Dan Yergs
@danyergs.bsky.social
Teacher, punk music player, Conan chronologizer
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Roy Thomas kind of adapted The Thing in the Crypt twice. The story behind both of them is great
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The Unsung Sword of Conan - Conan the Barbarian #92
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December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Roy Thomas kind of adapted The Thing in the Crypt twice. The story behind both of them is great
youtu.be/7uQL28OVyj8?...
youtu.be/7uQL28OVyj8?...
Take a tour through my sword & sorcery library with me!
A Sword & Sorcery Library Tour
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December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Take a tour through my sword & sorcery library with me!
The Unsung Sword of Conan #92: "The Thing in the Crypt!" Roy Thomas returns to the L. Sprague de Camp story for a second time... sort of.
The Unsung Sword of Conan - Conan the Barbarian #92: "The Thing in the Crypt"
With The Unsung Sword of Conan, I'm trying to highlight under-appreciated works in the Conan canon.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The Unsung Sword of Conan #92: "The Thing in the Crypt!" Roy Thomas returns to the L. Sprague de Camp story for a second time... sort of.
PRIMAL is the TV show we need right now
PRIMAL is the TV Show We Need Right Now
There's this remarkable cold open in episode three of animator Genndy Tartakovsky's adult animation show, Primal . A pack of wooly mammoths trudges through a blizzard in a storming tundra; behind...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
PRIMAL is the TV show we need right now
Savage Sword #74 deserves to be up there with the best-ever issues of SSOC!
The Unsung Sword of Conan - Savage Sword #74: "Lady of the Silver Snows"
With The Unsung Sword of Conan, I'm trying to highlight under-appreciated works in the Conan canon.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Savage Sword #74 deserves to be up there with the best-ever issues of SSOC!
My Rastan journey continues
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
My Rastan journey continues
Any other Conan chronology nerds want to weigh in on a possible connection between "Xuthal of the Dusk" and "Iron Shadows in the Moon?" I'm not sure if I'm way off-base.
Chronologically Speaking, Part Seven: "Iron Shadows in the Moon"
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...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Any other Conan chronology nerds want to weigh in on a possible connection between "Xuthal of the Dusk" and "Iron Shadows in the Moon?" I'm not sure if I'm way off-base.
Most of the Marvel Graphic Novel line is pretty insubstantial... but "Conan the Barbarian in The Skull of Set" is the best of the bunch and well worth your time.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE SKULL OF SET
I kind of bristle at the use of the word "graphic novel" these days, through no fault of graphic novels themselves. I work in education, and there's a huge number of teachers who seem to use the term....
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November 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Most of the Marvel Graphic Novel line is pretty insubstantial... but "Conan the Barbarian in The Skull of Set" is the best of the bunch and well worth your time.
Let's get drunk and play the Conan ripoff arcade game, RASTAN SAGA
Let's get drunk and play RASTAN SAGA
I get to the local barcade, The 1-Up, about 6:15, a little early. There are a few of these around, but the ones in downtown Denver and Boulder are infested with hip college kids in jaunty hats so...
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November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Let's get drunk and play the Conan ripoff arcade game, RASTAN SAGA
These Titan Conan books sure do look good next to one another
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
These Titan Conan books sure do look good next to one another
Conan: Spawn of the Serpent God is fun enough, but just kind of runs right through you.
CONAN: SPAWN OF THE SERPENT GOD
Critic Chuck Klosterman has this great bit in an exhaustive piece about KISS where he reviews every single album they ever put out, in a paragraph or so each. When he gets to their solo albums after.....
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November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Conan: Spawn of the Serpent God is fun enough, but just kind of runs right through you.
The Unsung Sword of Conan - Savage Sword #68: “Black Cloaks of Ophir”
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.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Unsung Sword of Conan - Savage Sword #68: “Black Cloaks of Ophir”
Conan has gotten a little better at thieving since The Tower of the Elephant!
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...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Conan has gotten a little better at thieving since The Tower of the Elephant!
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
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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!
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Today, film critic @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social joined my 7th graders to talk about film and film reviews! Thanks for joining us from NY!
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!
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....
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October 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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!
How Conan the Cimmerian and the team at Marvel Comics helped defeat the draconian Comics Code Authority
How Conan Conquered the Comics Code
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October 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
How Conan the Cimmerian and the team at Marvel Comics helped defeat the draconian Comics Code Authority
@jimzub.bsky.social and Alex Horley's CONAN #25 is EXCELLENT. A celebration of Conan and the immortality of stories themselves.
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.....
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October 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
@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!
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...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Barbarian vampires... in space!
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
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...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Needed to update the pic for the blog
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!
September 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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!
September 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Ed Brubaker and @seanphillips.bsky.social never miss. “The Knives” is a great addition to their body of work!