Conan the Barbarian

[The NZA]

Marvel Comics announces new 'Conan The Barbarian' series by Aaron/Asrar/Ribic.

 

This January, Conan makes his triumphant return to Marvel Comics in the all-new CONAN THE BARBARIAN! And today, Marvel is excited to announce the new creative team of the first series—the acclaimed team who will lead the famed barbarian into his new adventures!

Legendary writer Jason Aaron will helm the new tales of the sword-slashing hero, bringing him to life alongside star artist Mahmud Asrar. Aaron and Asrar will be joined by cover artist Esad Ribic and colorist Matt Wilson.

I've literally been preparing for this job since I was 13 and discovered my first Robert E. Howard Conan paperback in a used bookstore in my little hometown of Jasper, Alabama," notes Aaron. "I devoured every Howard book I could find after that, and I've been making up Conan stories in my head ever since. Now I finally get to do that for real, alongside the amazing Mahmud Asrar. So this opportunity means an awful lot to me, and I'm cherishing every blood-splattered, spider-haunted second of it."

"The big initial arc we're doing in this new series is very much done in reverence to Robert E. Howard and those original stories," explains the writer. "One of the things that initially pulled me into the character was the fact that with each story, Howard jumped to a different point in Conan's life, where he was in a different setting, interacting with different characters and living a very different life. I loved the grand and epic scope of Conan's overall journey, and so for this new series, instead of picking just one period from Conan's life and doing stories set only within that, our opening 12-issue arc will thread together many different periods and aspects of Conan's journey, from Cimmeria to Aquilonia and beyond. That's why this story is called 'The Life and Death of Conan.'"

[Iambaytor]

I guess they finally cut all that red tape in regards to Conan being in the public domain, then?

[The NZA]

that's my guess, yeah...less fanfare than miracle man, but there's gonna be a happy crowd here

 

i'm kinda interested due to jason aaron 

[Iambaytor]

I'm sure Aaron will do a bang-up job.  Outside of Original Sin I love everything he's ever done.  I just hope all the old Marvel Conan stories are canon again (except, presumably, the Red Sonja ones.  Never was sure how Marvel let that IP slip out of theit grasp.)

 

Of course now I want a team book of random characters associated with various other companies/public domain that Marvel has: Death's Head, Circuit Breaker, Conan, Ikon, The Prince of Orphans, Mantis, Bug, Dazzler, Superpro, Miracle Man/Marvel Man, and Angela.

Edited August 25, 2018 by Iambaytor

[The NZA]

wait who else has rights to death's head & dazzler? seen them around so i imagine that's been sorted, wondered about ROM though

[Iambaytor]

Death's Head is fully owned by Marvel but only because Simon Furman had the foresight to write a single-page introductory comic so that Marvel could retain publishing rights ahead of his first appearance in the Transformers books.  Dazzler was a partnership with Casablanca records, the deal was for Marvel to create a singer superhero and Casablanca would create a musical act and would create a movie with Filmworks productions based on the property to basically create a cross-platform IP (Dazzler was originally meant to look like Grace Jones, which would've been rad) but the deal fell through on Casablanca's end and Marvel ended up with this weirdo Olivia Newton-John lady in a jumpsuit and rollerskates whose super power was razzle dazzle.  So they made her into a bisexual mutant rockstar and she was rad for the rest of her days.

[Jumbie]

Rom, Spaceknight was one of my favorites as a kid. My introduction to the New Mutants was as guest stars in an issue of his comic. I read that thing about 100 times. The way the Limbo from his world connected with sword-wielding Illyana (an X-man) being queen of Limbo at the time blew my mind.

 

I would indeed love to see more Rom in Marvel. Or just more Rom as it's own thing.