Posted on 10/06/2021 6:30:49 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Marvel Comics has announced King Conan, their latest new project featuring the iconic barbarian hero. However, this story has a unique selling point. It's poised to finally shed light on the last and least known chapter of Conan's life.
King Conan is written by Jason Aaron and drawn by Mahmud Asrar, the same team who launched Marvel's monthly Conan the Barbarian comic in 2019. This six-issue series picks up where their run left off in Conan the Barbarian #12, as an aging King Conan and his son, Prince Conn, sail west from Aquilonia and seek out new adventures in an unfamiliar land.
Conan creator Robert E. Howard never got around to chronicling this period of the character's long and bloody career before the author's death in 1936, and none of the movies, comics or other licensed stories have ever revealed what happened after Conan sailed west. It's unclear whether this series will actually depict Conan's death, but Marvel is ominously billing it as the Cimmerian's "last stand."
“I knew as soon as Mahmud, Matt and I finished 'The Life and Death of Conan' in CONAN THE BARBARIAN, one of the absolute personal highlights from my career as a comic book writer, that I wasn't done hanging out with everyone's favorite Cimmerian,” Aaron told Marvel.com. “As King Conan rode into the sunset at the end of that story, with his son, Prince Conn, by his side, I always knew where I wanted that story to take us next. Now at last comes that next chapter, as Mahmud, Matt and I reunite to reveal a pivotal moment in Conan's life as a king, as a father, as a mortal enemy of snake-worshipping Stygian wizards and as a barbarian who was born to chase the wind, even to the ends of the earth.”
King Conan #1 is slated to hit stores on December 15, 2021.
Will Conan transition and be called Connie?
Sorry, woke Marvel is burned out.
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I believe in the paperbacks put together by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter they went to Mayan or Aztec lands to wreak some havoc over there.
Marvel is Disney..........................’nuff said...................
By and large, I could see a big difference in the quality of the stories written wholly by Howard, and those ‘beefed up’ by de Camp and Carter.
Here is a site that has only Howard’s original versions.
Awesome stuff!
https://sites.google.com/site/skprofile00/reh-stories
I guess they will “re-image” Conan the Barbarian like those below.
Critical Drinker After Hours
No Time To Die - Initial Reaction (Lots of Spoilers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSkvWrcBzo
Bond does die at the end....
All past characters die. Blofield, all of Spectre, Felix Leitner.
Bond is destroyed.
This was done to Star Trek and Star Wars etc.
It’s pretty much a given that Bond has to die - it actually works out better for the continuation of the genre.
Bond (from Fleming’s books) had memories of being a motorcycle courier in WW2, and not much else in terms of family background (iirc) - his name may have even been false.
Which is a reasonable way to extend the franchise - Agent 007 is ALWAYS called ‘James Bond’. When a 007 goes down, a new one is assigned.
Movie, great first hour, so-so second hour, last 43 minutes tedious and awful, the ghastly end of the entire franchise, frankly.
Hopefully they choose someone who does not look like he is sucking lemons all the time.
first book i read was Conan of the Isles#12, then i had to go to the beginning and read the rest
Dark Ages 2021 #1 (Pro Tip: turn off the sound and set the video playback speed to 0.5)
Didn’t they go woke with a Female Bond?
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