Okay, it looks as if I'll be weak and will continue to buy these books! I just finished Beyond the Black River (review coming right up) and am expecting to receive The Frost Giant's Daughter in a week or so.

So I'll stop squatting the Marvel Conan thread.





Here’s a Sample of Glénat’s Queen of the Black Coast.

I don’t know what to make of it. It looks good, but we’ve seen these stories before and the new interpretations are not that novel. It’s the same with Marvel's new series... Will they build on what we saw before, or just be the adventures of a loincloth-wearing barbarian named Conan? Kurt Busiek succeeded in his reboot by doing his own thing while staying very true to Howard, but that’s a difficult trick to manage.