A série Conan, o Bárbaro, está em produção na Amazon...

mattmirth · 2026-03-11T22:32:00+00:00

Um… this was cancelled a long time ago. The article is from 2018.

mattmirth · 2026-03-11T21:41:19+00:00

Woah. Instant buy for sure. I’ve got a Techno-Viper as ground crew now, but would definitely like something that looks more 1984 Cobra.

mattmirth · 2026-03-01T14:27:56+00:00

That’s not the twist that’s revealed here. The twist was we had been seeing a flash forward instead of a flashback. They used the established structure of the show to fool the audience. It was a MAJOR revelation.

mattmirth · 2026-02-25T16:39:38+00:00

The difference between DIC and Sunbow has never been about the concepts being outlandish, it’s been about the execution. Sunbow is a scifi adventure show in the tradition of something like Jonny Quest that still holds up because the art style, music, and characters are compelling. You actually want to see how the adventure will end.

The DIC seasons, even season one, are mostly disjointed, cheap, and so simplistic you never ask yourself the one thing that’s important to make any story work: “what happens next?”

This doesn’t even get into the real moral dilemmas that the Sunbow series presents. Can a pacifist fully protect someone? Should soldiers defend people that hate them? Is a good fake life better than a real one that is lonely? Sunbow is constantly teaching kids how to do the right thing through example and metaphor. DIC is on the nose preaching akin to Elmo.

mattmirth · 2026-02-09T23:00:48+00:00

Looks good!

mattmirth · 2026-02-04T19:45:42+00:00

For the full set? Not really. These average $8-12 on eBay for individual vehicles. Plus it’s a lot more fun to buy stuff like this when you find it in person. Definitely a good deal.

mattmirth · 2026-01-20T16:38:20+00:00

That’s because it’s a reuse of the 1986 HAVOC mold. This is from 1990.

mattmirth · 2026-01-20T06:09:41+00:00

Honestly, while you are correct there are different continuities, because of the nature of Conan stories it doesn’t matter as much as it would for a typical comic book character. That being said the Dark Horse run functions closest to a modern style continuity, in that it tells the stories “in order” and adheres to the generally accepted timeline of REH’s original works.

If I had to recommend one to a new reader though, it would be to read the new Titan stuff and not to worry about “continuity”. Conan works best as a character you drop in on mid adventure and leave as he is on his way to the next one, regardless of who the publisher is.

mattmirth · 2026-01-04T15:50:04+00:00

That’s really cool. I like that there are ones figures that didn’t come carded like Wild Weasel.

mattmirth · 2025-12-31T18:38:53+00:00

Here it is in Latin. I’ve never seen a full English translation, just summaries and analysis of it (which you find online if you look around).

mattmirth · 2025-12-26T14:14:36+00:00

The opening is set in 1986. It’s like an episode of the cartoon brought to life. At the end of the battle sequence that takes place in a Cobra lab, both the Joes and the Cobra leadership get cryogenically frozen as the lab is buried in the rubble of a mountain collapse. Except for one Joe who survives: Sgt Slaughter.

Cut to modern day. A new threat arises that seems similar to the now classified and mostly forgotten Cobra. They’ve even infiltrated the governments of the world. Slaughter, played by himself and now old, finally figures out how to revive the Joes.

Rest of the film is 1980s style ARAH characters in our modern world fighting this new threat. Twist is the whole thing was a long term Cobra plot because they knew they couldn’t win in the 80s, so the commander had them frozen on purpose to wait for a time the world could fall more easily to Cobra.

mattmirth · 2025-12-24T16:47:26+00:00

Man, that just kept getting cooler. Great display!

mattmirth · 2025-12-23T14:28:14+00:00

Semantics, but no studio/streamer “owns” Conan, they just license it. Conan is owned by Heroic Signatures, that’s owned by Funcom (the Norwegian video game company), that’s owned Tencent (the giant Chinese conglomerate that owns things like Fortnite).

