Swords and source material

Highly, highly recommended. Knocked over the three volumes in this box set while sitting under a ceiling fan with my hair soaked, trying to counteract yesterday's awful heat. Jim Zub's scripting captures the indomitable spirit and raw passions - and place in the ahead-of-its-time Howard metaverse - of the Cimmerian barbarian. Robert De La Torre's artwork frickin' rocks. There were instances where it reminded me of Hal Foster, although much darker and more fantastical. So Frazetta as well, then. (Doug Braithwaite's art is good, just not as good.) There are welcome extras in the back of each GN. Essays, alternate-cover galleries and preliminary chara sketches. I'd *lurve* a poster of that Jae Lee image of Conan and psycho pirate queen Belit. Cannot wait to read Vol. 4, but preferably not on a day where it's 39 degrees and strong winds are threatening to send bushfires rampaging through this vale like Aquilonian raiders or an army of undead Picts.