Saturday, August 31, 2019

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Gen Con 2019: Robert E. Howard Seminar

A seminar where our panel discusses how our adventure authors integrate the works of a great writer into their game designs, and the impact he had on their creative process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=5DcK83bHOJI




Sunday, August 25, 2019

New at Howard Works

Fanucci Editore (Italian)
La cosa di tenebra (Il Meglio di Weird Tales 13)
Featuring: "The Poets"  (poem)
http://howardworks.com/La_cosa_di_tenebra-FanucciEditore.html


Fanucci Editore (Italian)
La porta senza chiave (Il Meglio di Weird Tales 16)
Featuring:  "The Singer in the Mist"  (1, poem)
http://howardworks.com/La_porta_senza_chiave-FanucciEditore.html


Insight Studios
Songs of Giants
Featuring:
"Flaming Marble" (poem)
"Dreaming on Downs" (poem)
"A Lady's Chamber" (poem)
"Surrender" (1, poem)
"Solomon Kane's Homecoming" (1, poem)
"The Riders of Babylon" (poem)
"The Madness of Cormac" (poem)
"Red Thunder" (poem)
"The Sea" (poem)
"Song at Midnight" (poem)
"Tides" (poem)
http://howardworks.com/SongsofGiants-InsightStudios.html


Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 14
Featuring: "Shadows in Zamboula"
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N14-Marvel.html





Saturday, August 24, 2019

Marvel Comics Conan Solicitations 
for November 2019

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #11 
Jason Aaron  (Writer)
Mahmud Asrar  (Art)
Esad Ribic (Cover)
Neal Adams  (Variant Cover)

BY CROM – THE BARBARIAN VS. HIS GOD!
• As Conan shuffles off this mortal coil, he stands face to face with his God, CROM!
• But Crom does not care for the fate of some weak mortal…
• Unless Conan MAKES him!
• CONAN IS DEAD! LONG LIVE CONAN!
• Plus: the penultimate chapter in the all-new novella “BLACK STARLIGHT”!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 20.



THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #11 
Roy Thomas (Writer)
Alan Davis (Art)
Marco Checchetto (Cover)
Juan Ferreyra (Variant Cover)

BARBARIAN ACTION AND INTRIGUE BY ROY THOMAS & ALAN DAVIS!
• CONAN’s latest job has gone awry, as he finds himself at the mercy of the Afghuli hillmen!
• But even this is nothing compared to the threat hovering in the hidden mountain cave that SERRA hired him to find!
• If they can escape the creatures, can they save the treasure?
• What secret is ZUBAIR hiding and what is Serra REALLY after?
• Plus: the penultimate chapter in the all-new novella “THE SHADOW OF VENGEANCE”!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 13.





AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #4 (of 5)
Meredith Finch (Writer)
Aneke (Art)
Jay Anacleto (Cover)

A COVERT MISSION AND A DEADLY SECRET!
• VALERIA pushes past her injuries to sneak into the fortress of LORD BLASIUS!
• But what could he possibly have that she’d risk losing track of her quarry over?
• Could it be…the secret her brother died for?!
• Plus: The next chapter of an all-new novella featuring one of CONAN’s greatest nemeses—the wizard THOTH-AMON!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 13.


CONAN 2099 #1
Gerry Duggan  (Writer)
Roge Antonio  (Art)
Geof Shaw (Cover)

EONS FROM HOME, THE BARBARIAN BATTLES THE CIVILIZATION OF 2099!
In the far flung future of 2099, will barbarism finally triumph over an endangered civilization? When CONAN THE BARBARIAN entered the Marvel Universe with the SAVAGE AVENGERS, he stayed to conquer and claim his kingship in modern times. Now cursed by a mystic to live beyond his years, when Conan’s new kingdom is threatened, he swings his blade once more! But as the calamity in 2099 bears down on his secluded realm, will the future shock unseat the barbarian king? An unforgettable chapter unlike anything you’ve ever seen in the saga of Conan!

Full Color, 40 pages, $4.99, On sale November 27.


