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Marvel to Reveal the 'Last Stand' of Conan the Barbarian
ign.com ^ | 8 September 2021 | Jesse Schedeen

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.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: conan; kingconan; marvel; savageavengers
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Is “he” a fagala too?


21 posted on 10/12/2021 11:06:00 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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So about Conan, today I read Savage Avengers #24.
Which is The Avengers with Conan.
How cool is that?

Unfortunately the run will end with issue #28.

When they say Savage Avengers they mean SAVAGE Avengers:

Savage Avengers 2019 #24 (Pro Tip: turn off the sound and set the video playback speed to 0.5)

22 posted on 10/12/2021 11:30:25 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (President Trump: "It's a great vaccine, it's a safe vaccine and it's something that works.")
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