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Conan the Barbarian: Scourge of the Serpent
Conan the Barbarian: Scourge of the Serpent
SCOURGE OF THE SERPENT #1 DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE EDITION!
THE NEW CONAN EPIC STARTS HERE!
Conan of Cimmeria has encountered Stygian sorcery and snake-sent creatures many times in his grand adventures, but he has never faced the true unspeakable power of SET until now.
The serpent god’s influence coils around the Hyborian Age and every other age linked to it. Three stunning supernatural stories will weave together to answer a chilling question of past and present – what is Set’s grand plan for humanity and, now it’s begun can it be stopped?
This very special digital edition includes an exclusive extract from the upcoming book, Spawn of the Serpent God – on sale this October from Titan Books!
THE NEW CONAN EPIC STARTS HERE!
Conan of Cimmeria has encountered Stygian sorcery and snake-sent creatures many times in his grand adventures, but he has never faced the true unspeakable power of SET until now.
The serpent god’s influence coils around the Hyborian Age and every other age linked to it. Three stunning supernatural stories will weave together to answer a chilling question of past and present – what is Set’s grand plan for humanity and, now it’s begun can it be stopped?
This very special digital edition includes an exclusive extract from the upcoming book, Spawn of the Serpent God – on sale this October from Titan Books!
128 pages, Paperback
Published May 26, 2026
About the author
Jim Zub
947 books331 followersJim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past fifteen years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Disney, Warner Bros., Capcom, Hasbro, Bandai-Namco and Mattel.
He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College‘s award-winning Animation program.
He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College‘s award-winning Animation program.
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February 16, 2026
I read the print edition of this comic.
This issue is titled “Stealing Faces & Finery.” We get the beginnings of the three intertwined stories of Kull, Conan, and Professor Kirowan. This issue mostly focuses on Kull. In all three stories a mystery builds and the issue ends with a revelation.
Ivan Gil has a rough quality to his art that I really like, although sometimes I have to look at a panel a couple of times to tell what’s exactly going on. And Canola’s coloring helps to add shadow to the mystery.
Jeffrey Shanks provides an essay on “The God in the Bowl” at the end of the issue along with the Covers Gallery.
This issue is titled “Stealing Faces & Finery.” We get the beginnings of the three intertwined stories of Kull, Conan, and Professor Kirowan. This issue mostly focuses on Kull. In all three stories a mystery builds and the issue ends with a revelation.
Ivan Gil has a rough quality to his art that I really like, although sometimes I have to look at a panel a couple of times to tell what’s exactly going on. And Canola’s coloring helps to add shadow to the mystery.
Jeffrey Shanks provides an essay on “The God in the Bowl” at the end of the issue along with the Covers Gallery.
September 25, 2025
Valusian Masterpiece
Mitra's teeth and nails! By the coils of set! This is good; nay, it's great!
Wait a minute, where the Hell is Kull's AXE (by which he rules, of course).
I am enamoured with the top tier storytelling and art, definitely my style and up my alley. This issue is part of the Scourge of the Serpent arc, similar to the Battle of the Black Stone I can only imagine, in that it links together multiple time periods and interconnected heroes as they go about their various adventures. There's also a familiar Conan story JAMMED (neatly) in here, if you can recall an old classic titled The God in the Bowl. Everyone has a favorite story, and this one is mine. I'm deeply into detective fiction, not sure how detectives and sword and sorcery have had such a personal affect on me, or their connection, but this multifaceted tale touches on each of those notes with intriguing characters, mystery and thick with a stygian smog of archaic and primordial atmosphere!
I sometimes wonder how a troubled artist like Howard or Lovecraft had such challenging lives, especially Howard, due to his personal demons, and all I can hope is that our much-revered authors such as Thomas and Zub are not similarly afflicted; we need them around for a long time. In particular, there are some future issues and events on the horizon that I am eagerly looking forward to. I've gushed about many of these issues in the past, and this is not different in any way. The hits keep coming, and I will keep feasting. Serving up ancient magic, adventure and danger on a silver platter brings me back to my youngest years when I was reading Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (way younger than I should have been!), and enjoying it so much that I hardly liked reading anything else until I discovered Howard in my early thirties.
If you like this, read those classics, because the spirit of sword and sorcery is alive at Titan, and Zub's the tip of the spear.
Mitra's teeth and nails! By the coils of set! This is good; nay, it's great!
Wait a minute, where the Hell is Kull's AXE (by which he rules, of course).
