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Savage Avengers (2019)
Savage Avengers, Vol. 2: To Dine With Doom
Conan continues to make new friends (and enemies!) in the modern-day Marvel Universe! First, Conan and the Punisher are attempting to escape the Savage Land, with the caskets of Frank’s family in tow — but they’ll have to make it across Antarctica! Then, when a barbarian walks into a brothel, it’s no laughing matter. Conan takes on human traffickers alongside the Black Widow and the Son of Satan himself, Daimon Hellstrom! Finally, Conan hates wizards — but as this strange modern-day world that he’s found himself in celebrates the holidays, the Cimmerian must deal with two famous magic-wielders: Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom! Can these three set aside their differences to deal with Kulan Gath, the sorcerous name at the very top of all their naughty lists?
Collects Savage Avengers (2019) #6-10, Savage Avengers Annual (2019) #1.
Collects Savage Avengers (2019) #6-10, Savage Avengers Annual (2019) #1.
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First published June 16, 2020
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July 8, 2024
Episode 239 of Friends: "The One Where Phoebe is Turned into a Stinky Cat by Kulan Gath, and Conan Gets a Job as a Plumber": Conan and the Punisher return home to their New York apartment only to find that roommates Chandler and Joey have sold Punisher's collection of AR-15s for two new La-Z-Boy recliners; Monica has a date with Doctor Voodoo, but he puts a love spell on Rachel, accidentally. Elektra tries to warn Phoebe that the homeless man she brought home to offer a bowl of cereal is actually the evil sorcerer, Kulan Gath. Downstairs neighbor Venom is relatively quiet, which worries Chandler, who suspects a heart attack, but upon investigation, he finds that Doctor Doom has trapped Venom and set up a sex-trafficking ring in his apartment. Conan, Black Widow, and Doctor Strange must battle Doom and save Chandler and Venom. Joey auditions for a role of a sexy plumber, but on the day of the audition, remembers that he has a date with Nicole Kidman, so he convinces Conan to audition for him. It does not go well...
January 31, 2025
So Conan doesn't like sorcers
October 15, 2020
This is not an Avengers book. It's a Marvel Team-Up book starring Conan. So if Conan traveling around the modern Marvel universe sounds interesting to you, you'll probably dig this. In this volume Conan teams up with the Punisher, then Dr. Strange and Dr. Doom against Kulan Gath.
Patch Zircher's art is always reliable, but I found Kim Jacinto and Ron Garney too scratchy for my tastes.
Patch Zircher's art is always reliable, but I found Kim Jacinto and Ron Garney too scratchy for my tastes.
January 29, 2021
The star is Conan because he's too funny.
This isn't really a avengers title. It's just conan visiting a couple of avengers members and working together to fuck shit up. He even teams up with doom here in a weird yet funny way he works well together with the crazy bastard and Dr. Strange joins on the trip.
It's fast paced, bloody, stupid, fun, dumb, all of the things you might expect. Conan makes the title worth reading. I don't know how long it'll go on for but not bad for what it is. A 3 out of 5.
This isn't really a avengers title. It's just conan visiting a couple of avengers members and working together to fuck shit up. He even teams up with doom here in a weird yet funny way he works well together with the crazy bastard and Dr. Strange joins on the trip.
It's fast paced, bloody, stupid, fun, dumb, all of the things you might expect. Conan makes the title worth reading. I don't know how long it'll go on for but not bad for what it is. A 3 out of 5.
May 2, 2020
I'm really enjoying this title. Cool grouping of characters, menacing villain. Gerry Duggan is slowly becoming one of my favorite Marvel writers.
July 3, 2021
This was a fun volume.
It starts off with Conan helping Punisher transport his family body to America through Antartica and its one of the best single stories. the way they travel and you can see the honor and the word of the Cimmerian and how he does what he says. I loved that moment of friendship between them.
There is a team up between Hellstorm, Black Widow and Conan fighting human traffickers which is alright for the most part.
