While by all appearances Rorg of The Blood Swamp may look like your average tale of a battle-hardened barbarian out for blood, nothing could be further from the truth. For starters, he’s part plant. Yep, Rorg is a half-plant-half-barbarian hybrid which essentially makes him like the twisted lovechild of Swamp Thing and Conan the Barbarian…I […]
Conan the Barbarian
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There have been quite a few parodies of Robert E. Howard’s seminal barbarian creation over the years. From cartoons like Korgoth the Barbarian to comics like Sergio Aragonés’ Groo the Wanderer, the son Cimmeria has been lampooned almost to the point where the word “barbarian” and “Conan” are basically synonymous. British comic creator Carl Critchlow […]
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Two for the Price of Fun with The Barbarian Brothers! With the success of 1982’s Sword and Sorcery epic, Conan the Barbarian, there would come a handful of films that studios quickly pumped out with the hopes that they too could get in on the barbarian action. Conan was announced in 1978, so even before […]
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While there have been a variety of amazing artists who have worked on the Conan franchise over the years – Frank Frazetta literally redefined the sword and sorcery genre with his depictions and Joe Jusko perpetuated the legend even further, there was another artist who ushered in a “new age” of Conan back in 2003… […]
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Bathing in 16-bit bloodshed could be cool… but this game is not. As seems to be the requirement for any film released this year targeted at anyone age 13 or older, Lionsgate’s Conan the Barbarian reboot has received the 16-bit treatment in an all-new (and all too short) hack-n-slash, side-scrolling action game hosted by Break.com. […]
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Before there was Conan, there was– KULL the CONQUERER! Before we go any further I want you to put that 1997 movie featuring Kevin Sorbo out of your head. Sure, that film has its chessy-fun moments and, let’s face it Tia Carrere is smoking hot, but as the forefather of his Cimmerian predecessor the film […]
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Who needs Richard Simmons when you have Conan the Cimmerian? #1 Watch out for warning signs When you see a tattooed ginger with a Doobie Brothers mustache crouching on a rock outside of your village, breathing all heavy and stuff, your village is about to get attacked. #2 The perfect workout If you just push […]
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He’s like like Dr. Doolittle… but badass. Released only a few months apart from Conan the Barbarian, Beastmaster was a modest box office hit, finding it’s audience much later thanks to the extended play on cable tv and through video store rentals. Directed by Don Coscarelli (Phantasm series, Bubba Ho-Tep) his flair for the imaginative, […]
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My Life with Conan the Barbarian – Written and illustrated by Reis I discovered Conan, the legendary bronze-skinned warrior from the North, the slayer of enemies and the taker of women, at the age of 10, in the Summer of 1983, thanks to the repetitious scheduling practices of a young HBO and parents who just […]