Reading conan the barbarian for the first time in 2025The protagonist is a high libido warrior who fucks literally every single woman he talks to. And slays zombies, monsters, and muscled men. Also, zero colored people are drawn in this european high fantasy setting. Peak masculinityIt's hard to believe that this is the current run. How did this kind of story get past blackrock investors in the mid 2020s? Is woke truly dying?
>>150949144Because Robert E Howard's works are treated generally with a kind of respect that isn't afforded to some of the other established creations that have been shit on
>>150949144>europeanKind of...
>>150949144>Conan>European>No colored people So you're just trolling then?
Ater 18 issues, i found a nigger, but the setting is middle eastern so it's fine.
>>150949144>EuropeanHe spends most of the time in Not-Africa and Not-India,
>>150949214>>150949223Conan is Atlantean, the fictional race being directly based on the Black Irish (of which Robert E Howard was the 100% pure stock of, purely coincidentally Im sure)
>>150949144>zero colored people are drawnI guess Belit hasn't shown up then, or they got it wrong, since her crew is supposed to be negroes.
Issue number 19>capitalizing the b in black>mocking the idea that africans are uncivilized with double quotes>claims the current author is bringing a "fresh new take"it was so close to being perfect
>>150949144You're a fucking moron OP.You've just posted a cover featuring Conan during the events of the REH story Queen of the Black Coast, where Conan and Belit lead a crew of Kushite (Sub-Saharan) pirates, literally called the Black Corsiars (1930s Texas be not subtle).Also why the fuck are you reading the current Titan shit by Jim Zub?Read Buisek's Dark Horse run if you want good modern Conan comics, Roy Thomas' stuff if you're ok with the 70s, and the French Cimmerian stuff if you want something different
>>150949860>Conan is AtlanteanThat's Kull, Conan is a Cimmerian, whose people are descended from Atlantis in REH chronology
>muh culture warVendhya IP
>>150949144>Zero colored people Not true, but it's one of the few series I can think of that doesn't pigeonhole them into being the most sactimonoius characters in any given story. The original stories have plenty of blacks, but even the most favorable portrayals, QotBC Scarlet Citadel, make them out to be superstitious savages
>>150950490>No hes Dutch not GermanSame difference
>>150951054Wrong, amerilard
>>150949144Because Titan isn't the big two
>>150949144dark horse runs are kino even the becky cloonan one
>>150952511Conan taking Belit home to Cimmeria instead of having pirate adventures was retarded.
>>150952550even dumber when you remember Cimmeria doesn't have a coastline and Bélit always represented a love of the open sea for Conan.
>>150952550Haha, seriously? Did they hire Chud to write Conan comix, with tradwife Belit?LMAO.
>>150952550>>150952577Also Conan the Cimmerian opens with a story that starts with him visiting Cimmeria and ends with him seemingly leaving for good. So pretty hokey to have him go back for anything less than his mother's passing
>>150952550Yeah that was a real low point. The big villain being some rando that Conan used to bully was pretty dumb too. Not a fan of that part. It got better again afterwards though.
>>150949679Not really, sub-saharans and nafris are not the same either. Usually you see this sort of racism as an excuse to let black people play Othello
>>150952591it's from Wood run of the character. He basically spent the entire thing making sure Conan didn't do anything morally wrong
>>150953051There were plenty of sub-saharan slaves in the Arab world. That guard could be a former slave.
>>150953127>He basically spent the entire thing making sure Conan didn't do anything morally wrongIt's not as if most writers don't tend to overlook the dirtier parts of Conan's life as a pirate, thief, reaver, slayer, etc but man did he really go out of the way. I wonder why he even did it in the first place.
>>150949860Howard's fictional geography blurs Europe, Africa, and near-Asia because there's fewer seas and mountains dividing thing. Stygia is proto-Egypt the way Conan is proto-Celtic.
>>150953866Yeah, the Hyborian age is still a bit off from modern history
>>150949144>I don't actually read the shit I post aboutclassic /co/
>>150952443titan is based
>indian king>immidietely scams the mc after meeting himno way
>>150949144>zero colored people are drawn in this european high fantasy setting.Why is the woman white and Conan not then? That Cimmerian looks south European with that skin color, which weren't considered white either not too long ago by people who talk exactly like you.
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>>150956512Why did the movie troon him?
>>150956778Because Grace Johns, you brain rotted inbred retard.
>>150956821Why would Grace Jones play a male character?
>>150951054They are Irish/Gaelic.
>>150951041>superstitious savagesHardly a rare trait in the Hyborian Age, to be fair. Half the point is that "civilized" men can be spectacularly savage in their own way.
>>150957062"Civilized" men are far crueler because they hide behind their laws to protect them. A barbarian might mouth off but he'll do so only if his sword can back up his words. People would think twice if the wrong insult can leave you a head shorter.
>>150957062True but I would still say Belit's crew took it to another level with their reverence for her
>>150949144The Titan run is very good indeed. Although I believe the best Conan stories were the Dark Horse run before Road of Kings/Belit. After that the stories went downhill. Dark Horse's King Conan was good though.
Did anybody read fred van lente run?I had never seen anybody discussing that one
Marvel 2020s runs were underwhelming.
Jason Aaron in conan books was a blunder idea.
Ablaze run were better and fun than the marvel ones
>>150958206I think most people gave up the Dark Horse run after the Roy Thomas run
>>150958206It was mediocre. Dark Horse Conan peaked with Truman and Giorello's King Conan while the main book floundered.
>>150958232Aaron on any book is a blunder idea
>>150958255Ablaze run should've been longer
>>150952550>>150952591I think the intention of Wood's run was to pad out the unspecified amount of time Conan spends time with Belit, in the original story, which is a great idea, unfortunately Wood's a shit writer
>>150958442Legal reasons it was stopped, blame Tencent
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>>150958450>>150958452>Legal reasons Qrd?
>>150958469Conan is in the public domain in Europe, or more specifically, France, where all these Ablaze adaptations come from.originally Ablze had a deal to publish these stories in the US, but the people who still own Conan in America(heroic signatures who are owned by Funcom, who are owned by Tencent) put a stop to this deal around the time the Marvel publication deal fell through.
Umm it seems French, Italians and Spaniards tried to created new comicbooks of conan under publilc domain stuff.But only french succeded
>>150958449The original Marvel run padded Queen of the Black Coast into 43 issues and did it better.
>>150958389King Conan and some of the limited series dark horse did are pretty underrated since people usually just recommend Busiek's run
>>150958502That's a shame. I know they did The Slithering Shadow and hoped it would get translated one day
>>1509585022028 will be the year that Conan will be free from copyright.
