Since the 1970s, Conan's comics adventures have always been designed in a classic and realistic style, so... it's time for a change! Dark Horse Comics, who publishes' the Cimmerian adventures, has taken this resounding initiative. An international team of cartoonists was assembled, led by screenwriter Brian Wood (Wolverine & the X-Men: Alpha & Omega, DMZ). In this first album, Becky Cloonan (Northlanders) and James Harren (B.P.R.D.) revived the encounter between Conan and Bêlit, the pirate woman, under their pencils.