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Age of Conan: Valeria #2 [Preview]
Age of Conan: Valeria #2 hits stores this week from Marvel Comics as Marvel continues to milk that Conan license for all it's worth, god dammit! This one is by Meredith Finch and Aneke, and we've got a preview below. Valeria is hunting down her brother's killer, but her quest was interrupted when a mysterious stranger[...]
Marvel Solicit Covers... temp
And Marvel has been teasing the deaths of two prominent characters for months now: Conan the Barbarian and Rocket Raccoon. For Conan, his entire ongoing series has been telling the story of his death, while Rocket's death has been the focus of a plotline in Guardians of the Galaxy But Marvel is taking their sweet time[...]
Savage Sword of Conan #8 [Preview]
Savage Sword of Conan #8 is in stores this week from Marvel Comics, continuing the Conan the Gambler storyline by Jim Zub and Patrick Zircher. In which Conan agrees to be the bodyguard of a wealthy man in a card game, only to be forced to take that man's place in the game when the man[...]
Age of Conan: Valeria #1
If you thought that Marvel regained the rights to publish Conan the Barbarian comics just so they could milk the license for all its worth by releasing multiple Conan books and adding the Barbarian to the Avengers, you didn't see the whole picture There's a whole wealth of characters from the Conan cannon that Marvel[...]
Conan the Barbarian: Exodus #1
Next week, Marvel Comics publishes Conan the Barbarian: Exodus #1 by Esad Ribic And we have a rather silent preview of the issue here, as the entire book will be wordless, a "visual narrative."   Well, aside from the intro pages, of course…     After that, we're treated to a scene of young Conan killing animals[...]
Killing a God in Savage Avengers #4 [Preview]
And there came a day, a day unlike other, when Earth's greatest heroes and heroines found themselves united against a common threat: the need to maximize the return on Marvel paying for the Conan the Barbarian comic book license On that day, the Savage Avengers were born, to sell the comics only three or four[...]
Cimmerian Anti-Vaxerism Run Rampant in Conan the Barbarian #8 [Preview]
They say you can't go home again, but Conan the Barbarian has never really been one for doing what he's told So in Conan the Barbarian #8, Conan heads back to Cimmeria for a visit with his grandmother Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), Grandma isn't home right now And something else has been troubling Conan's home[...]
Ablaze Brings Glenat's Uncensored, Violent, Sexual Conan Comics to U.S. in October
While Marvel has surely been making the most of the Conan license by publishing multiple solo series and even giving Conan his own Avengers team, over in Europe, where Conan is public domain, more publishers are taking advantage of the Barbarian's appeal Bleeding Cool has previously reported on Conan comics by French publisher Glenat and[...]
Funko SDCC Exclusives 2019 Round 1: Marvel and TV!
Pricklepants (Hot Topic) Pop! Games: Fortnite – Loot Lama (GITD) (Walmart) Pop! Games: Overwatch – McCree (GameStop) Pop! Heroes: DC – Batman (Teal Chrome)(GameStop) Pop! Television: The Flash – Cisco Ramon (Hot Topic) Pop! Television: The Green Hornet – Kato (Toy Tokyo) #gallery-4 { margin: auto; } #gallery-4 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-4 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-4 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode()[...]
Funko Round-Up: Marvel, Forrest Gump, Conan SDCC, and Hocus Pocus!
Welcome to the Funko Round-Up! In this edition, we take a look at new Hocus Pocus and Forrest Gump Pops coming soon, along with this years Conan Pops that will be given out at SDCC! Let's take a look. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /*[...]
Savage Sword of Conan #7: Shadizarian Wealth Inequality [Preview]
Conan's plans to have a half dozen monthly series at Marvel continue in Savage Sword of Conan #7, in which, in this preview, we find Conan faced with an important choice: to upset the status quo, or to support a system of rampant wealth inequality in ancient Shadizar It begins when Conan finds a man[...]
A Marvel Knights Team-Up for Savage Avengers #3 (Preview)
This week's Savage Avengers #3 sees the titular Savage Avengers one step closer to coming together in typical Marvel decompressed fashion, as we join the preview with a fight in progress between The Punisher and The Hand, who have teamed up with the wizard Kulan Gath in a story that will be an absolute licensing[...]
Privateer Press Announces Robert E. Howard Mini Crate Series
Howard, the new SAVAGE MiniCrate subscription series features a range of miniatures based on the worlds and characters he created, including the famed Conan the Barbarian. The first miniature in the series will be the iconic Dark Agnes de Chastillon based on Howard's Sword Woman stories. //Credit: Privateer Press "MiniCrate has proven to be a phenomenal success for[...]
What Does Conan Need 5 Prostitutes For in Conan the Barbarian #7? (Preview)
But after reading the preview for next week's Conan the Barbarian #7, you'll see there's more to this story than meets the eye It begins with Conan, in an inn, requesting some very specific services from the proprietor… And yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like… And Conan certainly lives up to his reputation. Except, it seems Conan[...]
Conan is Bored to Death in Savage Sword of Conan #6 (Preview)
Over the years, Conan the Barbarian has been described as many things: black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, a cash cow for which a comic book publisher who owns his license could make a dozen concurrent ongoing series But despite the accolades, in this[...]
"Conan Unconquered" Devs Are Challenging Their Fans to a Duel
The Conan Unconquered dev team at Petroglyph Games has decided to put out a challenge to their RTS fans Petroglyph is pitting their own skills against the best of the Conan RTS community in a brand new challenge mode feature.  The team at Petroglyph won't be an easy challenge, of course, as they've developed games like Command &[...]
Three Comcis Parody Red Sonja This Week - One Of Them Is Red Sonja
What with Marvel Comics giving Conan a big push of late, it's natural that a related comic that they don't have the US rights to, Red Sonja, would benefit from that push This week, while Conan pops up in Savage Avengers, a superheroic take on the role of the character, so his paramour Red Sonja[...]
Conan Unconquered Releases 20 Minutes of Gameplay
The upcoming RTS game, Conan Unconquered, is now due to release late afternoon on May 29th, one day earlier than previously announced. "We're eagerly looking forward to launch and to getting Conan Unconquered into the hands of players. The game has really come together and although the skill cap is high, it's tremendously fun to play," says Lawrence Poe, Chief[...]
Esad Ribic to Write and Draw His Own New Conan Series
There simply aren't enough Conan the Barbarian series being produced following Marvel's acquisition of the license Well, fear not Adding to Conan the Barbarian, Savage Sword of Conan, Savage Avengers, and Age of Conan, Marvel will publish a one-shot starring the titular barbarian Called Conan the Barbarian: Exodus, the series will be written and illustrated[...]
Esad Ribic Writes and Draws Conan
Fresh from being the inspiration of the Eastern European secret agent thug turned by Jack Kirby in Brian Bendis and David Mack's Cover, he's now working on Conan for Marvel Comics with a one-shot, Conan: Exodus, a mostly silent issue… And courtesy of Dennis Barger of Wonderworld Comics, Michigan And announced at the Diamond Retail[...]
Age of Conan: Valeria - Finally, Another Conan Comic from Marvel in August
With only Conan the Barbarian, Savage Sword of Conan, Savage Avengers, and Age Of Conan: Belit, Queen Of The Black Coast currently in stores, a lot of people are wondering why Marvel doesn't really cash in on that Conan license they recently acquired Well, Marvel has heard these concerns and responded with another Conan comic,[...]
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Courtesy of his manager John Cimino, Bleeding Cool is happy to share his thoughts about the show. I would have written sooner about the con that Dann and I (and my manager John Cimino) attended in Portsmouth, England, on Saturday and Sunday (May 4th and 5th), but after the two long transatlantic flights, I came back[...]
Conan Does The Goonies in Savage Sword of Conan #5 (Preview)
Savage Sword of Conan sees Conan the Barbarian facing the evil sorcerer Koga Thun, as basic a Conan premise as can be But in this preview of Savage Sword of Conan #5, as Conan and Menes spelunk in a dark cave, things take an exciting and unexpected turn No, we're not talking about the fact[...]
Hyperborean Sexism in Next Week's Savage Sword of Conan #4
It's hard to keep track but Savage Sword of Conan is one of four books starring Conan the Barbarian at Marvel Comics And in this preview of this week's issue, Savage Sword of Conan #4, we see the titular barbarian, alongside his friends Suty and Menes in a tough spot, being chased by an army[...]
Event Leviathan, Amazons Attack, and Age of Conan: Belit #2
Marvel has only had the Conan the Barbarian license for a couple of months, but they're already using it to fire shots at their Distinguished Competition! In the pages of next week's Age of Conan: Bêlit #2, we find the titular Bêlit on a ship under attack by a sea monster. What kind of sea monster,[...]