CONAN: BATTLE OF THE BLACK STONE #4, the final issue of the mini-series, arrives in comic shops TODAY with intense combat, unexpected turns, and a killer final page reveal! Make sure you’re all caught up, then strap yourself in for a wild ride!
I expect spoilers will start leaking out, so if you can read the big finish without those secrets being broken for you ahead of time I highly recommend you do so! Our team put blood, sweat, and a lot more blood into every issue.
Speaking of Black Stone…
Heroic Signatures just announced a 7-inch tall premium action figure based on Roberto De La Torre‘s cover of our Battle of the Black Stone prelude issue and it’s looking amazing.
Holiday Zub Books
If you’re hunting for holiday gifts, don’t forget to add some of these books to your shopping list!
A new era of high adventure awaits and we have 3 new CONAN THE BARBARIAN volumes with soaring sword & sorcery:
Conan Vol. 1: Bound in Black Stone
Conan Vol. 2: Thrice Marked For Death
Conan Vol. 3: The Age Unconquered
The DUNGEONS & DRAGONS YOUNG ADVENTURER’S GUIDE series is available in single hardcover volumes or in two softcover box sets:
D&D Young Adventurer’s Box Set 1 (Vol. 1-4)
D&D Young Adventurer’s Box Set 2 (Vol. 5-8)
Stacy and Andrew, my co-writers on the D&D Young Adventurer’s Guides, also have their own Dungeons & Dragons books out in the market as well:
Dungeons & Dragons: Pocket Expert
Dungeons & Dragons: Puncheons & Flagons
There are lots of other books too. I have an exhaustive trade paperback and hardcover collections list on the BUY page of my website. Different genres, different age ranges, all kinds of stories I’m incredibly proud of.
Current + Upcoming Releases
Upcoming Appearances
Comiccompscon24 is happening at the RAID Studio in Toronto on Dec 14th and I’ll be there!
A bunch of local creators are purging the extra copies of comics they have and, from what I can tell, we’re all looking to move a bunch of books for cheap, so if you’re there you could get a ridiculously good deal and get other books signed as well. If you’re in Toronto or driving distance from the city, put it on your calendar.
Links and Other Things
• Former footballer Danny Earls posted up a picture showing his artistic growth over ten years, changing careers from professional sports to professional comics. I’ve seen that kind of growth with some of the Animation students I’ve taught over the years, and it came with an incredible work ethic and steady feedback from their instructors. I know what kind of focus it takes to do what he’s done and am thrilled for him. Check out more of his work in this interview last year on CBR.
• Matt Rosenberg interviews comic writer Nick Spencer and the period they talk about, when Nick got traction in the business, is close to my own so it’s fascinating to hear his thoughts around that period of the comic industry and how much I agreed with his thoughts and fears at that point in time: Part One and Part Two.
• Watch how an almost century-old Fleischer cartoon gets restored from the original film negative.
• Matttt puts out another banger of a video, this one all about Hayao Miyazaki‘s career and the creation of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.
• Questing Beast talks about styles of tabletop role-playing games, ‘open’ and ‘closed’ games, and a concept he calls TUNIC – Time Until Next Impactful Choice.
• Matt Colville has a summary of key parts of Jon Peterson’s Elusive Shift book and discusses how the strata of tabletop role-playing gamers and their arguments now aren’t so different from back in the 1970’s when the hobby began.
• Putting this Bloodborne moment in the Playstation 30th Anniversary trailer is either gasoline on the Souls fanbase fire or top-notch trolling. Either way, let’s see what 2025 brings…
Jim
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