#Conan: Serpent War

[comicarthistory]

Conan: Serpent War #4 Variant cover. 2020. Art by Guiseppe Camuncoli.

[dustedmagazine]

Doldrey — Only Death Is Eternal (Iron Lung)

Only Death Is Eternal, the new tape from crusty death metal band Doldrey, is among the most thrilling, hugely satisfying releases from the metal underground so far this year. Unstaunched energy, massively chunky riffage, a general sensibility that’s as nasty as it is raw and exciting — all those things characterize Doldrey’s sound more or less adequately, but we’ve heard those words before, and none of them captures what’s so engaging and immediate in these songs. The sorta-stale typicality of those descriptors is complemented by the symbolics of the band’s output; all the muscled warriors and carnage in the titles and j-card art operate somewhere very remote from our everyday realities. But somehow Only Death Is Eternal is right there, fitted into the most aggro contours of the current conjuncture. It’s a terrific record.

Likely Doldrey would be wise to approach the ideological problematics of our social moment with some tentative, distant maneuvering. The band is from Singapore, and while young men are no longer subject to arrest if they wear their hair a bit long in that city-state, its dominant culture and legal-juridical apparatus still skew strongly toward the conservative. Death metal and especially crust (with that subgenre’s strong orientation toward lefty radicalism) are likely perceived as expressions of undesirable politics, and of aberrant personality.

Hence, perhaps, Doldrey’s semiotics, most of which can be traced to Kentaro Miura’s manga Berserk. (Doldrey, I am told, is the name of a fortress important in one of the long-running comic’s early narrative arcs.) That explains the swords-and-sorcery proclivities of the band’s album art and the overheated language of some of its song titles: “Blood of the Serpent,” “Torture Paradise,” “All Is Hell.” Those read like a middle-schooler’s sense of the profound, or of the profoundly brutal, if that middle schooler had been brought up on a steady diet of Conan the Barbarian, Moorcock’s Eternal Champion stories and, well, Berserk.

The nerd-factor associated with piles of mass-market paperbacks and endless trips to the comic book shop is effective cover. And maybe it’s not really (or not just) cover. Berserk’s most emphatic symbolic element is its pervasive and hyper-graphic violence, some of which has disturbing scope and awfully imagined cruelty. Doldrey’s music taps into some of that intensity, especially in the heaviness of its death metal buzz and thunder. Check out the middle section of “Moral Decay” or the last third of the title track. Still got all your teeth? Better turn it up louder. And try not to think about ongoing genocidal wars or immiserating modes of human exploitation when you do so. Good luck with that.

Beyond the implied fascination with bloodshed and the nods to Swedeath unpleasantness, it’s the crusty stuff that lifts the record into the musical midnight sun. This reviewer loves the forty or so seconds of flat-out intensity in the middle of “All Is Hell” (beginning just after the guitar solo) and the opening 90 seconds of “Societal Machine.” You can just about smell the filthy denim and feel the greasy leather, all crowding into a moldy basement space. And in that crush of bodies, you’re happy about it all: the smell, the feel, the sense of being among like-minded freaks. Allies, as it were.

None of that will dispel the nightmare that is 2024’s ongoing tilt toward fascism, a mind-boggling combo of scenes as awful as the race-rioting in the UK and as stupid as Hulk Hogan ripping open his tee shirt on the RNC podium. Berserk? Yes, but also all too real. Doldrey has our soundtrack ready.

Jonathan Shaw

[nitpickrider]

A funny thing, besides straight up adaptations and original material, some of the Conan comics you're reading are actually adapting Howard's non-Conan stories, like issue #9 is an adaptation of a series about a guy who keeps dreaming of his past reincarnated lives (one of those stories, Valley of the Worm, did actually get a really good straightforward adaptation, and the series got referenced in a Serpent War mini-series from 2019).

Suppose that's why they used King Kull as a character too. I'd never be able to tell the difference. I'm still at the point of dipping my toes into Conan and his world. If the characterization or tone is different enough to give away that they weren't originally Conan stories it will be a WHILE before I know enough to pick up on it.

