Season 18, Episode 9: Conan in Comics with Jim Zub!

Welcome back to the show, Cromrades! This week we are thrilled to share a conversation we had with sword and sorcery fan and comic book writer Jim Zub! Jim tells us about the upcoming Conan comic series from Titan Comics. By now, hopefully you've all had a chance to pick up the Free Comic Book Day copy of Conan the Barbarian Issue #0! The art by Robert De La Torre absolutely rips, and the story in Issue #0 is a big way to start anew with Conan in comics at Titan! Issue #1 goes on sale July 26, so be sure to add it to your pull list! Check out more information here!

Visit Jim Zub's website to keep up with his projects, and tell him The Cromcast sent ya! 

Check out Jim's TED Talk, titled "Raised by Dragons!"

Next time - come with us to the Black Coast! 

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Season 18 Episode 8: The Rogues in the House

Today's Cromcast ventures into the home of Nabonidus, who knows what wonders and magic we may perceive. We are also joined by a friends fourth rogue, Matt John of the aptly named, Rogues in the House podcast!

Tune in for cartoonish violence and Scooby-Doo traps galore!

Be sure to find Matt on his usual channel with Rogues in the House

One Things

Matt: Has been toiling away with Elden Ring

Josh: Pines to be locked in the ice and avoid scurvy with The Terror by Dan Simmons

Jonathan: Compels you to travel to Indiana and shop at Von's Books

Luke: Is jamming along to American Scrap by The Huntsmen

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Season 18 Episode 7: The Pool of the Black One

Welcome back, Cromrades! This week we join Conan to sail the seas and explore a fantastic island where intrigue abounds! Hope you brought a jaunty hat and your cutlass!

If you are looking for a great review / lit crit piece on this story, we reference David C. Smith's take on this story from the 'Hither Came Conan' blog series on The Black Gate. You can check it here!

One Things

Jon: Frank Miller and JRJR's Superman: Year One! Not necessarily good, but it's a thinker for sure!

Josh: Apple TV's 'Ted Lasso!' A lot of laughs, and a lot of heart!

Luke: The incomparable scholar, Bobby Derie! See here for the CL Moore and REH essay from 'On an Underwood #5! Otherwise, you can check out many of the special pubs that Bobby does for Howard Days here! Finally, if you haven't sprung for it yet, you should absolutely snag a copy of Bobby's "Weird Talers". It collects many of the materials Bobby published on that blog!

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Season 18, Episode 06: Xuthal of the Dusk

Welcome back, Cromrades! We are still cruising down the ReRoad of Kings, and it's time to make a stop at Xuthal! Do we have any thoughts about titillating and exciting Slithering Shadow? Do we ever! Join us, won't you? 

One Things

Jon: Snowblind by Rangar Jonasson.

Josh: The Call of Cthulhu, and the blurred line between the real world and mythos filters placed over the real world. 

Luke: Goodreads, and your rating systems. How do you rate your books, and how do you constitute your 5 vs 4 ratings on Goodreads?

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Season 18 Episode 5: The Black Colossus

Howdy, Cromrades. Today The Cromcast continues down their 10th anniversary trail by stopping in at the small kingdom of Khoraja where we'll come face to face with Natohk... or is that Thugra Khotan hiding under those mummy bandages? Tune in to hear about the first world war in Hyborea and the role that Conan plays in it. Dissect the role of the Yasmeela, the woman in charge or Khoraja and wonder at the cold open with us. All that and a big ol' mail bag!

Useful Reads about The Black Colossus

http://shareduniversereviews.blogspot.com/2015/11/short-story-sunday-09-black-colossus.html

http://www.howardandrewjones.com/sword-and-sorcery/the-coming-of-conan-re-read-black-colossus

https://www.blackgate.com/2019/07/01/hither-came-conan-deuce-richardson-on-black-colossus/

Email Grab Bag 

A chronology for Kull of Atlantis by listener Tom!

Paracosom explanation from Tom as well. 

One Things

Josh: Swiss Army Knives, the utility, the beauty, the history, and it all fits in your pocket

Luke: Pity the Beast by Robin McLean, prepare to have your notions of the west and masculinity challenged (at least that's what the cover says!). 

Jonathan: Venture Brothers from Adult Swim

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Season 18 Episode 4: The Tower of the Elephant

Hile, Cromrades! We continue our season with another humdinger! For this episode we read the much lauded The Tower of the Elephant, and frame up the episode in a less conventional fashion using the old TSR Conan Role-Playing Game System from 1985! Join us, won't you?

Useful Reads about The Tower of the Elephant

Howard Andrew Jones and Bill Ward's Reread and Discussion

Waltz's Hither Came Conan Essay

Romeo's blogpost about the Lancer version of the story (with references to previous bits of scholarship)

One Things

Luke: Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay!

Jon: Promethea, by Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III!

Josh: Raiders, by Freedman and Crom!

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