Thursday, September 11, 2025
Everyone had that one raft guide...
There's a fair bit of tourist rafting up around Glacier, and despite spending summers there for most of my life, I'm not 100% positive I've ever been? Yeah, I must have; I've been on the river a bit otherwise, but far prefer the lake. Also, I'm not positive I have all of any of these later Marvel Conan mini-series. Hell, I'm not even sure I have more than one issue of any of 'em! From 1998, Conan: River of Blood #1, written by Roland Green, art by Geof Isherwood.
In the jungles of the region known as the "Black Kingdoms," Conan and Valeria are rafting through it, with Valeria in a hurry to get back to the seas and out of the jungle. Not today, though! The rapids are a problem, as are the crocodiles; but the fight with the latter is called off by a scaly wizard, Enduin; who doesn't seem like a bad guy, just creeeeepy. He warns that the two local tribes, including his own, were particularly friendly; but offers the pair his guest place to stay in. What's he up to? If I ever find the next issue, I'll tell you! We covered an issue of Death Covered in Gold like six years back, and I still haven't found the rest of that one, either.
Still, nice art here! Isherwood was kind of the "new" Conan the Barbarian artist around 1987, and he looked even better on this one.
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Far be it for me to judge people or their culinary skills based solely off their physical appearance, but should either of them REALLY be eating whatever grule soup concoction they’re currently eating from a guy with such bad skin? What if his eczema skin flakes get into the soup? Will they be cursed with such bad skin too?
Always enjoyed Isherwood’s art, regardless of the decade or subject. And especially on Conan, he just looks like a natural successor to John Buschema & Barry Windsor Smith.
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