Poor Image: Comic Book.Conan The Barbarian

The current image is just... bad. It has cartoonish 90s art, is covered in logos and taglines and the like and is also just... a weird decision, since it's not the first cover Conan had as a comic — which would at least be nice for historical significance and with better aged art — or one of the more recent series, also with better aged art. It also has the Marvel Comics logo in the top left corner when Conan was published by Dark Horse for like 15 years.

I think it's best to replace the image with either the first cover to Conan the Barbarian Vol 1 #1 or a more recent, textless comic cover. My suggestions are:

Vol 1 #1: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/cc/Conan_the_Barbarian_Vol_1_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190416035627

Vol 3 #2: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/22/Conan_the_Barbarian_Vol_3_2_Textless.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181016195204

Edited by FuzzyBarbarian on Jan 31st 2020 at 12:24:18 AM

Opened.

I don't think the current is too bad personally and I don't think either of the suggestions in the op are too good.

How about this cover◊.

I don't know if that one will look good on the page itself, since the only real... anything to it is being very dark and filled with weapons and shadow, which I don't know will look too good at wiki size or if it conveys the right tone, honestly, going for a very dark and gritty aesthetic over the swords and sorcery or adventure vibe. It's also a bit too similar to the image for Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian.

Plus, I think it'd be nice to avoid any company logos (unless it's the very first cover) due to the different publishers the comic has had, plus textless more often than not just looks better.

Another textless image could be one of these:

4.1: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/a/a4/Conan_the_Barbarian_Vol_3_1_Acuna_Variant_Textless.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190213164420

4.2: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/14/Conan_the_Barbarian_Vol_3_6_Tedesco_Variant_Textless.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190221230443

Also, considering that it might be good to make it visually more distinct from the painted-looking image from the Franchise page, maybe something a bit more like comicbook interior art? Like this?

4.3: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/3/3f/Conan_the_Barbarian_Vol_3_1_Party_Variant_Textless.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181017095236

Edited by FuzzyBarbarian on Jan 31st 2020 at 2:07:28 AM

The links won't open for me.

4.3 is the best so far. 4.1 is also pretty good. I don't necessarily hate the current, but those are improvements.

I like 4.1

4.1 just to choose something.

Crowner's hooked.

Votes bump; four in the green.

This one's at the 5-day mark and 4.1's the only option in the green, so I'm going ahead and calling it. The new pic's in and tagged; locking up.

Old pic: