“The Life & Death of Conan Part Five: The Captain of the Ship of the Dead”
Writer: Jason Aaron
Artist: Mahmud Asrar
Conan is sailing the Southern Sea from Vendhya to Messantia. He has a wooden statue he was hired to get. Pirates attack and blood gets on this statue. It turns into a monster that slaughters all the pirates and crew of the merchant ship he is on. Conan kills it and finds himself alone on the pirate ship. The bodies of the dead are infected and turn sharks and rats that eat of them into monsters. Finally, a pirate ship comes along, and Conan attacks it. After killing a third of the crew the rest decide to make Conan their captain.
“Black Starlight Part 5”
by John C. Hocking
Conan and his companions have to fight two giant black leeches that are after the Green Lotus. After defeating them they go to confront the magical force that is after them.
Another enjoyable story in Conan’s life. This time he is forced to be alone on a ship adrift. The story does a good job of showing Conan going a bit mad at being alone. Yet he survives and at the end is so badass he forces a pirate ship to make him the captain.
The prose story continues to intrigue me. We find out that the monsters are giant leeches. Very curious to find out what is after them.