamson must have really enjoyed drawing Flash Gordon and by the effort put into it, seems to have treated it as a privilege and an honor. It's done with such care and attention to detail, almost as if in tribute to Alex Raymond, who was clearly a major influence on his style. While he worked in various genres, to me his forte and perhaps his greatest achievement was science fiction/fantasy.

Above: Flash Gordon 1 page 4 panel 1 and Flash Gordon 5 page 25 panel 3

His passing reminded me of the last page in Barry Smith's Conan the Barbarian 3, so this post will finish with that, as a kind of epitaph to the man, the artist, one of the stalwart warriors who helped establish the greatness of the sequential art medium through the beauty and grace of his own work, Al Williamson: