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Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · 26d

Needed to update the pic for the blog

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Sep 3

With rage

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Sep 1

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!

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Aug 23

@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

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

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...

What does Conan the Barbarian mean in 2025?

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

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....

LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Jul 4

LL Comrade J

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 4

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike

“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”

LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.

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Jim Zub, Roy Thomas, and what to do about Robert E. Howard's racism in 2025

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

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:....

THONGOR AND THE WIZARD OF LEMURIA

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Jun 16

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

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

About that Conan Power Records Album

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Jun 3

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 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...

A (nearly) Complete Chronology of THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · May 30

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.

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.....

The Fall and Rise (and Fall and Rise) of THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · May 13

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!

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...

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...

Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Mar 1

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.

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Dan Yergs @danyergs.bsky.social · Feb 24

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.