I cannot even tell you how disappointed I would be if the only Conan story to be fully canon to the films (even if it happened off-screen) was Conan of the fucking Isles

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I contributed two pieces to the new XNOO mag from the Merry Mushmen. Really glad to be a part of it!

9/10 of them, SO CLOSE. Waiting for Titan to release volume 8.

The cartoon news is cool as hell, but I also realized we're just one month away from one of the coolest Conan covers we've ever gotten. Roberto de la Torre is the fucking man.

There's not much to go on in the fragment known as "The Snout in the Dark..." but there's enough to place it in Conan's timeline!

The Unmade Conan Sequels of Karl Edward Wagner

More TIDES OF THE TYRANT-KING #1 variant covers by JESUS MERINO and STUART SAYGER.

CL Moore's "The Dark Land" feels like it's about the issue of bodily autonomy. But perhaps the phrase "bodily sovereignty" would be better.

REH and the Question of Adaptation (or, The Kinda-Sorta Adaptations of Robert E. Howard's Works)

Robert E. Howard exists in a strange space where his work is kind of "up for grabs" in a way many other authors' works aren't. Let's examine some times his work was thrown into a blender.

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Travel with me to Howard Days 2026! Panels, awards, and re-teaching me the meaning of "fellowship!"

Processing Howard Days 2026 and I’m still floored. Thank you to the REH Foundation for the Venarium (Emerging Scholar) award. And thanks to everyone who came before me to carry the banner.

What an incredible weekend in Cross Plains! So many cool people and new friends. See you next year!

Visited Bob this morning

Bro. Genuinely, this is a surprise.

It was a lot of fun to participate in the Glenn Lord Symposium at Howard Days today! Thanks to Jeff Shanks for having me.

Howard Days begins today!

First chapter of Blue Fire read by author @mollytanzer.bsky.social

A fun page from Conan #209. Script by Christopher Priest with art by Val Semeiks

Went to a reading at West Side Books in Denver and then got a beer with Molly Tanzer last night to talk sword & sorcery, Star Trek, and El Santo! It was a great time.

"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is a surprisingly hard story to place in Conan's life. Is it actually the first chronological tale?

Is "Jirel Meets Magic" the worst Jirel of Joiry story?

The best Conan story of the 2020s pushes Conan in surprising new directions.

Nearly done with the completed, posthumous Howard stories for the chronology!

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The trouble squad. #meme #venndiagram #swordandsorcery #conanthebarbarian #conanthecimmerian #jirelofjoiry #elricofmelnibone

In light of @jimzub.com's Savage Sword #14 story, here are the many possible sequels to "A Witch Shall Be Born" we've had over the years.

Before Marvel had Conan, they had... Starr the Slayer? New video out now!

In my quest to introduce a new Conan chronology, I've now completed all the stories from REH's lifetime and I'm into the posthumous stuff.

In its philosophy and character moments, CL Moore’s Jirel of Joiry story “Black God’s Shadow” is completely unique in the S&S canon.

Due to its many, MANY chronological clues, "Red Nails" is one of the easiest Conan stories to fit into the timeline.

You know what's maddening? When you already pay as a member of a site and then the site tells you that you have to turn off your adblocker, which reads that it's blocked 403 ads on that site. Bro, I already pay you to access your content 😔

Pickups at Denver’s Vintage Voltage & Toy and Doll Supershow today at the National Western Complex

”The Hour of the Dragon” is actually a weirdly hard story to place in the Conan timeline!

“The Frost-Giant’s Daughter” has had a long 94 years of evolution and adaptation! New vid; I hope you enjoy.

When I read aloud to my students, they've said I should do audiobooks. Due to the dearth of Jirel access on the net, I've decided to take them up on it.

In my natural habitat. @ Mile High Comics

Jirel of Joiry is one of the coolest, most compelling sword & sorcery characters out there. With Molly Tanzer's new stuff coming out, I'm blogging my way through the Jirel stories. www.conanchronology.com/home/jirel-o...

KANE: “Two Suns Setting” features a member of a dying race coming into contact with a surging one. They’re both doomed in their own ways. www.conanchronology.com/home/karl-ed...

The Servants of Bit-Yakin may be a lesser Conan story, but it's still got a really good adventure at the heart of it... and LOTS of chronological markers!

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

New video! Two years into the new SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN, I spend some time recapping and ranking the issues. Liam Sharp and @patrickzircher.bsky.social are gods www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-G...

Roy Thomas's "WAR OF THE TARIM" arc is his first real triumph on Conan the Barbarian!

A Retrospective of Roy Thomas's CONAN THE BARBARIAN and his "Queen of the Black Coast" Saga

The Bizarre Bazaar in Fort Collins, CO. Great shop.

SSOC#69 was one of two issues plotted by the fantastic @christymarx.bsky.social and it's a high point of one of Savage Sword's most interesting periods.

CONAN THE ROGUE is the John Buscema show. It's well worth your time