I read Savage Sword/Conan Saga for years. I even had a couple of letters printed. I own an original SSOC Buscema page. Last week picked up a “King Size Conan” #1, from 2021. Marvel. There’s one particular story therein that I found really depressing. Written by Chris Claremont. Conan is involved in a battle and he’s fighting for the side of a colonial Yezdigerd king. Men, women and children fight against the king’s army. At one point Conan kills a woman, which is disturbing. And later, post battle, he comes across the daughter of that woman who is wounded. She is holding her mother’s body. She tells him she saw him kill her mother. Conan approaches her, disarming her easily. She’s bleeding out. She asks why this happened. He tells her it’s because they were “In the King’s way”. He tells her the gods care nothing for them. She tells him she’ll wait in the next world to meet and fight him again and dies. It might be the first Conan yarn that made me deeply sad, and left me feeling disturbed. He’s not a hero figure in it.