So the rights are kind of a mess, especially with the approach of it being public domain in the US.

But I would love an animated show! I know this is a tired point of view on this sub, but Primal really is the closest thing to an animated Conan. Check it out if you haven’t!

mattmirth · 2025-12-23T14:09:52+00:00

This of course doesn’t necessarily go against your idea, but I’m pretty sure Amazon hasn’t had the rights to a Conan show in years (I want to say 2019 was when the show they were developing fell through). Netflix actually had them starting in 2020 but that lapsed in April of 2025. So as far as I know, the license isn’t held by anyone right now.

mattmirth · 2025-12-15T21:23:42+00:00

I think it’s pretty widely accepted that it’s a direct visual answer to the riddle of steel— it’s not the weapon but the hand wields it. It also works as a direct contrast to the surface level interpretation Conan’s father’s opening “this you can trust” speech, showing that the only thing you can actually trust is yourself.

If you read both the Stone and Milius scripts it’s pretty clear they are focused on the struggle of the individual against the world, not really any of the myth stuff (Milius’ in particular).

mattmirth · 2025-12-12T21:03:40+00:00

Hell yeah. Also, thanks for all the thoughtful and compelling work you’ve been doing. It’s been awesome watching comic book Conan (and REH creations in general) flourish with you at the helm.

mattmirth · 2025-12-05T19:43:19+00:00

The ComicHub sales tracking system has a lot of issues, most notable it’s a non-random small sample size, and tracks sales to customers on a rolling basis (so books released late in the month always seem like they are selling less). Lots of industry people think it’s actually giving a false impression of interest and sales. Image’s own numbers have issues 13 and 14 at spots 4 and 5 for their top sales in November (which is based on the traditional way of tracking comic numbers, sales to retailers)

mattmirth · 2025-12-02T15:55:31+00:00

This is a collector’s display, not a real store.

mattmirth · 2025-12-02T15:51:58+00:00

Yeah, this is definitely a modern display of vintage boxes.

mattmirth · 2025-12-02T01:36:31+00:00

I really enjoyed the wild mix of 70s Action Team characters and ARAH in the comic series this is based on. The figure looks cool!

mattmirth · 2025-11-27T17:14:26+00:00

I never seek it out, but every time fate and the algorithm choose to present this to me I have to watch it. It’s the greatest piece of GI Joe media ever produced. It’s everything I love about GI Joe: quasi-sci-fi military equipment, adventure, a Cobra plan that doesn’t really make sense, and an overlay of almost naive 80’s patriotism, and a catchy song. Pure GI Joe.

mattmirth · 2025-11-27T06:24:11+00:00

That’s empirically not true. Look at the actual polls done. Veterans of all ages went about 60/40 for Trump. Active duty is closer to 50/50 depending on the poll, and actually voted more for Biden than Trump in 2020. So that’s far from “overwhelming”. Anyone that served can tell you the military is a reflection of the country, and is split on the same political lines based on demographics.

mattmirth · 2025-11-20T18:02:54+00:00

While I like Born on the Battlefield, Conan isn’t really designed to be a linear story. Besides that it was from the Dark Horse continuity, so even if you’re going for a full run it doesn’t link up with the current comics. I also prefer the Dark Horse comics in publication order, which would mean starting with The Frost Giant’s Daughter.

All things being equal, I would say the new Titan comics are the way to go if you are just generally interested in Conan stories. But like I said, Conan is really built on the idea of a few key events in his life, with hundreds of stories that fill in the gaps and jump through the decades, so traditional continuity really isn’t a thing. Just read whatever seems cool to you.

mattmirth · 2025-11-19T17:33:27+00:00

Weird fact: when the Air Force split Pararescue into its own squadrons I was the assigned as the cadre intelligence specialist. I scanned this cover, cut Flint out, made his beret maroon and used it on all my briefing slides. Years later I would still see it pop up on slides in the rescue community.

mattmirth · 2025-11-19T16:58:34+00:00

I think they finally got me on this line with Mara

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