Marvel Comics has been getting things in order with their rights to Conan this year with regular ongoings for the character but now they’re really going to get creative. The publisher has revealed the Savage Avengers series will be coming out on May 1st, 2019 written by Gerry Duggan and illustrated by Mike Deodato. This comes from the events of the Avengers: No Road Home event and has Conan working with an “unsanctioned” team that includes Wolverine, Venom, Punisher, Elektra, and Brother Voodoo!
“We envisioned a threat, a magical green zone where the evil wizards of Conan’s world are trading spells with The Hand in Japan,” Gerry Duggan told Entertainment Weekly in an exclusive interview. “Conan is on a very Conan-like mission; he’s heard a tale of an amulet so he’s chasing it, and the evil magic sorcerers are doing something that would be a Marvel Avengers problem. It feels like we have found some very fertile ground that is a Venn diagram between those two worlds.”
“SAVAGE AVENGERS is just what it says on the label—it’s all of the biggest badasses of the Marvel Universe brought together uneasily in one explosive series—and with Conan as a wild card,” SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort told Marvel.com. “It’s big, it’s brash, it’s explosive, it never slows down—the only scenes in SAVAGE AVENGERS that involve a table is when somebody is being thrown through one.”