Podcasts that mention 📚 Conan the Barbarian by Robert E Howard

he was uh this guy that do he would do all the covers for Conan the Barbarian books. Just incredible artwork. Like wild crazy fantasy [ __ ] and this is your type of art. Oh just I loved it when I was a kid man. When I was a kid you know when I was like this seems like what you would like. I loved it. It was the best. His books were incredible. There's Robert E Howard was this really tortured guy who was a guy who lived with his mom. He had you know fairly poor health and he died suicide when he was like 36 years old. But he wrote a bunch of these books about a guy that was nothing like him. They've got a guy who was this just unstoppable force of nature from this baby. He created this place called us was Sumeria. Would he call it? Well this is Sumerian. It was Sumerian. Is that what it was? We're Conan. Conan the Cimmerian. Right. They created created a whole world and in this world is like it was like very games with Rhoni. In a lot of ways the original [ __ ] like no one to this day has really captured the books in a movie. Like Arnold was fun as Conan and then Jason Momoa was like a better fit physically. He was like a perfect fit physically more realistic as opposed to like being a bodybuilder. But nobody's ever captured like the feeling of the books because the books is just some wild [ __ ] and it was all created by this one guy was like super depressed. You just write these books about this guy who just [ __ ] all these women and killed everyone and just just smashed his way through the world and power Fanta thing crazy [ __ ] though was all him fighting dragons and monsters and demons coming for his soul. And he ran for 72 hours and fights them all for the sword.

Joe Rogan discusses Frank Frazetta's artwork for the covers of the Conan the Barbarian books and talks about the author Robert E. Howard and the themes and style of the books.

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