Publisher: Titan Comics Writer: Jim Zub Artist: Rob De La Torre Colours: Jose Villarrubia Lettering: Richard Starkings Release Date: 2nd August 2023 When it was announced in April 2023 that Titan Comics was partnering with Heroic Signatures to bring the fictional sword and sorcery hero “back in a new tale of bravery and heroism”, many bibliophiles perusing Jim Zub’s narrative for the first issue of Conan The Barbarian will probably have felt the legendary Robert E. Howard himself was whispering what to write in the Canadian author’s ear. For whilst “Scourge Of The Dead” is not an adaption of any story previously published within the pages of a pulp magazine, the adventure’s atmosphere brilliantly captures all the character, chaos, and sword-slashing carnage of the Cimmerian’s printed chronicles in “Weird Tales”. For starters, the scale of this book’s narrative begins typically small, with the experienced combatant simply swapping savage punches with a bullish craven, who ignorantly feels ‘right is might’ when it comes to ordering his men to die needlessly on the battlefield. This violent introductory scene firmly establishes Conan as being cut from the same imaginative cloth as his Texas-born creator would have wanted him, as well as quickly settling [...]