My Rating “Sword Vs. Sorcery – Part 04)” And thus the time came when the gods warred amongst themselves; blood flowed as pantheons fell to history. It was my lady’s deity who plucked her from the depths of the ocean and placed her into life once again. The earth mother, scorned by the Cimmerian god […]
My Rating “Frozen Faith Part 02 – Daughter’s Gaze” In the far north of Asgar, Conan joins a group of battle-weary Aesirmen as they fight against an encroaching force of Vanir raiders. The young Cimmerian had little interest in the northmen and their blood-feuds, but when the red-haired savages attacked an undefended colony of women
My Rating “Frozen Faith Part 01 – Cold Comfort” Free from the black stone curse, Conan the Barbarian leaves Venarium to seek his fortune in the frozen northlands of Asgard. During his travels, the memories of a harsh childhood begin to resurface. Why had his father been so vague when Conan asked about their god
My Rating “The Age Unconquered Part 02 – Far Shores & Fearless Men” Pulled into the distant past by a black stone obelisk, Conan finds himself allied with the King of Valusia. As Brule and Kull play politics over the Topaz Throne, the Cimmerian grows ever more anxious to find what plagues both timelines. Will
My Rating “Thrice Marked For Death! – Part 03 Haunted” The artifact was successfully taken from the temple of Bel, in the night, the thieves did wrestle through the mounting corpses. In the morning Conan, washed in the sorrows of his buccaneering past, handed off Tarim’s Touch for a lofty sum. With no time wasted,
My Rating “Thrice Marked For Death! – Part 01 The Heist” Following the defeat of the lost tribe conjured by Thulsa Doom’s cult, and the fall of the Obsidian Fortress, Conan roamed the east looking for a new purpose. In the port city of Argo fate would turn against him as the local magistrate
My Rating “Bound In Black Stone – Part 04 Vengeance Of The Lost” Down in the brackish water Conan and the Skull-clad Priest sank. Just seconds before they traded blows up on the stone spires birthed deep inside the black fortress. Now the two men sink into darkness. Then Conan watches through clouded waters as
My Rating “The Coils Tighten” The returning sensation that is The Savage Sword Of Conan has reached the ten issue mark. Jim Zub is here with an elevator-pitch update on things to come. If you haven’t guessed already, it deals with the lands of Stygia. I’m very pleased to find the sword in all of
My Rating “The Valley of the Worm” Bragi’s clan had been slaughtered there in the place of broken stone. Niord, the warrior Gorm had called yellow-hair, stood upon the crest looking down at the carnage. This was no man who killed the Aesir clan, this tragedy was handed down by the beast feared by all
My Rating “Battle Of The Black Stone – Part 01 Eyes Upon Us” Chicago, the windy city – 1936, El Borak sat hunched over a dark wood table staring intently at the glyph sketched on a cocktail napkin as the noise of the nightclub swirled around him. How did Professor Kirowan have knowledge of the