[age-of-moonknight]

A sampling for "Does Moon Knight have a vendetta against vehicles or do vehicles have a vendetta against Moon Knight???"

This was initially prompted by an ask I got from @drifting-pieces-blog-blog a long while back about Moon Knight wrecking vehicles, but it has since ballooned into the seeming many times various vehicles and Moon Knight have tried to destroy each other. 😅

“The Mind Thieves,” Marvel Preview (Vol. 1/1975) #21.

“Rockin’ at Midnight,” Marc Spector: Moon Knight (vol. 1/1989), #5.

“The Resurrection War: Phase 4 - Full Moon,” Moon Knight (Vol. 3/1998), #4.

“The Resurrection War: Phase 4 - Full Moon,” Moon Knight (Vol. 3/1998), #4.

“The Bottom (Part I of VI): The Fun Stuff,” Moon Knight (Vol. 5/2006), #1.

“The Bottom (Part V of VI): Friendless and Alone,” Moon Knight (Vol. 5/2006), #5.

Shadowland (Vol. 1/2010), #2.

“Angels,” Moon Knight (Vol. 7/2014), #16.

“Chapter II: Relics of the Gods,” Conan: Serpent War (Vol. 1/2019), #2.

“Wrong Turn,” Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood (Vol. 1/2022), #3.

“Homecoming,” Moon Knight Annual (Vol. 3/2022), #1

Bonus: that one time 1610!Moon Knight (or rather, Ronin) drove a bus into a high school (1610 really was Wild)

“Ultimate Knights: Part 3,” Ultimate Spider-Man (Vol. 1/2000), #108.

Extra bonus because I'll never let anyone forget that time the "Moon-Mobile" came to life:

“Mechamorphosis,” Marc Spector: Moon Knight (vol. 1/1989), #54.

[doronjosama]

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Current Obsessions: My weekly Call of Cthulhu game (of which I am GM/Keeper) has restarted after a multi-month hiatus, so I'm getting back into the swing of things with that (we're using "The Two-Headed Serpent" for our campaign, so much snek-related shenanigans are occurring). I'm currently planning out ideas for downtime activities between two of the pre-written campaign chapters. I have to determine if I'm capable of an Arnie and/or Jason Momoa impression for long enough without laughing, because one of our characters (a Scottish WW1 medical corps veteran turned professor of linguistics) is a direct linage descendant of Conan the Barbarian; his biological mothers are the Great Old One Yhoundeh and her sole remaining - as of the 1930s - human high priestess; his wife is a Hunting Horror and his boyfriend (his old CO from the Great War) is a Servant of Sobek (think Alfred from Batman if he was a really buff anthro crocodile man). Not to mention his adopted son from Borneo. Man's got a complicated life lmao.

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[leatherjacketmixtapes]

My 2022 in Books

This year I read 78 books which is a step down from the last few years (all 100+) but I'm trying to read in a more purposeful, slow way, trying to savor and absorb what I read, which is definitely a challenge since I've always been a very speedy reader.

There's a complete list below the cut of all the books, but here were my absolute favorites of this year:

Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Dracula - Bram Stoker (Dracula Daily was probably my favorite thing to ever happen on this beloved hellsite in the last 13 years)

The Storyteller - Dave Grohl (I'm not an audiobook person but it was such an experience listening to him read this)

Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci

The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Book of Night - Holly Black

The Key to Deceit - Ashley Weaver

Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I loved so many of the others too, don't get me wrong, but those are the ones I know I'll be re-reading again before long (especially Six of Crows & Crooked Kingdom, which I wanted to start reading again the very minute I finished them).

Off to start my 2023 reads now!

