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I'm so excited by the news that Genndy Tartakovsky will be helming the new Conan series! It's truly a match made in heaven. The show description sounds like it will be amazing:

>“After finding love in the pirate queen, Bêlit, a battle-hardened Conan defies gods, fate and even death to save her from a dark sorcery that threatens to destroy everything.”

I wanted to throw it open to everyone on the subreddit: What are you hoping to see in this series? If you're anything like me you've been thinking about a potential Conan show for years so this can be a thread for sharing our long-simmering thoughts.

For me, I've always thought a Conan animated series should have painted/illustrated title cards for each episode. I'm a big fan of Batman: The Animated Series and every episode of that show started with an illustrated title card that focused on some theme or image from the episode:

Batman: TAS title card

I'd love it if the Conan show did the same. Illustrated covers are such a huge part of Conan's history, whether we're talking about Frazetta's Lancer/Ace paperback covers or Savage Sword. The comics would also often have big splash pages with the title:

Frazetta Cover

Buscema Splash Page

Every episode starting with some iconic image of Conan just makes sense to me and would be in keeping with the character's history.

So that's my hope. But what about the rest of you? Is there a particular story you'd like to see adapted? A character from the comics you'd like to see? What's on your wish list for the show?

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Just a refresher for everyone, here are the names of all the evil sorcerers from the original Conan stories by Robert E. Howard:

• Xaltotun (Hour of the Dragon)
• Zogar Sag (Beyond the Black River)
• Thugra Khotan aka Natohk (Black Colossus)
• Thoth-Amon (The Phoenix on the Sword)
• The Master of Yimsha (The People of the Black Circle)
• Tsotha-lanti (The Scarlet Citadel)
• Yara (The Tower of the Elephant)

I think that's all of them but if I missed one let me know. I didn't include Thulsa Doom since he's a Kull villain. Plus I think Doom would win by default if I included him. I mean c'mon, the guy has the word "Doom" in his name for pete's sake!

So my pick for coolest sounding name: Thugra Khotan. It just sounds harsh and guttural. He's also the coolest visually in my opinion, he's like a reanimated desiccated corpse.

Last place I'm giving to the Master of Yimsha. A cool character but his name is kind of boring by comparison to all the others.

So who's your pick for the coolest name?