By Chad Burdette

 on September 22, 2025

Conan the Barbarian is the fictional sword and sorcery hero created by author Robert E. Howard.  who debuted the character in 1932 and went on to appear in a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Since then, the character’s adventures has been adapted across the various mediums such as books, comics, films,  television programs (animated and live action), video games, and role-playing games.

Jim Zub is a Canadian writer, artist and art instructor, who over the past twenty years, has worked for publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, Bandai-Namco, and UDON Entertainment.

Before returning to full-time freelance writing, Jim was a professor teaching drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca Polytechnic’s award-winning Animation program.

His current projects include acting as the flagship writer for Conan the Barbarian, the monthly comic book adventures of Robert E. Howard’s legendary sword & sorcery hero.

Writer Jim Zub joins the show to chat about his work on Conan the Barbarian and more

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Conan the Barbarian: Scourge of the Serpent #1

THE NEW CONAN EPIC STARTS HERE!

Conan of Cimmeria has encountered Stygian sorcery and snake-sent creatures many times in his grand adventures, but he has never faced the true unspeakable power of SET until now.

The serpent god’s influence coils around the Hyborian Age and every other age linked to it. Three stunning supernatural stories will weave together to answer a chilling question of past and present – what is Set’s grand plan for humanity and, now it’s begun can it be stopped

Conan the Barbarian: Scourge of the Serpent #1 arrives on shleves on September 24, 2025 from Titan Comics

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