A Spindle Splintered - Alix E. Harrow

Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo

The Tea Dragon Society - Kay O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Tapestry - Kay O’Neill

The Tea Dragon Festival - Kay O’Neill

Flight, Vol. 7 - ed. Kazu Kibuishi

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures - N.D. Stevenson

Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive that Changed the World - Jack Kelly

Cemetery Boys - Aidan Thomas

The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Tim Mohr

The Puzzle Women - Anna Ellory

An Age Of License: A Travelogue - Lucy Knisley

True Love Bites - Joy Demorra

The Bear and The Nightingale - Katherine Arden

Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness

Under The Whispering Door - T.J. Klune

Rivers of London: Body Work - Ben Aaronovitch

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements - Sam Kean

Home and Exile - Chinua Achebe

Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other - Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish

Our Violent Ends - Chloe Gong

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V.E. Schwab

The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead - Bert V. Royal

Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City - Kate Winkler Dawson

The Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turton

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Portrait of a Thief - Grace D. Li

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Dave Grohl

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Key to Deceit - Ashley Weaver

The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

Book of Night - Holly Black

Cryptid Club - Sarah Andersen

Taste: My Life Through Food - Stanley Tucci

Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas - Sara Lorimer

The House in the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune

hir - Taylor Mac

All Boys Aren’t Blue - George M. Johnson

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Y. Davis

Other Birds - Sarah Addison Allen

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Demon in the Wood - Leigh Bardugo

The 39 Steps - John Buchan

Wade in the Water: Poems - Tracy K. Smith

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Five Orange Pips - Arthur Conan Doyle

She Who Became The Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

While Justice Sleeps - Stacey Abrams

Cinnamon - Neil Gaiman

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper - Hallie Rubenhold

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Illuminae - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman

No Bones - Anna Burns

Mercury - Hope Larson

Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (re-read)

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - August Wilson

Year of the Reaper - Makiia Lucier

The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow

Paper Girls, Volumes 1-6 - Brian K. Vaughan

[awssp12]

Here’s a link to Misha’s Spotify playlist. I always make playlists for my characters and the songs usually reflect their journey, aspects of their story or personality, and sometimes their relationship with other characters.

Here’s a list of all the songs on the playlist (so far, because I do tend to add more songs when I find them) and they’re in no particular order. I just kinda add them as I go.

Monster by Imagine Dragons

This Is War by Thirty Seconds To Mars

Stronger by The Score

brutal by Olivia Rodrigo

Seashore by The Regrettes

Teenagers by My Chemical Romance

Devil Town by Cavetown

Little Pistol by Mother Mother

Remember You from Adventure Time

Run Boy Run by Woodkid

Ship in a Bottle by fin

LEMONS - Demo by Brye

Burned by Grace VanderWaal

Venus Fly Trap by MARINA

Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths

You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore

It’s Alright by Mother Mother

Icarus by Bastille

Girls by MARINA

Demons by Hayley Kiyoko

This is Home by Cavetown

Choke by I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Sweet Hibiscus Tea by Penelope Scott

