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Titan Comics and Heroic Signatures' new Conan the Barbarian series launched last summer, with Robert E. Howard's legendary creation put front and centre in a new tale of bravery and heroism.

The Savage Sword of Conan has since joined it and, today, we can exclusively share a first look at new covers for both comics along with details on the creative teams and heaps of epic story details.

We'll start with Conan the Barbarian #14. Written by Jim Zub with art from Doug Braithwaite, the gorgeous cover art you see below comes our way from Jae Lee, Rebeca Puebla, Braithwaite, Stuart Sayger and James Harren.

If you're in the U.S., you can order yours from PreviewsWorld. In the UK, it's available at Forbidden Planet. You can also click on each of the covers below to order them directly.

After Leaving Cimmeria Filled With Wanderlust, A Young Conan Heads North In Search Of Glory.

The Filipino auteur’s latest opus lampoons a Duterte-esque president struggling with a rebel enclave while a deadly flu epidemic rages

At four and three-quarter hours, the latest butt-numbing opus by Filipino auteur Lav Diaz is a veritable TikTok video by his standards. A needling and occasionally deranged assault on the Philippines’ most recent turn into authoritarianism, this monochrome sci-fi dystopia takes place in 2034 after a series of volcanic explosions has permanently darkened the skies, and the “Dark Killer” flu epidemic is tearing through the population (it was shot pre-Covid). President Nirvano Navarra (Joel Lamangan) – whose stocky physique and wild pronouncements make a fairly obvious match for real-life incumbent Rodrigo Duterte – decides to use the crisis to put a heavy lid on a simmering crockpot of dissidents.

Meted out mostly in long and often patience-stretching static takes, and in humdrum locations despite sci-fi inflections such as omnipresent flying drones, Diaz...

Viewers about to journey into the latest feature of Filipino auteur Lav Diaz should get “hold of some acid” because it “would serve you really well”. Among other pieces of advice and explanation about his latest film, a text written by Diaz was read to the waiting audience at the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival where the film was screened later this year. Whether or not this was an ironic way to gain the audience’s attention remains to be seen, but given the film’s rather serious nature, it also foreshadows the darkness of the visions represented in “The Halt”.

“The Halt” is screening at Filmfest Hamburg 2019

In 2034, after catastrophic volcanic eruptions, large parts of South-East Asia live in constant darkness since the sun is blocked. Additionally, many people have died due to a flu pandemic called “the Dark Killer” which the government has attempted to contain.