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Conan: Serpent War #1 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, kicking off yet another Conan the Barbarian crossover Is Conan really selling well enough to justify this level of market saturation? The Diamond charts would seem to indicate "no," but what do we know? This one is by Jim Zub, Scot Eaton, and[...]

Conan the Barbarian is coming to Marvel's futuristic 2099 super-mega-crossover event, because @#$% it, why the hell not? Marvel paid for this license and they might as well use it The issue is written by The Gerry Duggan of Comics, Gerry Duggan, with art by Roge Antonio We've got a preview of Conan 2099 #1[...]

But could there be another sentient landmass to compete with Arrako for Krakoa's affections? Spoilers for Conan the Barbarian #11 follow… Conan the Barbarian is dead Really, truly dead Killed at the end of Conan the Barbarian #10 by the children of the Crimson Witch Now, whether it will last more than a single issue is another[...]

Conan is dead Shocking, we know, but if you looked at the title of the storyline that's been running for the last ten issues, you might have had a clue this was coming Conan the Barbarian #11 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson, and Travis Lanham. Again,[...]

Age of Conan: Valeria #4 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by Meredith Finch, Aneke, Andy Troy, and Travis Lanham We've got a preview below, finally answering the question: what if Marvel milked this Conan license for all it's worth? In the previous issue, Valeria finally confronted her brother's killer So, story over right?[...]

Savage Sword of Conan #11 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by the legendary Roy Thomas and equally legendary Alan Davis, along with potentially one-day legendary Cam Smith, Chris Sotomayor, and Travis Lanham We've got a preview below which finally answers the question: I am Groot?! In this story, Conan has gound himself a[...]

Well, we all knew student loan debt forgiveness would come with a price. Savage Avengers #7 hits stores on Wednesday. SAVAGE AVENGERS #7 SEP190910 (W) Gerry Duggan (A) Patrick Zircher (CA) David Finch • Elektra and the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, fight together against Kulan Gath's forces. • Voodoo learns more about the evil sorcerer's plans to dominate Planet Earth. • And[...]

We can't guarantee 100% accuracy, of course. In this issue of Improbable Previews, we have a preview of Conan 2099 #1 from Marvel.com, by The Gerry Duggan of Comics Gerry Duggan and Roge Antonio Unfortunately, someone forgot to letter it, but we took care of that for them… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1[...]

Death in the Marvel Universe is nothing if not fleeting, but two series have spent the better part of the past year truly savoring the moment: Dead Man Logan, a 12-issue maxi-series whose entire purpose was to kill off Old Man Logan now that the return of the original Wolverine has made him redundant, and[...]

Today's Savage Avengers Annual sees Conan The Barbarian continue his travels across the Marvel Universe, meeting its superheroes along the way And today that means his fellow Avengers, the Black Widow and Hellstrom, Son Of Satan Of course, he has to make a pit stop first. It is possible his sexual mores and etiquette may not[...]

Conan the Barbarian #10 is in stores from Marvel comics next week, by Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson, and Travis Lanham We've got a preview below. Conan is looking to prove he really is the new Wolverine by dragging his death out for at least 10 issues, in addition to starring in multiple books and[...]

Follow along with our MCMLondon tag for this and many other new stories being announced today. Marvel Comics is launching its big Robert E Howard crossover series, Conan: Serpent War With Soloman Kane, Conan and Dark Agnes But this is not the end, it is the beginning. In February, Marvel Comics will be launching Dark Agnes, a[...]

Lots of big news announced by David Gabriel of Marvel Comics at London MCM Comic Con 2019's October show, straight from the Diamond retailer meeting.

As first revealed by Bleeding Cool, Roy Thomas returned to Marvel Comics to tell a two-part Conan comic book story with Alan Davis and Cam Smith, starting in Savage Sword Of Conan #10, published yesterday. It also features the first appearance of Simino, a new character based upon Roy Thomas' manager and friend of Bleeding Cool,[...]

Savage Sword of Conan #10 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, and it features the return of a legend to the comic he made famous: Roy Thomas Thomas is joined by the great Alan Davis, Cam Smith, Chris Sotomayor, and Travis Lanham for this comic, and we've got a preview below. The preview page[...]

Age of Conan: Valeria #3 is in stores next week from Marvel Comics, by Meredith Finch, Aneke, Andy Troy, and Travis Lanham We've got a preview below. The titular Valeria has been hellbent on avenging the death of her brother and hunting down his killer, and it's that quest on which this series focuses. Valeria has reached[...]

We've got a preview below. The Punisher and Conan are having a team-up alone, without the rest of the Savage Avengers, in the Savage Land. And thanks to Conan's monster-slaying capabilities, it looks like they'll be eating well. The solicitation tells us that the Punisher has become curious about Conan's ambivalent god, Crom. But in this preview, Conan becomes[...]

With a strong ensemble cast (and a "Big Bad" fronted by Samantha Morton in an award-earning turn as Whisperers leader Alpha) and richly layered writing, showrunner/executive producer Angela Kang did the near-impossible: made the show feel fresh and dangerous again. TBS So with less than two weeks to go before the series' return and on the same[...]

Jim Zub, the man who grabbed Conan in Avengers and ran with him, will be writing a new Marvel universe/Conan crossover series, using a few of Robert E Howard's other  creations. Conan: Serpent War is a four-issue series starting in December drawn by Scot Eaton and Stephen Segovia announced over at Comic Book[...]

Finally, Conan the Barbarian is getting his own Marvel event comic A lot of people have been asking, what with Marvel publishing approximately seventeen monthly Conan comics since obtaining the license to do so earlier this year, why the beloved barbarian hasn't gotten his own event yet Marvel has heard and will now answer those[...]

But we thought we'd get in early…  all coming out for October 16th. Absolute Carnage Vs Deadpool #2 (Of 3) Absolute Carnage Symbiote Of Vengeance #1 Conan The Barbarian #9 Powers Of X #4 (Of 6) Venom #18 Captain Marvel #10 Immortal Hulk #23 Venom #18 will also be getting a 1:25 wraparound variant cover for its second printing as well. No visuals yet[...]

Earlier this year, Marvel Comics picked up the Conan license and began publishing Conan and Conan-related comic books, based on the character created by Robert E Howard, just like they used to And started putting Conan in The Avengers, which was new. But they aren't stopping there, they are also creating new runs of comic books[...]

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[...]

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 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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

In a move that was in no way, shape, or form meant to promote the second season of his The Ron Burgundy Podcast, San Diego's Finest (Will Ferrell) stage-dove into the "talk show mosh pit." By the time he was fished back out, Burgundy had appeared on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and[...]

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[...]

Back in May, Bleeding Cool told you that Roy Thomas and Alan Davis would be telling a Savage Sword Of Conan story that worked as a prequel to the classic Conan tale People Of The Black Circle by Robert E Howard. One of the original Conan novellas first serialised in 1934 issues, it saw Conan kidnapping a princess while foiling a[...]