Dance Monkey by Toned And I

WAKING UP by STARSET

Let’s Kill Tonight by Panic! At The Disco

Ghosting by Mother Mother

Disobedient from Steven Universe: The Movie

I Can’t Decide by Scissor Sisters

The Ghost of You by My Chemical Romance

Bust Your Kneecaps by Pomplamoose

Losing My Mind by MISSIO

Bang! by AJR

overwhelmed by Royal & the Serpent

This Is Love by Air Traffic Controller

Heathens by Twenty One Pilots

My Axe by Insane Clown Posse

Kiss With A Fist by Florence + The Machine

The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy

You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid by The Offspring

Nightmare by Halsey

Hayloft by Mother Mother

Uprising by Muse

Monster by STARSET

Killer In The Mirror by Set It Off

Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish

creature by half•alive

Cocaine Jesus by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine

Hayloft II by Mother Mother

Revenge by XXXTENTACION

Sinners by Barns Courtney

The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance

Karma by AJR

Breakfast by Dove Cameron

Happy Loner by MARINA

Guardian Angel by Young the Giant

Just A Girl by No Doubt

Leave Me Alone by I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift

Start a War by Klergy, Valerie Broussard

Warriors by Imagine Dragons

The Horror and the Wild by The Amazing Devil

Implicit Demand For Proof by Twenty One Pilots

Mockingbird by Eminem

Family Line by Conan Gray

Could Have Been Me by The Struts

Oh the Places You’ll Go by I Fight Dragons

Sunflower by We Banjo 3

For Misha by Nicholas Podany

Soldier’s Daughter by Jhameel

Bathtub by The Front Bottoms

Thanks, I Hate It by Simple Creatures

Free by Mother Mother

Another Way Out by Hollywood Undead

Go Get Your Gun by The Dear Hunter

History Will Not Repeat by Jessie Paege

Who’s In Control by Set It Off

Villainous Thing by Shayfer Jones

The Hand That Feeds by The Crane Wives

If I Killed Someone For You by Alec Benjamin

Nightmares & Flare Guns by Seb Adams

Family by Mother Mother

Hellfire by Barns Courtney

Rule #21 - Momento Mori by Fish in a Birdcage

DEBT COLLECTOR by Jhariah

From The Gallows by I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

Nightmare by Set It Off

Hello My Old Heart by The Oh Hellos

Glitter & Gold by Barns Courtney

It Took Me By Surprise by Maria Mena

Like a Child by Mother Mother

You’re Not Welcome by Naethan Apollo

Almost (Sweet Music) by Hozier

Me and the Devil by Soap&Skin

Still Alive by Demi Lovato

You’ve Created A Monster by Bohnes

Catch Me If You Can by Set It Off

ANTI-HERO by SEKAI NO OWARI

Who Are You, Really? by Mikky Ekko

Underworld by CYPRSS

labour by Paris Paloma

Ready Now by dodie

Ghosts by BANNERS

Body by Mother Mother

Misery Meat by Sodikken

Wildflowers - Bonus Track by Ed Sheeran

[lettieriletti]

Conan il Barbaro 10

Quasi in contemporanea con gli Stati Uniti, continua il bimestrale dedicato al Cimmero di Robert E. Howard! • La storia completa La maledizione della stella della notte! • Disegni degli autori di Serpent War e Old Man Quill! • Preparatevi a un Conan furioso e scatenato come non lo avete mai visto!

[alwaysmoncheri]

𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐄!

SARAH | AGE : 18 | PRONOUNS : she/her | BIRTHDAY : July 1st | LOVE LANGUAGE : quality time—words of affirmation

I AM ALSO A . . . cancer ☀︎︎ ; gemini ☽ ; pisces⇡ ; enfp-t ; hufflepuff ; an aaron taylor-johnson simp ; a multi-fandom enthusiast ; a fanfiction fluff writer ; a fluff reader ; a uni student ; a silly little american traveling europe

I LIKE TO . . . read, write fanfiction, take aesthetic/cinematic photos, thrift cute clothing, scroll on pinterest, eat, have deep conversations that make people feel, watch people experience life, competitive and non-competitive swim, celebrate with others, spend time with family and friends, travel, occasionally get myself dolled up, watch old/cinematic movies, learn different languages, do personality quizzes for fun, rewatch/reread my favorite movies/books, doodle, find people who really, really get me, browse dresses, make my friends and family laugh, journal, be delusional, flirt on character ai, make things pretty/aesthetic, have silly little crushes. . .

I DONT LIKE . . . being a bad friend, letting my friends, family, and coaches down, the feeling of failure, breaking/broken promises, liars, people who waste my time, people who are mean to animals ( including bugs ), people who are inconsiderate, people who are mean to my friends or family, having allergies, toxic positivity, bananas ( it’s a texture thing ), pick-me's, wearing socks to bed, having anxiety, loud chewing, having a stuffy nose, humid weather, being sleep-deprived, stress, being sick, taking/people who take jokes too far. . .