Then the big story where Conan meets with Dr Doom and then Dr Strange comes in and they find whats wrong with the amulet and all and thus comes forth Kulan Gath and we see his plans for summoning the god he is working for and its interesting. Seeing the three team up is wild and weird and crazy but the way they take him out and the whole fight sequence is the part of the book and the things that follow afterward is hilarious. The art was a delight in this volume and it reads so fast and is just a breezer of fun!
It starts off with Conan helping Punisher transport his family body to America through Antartica and its one of the best single stories. the way they travel and you can see the honor and the word of the Cimmerian and how he does what he says. I loved that moment of friendship between them.
There is a team up between Hellstorm, Black Widow and Conan fighting human traffickers which is alright for the most part.
Then the big story where Conan meets with Dr Doom and then Dr Strange comes in and they find whats wrong with the amulet and all and thus comes forth Kulan Gath and we see his plans for summoning the god he is working for and its interesting. Seeing the three team up is wild and weird and crazy but the way they take him out and the whole fight sequence is the part of the book and the things that follow afterward is hilarious. The art was a delight in this volume and it reads so fast and is just a breezer of fun!
January 22, 2022
This covers the last of the singles that I read 2 years ago or so. This volume still holds up also. Duggan does a great job with Conan’s interactions with everyone. Enjoyed his meet up with Black Widow and his adventures with Doom and Strange. This really feels like a Conan book that happens to have a lot of cameos. At any rate, another fun, action packed volume. Now on to uncharted territory with volume 3!!
November 17, 2020
First, Conan and the Punisher cross the Antarctic on their quest to return home. Then, Conan runs afoul of Black Widow and Daimon Hellstrom while busting up a slaver's ring. And finally, it's three sorcerers and a barbarian as Doctors Strange, Doom, and Voodoo assemble to take the fight to Kulan Gath, with Conan caught in the middle!
Savage Avengers is a bit of a misnomer really; this book is basically Conan Team-Up, which isn't a bad thing, it's just unexpected. Aside from Punisher in the first issue (and Doctor Voodoo, who spends most of the story asleep), most of the characters here weren't in the first five issues. You'd think that might be a problem, but the ongoing battle against Kulan Gath is further reaching than just the Avengers we've already met, so mixing it up makes a certain kind of sense.
The first issue is fun, but mostly a slow paced jaunt where Punisher and Conan kill stuff. It's a nice break between arcs, if nothing else. The annual that follows is similar, just a one-and-done but it's good fun regardless, especially the banter between Conan, Daimon, and Black Widow. Kim Jacinto's art on issue 6 is a strange one; it's not his usual Oliver Coipel-lite style, more cartoony. Ron Garney joins for the annual though, which looks great (although his interpretation of Daimon's trident leaves a little to be desired).
The four issues that round out the book are the true draw though - To Dine With Doom is a knockout throwdown magical brawl between our three good (counting Doom, so subjectively good) sorcerers and Kulan Gath, with Conan stabbing things and shouting crazy stuff in the middle of the melee. The dialogue's hilarious, the fighting's just as savage as always, but the action's actually easy to follow because Patch Zircher's artwork is everything that Mike Deodato's art used to be.
The second volume of Savage Avengers shows what the book can be when you can see what's happening. The characters are constantly changing, but the through line is well established and the artwork is grand. Much, much better than what came before.
Savage Avengers is a bit of a misnomer really; this book is basically Conan Team-Up, which isn't a bad thing, it's just unexpected. Aside from Punisher in the first issue (and Doctor Voodoo, who spends most of the story asleep), most of the characters here weren't in the first five issues. You'd think that might be a problem, but the ongoing battle against Kulan Gath is further reaching than just the Avengers we've already met, so mixing it up makes a certain kind of sense.
The first issue is fun, but mostly a slow paced jaunt where Punisher and Conan kill stuff. It's a nice break between arcs, if nothing else. The annual that follows is similar, just a one-and-done but it's good fun regardless, especially the banter between Conan, Daimon, and Black Widow. Kim Jacinto's art on issue 6 is a strange one; it's not his usual Oliver Coipel-lite style, more cartoony. Ron Garney joins for the annual though, which looks great (although his interpretation of Daimon's trident leaves a little to be desired).
