Welcome!

I'm Dan. I discovered Conan the Barbarian about ten years ago through comics- specifically, Roy Thomas's Savage Sword of Conan books, and I fell in love. Conan's stories, be they the Robert E. Howard-penned original short stories for Weird Tales in the 1930s, or the pastiches written by authors long after Howard's suicide, were published completely out of order. Howard said that he wrote the stories out of order on purpose:​

"In writing these yarns I've always felt less as creating them than as if I were simply chronicling his adventures as he told them to me. That's why they skip about so much, without following a regular order. The average adventurer, telling tales of a wild life at random, seldom follows any ordered plan, but narrates episodes widely separated by space and years, as they occur to him."

For the longest time, I've thought that it would be cool to read Conan's life in chronological order and to write about my experience doing so. There are many probable outlines of Conan's career, but to see the one I'm going to attempt, check out "The Chronology" page.

This isn't my first time reading Conan. I've always loved Savage Sword, and it's probably currently my favorite rendition of Conan's stories. I've also read lots of Howard's original short stories, seen the films, etc. Currently, Titan Comics holds the license to publish Conan stories and they just put out their third issue of a new Savage Sword run. It's really good.

I don't know if I'll finish this or how long it will take me if I do, but I'm eager to track the experience!