Monday, December 18, 2017

Conan The Barbarian, Solomon Kane, Mutant Chronicles, And Others Join Funcom's Games Portfolio, Studio Secures 10m USD Investment

Game developer and publisher Funcom is excited to announce that it is teaming up with Cabinet Group LLC to establish HEROIC SIGNATURES, a new company that will hold and manage the interactive rights to numerous attractive intellectual properties from the writings of Robert E Howard and the Swedish original pen & paper and board games. These properties include Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and Mutant Chronicles, all of which have been made popular through motion pictures, comic books, novels, tabletop games, miniatures, and more. Other properties include Dark Agnes, Kult, Kull of Atlantis, Mutant: Year Zero, and El Borak. HEROIC SIGNATURES' portfolio includes a total of 29 different intellectual properties making up several decades worth of rich worlds and characters.

Funcom


Sunday, December 17, 2017

New at Howard Works

Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Almuric 
Featuring: "Almuric"
http://howardworks.com/Almuric-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html


Wydawnictwo Andor (Polish)
Conan. Droga demona
Featuring the following REH stories rewritten into a
Conan story by an unknown author.
"The Track of Bohemund"
"The Way of the Swords"
"Gates of Empire"
"The Road of Azrael"
"Hawks over Egypt"
http://howardworks.com/Conan-Droga_demona-Wydawnictwo_Andor.html


Audible Audio
Raging Bull Publishing
Pilgrims to the Pecos
Featuring: "Pilgrims to the Pecos"
http://howardworks.com/PilgrimstothePecos-RagingBullPublishing.html


Audible Audio
Raging Bull Publishing
Pistol Politics 
Featuring:  "Pistol Politics"
http://howardworks.com/PistolPolitics-RagingBullPublishing.html





Friday, December 15, 2017

CONAN OMNIBUS VOLUME 4 TPB  
Coming in May!

Timothy Truman (Writer/Art), Roy Thomas (Writer), Darick Robertson (Writer), Tomás Giorello (Pencils), Joe Kubert (Art), Mike Hawthorne (Pencils), John Lucas (Inks), Jason Gorder (Inks), José Villarrubia (Color), Dave Stewart (Color), Dan Jackson (Color), and Cary Nord (Cover)

The Dark Horse Conan Omnibus series continues with more acclaimed dark fantasy tales of hot blood and cold steel, Including the adaptation of Robert E. Howard's "Iron Shadows in the Moon" and the long-awaited return of Conan the Barbarian comics scribe Roy Thomas, in "Road of Kings."

Collects Conan volume 9: Free Companions (Conan the Cimmerian #14, #16-21), Conan volume 10: Iron Shadows in the Moon (Conan the Cimmerian 22-25, Conan and the Mad King of Gaul, Conan: Weight of the Crown), Conan volume 11: Road of Kings (Conan: Road of Kings #1-6).

Trade paperback, 456 pages, $24.99, On sale May 9.

Dark Horse Comics


Wednesday, December 13, 2017

WONDER WOMAN / CONAN #4 (of 6) 
Arriving in comic shops December 20!

(Writer) Gail Simone (Art) Aaron Lopresti, Matt Ryan (Cover) Darick Robertson

Our heroes have escaped the Corvidae, but if they want to save new friends from the witches’ wrath, they’ll have to work together.  That would be a simple matter if their utmost desire wasn’t to end the other’s life!

Co-published by DC Comics and Dark Horse Comics.

Full Color, 32 pages, $3.99


Monday, December 11, 2017

THE ROBERT E. HOWARD GUIDE 
by Patrice Louinet
Coming soon from Skelos Press!

The English translation of the award-winning book that introduced a new generation of French fans to the father of sword and sorcery.

The Robert E. Howard Guide was born out of years of scholarship, but took its final form after answering the same questions from fans over and over again. In many ways, Howard remains a “famous unknown writer," the man who single-handedly defined modern fantasy, but whose life and works are still known mostly filtered through adaptations, pastiches and gross approximations. Because of those specificities, he is more often than not known for what and who he *wasn’t*, for sentences he never wrote, or for characters who bear little resemblance – if any – to his original creations. This, in turn, explains how and why this book was conceived. It is sometimes amusing, sometimes sarcastic, but, built on 30 years of Howard scholarship, it is always insightful. A serious work... that tries not to take itself too seriously.

http://howardworks.com/le_guide_howard.html