Did Dark Horse cancel or lose the rights to Conan?

[Mjolnir]

Seriously, did Dark Horse cancel Conan? It's last issue came out in August and has been missing from the solicits since September. A little red flag there for a book that was pretty much monthly since it started all the way back in November of 2004. Haven't been to find anything at Dark Horse or Cullen Bunn's Twitter. No matter how low the books numbers were, they always produced the book because I assumed the rights to him were pretty important. Did DH lose the rights or are they trying to come up with a way to right the ship? I have years and years worth of their continuity stories going all the way back to the #0 issue that started it all with Kurt Busiek and Cary Nord. I do miss those days though. Same goes with Timothy Truman and Thomas Giorello's time on the book. It always sounded like Dark Horse wanted to tell his life's story all the way though to his time as King and also answer the question and mystery of the prince and wazir flash forwards that Busiek started.

I'm concerned all my years of reading and buying these will be for nothing with the way the series just stopped where it did with Conan The Slayer #12.

[MajorHoy]

Don't know.

They have do have the Conan the Slayer Volume 2 TPB due out the end of the month (collecting issues #7-12 of the Bunn run), and DC has Wonder Woman/Conan #4 due out next month (which is "Co-published with Dark Horse Comics"), but I don't know if anything else is on the horizon.

[Dark-Flux]

Bunn has confirmed that #12 is the last issue, sadly.

Maybe sales were just low.
They should try and get Lemire or Kindt to give it a kickstart. Both are doing work at DH...

[MajorHoy]

Bunn has confirmed that #12 is the last issue, sadly.

Maybe sales were just low.

I don't know if they were that low, at least as far as a book from Dark Horse is concerned.

Here's what Comichron has for the Dark Horse titles that made Diamond's Top 300 Comic Books list in August:

105th - Neil Gaiman American Gods Shadows #6 - 22,102 copies
189th - Black Hammer #12 - 11,314 copies
204th - Hellboy and the BPRD1955:Secret Nature One Shot - 10,067 copies
206th - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11 #10 - 10,050 copies
227th - Predator Hunters #4 - 8,821 copies
233rd - Lady Killer 2 #5 - 8,487 copies
256th - Conan The Slayer #12 - 7,230 copies
266th - BPRD Devil You Know #2 - 6,766 copies
275th - Angel Season 11 #8 - 6,262 copies

Don't know if Dark Horse had any issues published in August that were lower than 300th on the list.

[Mjolnir]

Bunn has confirmed that #12 is the last issue, sadly.

Maybe sales were just low.
They should try and get Lemire or Kindt to give it a kickstart. Both are doing work at DH...

Bunn confirmed issue #12 was his last issue or the last issue of Conan in general?

[MajorHoy]

Bunn confirmed issue #12 was his last issue or the last issue of Conan in general?

You should also consider whether it could just mean the last issue for just the Conan The Slayer series, not for any-and-all Conan series. Prior to that series, Dark Horse had "Conan the Avenger".

[Dark-Flux]

I read it as last issue of Conan the Slayer.

I imagine it'll be back with a new moniker by a new team.