{"id":34021,"date":"2019-12-20T05:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T02:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=34021"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:19:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:19:50","slug":"issue-zero-the-case-for-conan-the-barbarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/12\/20\/issue-zero-the-case-for-conan-the-barbarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue Zero: &#8220;The Case for Conan The Barbarian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the new <em>Issue Zero<\/em> podcast, comics writer Fred Kennedy (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2RRTyhi\">The Fourth Planet<\/a><\/em>, due Jan 2020) makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.listennotes.com\/podcasts\/issue-zero\/the-case-for-conan-the-ZuNhBQlpq4P\/\">&#8220;The Case for Conan The Barbarian&#8221;<\/a> in comics.  He gives a potted history of Conan and makes the case that he&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>tragically underrated and misrepresented hero&#8221; in comics &#8230; &#8220;just like his creator&#8221; Robert E. Howard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In related news, comics veteran Roy Thomas will be the guest of honour at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howarddays.com\/\">Robert E. Howard Days<\/a> in Texas in 2020.  While the covers of the latest Marvel <em>Conan<\/em> book looks iffy (Conan is apparently now running around in the far-future, with a high-tech cyber-sword&#8230;) you can&#8217;t fault the old <em>Savage Sword of Conan<\/em> runs from Marvel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new Issue Zero podcast, comics writer Fred Kennedy (The Fourth Planet, due Jan 2020) makes &#8220;The Case for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/12\/20\/issue-zero-the-case-for-conan-the-barbarian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts-etc","category-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53873,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34021\/revisions\/53873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}