conan the barbarian

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Sharps ^ Flats % Naturals * CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1 Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan relaunch the durable barbarian franchise with an adaptation of Robert E...

Among the most high profile new releases for 2012 is Dark Horse's new Conan the Barbarian series, based on the work of Robert E. Howard. Launching in February, the book is written by Brian Wood and drawn by Becky Cloonan, whose work together on such titles as Demo, Channel Zero: Jennie One and Northlanders has me particularly excited for this new Conan comic...

If I didn't actually remember where I was and when I first read Channel Zero, I might have picked up the forthcoming Dark Horse special edition of Brian Wood's debut work about a heavily tattooed techno-media revolutionary and her war to reclaim free speech and assumed it was created in direct response to some major political developments of America's new century: the Patriot Act, the Stop Online

We got a behind-the-scenes look at early art from Brian Wood (DMZ, Northlanders) and artist Becky Cloonan's (Demo, Pixu) upcoming Conan series back in October, and now, care of Dark Horse Comics, we have even more to show off from Conan the Barbarian #1...

Though it may share a title with this past summer's critically-panned flop, Dark Horse Comics' new Conan the Barbarian comic series looks to be anything but. Brian Wood (DMZ, Northlanders) and artist Becky Cloonan (Demo, Pixu) are teaming to adapt Conan creator Robert E...

For college students heading back to class this fall, the start of a new semester of classes generally comes along with the opportunity to learn some of the surprising facts about your teachers before you dig right into the material. For instance, I had a Philosophy prof who had been a champion boxer in the Army during the Vietnam War, and a History teacher who kept his hair long because he did C

Here's the thing about making a movie about Conan the Barbarian: his creator, Robert E. Howard, is such a definitive creator in the sword & sorcery genre that he's influenced and been imitated in countless stories. As a result, when you set out to create a modern take on his creations, it's easy to fall into the trap of recycling elements that have become standard fare for fantasy barbarians o

This week, Conan the Barbarian returns to theaters everywhere with a brand new movie, and it probably won't come as a surprise to anyone that I'm pretty excited about it. I love Conan, and in the world of Conan comics, it's hard to beat Savage Sword of Conan, a black-and-white magazine put out by Marvel in the '70s that featured some of the most hard-hitting barbarian action of all time. So today,

Movies: Nextmovie's Conan The Barbarian/Conan the Talkshow Host mashup isn't exactly the first time we've seen the gag, but it is a well-done and timely execution to be sure. Music: The entirety of the Muppets: The Green Album, a collection of classic Muppet jams from today's artists, is up for streaming over at NPR...

Conan: The Barbarian has been a pretty easy movie to overlook this summer. It's not that Robert E. Howard's testament to manliness isn't awesome, it's just that compared to icons in the costumed crowd Conan can come across as more of an archetype than a character to the untrained novel/comic reader...