Dan Yergs

The Unsung Sword of Conan - Savage Sword of Conan #68: "Black Cloaks of Ophir" With The Unsung Sword of Conan, I'm trying to highlight under-appreciated works in the Conan canon.

The Unsung Sword of Conan - Savage Sword #68: “Black Cloaks of Ophir”

Holy shit! I remember listening to Mike & Tom Eat Snacks while working as a film projectionist in college about 2011. They were great to listen to while I threaded up the movie projectors

Chronologically Speaking, Part Six: "Rogues in the House" Chronologically Speaking  is a series focused solely on chronologizing the Conan of Cimmeria stories. It's an analysis of only the text of Robert E. Howard's original Conan tales. I'm examining the...

Conan has gotten a little better at thieving since The Tower of the Elephant!

The first eleven issues of the DC comics title “Claw the Unconquered”

Randomly popped into the local antique mall and walked out with the first 11 issues of DC’s Claw the Unconquered for $12 for the whole lot

Had a wonderful time chatting (remotely) with a 7th grade class in Colorado as they prepared to write their first ever film reviews (of Coppola's "The Outsiders," after reading Hinton's original novel). Lots of curiosity and eagerness about criticism, and a young Scream fan too.

Today, film critic @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social joined my 7th graders to talk about film and film reviews! Thanks for joining us from NY!

Roy Thomas's CONAN THE BARBARIAN: A "War of the Tarim" Retrospective 1970's Conan the Barbarian title starts out a little weird. As young Conan putzes around just outside of Cimmeria in the first three issues, it's near-universally considered to be a slow start to one....

I've got a new blog post up about Roy Thomas's first real Conan the Barbarian epic: "The War of the Tarim." This was really fun to put together and I think some of my better writing. Please let me know what you think!

YouTube video by The Conan Chronology How Conan Conquered the Comics Code

How Conan the Cimmerian and the team at Marvel Comics helped defeat the draconian Comics Code Authority

CONAN THE BARBARIAN #25 is a must-read I don't really do a lot of what I think of as "reviews" on this blog. I know a lot of times my writing about Conan stuff verges into review territory, but I usually think of them as essays. I try to.....

@jimzub.bsky.social and Alex Horley's CONAN #25 is EXCELLENT. A celebration of Conan and the immortality of stories themselves.

Barbarian vampires... in space! EERIE's "TOMBSPAWN" series is an unfinished sword & sorcery masterpiece There's a weird little pleasure that hits whenever someone mashes up sci-fi, horror, and fantasy elements. Vampires? Cool. But Planet of the Vampires ? Sign me up. I like both Red Sonja and...

Barbarian vampires... in space!

CONAN: CULT OF THE OBSIDIAN MOON (and THE GARDEN OF FEAR) I will stop short of saying that Robert E. Howard was obsessed with the idea of ancestral memory, but I will at least say that he was preoccupied by it. The concept of reincarnation, and the...

Conan: Cult of the Obsidian Moon dovetails REH’s “The Garden of Fear” with Conan well enough, but it’s much more of a straight fantasy than sword & sorcery

Needed to update the pic for the blog

With rage

After collecting for 24 years, I finally have all of @straczynski.bsky.social’s Amazing Spider-Man run. The thing that got me into comics at 10 years old!

Ed Brubaker and @seanphillips.bsky.social never miss. “The Knives” is a great addition to their body of work!

@foldablehuman.bsky.social Hey Dan, do you have a video that comes to mind as your best-executed video? Or any that you feel like didn't turn out how you wanted? When you put out Mantracks I got the sense that you felt that one had come together exactly as you wanted it to

CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE WITCH QUEEN OF ACHERON I don't think I'm super picky when it comes to comic book art. I know folks for whom small variations in art can completely make or break a book: they'll buy one just for the art or they'll drop it...

Despite a beautiful painted cover, "Conan the Barbarian: The Witch Queen of Acheron" is seriously hampered by miserable interior art.

What does Conan the Barbarian mean in 2025? Are you familiar with the concept of a frame narrative? There are a few different uses of the term, but the one I mean is essentially a story-within-a-story. Let me illustrate with one of my favorite....

What does Conan the Barbarian mean in 2025? or, "What can Frankenstein, Mario Kart, and Marvel movies teach us about Conan of Cimmeria?"

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Jim Zub, Roy Thomas, and what to do about Robert E. Howard's racism in 2025 The current Conan the Barbarian title from Titan Comics did something recently that really surprised me. Jim Zub, its author, has frequently set stories in the periphery of canonical Howard classics:....

What do we do about Robert E. Howard's racism in 2025? I'd argue that we should look to Jim Zub and Roy Thomas's examples.

THONGOR AND THE WIZARD OF LEMURIA Yeah, Thongor's a different barbarian, technically. This is the first time I've written something not exclusively about Conan on this blog.

Thongor the Barbarian's more than just a bit of a ripoff.

About that Conan Power Records Album A while back, I was made aware of an audio drama LP starring Conan. Reddit user IHaveSpoken000 posted it in r/ConantheBarbarian, and then the best Conan Youtuber Stygian Dogs , who owns a copy and...

Stygian Dogs, myself, and others have been trying to find out more about this audio drama for which there's very little information. I discovered a little bit more than we had.

A (nearly) Complete Chronology of THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN In December of 2024, I published a project I had been working on for quite some time: putting the first 100 issues of The Savage Sword of Conan into chronological order . I have since then continued.....

Savage Sword of Conan was always told out of order, like someone remembering stories around a campfire. Here's my attempt at putting all 235 issues into a chronological order.

The Fall and Rise (and Fall and Rise) of THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN It's a small miracle that any comic is good for long. The need to continually be creative within the same sandbox, the demands of editors, the churn of collaborators, the tastes of comic fans...

I love Savage Sword, and its second half is under-discussed. I spent a long time researching and writing this, so I'm glad people have been enjoying it!

Home Wow! I've been nominated for a Robert E. Howard Foundation award for 2025 because of my work on this blog since last summer. Thank you to whoever may have nominated me! It's been really fun to log...

Wow! I've been nominated for a Robert E. Howard award for my work on my blog since last summer. There are a lot of cool people on this list.

This still leaves a wide berth of punk crowd moves to do. Crowdkilling during Morning Edition. Wall of Death at the end of Marketplace. Skank pit for All Things Considered.

THE TREASURE OF TRANICOS "(A.K.A. "THE BLACK STRANGER") There are few events in the life of Conan the Cimmerian that are completely, inexorably fixed in time. There are two events, though, on opposite ends of his life that are immovable in Conan's story......

It's February! This month in 1953, Robert E. Howard's posthumous Conan story "The Black Stranger" was first published in Fantasy Magazine.

This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we COULD ask Mothra for help

Great production on this thing!

How Conan Conquered the Comics Code In 1954, social psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham published Seduction of the Innocent: The Influence of Comic Books on Today's Youth . It was a flashpoint for the comic book industry. Wertham had...

I’m pretty proud of this piece about how Conan’s comic creators found ways around the draconian Comics Code Authority #Conan