I agree about Conan's look - a little too muscle-bound in a modern body-builder kind of way - though that has unfortunately become the norm for all too many artists today whether they're doing fantasy characters like Conan or superheroes. BTW, how come Conan has brown hair? Is that the way Dark Horse always has it?

As for the concept itself, it doesn't make much sense to me: Wonder Woman's a superhero (or a goddess, depending on whatever DC is doing with the character these days) and Conan's very much a mortal, human hero. Seems like WW would just be able to plow through whatever obstacles Conan usually has to deal with in his adventures. But I remember writer Gail Simone doing something like this in her time as WW writer - she had WW on a long adventure where she met characters like Beowulf and DC's Conan stand-in Klaw. I forget how that worked now.

BTW, would an Aesir call Conan "Barbarian"? I thought they were at much the same level, culturally and that it was the more developed civilisations of the south that thought of the Cimmerians and the Aesir as barbarians.

I think I came off the fence, and on the wrong side.

Agreed, and that's something many writers did at Marvel as well. It's as if "Barbarian" was Conan's nationality. (Of course some might insist that to most groups, anybody else is a barbarian... it's a one-size fits all derogatory term).

Also... "Conan had never seen a building larger than a thatched hut until the invaders built a fortress in his lands. He killed his first man there (...)"

No he didn't. Not according to Dark Horse's own Born on the battlefield series. Nice reference to Venarium, but Conan had already killed people by the time he joined the attack on that fort (including a childhood friend, alas).

I read the first issue. It's...not bad. Gail Simone cares about the character so she makes it worse

I flipped through the first issue at the shop and decided to give it a pass.

-M