Did they seriously depict Brule as an African? He's a Pict, which in Howard's world means basically Celtic. He should look like a Scottish beserker or something similar.
Brule is described as a strongly built man of medium height with a massive chest, lean hips, brown or bronzed skin, and dark hair and eyes. He had strong features that displayed fearlessness and determination.[1]Kull - Exile of Atlantis ("The Shadow Kingdom"), Del Rey (2006). During the Thurian Age the picts of the islands west to the Thurian Atlantian continent proper was the Borni tribe Brule was from had darker tone. He did infact have blue eyes. They eventually evolved into the picts from Bran Mak Morn and Scotland.