Dan Yergs
@danyergs.bsky.social
Teacher, punk music player, Conan chronologizer
https://conanchronology.com/
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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
YouTube video by The Conan Chronology
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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!
@foldablehuman.bsky.social Hey Dan, do you have a video that comes to mind as your best-executed video? Or any that you feel like didn't turn out how you wanted? When you put out Mantracks I got the sense that you felt that one had come together exactly as you wanted it to
August 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
@foldablehuman.bsky.social Hey Dan, do you have a video that comes to mind as your best-executed video? Or any that you feel like didn't turn out how you wanted? When you put out Mantracks I got the sense that you felt that one had come together exactly as you wanted it to
Despite a beautiful painted cover, "Conan the Barbarian: The Witch Queen of Acheron" is seriously hampered by miserable interior art.
CONAN THE BARBARIAN: THE WITCH QUEEN OF ACHERON
I don't think I'm super picky when it comes to comic book art. I know folks for whom small variations in art can completely make or break a book: they'll buy one just for the art or they'll drop it...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Despite a beautiful painted cover, "Conan the Barbarian: The Witch Queen of Acheron" is seriously hampered by miserable interior art.
What does Conan the Barbarian mean in 2025? or, "What can Frankenstein, Mario Kart, and Marvel movies teach us about Conan of Cimmeria?"
What does Conan the Barbarian mean in 2025?
Are you familiar with the concept of a frame narrative? There are a few different uses of the term, but the one I mean is essentially a story-within-a-story. Let me illustrate with one of my favorite....
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July 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What does Conan the Barbarian mean in 2025? or, "What can Frankenstein, Mario Kart, and Marvel movies teach us about Conan of Cimmeria?"
LL Comrade J
LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”
LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike
LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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What do we do about Robert E. Howard's racism in 2025? I'd argue that we should look to Jim Zub and Roy Thomas's examples.
Jim Zub, Roy Thomas, and what to do about Robert E. Howard's racism in 2025
The current Conan the Barbarian title from Titan Comics did something recently that really surprised me. Jim Zub, its author, has frequently set stories in the periphery of canonical Howard classics:....
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June 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What do we do about Robert E. Howard's racism in 2025? I'd argue that we should look to Jim Zub and Roy Thomas's examples.
Thongor the Barbarian's more than just a bit of a ripoff.
THONGOR AND THE WIZARD OF LEMURIA
Yeah, Thongor's a different barbarian, technically. This is the first time I've written something not exclusively about Conan on this blog.
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June 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Thongor the Barbarian's more than just a bit of a ripoff.
Stygian Dogs, myself, and others have been trying to find out more about this audio drama for which there's very little information. I discovered a little bit more than we had.
About that Conan Power Records Album
A while back, I was made aware of an audio drama LP starring Conan. Reddit user IHaveSpoken000 posted it in r/ConantheBarbarian, and then the best Conan Youtuber Stygian Dogs , who owns a copy and...
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June 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Stygian Dogs, myself, and others have been trying to find out more about this audio drama for which there's very little information. I discovered a little bit more than we had.
Savage Sword of Conan was always told out of order, like someone remembering stories around a campfire. Here's my attempt at putting all 235 issues into a chronological order.
A (nearly) Complete Chronology of THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN
In December of 2024, I published a project I had been working on for quite some time: putting the first 100 issues of The Savage Sword of Conan into chronological order . I have since then continued.....
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May 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Savage Sword of Conan was always told out of order, like someone remembering stories around a campfire. Here's my attempt at putting all 235 issues into a chronological order.