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Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 14:27:13 No.19780376 [Reply] [Original]

Why is Conan always shocked when he sees a giant snake despite fighting them literally every day?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 14:28:22 No.19780382 Because it's a giant fucking snake, do you think you get an acquired taste for them or something

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 14:43:45 No.19780456 Because there's no established chronology to the Conan stories, so every giant snake encounter could in theory be his first one.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 15:17:07 No.19780656 >>19780376 If you killed a surprise python in your bathroom, would you be less surprised the next time a python suddenly shows up in your bathroom?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 15:53:49 No.19780890 >>19780456 I love this

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 17:59:19 No.19781461 Most of those giant snakes are the spawn of an eldritch entity, and have an aura of supernatural fear. Conan has just seen so much that he is only surprised, instead of cowering and out of his mind.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 18:36:07 No.19781694 Do you really feel glad to face giant snakes every day?

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 18:55:25 No.19781810 Howard wrote every story so that it could be the first one you ever read without need of a backstory.

>>	Anonymous Thu, Jan 20, 2022 22:07:20 No.19782848 >>19780456 >>19781810 Actually, he has brain damage from getting hit in the head and that has adversely affected his memory and cognition

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 21, 2022 00:23:59 No.19783455 >>19780376 Like old comics, they're written on an assumption that every story might be the reader's first Conan story.

>>	Anonymous Fri, Jan 21, 2022 00:25:37 No.19783461 >>19783455 It's very telling that once this stopped being the norm at Marvel and DC, that's when comics started to decline in mass market popularity.