The four issues that round out the book are the true draw though - To Dine With Doom is a knockout throwdown magical brawl between our three good (counting Doom, so subjectively good) sorcerers and Kulan Gath, with Conan stabbing things and shouting crazy stuff in the middle of the melee. The dialogue's hilarious, the fighting's just as savage as always, but the action's actually easy to follow because Patch Zircher's artwork is everything that Mike Deodato's art used to be.
The second volume of Savage Avengers shows what the book can be when you can see what's happening. The characters are constantly changing, but the through line is well established and the artwork is grand. Much, much better than what came before.
February 19, 2020
An even higher dose of ridiculous action with a capital-d Delightful detour in #6, which isn't drawn by Zircher and thus looks and feels radically different: a bright, colorful romp through Savage Land that features Conan bashing a dinosaur's brains in with a machine gun and Punisher sparring with a wild wolf. It's all very silly and fun, which seems to be the trend for the series as the 5 other issues in the trade are just as insane. From Conan having a casual feast with Doom to the long, long, loooong beatdown of Kulan Gath, it's easy to tell just how much Duggan relishes writing every punch, every spell, and every witticism. It's loads of fun, let's just hope it won't get stale as the issue count goes up.
February 14, 2020
The first volume of Savage Avengers fun enough, but with Volume 2, Gerry Duggan really made this book one of the best current comics at Marvel. Issue #6 just knocks it out of the park and REALLY delivers on the promise of this comic. Where else but comics can you get Conan and the Punisher battling through the Savage Land. Great art from Kim Jacinto, too.
The Annual is basically just an extra issue and it's fun enough seeing Conan fight slavers, but this time in the modern world. But Issue Seven is where the story really kicks and and you have Conan, Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange teaming up to defeat Kulan Gath. What a trio, and Duggan writes all of them perfect.
The Annual is basically just an extra issue and it's fun enough seeing Conan fight slavers, but this time in the modern world. But Issue Seven is where the story really kicks and and you have Conan, Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange teaming up to defeat Kulan Gath. What a trio, and Duggan writes all of them perfect.
February 13, 2022
I'm torn between leaving a two star or a three star review for this because while it is terrible, it is also entertainingly terrible and I'm going to continue reading the comic thereafter. The art and action is fantastic and I still want to like the book for the ridiculousness of Conan in the Modern Day teaming up with Doctor Doom and liking him as a person.
However, I have to remove a lot of points because Conan is grossly out of character in many places: calling Stephen Strange a cowardly wizard, liking Doom but hating all wizards everywhere, refusing to teleport versus walking across Antarctica, and being unable to understand the concept of an iron ship. This is Conan at his absolutely DUMBEST and that's hard to overlook.
There is one single scene that is absolute magic, though, and almost justifies the three stars I want to give it when Doom and Conan sit down to eat. Conan asks him to take his mask off, Doom refuses, and Conan plucks his vanity. So Doom does, expecting Conan tio be disgusted. Conan looks, nods, and goes back to eating.
That is perfect.
Really, the best part of the book is Savage Avengers Annual 2# which has a standalone story of Conan, the Black Widow, and Daimon Hellstrom going after some sex traffickers. Conan doesn't care for slavery and slavers of women even more so he goes to murder some and it works delightfully. Easily the best part of the book and would have gotten five stars from me if it wasn't the only part I really liked aside from the Doom diner scene.
However, I have to remove a lot of points because Conan is grossly out of character in many places: calling Stephen Strange a cowardly wizard, liking Doom but hating all wizards everywhere, refusing to teleport versus walking across Antarctica, and being unable to understand the concept of an iron ship. This is Conan at his absolutely DUMBEST and that's hard to overlook.
There is one single scene that is absolute magic, though, and almost justifies the three stars I want to give it when Doom and Conan sit down to eat. Conan asks him to take his mask off, Doom refuses, and Conan plucks his vanity. So Doom does, expecting Conan tio be disgusted. Conan looks, nods, and goes back to eating.
