I saw the cover and thought, huh - is Sergio Aragones doing a Conan book now?
It's fun to see new Conan stuff now that he's in the public domain (I've assumed, but not super sure) and publishers are probably figuring out stuff because the book is called "The Cimmerian" and not "Conan: The Cimmerian" or something like that. I wonder if "Conan" was trademarked or something else?

Anyways - this book has two of Howard's Conan stories (Queen of the Black Coast and Red Nail), thus the split in the writing/art teams on the headline of this post. And, while I'd read both stories a while ago, there wasn't much that I remembered. So, it was fun to go into them "fresh" while also knowing that they were original Howard stories.

So, they're both good barbarian fun and the cover makes it seem like the art is more risque than I think it really is (no nudity as far as I remember) and it's as violent as you'd imagine without going over the top with the gore. I guess what I'm trying to articulate is that the book leans more heavily into the adventure part of the stories than the violence - in all a good thing in my opinion.

I'm now curious to read some of the other volumes AND I also enjoyed the "bonus material" - most interestingly, reprints of the original stories (in prose). So, you can read the comic adaptation, and then read the story!