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

Ever heard of the Marvel Graphic Novel line of Conan books?

Using Conan in the Classroom!

The Fall & Rise (and Fall & Rise) of the Savage Sword of Conan

Roy Thomas kind of adapted The Thing in the Crypt twice. The story behind both of them is great youtu.be/7uQL28OVyj8?...

Take a tour through my sword & sorcery library with me!

The Unsung Sword of Conan #92: "The Thing in the Crypt!" Roy Thomas returns to the L. Sprague de Camp story for a second time... sort of.

PRIMAL is the TV show we need right now

Savage Sword #74 deserves to be up there with the best-ever issues of SSOC!

My Rastan journey continues

Any other Conan chronology nerds want to weigh in on a possible connection between "Xuthal of the Dusk" and "Iron Shadows in the Moon?" I'm not sure if I'm way off-base.

Most of the Marvel Graphic Novel line is pretty insubstantial... but "Conan the Barbarian in The Skull of Set" is the best of the bunch and well worth your time.

Let's get drunk and play the Conan ripoff arcade game, RASTAN SAGA

These Titan Conan books sure do look good next to one another

Conan: Spawn of the Serpent God is fun enough, but just kind of runs right through you.

The Unsung Sword of Conan - Savage Sword #68: “Black Cloaks of Ophir”

Conan has gotten a little better at thieving since The Tower of the Elephant!

Randomly popped into the local antique mall and walked out with the first 11 issues of DC’s Claw the Unconquered for $12 for the whole lot

Had a wonderful time chatting (remotely) with a 7th grade class in Colorado as they prepared to write their first ever film reviews (of Coppola's "The Outsiders," after reading Hinton's original novel). Lots of curiosity and eagerness about criticism, and a young Scream fan too.

Today, film critic @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social joined my 7th graders to talk about film and film reviews! Thanks for joining us from NY!

I've got a new blog post up about Roy Thomas's first real Conan the Barbarian epic: "The War of the Tarim." This was really fun to put together and I think some of my better writing. Please let me know what you think!

How Conan the Cimmerian and the team at Marvel Comics helped defeat the draconian Comics Code Authority

@jimzub.bsky.social and Alex Horley's CONAN #25 is EXCELLENT. A celebration of Conan and the immortality of stories themselves.

Barbarian vampires... in space!

Conan: Cult of the Obsidian Moon dovetails REH’s “The Garden of Fear” with Conan well enough, but it’s much more of a straight fantasy than sword & sorcery

Needed to update the pic for the blog

After collecting for 24 years, I finally have all of @straczynski.bsky.social’s Amazing Spider-Man run. The thing that got me into comics at 10 years old!

Ed Brubaker and @seanphillips.bsky.social never miss. “The Knives” is a great addition to their body of work!

@foldablehuman.bsky.social Hey Dan, do you have a video that comes to mind as your best-executed video? Or any that you feel like didn't turn out how you wanted? When you put out Mantracks I got the sense that you felt that one had come together exactly as you wanted it to

Despite a beautiful painted cover, "Conan the Barbarian: The Witch Queen of Acheron" is seriously hampered by miserable interior art.