That is perfect.
Really, the best part of the book is Savage Avengers Annual 2# which has a standalone story of Conan, the Black Widow, and Daimon Hellstrom going after some sex traffickers. Conan doesn't care for slavery and slavers of women even more so he goes to murder some and it works delightfully. Easily the best part of the book and would have gotten five stars from me if it wasn't the only part I really liked aside from the Doom diner scene.
February 8, 2023
...why call it 'Savage Avengers' when it's all about Conan? I get that there has to be a front man, but I picked this up for Venom mostly and he's not even in this volume?!
This story is Conan, Dr Stange and Victor Doom vs Bad Guy. That's it. It was okay, but it is NOT what I came for.
So I am very disappointed. Also, Conan is such a ridiculous caveman stereotype here. It was just STUPID on so many levels.
I do really like the art though and it all looks very nice on glossy pages.
But mostly this is a throwaway. SEEYA.
This story is Conan, Dr Stange and Victor Doom vs Bad Guy. That's it. It was okay, but it is NOT what I came for.
So I am very disappointed. Also, Conan is such a ridiculous caveman stereotype here. It was just STUPID on so many levels.
I do really like the art though and it all looks very nice on glossy pages.
But mostly this is a throwaway. SEEYA.
April 11, 2021
Gloom and Doom. Swords and Sorcerer Supreme.
Conan does violence and barbarian humor with the likes of Punisher, Daimon Hellstrom, Black Widow, and doctors Doom and Strange. Human trafficking is stopped, magic is flung, and many swords are swung.
There are some decent Conan stories in this team-up book, but the problem is that decent Conan stories aren't necessarily good stories . . .
Conan does violence and barbarian humor with the likes of Punisher, Daimon Hellstrom, Black Widow, and doctors Doom and Strange. Human trafficking is stopped, magic is flung, and many swords are swung.
There are some decent Conan stories in this team-up book, but the problem is that decent Conan stories aren't necessarily good stories . . .
February 5, 2021
The Punisher is Crom-curious and Doom invites Conan to dinner. I love this book.
April 2, 2022
This volume was a little better than the first, which is odd because Punisher and Wolverine are two of my favorite characters and this volume has only a little of either. What it does have is Conan teaming up with Dr. Strange and Dr. Doom in order to battle the sorcerer Kulan Gath. I think this worked a little better for me because it's not unusual to see Conan dealing with sorcerers, but it was odd to see him working with super heroes.
Overall this was good, probably something that would appeal to Conan fans that don't ordinarily enjoy super hero stories.
As a side note, it's funny to see Conan hitting on the marvel heroines such as Elektra and Black Widow and constantly getting shot down. In the Hyborian Age it seemed as though only Red Sonja could resist his charms, but in the Marvel U it's like he's suddenly dealing with dozens of Red Sonjas. A nice touch of humor to a mostly serious series.
Overall this was good, probably something that would appeal to Conan fans that don't ordinarily enjoy super hero stories.
As a side note, it's funny to see Conan hitting on the marvel heroines such as Elektra and Black Widow and constantly getting shot down. In the Hyborian Age it seemed as though only Red Sonja could resist his charms, but in the Marvel U it's like he's suddenly dealing with dozens of Red Sonjas. A nice touch of humor to a mostly serious series.
August 6, 2020
Just entertaining as all hell. Seeing Dr. Strange and Doom interacting as reluctant equals always fires me up, and Conan acts as a hilarious counterbalance to their interplay. A perfect version of what it is.
October 29, 2020
Continuing right where the last Volume left off, we get an Avengers title that seems more suited for Image Comics than Marvel.... but that's part of what makes it great!
Highlights:
- Conan and Punisher make their way through the Savage Land (There should be a Punisher/Conan comic!) and have to craft animal skin/fur suits to survive the journey through the Antarctic to civilization so they may be able to get home. Frank heads back to America and Conan goes onwards to Brazil (Kulan Gath's amulet in tow)
- Conan in Brazil is hilarious! First freeing a Brothel, then teaming up with Helstrom and Black Widow to take out a huge group of slavers. Just his interactions with modern day semi-rude people is so over the top...