I am enamoured with the top tier storytelling and art, definitely my style and up my alley. This issue is part of the Scourge of the Serpent arc, similar to the Battle of the Black Stone I can only imagine, in that it links together multiple time periods and interconnected heroes as they go about their various adventures. There's also a familiar Conan story JAMMED (neatly) in here, if you can recall an old classic titled The God in the Bowl. Everyone has a favorite story, and this one is mine. I'm deeply into detective fiction, not sure how detectives and sword and sorcery have had such a personal affect on me, or their connection, but this multifaceted tale touches on each of those notes with intriguing characters, mystery and thick with a stygian smog of archaic and primordial atmosphere!
I sometimes wonder how a troubled artist like Howard or Lovecraft had such challenging lives, especially Howard, due to his personal demons, and all I can hope is that our much-revered authors such as Thomas and Zub are not similarly afflicted; we need them around for a long time. In particular, there are some future issues and events on the horizon that I am eagerly looking forward to. I've gushed about many of these issues in the past, and this is not different in any way. The hits keep coming, and I will keep feasting. Serving up ancient magic, adventure and danger on a silver platter brings me back to my youngest years when I was reading Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (way younger than I should have been!), and enjoying it so much that I hardly liked reading anything else until I discovered Howard in my early thirties.
If you like this, read those classics, because the spirit of sword and sorcery is alive at Titan, and Zub's the tip of the spear.
October 10, 2025
Picked up the glow in the dark variant cover, story doesn't disappoint in the slightest!
May 28, 2026
3.5 stars rounded down.
This series is almost like Zub did a condensed version of Alan Moore's Providence except in the playground of Robert E. Howard rather than Lovecraft. Make of that what you will. I had a pretty good time. I loved the art and had the most fun following Kull around for a while. The character and time hopping leaves each of the narrative threads a underdeveloped and the ending gets a bit too big for its britches, at one point I scoffed a bit thinking it was almost like Avengers: Endgame (derogatory). If that type of storytelling is your thing, I think you'd really dig this run. For me, it isn't really what I love about the Conan oeuvre. Though I did love the way those snake people looked in the Kull timeline, that was cool as shit. But did we really need the sequel tease and the hanging ending?
Read as four individual issues.
This series is almost like Zub did a condensed version of Alan Moore's Providence except in the playground of Robert E. Howard rather than Lovecraft. Make of that what you will. I had a pretty good time. I loved the art and had the most fun following Kull around for a while. The character and time hopping leaves each of the narrative threads a underdeveloped and the ending gets a bit too big for its britches, at one point I scoffed a bit thinking it was almost like Avengers: Endgame (derogatory). If that type of storytelling is your thing, I think you'd really dig this run. For me, it isn't really what I love about the Conan oeuvre. Though I did love the way those snake people looked in the Kull timeline, that was cool as shit. But did we really need the sequel tease and the hanging ending?
Read as four individual issues.
October 3, 2025
hell yes this is that good shit
June 18, 2026
Jim Zub weaves together three Robert E Howard classics so seamlessly that it feels like they were always meant to be combined this way. Super impressed!
November 5, 2025
"Stealing Faces & Finery: Part 1"
So far, I am anticipating a good series but I would say that there is nothing new here outside of the implication of what's to come. Not stating that as a complaint, of course, because revisiting a Howard tale is one of the simple joys of life. If a new reader is not familiar with all of Howard's stories, this will be a enthralling piece to get engaged with. I think I might actually be jealous if this is a reader's first exposure to any of the three stories here. I enjoyed Ivan Gil's art, as consistently good as the Free Comic day issue and his pin-up in Savage Sword of Conan #10.
Character Reference:
Scourge of the Serpent
#1, A Simple Steal
#1, Stealing Faces & Finery: Part 1
#2, Words of Power: Part 2
So far, I am anticipating a good series but I would say that there is nothing new here outside of the implication of what's to come. Not stating that as a complaint, of course, because revisiting a Howard tale is one of the simple joys of life. If a new reader is not familiar with all of Howard's stories, this will be a enthralling piece to get engaged with. I think I might actually be jealous if this is a reader's first exposure to any of the three stories here. I enjoyed Ivan Gil's art, as consistently good as the Free Comic day issue and his pin-up in Savage Sword of Conan #10.
Character Reference:
Scourge of the Serpent
#1, A Simple Steal
#1, Stealing Faces & Finery: Part 1
#2, Words of Power: Part 2
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