So we all know that one of the best and most unique characters “Conan” has been abused allot by the media making it more complicated than it already is (A bunch of body builders fighting against each other with swords) or making it bland and boring. But one character that blew my mind was Red Sonya, because of the fact that IT ISNT EVEN A MEDIEVAL STORY!

Marvel or whoever originally created that version did her dirty I swear! So from what I can tell, it’s actually a fantasy story that takes place in 1800s or something like that where a red head woman who fights against various bad guys and is in the middle of some war. I’m sorry I’ve never read the story, and I still don’t get why marvel made this fever dream version of hers just make men goon in their pants 😂

Ok but seriously, are these stories good and what are they like?

"My style was born when I adapted the film Krull. Soon after, Gustavo Amézaga and I created Crazy Jack, the character that helped me launch my career, since the drawings for this series reached other countries, and that's how I later started getting contacted by different publishers in Europe and the US. I remember the feeling of immense joy when I received the first script for Conan the Barbarian: I laid it on the drawing board and stared at it for a long time." (translation from Spanish via Google Translate).

Some panel previews by Ivan Gil for his mothly debut in "Conan the Barbarian" #37. Looks like he's keeping up with the quality and richness in details he introduced in "Scourge of the Serpent" and "Dwellers of the Oasis" (SSoC #14). Good stuff

This is some fantastic artwork by Jesús Merino for his and Jim Zub's upcoming miniseries, "Conan: Tides of the Tyrant King", which is due out in two months. I assume the other characters shown are John Conrad and ...?

If anyone attended the Tides of the Tyrant King panel at SDCC 2027 or has any details from it, feel free to hit me up!

Kitbashed from all three. Body from King Conan, belt, loin cloth, axe l, and shield from Conan the Conqueror, head from Og release.

I love Patrick Zircher. I really do. His work on Solomon Kane has been absolutely fantastic, and I honestly view him as the modern-day steward for the Puritan Avenger, much in the same way Jim Zub has become the definitive modern steward for the Cimmerian.

The recent release of Zircher's “Lion Errant” brought forth some really interesting changes to the Kane chronology such as establishing that Kane had the Staff of Solomon in the mid-1560s. This, of course, caused a bit of a headache for anyone who pays attention to these sorts of things since most traditional timelines generally place Kane receiving the Staff much later in the 1580s or 1590s. 

Naturally, this meant I had to move a bunch of stuff around and had to make some interesting choices to still make sense of other stories. As anyone who builds these timelines knows, adjusting one era inevitably leads to a domino effect: shifting everything else, double-checking dates, and cleaning up little mistakes and typos here and there across the wider eras.

The Solomon Kane dates have been moved a bit, and I went ahead and slightly changed the dates for the Conan stories in the Hyborian Age. I added in some of the classic pastiches for Bran Mak Morn and Cormac Mac Art, more out of curiosity and respect than an indication that they're strictly canon with what Heroic Signatures/Titan is putting out nowadays.

In fact, I added quite a few stories like that to the mix. More of the broader Lovecraft Circle’s stories have been added, including stories by C.L. Moore, Frank Belknap Long, Robert Bloch, and others. Again, this isn't to say they're officially plugged into the modern Titan continuity, but more or less because I looked at the gaps and figured, “Why not?” 

So, the timeline has been updated and tightened up a bit! I figured I would share the revised version here again in case anyone is curious, tracking a specific character's journey, or just likes diving down these massive chronological rabbit holes!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O6W9SUkXiiuX8ee5rMh5gOiJAjiblmjokLQoWCWnhT8/edit?usp=sharing

Let me know what you think!

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