- Finally getting our glance at Kulan Gath in the Volume, we see that he has imprisoned Brother Voodoo. Looking for him are Electra and Doctor Strange. Electra heads off to deal with her own issues...
- Conan awakens in a bar and realizes that something is wrong... he's been moved! Charging out of the car, he sees that he is Doomstadt, and Victor wants the amulet. As he is being wooed by food and drink, Strange shows up and wants the amulet as well, but to help find Brother Voodoo.
- Conan, Doom and Strange go off to the realm where Kulan Gath is hiding. During the battle, Strange is injured and summons "The Iron Mage", a set of Iron Man like armor that will help heal his wounds while he fights.
- Turns out that Gath is trying to summon Shuma-Gorath. While Voodoo is saved, and Conan is teleported against his will back to South America, Strange and Doom confer on how they think they will be able to stop the rogue wizard.
Really looking forward to seeing how this whole story pans out in Volume 3. Strong fighting with a good story is all throughout this title.
Strong recommend... but start with Volume 1.
Highlights:
- Conan and Punisher make their way through the Savage Land (There should be a Punisher/Conan comic!) and have to craft animal skin/fur suits to survive the journey through the Antarctic to civilization so they may be able to get home. Frank heads back to America and Conan goes onwards to Brazil (Kulan Gath's amulet in tow)
- Conan in Brazil is hilarious! First freeing a Brothel, then teaming up with Helstrom and Black Widow to take out a huge group of slavers. Just his interactions with modern day semi-rude people is so over the top...
- Finally getting our glance at Kulan Gath in the Volume, we see that he has imprisoned Brother Voodoo. Looking for him are Electra and Doctor Strange. Electra heads off to deal with her own issues...
- Conan awakens in a bar and realizes that something is wrong... he's been moved! Charging out of the car, he sees that he is Doomstadt, and Victor wants the amulet. As he is being wooed by food and drink, Strange shows up and wants the amulet as well, but to help find Brother Voodoo.
- Conan, Doom and Strange go off to the realm where Kulan Gath is hiding. During the battle, Strange is injured and summons "The Iron Mage", a set of Iron Man like armor that will help heal his wounds while he fights.
- Turns out that Gath is trying to summon Shuma-Gorath. While Voodoo is saved, and Conan is teleported against his will back to South America, Strange and Doom confer on how they think they will be able to stop the rogue wizard.
Really looking forward to seeing how this whole story pans out in Volume 3. Strong fighting with a good story is all throughout this title.
Strong recommend... but start with Volume 1.
January 20, 2025
This truly is outstanding work. Even though there’s some parts were it gets a littleeeee slow.
February 1, 2021
De longe, a série Vingadores Selvagens, que tem foco em Conan, está melhor que a série regular dos Vingadores. Muito disso é mérito de Gerry Duggan, o roteirista, que tem o "dom" de ativar o sentido de maravilhamento do leitor, levando Conan da Antártida para as Selvas Brasileiras, para a Latveria e então para o Egito, sempre com paisagens e temas aventurescos interessantes. Neste encadernado o selvagem bárbaro se encontra com o Doutor Destino e o Doutor Estranho, a dupla do clássico Triunfo e Tomento para tentar acabar com a ameaça do feiticeiro ancestral Kulan Gath. Gath já causou muitos estragos na Marvel, como por exemplo, uando trouxe a era medieval para Nova York. O encadernado ganha contornos mais especiais ainda com a arte caprichada e competente de Patrick Zircher, que eu gosto demais. O único senão, para um morador de Porto Alegre como eu, é que a cidade é retratada em meio às selavas, como se ficasse na Amazônia, nos desenhos de Ron Garney. Não adianta, para o estadunidense médio o Brasil é só selvas e ilegalidade. Estudar um pouco do relevo e vegetação do lugar que se desenha não custa muito. E também o Street View está aí para isso. Fica a dica.
