Conan the Barbarian must take part in a high stakes heist - but first, some snogging

Art from Conan the Barbarian #8
(Image credit: Titan Comics)

Titan Comics relaunched the adventures of Robert E. Howard's Cimmerian warrior Conan the Barbarian last year with an excellent new series written by Jim Zub (who we interviewed at the time, check it out here). The first arc has wrapped up now, but the saga continues in the pages of the monthly comic. 

Conan has enjoyed and endured recent adventures on the high seas with the fearsome pirate queen Belit, but he will soon be compelled to return to his homeland - if he survives the violent events of January 31's issue #7 that is!

We've got an inkling that he will of course, because we've got an exclusive preview of covers and pages from the issue after that, February's #8, right here. In the gallery below you'll find Ashleigh Izienicki's main cover, Patch Zircher's Cover B, and Cover C from Greg Broadmore.

Titan's official synopsis for the new issue reads:

"WARRIOR. THIEF. PIRATE...

After adventures on the high seas, CONAN returns to shore to find himself haunted by his memories of BELIT, captain of the Tigress and Queen of the Black Coast. Can a high-stakes heist draw him out of his tortured past, or will it plunge him deeper into the chaos that has always been waiting for him?"

Here's a selection of inked pages by Doug Braithwaite, which see Conan engage in his two favorite activities: fighting and fondling.

Conan the Barbarian #8 is published on February 21 by Titan Comics and Heroic Signatures. It's written by Jim Zub, drawn by Doug Braithwaite, and colored by Diego Rodriguez.

If you've not yet caught up on the epic fantasy saga then you can read the first four issues and Free Comic Book Day 2023 special in a new trade paperback, Conan the Barbarian: Bound In Black Stone, that publishes on February 7.


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Will Salmon
Comics Editor

Will Salmon is the Comics Editor for GamesRadar/Newsarama. He has been writing about comics, film, TV, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time if you stop and think about it. At Future he has previously launched scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for over a decade. He sometimes feels very old, like Guy Pearce in Prometheus. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places and he runs the micro-label Modern Aviation, which puts out experimental music on cassette tape.