#Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast

[tomoleary]

Ken Kelly - GURPS: Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast Role-Playing Game Supplement Cover Painting Original Art (Steve Jackson Games, 1989)

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[curtvilescomic]

Queen of The Black Coast by Nicola Genzianella 

[chernobog13]

Illustration by Mark Schultz for the Conan tale Queen of the Black Coast.

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #25 -December 1977-

front piece art of Conan and Belit by Ed Davis

[grayrazor]

The best response I’ve ever seen to “simulation theory” is from a 1934 Conan the Barbarian story, “I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.”

[w45t3l0ck]

"I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

A COVER THAT HARKENS BACK TO ITS PULP-LADEN "WEIRD TALES" ORIGINS.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1200x1821 -- Spotlight on [Bêlit, the Pirate Queen] variant cover art to "Conan the Barbarian" #5. November, 2023. Titan Comics. Artwork by Rebecca Puebla.

Source: https://www.jimzub.com/2023/11.

[evilhorse]

Conan the Barbarian #7

[firestingray]

Robert E. Howard was so good at writing some of the coolest world building you've ever read in a nice short two sentence paragraph

[pirate-deathmatch]

Round 1 Starboard: Long John Silver (Muppet Treasure Island) vs Bêlit, Queen of the Black Coast (Conan The Barbarian)

While Long John Silver has the power to turn a situation into a song-and-dance number, and great powers of seduction, he was also defeated by a frog. Meanwhile Bêlit is a fearsome pirate captain-- but is frequently written by sexist writers, and may find herself suddenly besotted or weakened.

[the pirates MAY use any special skills or equipment they possess. They may NOT call on any friends or creatures to assist them. For the sake of this tournament, all pirates CAN be killed and cannot come back to life during the fight. Remember: this isn't about favorites, this is about fighting power. Deathmatch masterpost Here.]

[dberl]

I’m just going to go ahead and comment on how beautiful the colors are in this scene, especially given the printing limitations of the time.

That doesn't make any sense Venomous creatures are not any more immune to pollution than their harmless counterparts, as those of us living in the modern day rightly know. Conan the Barbarian 100

[tomoleary]

Sanjulian (Manuel Perez Clemente) Queen of the Black Coast Conan Painting Original Art (undated) Source

[curtvilescomic]

Queen of The Black Coast by Marta Almá 

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Conan the Barbarian #17 by Jim Zub, Danica Brine and João Canola. Cover by Roberto De La Torre. Variant covers by (2) Dean Kotz, (3) Ace Continuado, (4) Denis Medri and (5) Stephanie Lavaud. Out in November.

"A NEW CONAN THE BARBARIAN ARC BEGINS! WITH NEW CONAN ARTIST DINICA BRINE (CHEF'S KISS)! Conan the Cimmerian and Bêlit, Pirate Queen of the Black Coast, are in their prime, enjoying a life of decadence and debauchery, but a flagrant flash of wealth brings unwelcome attention from thieves with a taste for danger and agents from Stygia on a dark mission for their serpent god."

[the-gershomite]

The Savage Sword of Conan the Barbarian #26 -January 1978-

"The Other Queen of the Black Coast" article by Fred Blosser

plus, Conan comic ads.

[theseventhoffrostfall]

i saw the conan movie for the first time last night. It might be one of my new favorite examples of a B movie that had no right to put in as much work as it did. Definitely strays from the original stories and I'd almost prefer if Arnold had even fewer lines than he did. But the cinematography has the scope of a 70mm old epic, the set design and worldbuilding in a weird migration era world was a breath of fresh air from generic high fantasy, and I have been listening to the soundtrack since.

then I saw conan the destroyer and comparatively it sucked but honestly as a pulp b movie, it was exactly what it needed to be albeit a bit too pg13 and light.

have you seen any of the conan movies? i love how the stories range from pulp heists, to orientalist "evil chinese warlord" to stuff that almost feels like the non-viking bro viking myths like Frost Giant's Daughter, doomed romances like Queen of the Black Coast, to outright Westerns. I want Netflix to die 1000 deaths before they get their hands on it, but a good 40-60 minute serial adaptation of the best 5-10 of his stories like what the BBC does with detective series might turn out good in theory because again modern tv is hell.

I've only seen the first two, because I think a negative number of people ever bothered watching the Jason Mamoa one, but yeah the first one especially had some real passion and attention to detail behind it. As that famous thread pointed out, there's an entire complete character arc hidden in like five shots featuring a character with no lines.

The anthology of short films is definitely the way to go for Conan, yeah. They're episodic and often self-contained and wouldn't work trying to fit the "8-32-hour continuous story" format that every show follows now.

The main fear I'd have for that is that, like we've discussed before, sword and sorcery is a genre that absolutely needs to take itself seriously. The instant it slips into some self-aware, wink-and-nod meta-joke even for a second, the whole thing collapses like a house of cards. It's no longer the Age of Whedon and high-budget genre films can survive outside of an all-irony atmosphere again, but I still have little faith in most creators to have that kind of trust in audience buy-in, especially if they were riding off of the campy elements of the adaptations like the Frazetta-inspired outfits and Conan having a thick accent