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May 24, 2021A series conceived as Mike Deodato's Marvel swansong, so he could draw all the characters he likes, continues without him. Meaning half the first volume's cast sod off and it becomes The Adventures Of Conan In The 21st Century instead, as he stomps around Marvel Earth teaming up with and/or growling at various familiar faces as he continues his quest to stop the sorcerer Kulan Gath and/or get a decent drink. Like much of Duggan's non-Marauders work, it can feel very reliant on incongruous but cool images (Conan firing the Punisher's gun; Doctor Strange in an Iron Man-style suit), but without either the substance to back that up, or sufficient verve to pass on those alone. And in places the set-up leads to what feels like squaring the circle, as when Conan in wenching mood turns out to be a stickler for enthusiastic consent. Which feels optimistic, but when you think about it, I'm not sure the issue ever arose in the original stories; Robert E Howard's own crush on his protagonist was such that any woman he looked at pretty much melted by story's end (or sooner if she was going to double-cross him).
April 19, 2022
Ok, this one is a book about Conan interacting with some characters of the Marvel Universe, still trying to stop Kulan Gath from bring all the demons to earth, now trying to bring Shuma Gorath.
It's a great, fun book, man. Gerry Duggan knows how to write stuffs like this, and the art was great, speacilly by Patch Zircher. The chapter with the Punisher was great, with a nice balance between both. Gonna get the next volume on this one.
(Just a tip for our guy Gerry Duggan: I'm from Brazil, and Porto Alegre doesn't have this kind of high woods. You would probably find something like this on our middle west and north region of our beautiful country.
It's a great, fun book, man. Gerry Duggan knows how to write stuffs like this, and the art was great, speacilly by Patch Zircher. The chapter with the Punisher was great, with a nice balance between both. Gonna get the next volume on this one.
(Just a tip for our guy Gerry Duggan: I'm from Brazil, and Porto Alegre doesn't have this kind of high woods. You would probably find something like this on our middle west and north region of our beautiful country.
September 14, 2020
Art in first half (issue #6 and Annual #1) is not very good. The rest is good, not great.
Conan and the Punisher have to walk out of the Savage Land... I guess none of the heroes from the first book can give them a lift? Really pointless story other than some male bonding over violence.
The Annual features Conan killing slavers with the help of Hellstorm and the Black Widow. Conan is an ass, not a team player, and seems to have pretty low morals by the Marvel Universe standard. Other than the slavers being tied to Kulan Gath, there seems to be no real point to this story, and none of the "guest stars" of this Conan story appear in the rest of the book.
Then Doctor Doom spirits Conan away to Latveria to try and get the amulet Conan took from Kulan Gath in vol #1. Doctor Strange shows up for the same reason. The three then face off against Kulan Gath which was a pretty decent story brought down by way too much Conan.
This was just a Conan team-up book and I have grown to really dislike Conan, so I will not be reading any other books with him.
Conan and the Punisher have to walk out of the Savage Land... I guess none of the heroes from the first book can give them a lift? Really pointless story other than some male bonding over violence.
The Annual features Conan killing slavers with the help of Hellstorm and the Black Widow. Conan is an ass, not a team player, and seems to have pretty low morals by the Marvel Universe standard. Other than the slavers being tied to Kulan Gath, there seems to be no real point to this story, and none of the "guest stars" of this Conan story appear in the rest of the book.
Then Doctor Doom spirits Conan away to Latveria to try and get the amulet Conan took from Kulan Gath in vol #1. Doctor Strange shows up for the same reason. The three then face off against Kulan Gath which was a pretty decent story brought down by way too much Conan.
This was just a Conan team-up book and I have grown to really dislike Conan, so I will not be reading any other books with him.
March 17, 2022
The dialogue between Conan/Punisher, then Conan/Black Widow/Helstrom was fantastic. I think the thing that bothered me the most about these is the magic. Brother Voodoo, Kulan Gath, Dr. Strange..all the different types of magic that coexist somehow. They tried to tie them all together by all these characters being Sorcerer Supreme at different times, but I think all the different types of magic created over the years getting jammed together makes for a big mess. Other than that, an entertaining read.
