Friday Night Fights: Haggling Lessons

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that’s exactly how Bahlactus got such a good price on his last car.

 

For more tips on Cimmerian Money-Management, consult Joe Lansdale and Tim Truman’s Conan and the Songs of the Dead, wherein Conan has sex with a ghost, chops up a couple dozen mummies, and then stabs a wizard who is riding a giant red eagle and summoning Lovecraftian horrors. Back in the Hyborean age, that was pretty much just called “Thursday.”

13 comments

  1. bookrats says:

    Notice that Conan is careful not to drip blood onto his cloak.

    He’s natty.

  2. Lansdale and Truman were doing Conan? WHY AM I ONLY LEARNING ABOUT THIS NOW?

  3. CHV says:

    I’d call that a KO with extreme prejudice.

  4. Mal "Vermin64" Gardiner says:

    Man, in that second panel Conan’s nose looks so broken he must have been punched in the face by the Frost Giant’s brother!

  5. Lemur says:

    Geez, Conan the barbarian psychopath, kindo of makes the point of why you don’t want to let strangers join your caravan…

  6. Trevor says:

    I feel the compulsion to point out that Conan wasn’t really being told “no”; he was being told “yes, but at a price.”

  7. Joshua says:

    ‘Back in the Hyborean Age…?’ Hell, I call that a good Thursday afternoon now.

  8. Lemur says:

    Trevor, exactly right. It doesn’t even make sense in context, it’s just psycho.

  9. corey says:

    I don’t think Conan really wanted to join the caravan. I think he was just trying to find out if the blade on his sword was dull. If you know an easier way of doing that, I’d like to hear it.

  10. Chris Sims says:

    The day Conan stops killing people for no good reason is the day I stop reading his comics.

  11. MSJ says:

    Is that story in trade or is it on sale now? Ghost sex, mummy chops and Lovecraft in one story starring Conan? Ace!!!

    Reminds me of a dream i had once. Almost the same thing. Only there’s no sex but the ghost is my ex-girlfriend, the wizard is a Chinese woman and my partner, it’s in modern times and I’m not Conan but a pyrokinetic studying to be an agent at the Malaysian branch of BPRD.

  12. MSJ says:

    Oh wait, silly me, you have the amazon.com link right there.

  13. DeadeyeDave says:

    I see your decapitation, aaaannnnd…I fold.

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