Looking at the Darkhorse releases of Conan (not their rereleases of the old Marvel series). This is probably the best comic presentations of the Robert E Howard's Conan stories. They've done an insane amount of research and all the stories are pretty much the "expert's" view of how the stories should go. Tales are reordered, cleaned up, and missing holes are filled in with a sense of caretaking and guardianship of the mythos. The art is awesome and the coloring keeps an epic tone throughout the series. As with the earliest Conans, I'd give this more points if they kept more of the original sketches; these artists are amazing when you see their pencil work and even when the inking and coloring is awesome it still takes away from the original line drawings. Stories and art, if you want real Conan this is the way to go. (.90)

- J Paige