Savage Sword of Conan: REFORGED #1 review

64 restored and fully colored pages of barbaric savagery!

Inside this magnificent full-color magazine you will find the following:

Classic remastered art pin-ups:

Conan the Barbarian by Alfredo Alcala from Savage Sword of Conan (1974) #1

Conan the Barbarian by John Buscema from Savage Sword of Conan (1974) #17

Conan ad by Jeff Aclin from Savage Sword of Conan (1974) #24

THE FROST GIANT’S DAUGHTER by Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith. (New Colors by GFB Group/GFB.it)

The uncensored version. Atali, Ymir's daughter lures Conan into an ambush, the barbarian cuts down Atali's brothers and the frost-giant retrieves his offspring.

OGRES, NYMPHS, AND ROCK STARS. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN by Patrick Zircher (Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring)

The Z-Man waxes lyrical about The Tower of the Elephant and The Frost-Giant's Daughter.

CIMMERIA (a poem) by Robert E. Howard, Barry Windsor-Smith and Tim Conrad. (New Colors by Jão Canola)

Conan wrestles a wolf.

THE TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT by Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas, John Buscema and Alfredo Alcala. (New Colors by GFB Group/GFB.it)

Conan kills a kidnaper, teams up with Taurus the Prince of all Thieves, slays a lion, squishes a giant spider and helps the transcosmic being from the green planet Yag, Yag-Kosha get revenge on Yara the Sorcerer.

What I did like:

A New Tower of the Elephant cover by Rob De La Torre.

A vintage Red Sonja and Conan cover by Boris Vallejo from Savage Sword of Conan (1974) #1.

A woman appears on one of the covers.

Fabled Robert E. Howard adaptations from the 1970s!

The ice-giants are not Smurfs/blue.

This is not Moose Baumann's colorized version of The Tower of the Elephant from Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword (2010) #8. It's all new.

What I did not like:

Red Sonja the She-Devil with a Sword does not appear in the magazine.

Patrick Zircher's essay is NOT illustrated.

I prefer my sword and sorcery comics magazines in black-and-white.

The cover from Conan the Barbarian (1970) #16 is not offered as a pin-up!

No Tower of the Elephant variant cover by Earl Norem from Savage Sword of Conan (1974) #24! Extremely disappointing!

No essay by Roy Thomas!

Only reprints. I wanted at least one new exclusive story in color.

I give it an 8/10. Feeling grey because most of the coolest Conan comics are in black and white? Let Heroic Signatures and Titan Comics bring some colour into your life. Forge your own path, put this new Cimmerian mag on your pull list, today!

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