The original team from Marvel’s 2019 Conan the Barbarian comic are coming back together for King Conan, a new six-issue saga launching in December.
The team that brought Robert E. Howard’s famous Cimmerian to life in Marvel’s most recent Conan the Barbarian title are returning with King Conan, a six-issue series hitting comic shops in December.
The series, written by Jason Aaron, penciled by Mahmud Asrar and colored by Matthew Wilson, showcases the savage barbarian feeling restless as he sits on the throne of Aquilonia. Searching once more for adventure, Conan sails westward and encounters a new danger in a tale “that will take the story of Conan further than has ever been revealed in ANY media to date,” according to Marvel.
Aaron, Asrar and Wilson were the creative team on Issues 1-12 of Marvel’s 2019 Conan the Barbarian book, the company’s first effort since re-acquiring the rights to Conan from Dark Horse Comics, which held the license to Robert E. Howard’s character from 2003 to 2018. The trio defined the feel of the series with their story “The Life & Death of Conan,” which saw the barbarian battling Razazel the Crimson Witch and her two children, and even coming face-to-face with his god, Crom, in the afterlife.
“I knew as soon as Mahmud, Matt and I finished ‘The Life and Death of Conan’ in Conan the Barbarian, one of the absolute personal highlights from my career as a comic book writer, that I wasn’t done hanging out with everyone’s favorite Cimmerian,” Aaron said. “As King Conan rode into the sunset at the end of that story, with his son, Prince Conn, by his side, I always knew where I wanted that story to take us next. Now at last comes that next chapter, as Mahmud, Matt and I reunite to reveal a pivotal moment in Conan’s life as a king, as a father, as a mortal enemy of snake-worshipping Stygian wizards and as a barbarian who was born to chase the wind, even to the ends of the earth.”
“By Crom, we’re finally bringing the barbarian-turned-king to the readers,” Asrar added. “It’s criminal how much I’m enjoying drawing each panel in this book considering what we’re putting him through.”
Aaron, Asrar and Wilson’s new series marks the first instance that Marvel has published a comic with the title King Conan in 38 years. The company’s first King Conan book began publication in 1980, supplementing the titles Conan the Barbarian and The Savage Sword of Conan. The series was renamed Conan the King in 1983, running for 55 issues until its cancellation in 1989.
King Conan #1 releases Dec. 15 from Marvel Comics.
Source: Marvel
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