Conan the Barbarian #30 (2023) review

Jim Zub's Ghosts & Echoes part 2: Trail of the Warrior

SON OF THE TOOTH (an assassin serving The Woeful Eye) is tracking Conan across Shem.

SON OF THE TOOTH knows that Conan destroyed Thulsa Doom aka The Necromancer-King of the BLACK STONE (way back in Conan the Barbarian (2023) #12).

SON OF THE TOOTH is disappointed that Conan is just a man working as a mercenary in Khoraja (southeast of Koth).

SON OF THE TOOTH spies on Conan as Dunick the Kothian picks a fight with Conan. Conan breaks Dunick's arm.

SON OF THE TOOTH spies on Conan as the barbarian beds a bar wench.

SON OF THE TOOTH spies on Conan as Conan kills Dunick's accomplices and a defenceless Dunick. Conan pays the city's sentries to look the other way.

SON OF THE TOOTH spies on Conan as Conan enjoys a meal and drinks FOUR carafes of vino.

The still sober Cimmerian finally confronts SON OF THE TOOTH! We learn that Conan and SON OF THE TOOTH share an interest in voyeurism.

Do Conan and SON OF THE TOOTH become best friends? Nope.

Is It Safe to say that SON OF THE TOOTH still craves one of Conan's canines for his eye teeth collection? Yes.

À suivre!

What I did like:

Conan the Barbarian: Tides of the Tyrant-King #0 in stores May 2, 2026!

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN: REFORGED will continue! #5 will be in stores June 17, 2026!

Doug Braithwaite draws Ninurta with his thunderbolts.

Cool covers by Ivan Gil, Doug Braithwaite, Stephen Green & Kyle Hotz.

Female characters appear and one actually speaks.

Archaeologist Jeffrey Shanks talks Shem, Anu, Ishtar and Bêlit the pirate Queen of the Black Coast.

What I did not like:

The Woeful Eye, Thulsa Doom and Brule the Spear Slayer do not appear.

The Woeful Eye adoratrice does not appear.

The tavern wench has no name. As expected.

No advert for Conan: Gold for Dark Gods (a Tides of the Tyrant-King novel) by Jonathan French!

Still No announcement that the CONAN NEWSPAPER STRIPS are getting collected in stunning hardcover volumes!

I give it a 7/10. Zub builds up SON OF THE TOOTH as this skilled assassin... and Conan spots him immediately. 5 pages of tracking was a bit much. Did we really need 8 pages of Conan fighting clumsy sellswords AND a flashback page? More plot, less dawdling, please.

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