{"id":552,"date":"2007-02-25T12:33:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?page_id=552"},"modified":"2009-10-16T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T17:42:22","slug":"the-cimmerian-v1n2-june-2004","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/the-cimmerian-v1n2-june-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cimmerian V1n2 &#8212; June 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/02\/skull_v1n2.jpg\" alt=\"skull_v1n2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited by Leo Grin | Illustrated by Jason Castagna<br \/>\n40 pages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This issue was printed in two editions. The deluxe edition, numbered 1&#8211;75, uses a black linen cover with foil-stamped blood-red text. The limited edition, numbered 76&#8211;225, uses a blood-red cover with solid black text.<\/p>\n<p>DELUXE  COPIES  DESTROYED: 0<\/p>\n<p>LIMITED  COPIES DESTROYED: 27<\/p>\n<p>Features an essay on El Borak, another on Howard&#8217;s boxing tales, two reviews of Don Herron&#8217;s new book of Howard criticism, poetry by Darrell Schweitzer, Announcements, Howard History, Letters, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXCERPTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the midst of all this fantasy, one might be tempted to dismiss the very idea of a Texas gunfighter leading Afghan tribesmen in battle as just another wild invention. But this would be a faulty assumption.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; from &#8220;The Great Game&#8221; by David A. Hardy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These tales make a terrific jumping-on point for potential fans who may be otherwise prejudiced against naked barbarians with swords, but might want to try a humorous series with a burlesque twist and a only a fraction of Conan&#8217;s pop cultural baggage.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; from &#8220;The Runyonesque Raconteur&#8221; by [redacted]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Howard must be regarded as a profoundly pessimistic thinker, and as a philosopher to be taken seriously. He was also a chillingly prescient prophet.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; from &#8220;Dog in the Manger&#8221; by Richard A. Lupoff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The field of Robert E. Howard scholarship &#8212; or more to the point, the field of weird fiction studies &#8212; has gone nowhere in the past twenty years. It may be growing, but progressing from Greenwood Press to Wildside Press is not a gigantic leap.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; from &#8220;Small Poets Sing&#8221; by Robert Weinberg<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by Leo Grin | Illustrated by Jason Castagna 40 pages This issue was printed in two editions. The deluxe edition, numbered 1&#8211;75, uses a black linen cover with foil-stamped blood-red text. The limited edition, numbered 76&#8211;225, uses a blood-red cover with solid black text. DELUXE COPIES DESTROYED: 0 LIMITED COPIES DESTROYED: 27 Features an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/552\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}