December 16, 2020
I didn't like this as much as the first volume, which at least had some novelty value. It appears that Conan will be wandering the regular Marvel Universe for quite awhile longer. The book has basically devolved into a "Conan Team-Up," as other posters have mentioned, so the appeal of this is going to be directly correlated to how much you've ever wanted to see Conan interact with Wolverine (or the Punisher, or Dr. Strange, etc.). It might be fun for a short time, but the Cimmerian belongs in his own time, doing his own thing, not lusting after Black Widow (who reminds him of another redhead). Plus, it doesn't help that the book has a rotating cast of artists, some good and some fairly mediocre.
October 2, 2021
These are the kind of kooky team-ups Marvel used to do all the time with Marvel Team-Up (Spidey & guest star) and Two-in-One (The Thing & guest star), but with a LOT more blood and gore. Basically Dark Age team-up, but now it’s Conan the Barbarian & guest stars. Conan and Punisher, Conan and Dr. Doom, Conan and Dr. Strange.
I’m all about the Savage Land, which was the focus of the first book, but here they exit pretty quickly, traveling through South America then New York then Latveria then Hell then weirder places. The stuff between Doom and Conan is fun, as they have a meal together then do the buddy cop thing. I like how Duggan is subverting expectations here, giving all the violent bloodletting some nuance. But not a lot. This is “savage” after all.
I’m all about the Savage Land, which was the focus of the first book, but here they exit pretty quickly, traveling through South America then New York then Latveria then Hell then weirder places. The stuff between Doom and Conan is fun, as they have a meal together then do the buddy cop thing. I like how Duggan is subverting expectations here, giving all the violent bloodletting some nuance. But not a lot. This is “savage” after all.
April 15, 2021
My two favorite moments
Doom: "Fine. If Strange has abandoned us, it is with good reason. Protect his body. DOOM COMMANDS IT!"
Conan: "Conan protects himself! Not some sleepy magician!"
And the other one, which is even better;
Kulan Gath is winning, Doom is assumed out of the fight, buried under the collapsed stone ceiling.
Kulan Gath: "You still do not recognize what stands before you? I AM NO MAN -- I AM A GOD!"
Then Doom pops out of flipping nowhere and delivers the king of all sucker punches to Gath's face.
Doom: "THE HELL YOU ARE!"
I cannot imagine a better series of panels than that.
Doom: "Fine. If Strange has abandoned us, it is with good reason. Protect his body. DOOM COMMANDS IT!"
Conan: "Conan protects himself! Not some sleepy magician!"
And the other one, which is even better;
Kulan Gath is winning, Doom is assumed out of the fight, buried under the collapsed stone ceiling.
Kulan Gath: "You still do not recognize what stands before you? I AM NO MAN -- I AM A GOD!"
Then Doom pops out of flipping nowhere and delivers the king of all sucker punches to Gath's face.
Doom: "THE HELL YOU ARE!"
I cannot imagine a better series of panels than that.
August 22, 2021
This book continues to be a lot of fun. At this point it is more "Conan Team-Up" than any kind of formal grouping, which is fine. Kulan Gath's "I'm unkillable" schtick is already old, but the humor derived from Conan's bluster and surly demeanor makes up for it. Doom is, as always, a wild card. Doctor Strange is, as usual, nerfed, but at least here he's allowed to be somewhat effective if not victorious.
September 8, 2020
The first volume was a great team book. This one while still fun to read stop being a team book and focusing on Conan in current time. I hope book three brings the team back together or at least address what everyone else was up to while Conan was doing his thing.
December 10, 2021
Filthy Wizards! I love it more than the first volume. It has a Doom/Strange team up, thats heaven to me. Conan is still the spotlight with a random supporting cast to include Black Widow and Hellstrom. Doom tech turns Stephen into The Iron Mage... what? So awesome!
August 17, 2020
Bloody violent fun is what you get with the Savage Avengers.
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