SAVAGE AVENGERS #7 (Featuring Conan)  
Gerry Duggan (Writer) • Patch Zircher (Art)
Cover by David Finch

• Elektra and the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, fight together against Kulan Gath’s forces.
• Voodoo learns more about the evil sorcerer’s plans to dominate Planet Earth.
• And Conan’s trek North though South America takes an interesting detour...to Latveria. ‘Nuff said!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 6.


Friday, August 23, 2019

Ablaze Publishing
THE CIMMERIAN: QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST #2
Coming in November!

THE CIMMERIAN: QUEEN OF BLACK COAST #2
(Writer) Jean-David Morvan (Art) Pierre Alary (Covers) Sunghan Yune, Criss Cross, Ed Benes, and In-Hyuk Lee.

Robert E. Howard's famous Cimmerian continues his uncensored adventure! Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual…read the story as he intended!

Conan joins up with Belit to brutally pillage and sail the poisonous river Zarkheba, encountering ancient ruins, lost treasure, and winged, vicious monstrosities.

Bonus Material: The Original Robert E. Howard short story is included!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99, On sale November 6.


The Ablaze comics are an English language repackaging of graphic albums from the French publisher Glénat.





Wednesday, August 21, 2019

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #8 
Now available!

Jim Zub (Writer)
Patrick Zircher (Art)
Marco Checchetto (Cover)
Leonardo Manco (Variant Cover)

NEVER DWELL ON THE HAND YOU’RE DEALT – EVEN IF IT’S DEATH!

“CONAN THE GAMBLER” PART 2!
CONAN’s job as a bodyguard in Shadizar lands him in a deadly game of SERPENT’S BLUFF!
But if the cards are in Conan’s favor, will this absolve his debt or land him in further danger?
It’ll take more than luck to win the prize this time!

PLUS: The next chapter in the all-new CONAN novella “THE SHADOW OF VENGEANCE”!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99


Sunday, August 18, 2019

New at Howard Works

Thanks to José R. Montejano for the information and the scans.

Sportula (Spanish)
Nacerá una bruja
Featuring:
"Cimmeria" (poem)
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter"
"The Tower of the Elephant"
"The God in the Bowl"
"Rogues in the House"
"Queen of the Black Coast"
"The Vale of Lost Women"
"Black Colossus"
"Shadows in the Moonlight"
"A Witch Shall Be Born"
"The Song of Belit" (poem)
"The Hyborian Age"
http://howardworks.com/Nacera_una_bruja-Sportula.html




Thanks to José R. Montejano for the information and the scans.

Sportula (Spanish)
El diablo de hierro
Featuring:
"Shadows in Zamboula"
"Xuthal of the Dusk"
"The Devil in Iron"
"The People of the Black Circle"
"The Black Stranger"
http://howardworks.com/El_diablo_de_hierro-Sportula.html


The REH Foundation Press
Post Oaks and Sand Roughs
Featuring:
"The Wandering Years"
"An Autobiography"
"What I did to Help Win the War"
"In His Own Image"
"Some People Who Have Had Influence Over Me"
"A Touch of Trivia"
"To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew"
"The Galveston Affair"
"The Beast from the Abyss"
untitled play (A typical small town drugstore . . .)
"Spanish Gold on Devil Horse"
"Post Oaks and Sand Roughs"
"Sunday in a Small Town"
"Ambition in the Moonlight"
"Musings of a Moron"
"Irony"
"What I did in Vacation"
"What My Signature Means to Me"
"The Recalcitrant"
untitled story (Mike Costigan, writer and self-avowed futilist, . . .)
"The Splendid Brute"
"The Paradox"
"The Ivory Camel"
"Spanish Gold on Devil Horse" (early draft)
"Post Oaks and Sand Roughs" (early draft)
"The Seven-Up Ballad" (poem)
"Dula Due to be Champion"
"Letters from Mom"
"Unsigned contract"
Letter to Argosy All-Story Weekly, Spring 1929
Letter to Farnsworth Wright, June/July 1931
Letter to Wilfred Blanch Talman, September 1931
Letter to Dime Sports, June 1936
http://howardworks.com/PostOaksandSandRoughs-REHFoundationPress.html



Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 13
Featuring:
"The Gods of Bal-Sagoth"
"The Right Hand of Doom"
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N13-Marvel.html






Wednesday, August 14, 2019

CONAN THE BARBARIAN: EXODUS #1 
Now available!

