Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Timothy Truman
Artist: Tomas Giorello
Editor: Philip R. Simon
Release Date: 30 March 2016
Price: $3.99

The concluding part of the ‘Wolves Beyond the Border’ saga sees Conan and the Pictish witch Nai going up against tribes of renegade Picts who are invading Aquilonia.

King Conan: Wolves Beyond the Border Part 4 of 4 is the equivalent of ‘Old Guys Rule’, King Conan is no longer the dark-haired, clean limbed barbarian pin-up we have known and loved all these years. Here, he’s gnarly, lined and battle-scarred, grey haired and bearded but still bursting with enough vim and vigour to crack heads, swill ale and bed tavern wenches with the best of them.

In King Conan: Wolves Beyond the Border Part 4 of 4 evil Kwarada summons the slug-like Children of the Night to battle Conan and his allies and only a noble sacrifice can save them, but it takes the voluptuous, barely clad witch Nai to send them scurrying back to their holes for good. All of which sets us up for a classic Conan bone-crunching single combat finale.

Kingship has never sat easily with Conan’s warrior spirit and the end piece of Wolves Beyond the Border sketches in what fate may have in stall for the King of Aquilonia. Whatever that fate may be, and whether we get to see any of it, Crom alone knows, but if we do, let’s hope it is as thrilling and as vigorous as these tales have proved to be. In King Conan: Wolves Beyond the Border Part 4 of 4 Truman and Giorello have given us classic barbarian magic and long may they reign.

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker