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'Conan' tackled by Brian Wood, Becky Cloonan
Published Monday, Oct 17 2011, 09:38 BST | By Hugh Armitage | Add comment
Dark Horse Comics has announced a Conan run from Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan.
Robert E Howard's Queen of the Black Coast will be adapted by the pair, who are frequent collaborators.
The reunion of the Demo and Channel Zero: Jennie One team was teased earlier in October.
The classic Conan tale tells the story of the barbarian's relationship with the pirate queen Belit.
"What was really appealing about this adaptation is the freedom I have," Wood told Comic Book Resources.
"The source material, the original story, deals with how Conan and Belit met, and how their time together came to an end, but as far as those years they spent together, that is not in the story. All it says is, basically, they sailed together for two years.
"Those two years are the bulk of this adaptation, and its material I can generate from scratch. That's really appealing."
Wood is known for working on a wide variety of different genres from the Northlanders Viking stories to the fictional urban future of DMZ.
He acknowledged the similarities between pirates and Vikings, but said that he was not "trying to turn Conan into Northlanders".
Dark Horse recently announced another new series King Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword from writer Tim Truman and artist Tomás Giorello.
Conan: Queen of the Black Coast will debut on February 8, 2012.
Robert E Howard's Queen of the Black Coast will be adapted by the pair, who are frequent collaborators.
The reunion of the Demo and Channel Zero: Jennie One team was teased earlier in October.
The classic Conan tale tells the story of the barbarian's relationship with the pirate queen Belit.
© Dark Horse Comics
"What was really appealing about this adaptation is the freedom I have," Wood told Comic Book Resources.
"The source material, the original story, deals with how Conan and Belit met, and how their time together came to an end, but as far as those years they spent together, that is not in the story. All it says is, basically, they sailed together for two years.
"Those two years are the bulk of this adaptation, and its material I can generate from scratch. That's really appealing."
Wood is known for working on a wide variety of different genres from the Northlanders Viking stories to the fictional urban future of DMZ.
He acknowledged the similarities between pirates and Vikings, but said that he was not "trying to turn Conan into Northlanders".
Dark Horse recently announced another new series King Conan: The Phoenix on the Sword from writer Tim Truman and artist Tomás Giorello.
Conan: Queen of the Black Coast will debut on February 8, 2012.
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