Esad Ribic  (Writer)
Esad Ribic (Art)
Esad Ribic  (Cover)

MAN VS. NATURE IN THE NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD STORY OF CONAN’S FIRST JOURNEY FROM CIMMERIA!

Long have the stories told of CONAN, who came from the frozen hills of his homeland, Cimmeria, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth in the Hyborian Age – but now you will witness the epic tale of the young barbarian’s first journey from home from visionary creator Esad Ribic!

Fifteen winters in Cimmeria have toughened the young Conan, but his greatest challenge lies ahead. Braving the elements, without food, without shelter, without weapons, Conan must learn to survive even as nature itself conspires to stop him. The snow freezes his bones. The wolves smell his blood. But if he can reach civilization, will his wounds heal…or will his troubles just begin?

With a majestic scope underscored by the completely visual narrative, don’t miss this truly special moment in Conan’s story and an unprecedented issue in Marvel Comics publication history!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99


AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #1 (of 5) 
Now available!

Meredith Finch (Writer)
Aneke (Art)
Jay Anacleto (Cover)
Terry Dodosn  (Variant Cover)

AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA will join Marvel's Conan line this August with the return of Robert E. Howard's character Valeria from "Red Nails".

Meredith Finch and artist Aneke will be the creative team for the five-issue limited series.
The first issue cover is by Jay Anacleto.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99


Sunday, August 11, 2019

New at Howard Works

Thanks to Tom Kovacs for the info and cover scans.

Blitz Verlag (German)
Grabratten - Die seltsamen Faelle des Detektivs Steve Harrison 
Featuring:
"Graveyard Rats"
"People of the Serpent"
"Names in the Black Book"
http://howardworks.com/Grabratten-Blitz_Verlag.html


Fanucci Editore (Italian)
La Maschera di Cthulhu
Featuring:  "The Children of the Night"
http://howardworks.com/La_Maschera_di_Cthulhu-FanucciEditore.html


Adventure House
The Magic Carpet Magazine Volume 3 Number 2 (Pulp Facsimile Reprint)
Featuring:
Letter to Magic Carpet Magazine, March 1933
"Congratulations on the quality . . ."
http://howardworks.com/magiccarpet-april1933-adventurehouse.html


Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 12
Featuring:
"The Slave-Princess" (graphic adaptation)
"The Hyborian Age"   (graphic adaptation)
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N12-Marvel.html



Friday, August 9, 2019

Conan and the Living Plague 
by John C. Hocking 

Originally scheduled for release in September 2019, this book has been delayed.

New post at the Rough Edges blog.
https://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2019/08/conan-and-living-plague-john-c-hocking.html

The long awaited follow up to 'Conan And The Emerald Lotus', Hocking once again proves to be amongst the best of the Conan pastiche writers.

Sent to recover treasure from a plague-wracked city, not only must Conan avoid its deranged survivors, but battle a deadly disease given humanoid shape. To save himself - and perhaps the world - he allies with a scheming sorcerer to traverse a demon-haunted abyss in a desperate bid to destroy the Living Plague.

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Titan Books

The image shown is likely not the actual cover.



Wednesday, August 7, 2019

THE MARVEL ART OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN
Now available!

Written by John Rhett Thomas
Penciled by Various
Cover by Barry Windsor-Smith

The Hyborian Age meets the Marvel Age in this stunning gallery of classic Conan comic art! The Cimmerian warrior made his comics mark at Marvel, and would hack and slash his way through three decades of phenomenal full-color storytelling in Conan the Barbarian and its many sister comics. This hardcover highlights the very best covers, pages and pinups from legendary titles such as Conan the Barbarian, Giant-Size Conan, King Conan and more -- from the seminal masterworks of Barry Windsor-Smith, to stunning interpretations by Gil Kane and Neal Adams, to a character-defining legacy by John Buscema, to gorgeous latter-day illustrations by Silvestri, Kaluta, Mignola and more! As Conan makes his highly anticipated return to the House of Ideas in 2019, immerse yourself in the vibrant and vivid world of Conan the Barbarian, and experience sensational sword-and-sorcery sagas in the Mighty Marvel Manner!

Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 7/8 inches, 224 pages, $50


SAVAGE AVENGERS #4  (Featuring Conan) 
Now available!

Gerry Duggan (Writer) • Mike Deodato Jr. (Art)
Cover by David Finch
Variant Cover by Simone Bianchi

The one evil wizard to rule them all, Kulan Gath has succeeded in summoning an ancient evil…and he’s already hard at work on his next terrible plan.
Conan swings his savage symbiotic sword against the forces of darkness…
…and Frank Castle has the worst day of his life. (If you don’t count that day in the park.)
The Savage Avengers are fighting to save YOU!

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99


Sunday, August 4, 2019

New at Howard Works

Fanucci Editore (Italian)
Il richiamo di Cthulhu
Featuring:  "Pigeons from Hell"
http://howardworks.com/Il_richiamo_di_Cthulhu-FanucciEditore.html


Fanucci Editore (Italian)
Il furore di Cthulhu
Featuring:  "The Cairn on the Headland"
http://howardworks.com/Il_furore_di_Cthulhu-FanucciEditore.html


Pulp-Lit Press & Audible Audio
Robert E. Howard's Sailor Steve Costigan
Featuring:
"The Pit of the Serpent"
"The Bull Dog Breed"
"Sailor's Grudge"
"Fist and Fang"
"Winner Take All"
"Waterfront Fists"
"Champ of the Forecastle"
"Alleys of Peril"
"The TNT Punch"
"Texas Fists"
"The Sign of the Snake"
"The House of Peril"
"Breed of Battle"
"Circus Fists"
"Dark Shanghai"
"Vikings of the Gloves"
"Night of Battle"
"Alleys of Darkness"
"The Slugger's Game"
"General Ironfist"
"Sluggers of the Beach"
http://howardworks.com/SailorSteveCostigan-Pulp_Lit_Press.html



Marvel Comics
The Savage Sword of Conan Volume 1 Number 11
Featuring: "The Country of the Knife"
(graphic adaptation featuring Conan)
http://howardworks.com/SavageSwordofConanV1N11-Marvel.html



Thursday, August 1, 2019

Upcoming REH related publications.
Target ship dates as of 08/01/2019
All dates are subject to change.

Available since last update (7/10/2019)
AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT #5 (Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #8 (Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS Volume 2 (Marvel)
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE CULT OF KOGA THUN TPB [Color and B&W editions]


In your future

08/07/2019
THE MARVEL ART OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN
SAVAGE AVENGERS #4  (Marvel)

08/14/2019
AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #1  (Marvel)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: EXODUS #1 (Marvel)

08/21/2019
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #8 (Marvel)

09/04/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #9 (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #5 (Marvel)

09/11/2019
AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #2  (Marvel)

09/18/2019
AGE OF CONAN: BÊLIT, QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST TPB (Marvel)
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #9 (Marvel)

10/02/2019
CONAN CHRONICLES EPIC COLLECTION: RETURN TO CIMMERIA TPB (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS #6 (Marvel)

10/09/2019
AGE OF CONAN: VALERIA #3 (Marvel)

10/16/2019
THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #10 (Marvel)

10/30/2019
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #10 (Marvel)
SAVAGE AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 (Marvel)

11/06/2019
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 2 HC (Marvel)

11/13/2019
SAVAGE AVENGERS VOLUME 1: CITY OF SICKELS TPB (Marvel)

01/2020
CONAN: THE HOUR OF THE DRAGON TPB (Marvel)

01/15/2020
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE ORIGINAL MARVEL YEARS OMNIBUS VOLUME 3 (Marvel)

To Be Announced
CONAN AND THE LIVING PLAGUE (Titan)