Remember that old trope where Conan fights a priest who's killing people to gain power from an elder god? Well, it's back. Just go watch Conan the Barbarian. It's the same plot as this but with zealots instead of zombies

This series continues to deliver in terms of lusty adventures and lurid artwork! The denouement of this one felt a little rushed, but I'm glad it ends with Conan heading homeward to find a change of scene.

"The Hand of Nergal" was a fragment that Robert E Howard never got around to fleshing out; if I remember correctly, it was little more than two pages. So what Tim Truman does here is pretty amazing-- he takes those two pages, draws on what he already knows about REH's approach to writing Conan, as well as what previous writer Kurt Busiek has established, and turns in a top notch tale. Truman's "The Hand of Nergal" very skillfully takes Conan to the next stage of his career.Making his way back to...

While this volume isn't as awful as you might think from reading many of the Amazon reviews, it is a relative low-point in the series. Besides the rather bland primary story arc of a mad priest raising an army of dead and trying to gain immortality from the death-god Nergal (which sounds epic on paper, but doesn't succeed well here), this book also fails in its handling of the Epic of Nestor and the feel of continuity with the rest of the series. Really none of the characters in this one are eas...

This book ties in with the previous volumes of 'Halls of the Dead' and 'Roques in the House' both which were fine but I enjoyed this volume the most. The common thread between the three volumes is the ongoing story of Nestor the Gunderman and the waif/sorceress who appear in all the volumes. Their stories conclude in this book before Conan heads of the Cimmeria for further adventures. The book itself continues the familiar themes found in most Conan stories - Devious elites, corrupt and evil pri...

Correcto pero sin nada especial. Buen dibujo y color.

Další prima pokračování, tentokrát o trochu více okultně-lovecraftovského rázu.

Like Halls of the Dead, The Hand of Nergal is based on a Howard fragment that was never completed. It describes Conan on a battlefield, searching through the corpses and finding a woman who was still alive, and the city of Yaralet, where no one walks the streets at night because of hideous shapes that sometimes break down doors and take inhabitants away, and where Atalis the scholar with a strange, hidden deformity met with Prince Than. That's it. It's about a page and a half and it's not clear

They desperately need a reboot! I mean, c'mon, 'Big Trouble, Little China' but not Conan? Sheesh! Oh yeah, review.Seeing Kurt Busiek take a bow and transition over to Timothy Truman for writing duties made me a little apprehensive. And then Cary Nord wasn't to be found either. Oh, but who am I kidding, these guys know exactly what they're doing and they actually move the story and our hero forward in a meaningful way. And they did it by patching together mere fragments of REH's unfinished id

Read in one sitting last night, except for the appended essay at the end which I finished this morning. Another fantastic volume from Truman and Giorello. I thought that the last volume was fantastic and this one certainly is at least its equal. The art is stunning throughout, and Giorello plays exactly the right "ick" factor with the zombie army that plays a role in this story. As I mentioned in the last review having Nestor hang around as long as he did I found a plus, as it gave us a continui...

The new Conan comic series does good justice to the Robert E. Howard stories. While the art does come and go in quality at time, overall it is a good. The adaptations of the original stories is well done. The fill in stories are also well done and follow the flow of the Character's life as written by Howard. Recommended to comic fans and Very recommended to Howard and Conan fans.

Para fans.

Conan + zombies = fantastic! Remember Nestor? If you thought his story was over, well, it is not. I hope the Dark Horse Conan series never ends.

Yikes. What began so well with Busiek and Nord takes a sharp downward step with Timothy Truman and Tomas Giorello and their adaptation of Howard's unfinished "Hand of Nergal" story. The art starts off strong but quickly dips in quality, and the writing swiftly feels less like old-school Conan and more like a story three steps removed from the power and passion that makes Conan Conan. Truman is a legend, but honestly, his work here feels terribly out of place, and it never gets much better in lat...

This story could have had another issue to explore more of the background, but it kept the action moving very quickly. This is the one that should be made into a Conan movie.

3.5

Conan: The Hand of Nergal is volume 6 of Dark Horse Books’ Conan graphic novel series. This terrific story was written by Timothy Truman and the fantastic art was created by Tomas Giorello. Many Conan stories, including this one, are pastiches based on the unpublished and often unfinished work of Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan who died in 1936. I first read and enjoyed Howard’s Conan tales long ago as a teenager. I also enjoyed other pastiches of his work done by L. Sprague de Camp and L...

A fantastic ending to this epic! For now at least. Tim Truman brings his first Conan story an excellent conclusion. I initially had doubts on whether I'll enjoy Tomas Giorello's art style, but it turns I had nothing to worry. The new art direction seems to mesh perfectly with Truman's writing style. I can't tell if Truman changed up his writing style, because tbh I was so wrapped up in what was going on that I barely. It really was damn near perfect. By then end it makes sense why Conan would de...

Darkhorse Comics adaptation of Conan the Barbarian.Some of the stories are adaptation of some of Robert E. Howards best stories, others are original stories by the Darkhorse Writers. A very nice collection of stories if you like the sword and sorcery genre.

Combine with the Hand of Vecna and you get a pair. Great art from Truman lifts this otherwise generic Conan story up a notch.