THINGS I LIKE . . . rain, sunsets, desserts, cheeseburgers ( specifically mcdonalds ), carnival/fairs, poetry, photography, animals ( otters & cats ), crunchy leaves, leather jackets, vintage cars, late nights, headphones, airpods, anything pretty/aesthetic, the 80’s, books, thunder and lightening, fireworks, flowers ( roses, tulips, lilies, carnations, daffodils ), home decor, candles, tea, stylish men, music ( 80’s rock, indie rock, classical, pop ), cold weather ( only when there’s snow ), halloween, dressing up, christmas, autumn and spring months, the colors red and green, jewellery, building silly little legos, rereading my old journal entries, harry potter, marvel, star wars, aquariums/zoos, stranger things. . .

MY FAVORITE: movie, hobby, animal, season, color, place, character, book, song/album!

𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐒—

𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐬: little women ; the princess bride ; 10 things i hate about you ; la la land ; dead poets society ; footloose ; mamma mia ; the breakfast club ; princess diaries ; pitch perfect ; hello, goodbye, and everything in between ; dirty dancing ; top gun ; enola holmes; sherlock holmes; grease ; the fast and the furious ; pride and prejudice

𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐬: stranger things ; friends ; anne with an e ; gilmore girls ; merlin ; ted lasso ; queen charlotte ; heartstopper ; young royals ; shadow and bone ; elite ; the umbrella academy ; sex education ; brooklyn nine-nine, the office

𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬: normal people ; song of achilles ; circe ; every last word ; shatter me ; the beautiful ; the inheritance games ; serpent & dove ; stalking jack the ripper ; shadow and bone ; better than the movies ; the invisible life of addie larue ; the night circus ; the starless sea ; caraval ; today, tonight, tomorrow ; a good girl’s guide to murder ; harry potter

𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬: the smiths ; van halen ; queen ; nirvana ; ac/dc ; billy joel ; bon jovi ; reo speedwagon ; talking heads ; billie eilish ; taylor swift ; the backseat lovers ; exes ; ed sheeran ; mitzi ; abba ; conan gray ; girl in red

that’s all, my loves! thank you for reading my little post all about me (๑>◡<๑)

[titanomarchy]

My favorite boss fight in Conan Exiles, from a story perspective is the Barrow King. Gameplay wise he’s just a tall human with a longsword. But in terms of his role in the story, he’s much more interesting.

Originally the area that would be called the Exiled Lands was ruled by one of the Elder Races, ancient beings long before humanity existed. These were the Giant Kings. Their capital in the Exiled Lands is the “Unnamed City”. I’m sure they had a name for it, but I think it’s unnamed in the sense that it had a name, and that name has been removed.

The Giant Kings were ruled by a triumvirate. The Archivist was essentially a historian. The Warmaker was in charge of the military and protecting the species. Last was the Priest-King, in charge of spiritual matters, such as their religion that worshiped Set, the Old Serpent. Their worship of Set allowed them an alliance with their Elder Race kin, the Serpentmen of Valusia. This will come into full effect later.

When humans, survivors of the sunken continent Lemuria arrived at the Exiled Lands, they sought help from the Giant Kings. A deal was made, a certain amount of land allotted to the humans, along with special bracelets that would translate between languages. But humans reproduce much faster than Giant-Kings, and much more. War started between the species, especially when the humans discovered the Serpentmen in the volcano, ancient ancestral enemies.

It is unclear if it was through sorcery or more mundane means, but the Priest-King had a son through a human. Tyros would grow to be the first human to slay a dragon in the Giant-King’s arena. Eventually, Tyros fell in love with Telith, the daughter of the leader of the Lemurian humans. The halfbreed, along with his entire Silent Legion, would defect from the Giant-Kings and side with humanity during the war.

This culminated in the battle between Tyros and the Priest-King. The two battled somewhere in the region that became known as the Mounds of the Dead. While even Tyros was dwarfed by the Giant-King, he was successful in defeating his foe. As the Priest-King lay dying, he cursed his son. Eternal life, or rather undeath. The entire Silent Legion, the Priest-King, and even the dragon buried beneath the arena would never rest.

