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San Diego Comic-Con 2011: The Booty
Tag: Conan
Man Up with King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel
Being a huge Conan fan, there are few things more exhilarating in comics than when this… Continue Reading “Man Up with King Conan: The Scarlet Citadel”
Simon says “Movember!”
October hasn’t even made it out of its first week yet and Team Mammoth-Stache has gained its eighth member! Coming to us (again!) from the Dark Horse stable, editor Philip Simon has kindly agreed to lend his ferocious facial hair-growing skills to the cause!
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By Crom, Conan can Frisbee!
“Back to the Future III” would have us believe that Marty McFly invented the Frisbee when he time traveled to the Old West. Turns out Robert E. Howard’s Conan was flipping discs as far back as the Hyborian Age.
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Frank Frazetta, a true great, dies at 82.
Legendary fantasy artist Frank Frazetta died this week. It seems only fitting that the sad news of his death, the passing of an artist who inspired so many illustrators, would lead to a ton of really touching and gorgeous tribute art. Here’s one of my favorites. It’s from Scott Campbell…
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My Best of 2009, or Some Stuff I Read and Liked
Come December, the “Best Of” lists begin rolling out and I realize how few of this year’s massive amount of great books I read in the past 365 days. Keeping up with every exciting indie and explosive mainstream title is hard work in this economy, even for a guy who ended up getting most of his comics via comped copies in 2009. Still, though I may not have read much that’s made people’s top ten lists this year, but I have read a ton of great comics in 2009.
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For the love of Conan!
Over at Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow has a glowing review of Dark Horse’s current Conan series.
Yes, the entire series!
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Loads o’ Dark Horse links, or “What I did this week at my new job”
Now, I won’t make a habit of flooding this blog with all the news and promotional links I helped to arrange at my day job, but as I’m only in my third week at Dark Horse, I figure one post full of links won’t kill the ol’ EoP! Plus, after two weeks of learning the ropes, I feel like this is the week I really started getting into the swing of things—and I “swang” hard! These links are evidence of that “swingage!”
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All Day Pizza Buffet: …Versus A Robot
I saw this fantastic piece of art by Jerome Opeña recently and couldn’t resist drawing my own doodle of Conan fighting a robot.
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24 hours off the internet?!
Yes, I left the interwebs behind for a full day and now I’m back.
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