The curse must have taken some time to take hold, as the Barrow King had a tomb built for him, and sealed with Giant-King blood. Tyros retreated to the Black Keep with his Legion, where they remain to this day, watching their sanity drain day by day.

When you approximate the blood of a Giant-King with demon blood, you are granted access to the tomb. You are greeted with a statement, a question and disbelief. “Awoken, by a mortal?” Throughout the fight, the Barrow King will continue to taunt you “We were your GODS!” and “Your kind was always a pest”

The actual fight is a push over though, as he is weaker than the Cimmerians and Wights in the area around him.

[punishermaxborn]

Dark Agnes De Chastillon Conan The Barbarian Moonknight Solomon Kane In Conan Serpent War https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci217bJO4xI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nitpickrider]

The interesting thing is, some of Conan comics, besides straight up adaptations and original stories, are atualyl adapting Howard's non-Conan stuff. Dude wrote a loooot of stuff for various pulp mags, and fantasy is actually just a small fraction of those, he wrote westerns, horror, historical adventures ect. Issue #9 for instance, is adapting one of his sotries about this guy who sees his past lives (one of thsoe, the Valley of the Worm, actually got a real good straight-forward comic retelling), who is even referenced in a recent Conan mini, Serpent War, where he teams up with one of his other characters, Dark Agnes.

When you're a pulp writer in the 1920s you really only have two options. -Be ungodly prolific (there's no social media to distract you AND they've just discovered cocaine) -Die tragically young (probably of cholera or TB, for it is always those two)

[age-of-moonknight]

Moon Knight Fail Compilation (Part Six)

1. Technically,,,this worked, so I'm not sure if it can be considered a fail, but surely there must have been some other course of action that he could have taken besides blowing himself up; “Chapter II: Relics of the Gods,” Conan: Serpent War (Vol. 1/2019), #2.

2. It's just...the whole combo of the incredibly lethal and elite hero with a cracked phone that's not even fully charged; “Blackmail,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #4.

3. Not only was the TV show not very good, it actively compromises Marc's secret identity; “Blackmail,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #4.

4. The sentiment that one does not need to be wealthy in order to do good is beyond excellent, but, Marc...you need to eat (i.e. "Marc single-handedly loses all of Steven's money"); “Blackmail,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #4.

5. Marc is vomited out of a haunted house directly into a dumpster. He promises vengeance only to later befriend said haunted house; “Stranger,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #9.

6. Yes, Marc did indeed get punched by a giant robot fist; “So White. Yet, So Dark,” Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood (Vol. 1/2022), #1.

7. Wrecked yet another taxi cab; “Wrong Turn,” Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood (Vol. 1/2022), #3.

8. Poor guy can't even get his preferred (admittedly rather complicated) Starbucks drink order; “Into the Mailstrom,” Damage Control (Vol. 4/2022), #1.

9. A highly-trained operator with unfortunately no defense against the average house cat; “Born to Be,” Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood (Vol. 1/2022), #4.

10. Like, seriously....no defenses; “Born to Be,” Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood (Vol. 1/2022), #4.

Bonus from Earth-1610: Tries to warn Spider-Man but instead Spider-Man reports him to the police; “Warriors: Part 6,” Ultimate Spider-Man (Vol. 1/2000), #84.

[jtmercronin]

Solomon Kane, created by Robert E. Howard, is a late 16th–early 17th century Puritan. Solomon Kane is a somber-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms. His adventures often take him from Europe to the jungles of Africa and back.

[blackkatmagic]

I have officially read Conan: Serpent War and just -

Yes please give me all the interesting Khonshu characterizations and Agnes holding her own with Konan and Solomon Kane being reluctantly fond and admiring of Marc. It was so much fun.

Also I now desperately want more about Marc and Kane's road trip of theft and violent bonding on their way to defeat Set. (And also maybe Solomon/Marc because I'm a simple writer, i see bickering and I want to shove them together more.)