Product Description: Now available in paperback, writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law) is joined by artists Glenn Fabry (Preacher covers) and Mike McMahon (Judge Dredd) to bring you a world of mists and magic and the ultimate Celtic warrior, Slaine! This classic tale of sword and sorcery introduced 2000 AD readers and the comics world at large to a hero who makes Conan look like a boy scout. It was also the first part in what was become an epic saga chronicling the adventures of Slaine. Exiled from his tribe, Slaine is forced to roam the land of Tir-Nan-Og with his dwarf, Ukko. Ahead of him lie terrifying ordeals that will require all of Slaine's famed warrior strength if he is to return victorious and claim his rightful place as King!
Like Robert E. Howard on speed. One of the 2000 AD classics. I loved the "Weird Tales"-style storyline, especially in the first adventure, and the serialized feel throughout. It harkens back to the days of yore, when pulp writers wrote about manly men hitting tentacle-monsters while women cowered. Except, in Mills' world, the manly men are warped chaos creatures, the tentacle-monsters are just as likely to be the good-guys and the women are more dangerous than the blokes saving them.
Slaine is a great character (although undenyable loathesome), the detail is well-researched (or at least, filled with convincing lies) and there's buckets of tongue-in-cheek gore (at least, I hope it was tongue-in-cheek).
The extremely detailed Fabry art makes me want to wash my hands afterwards, but it really brings out the best (or worst) in Slaine and his world.
I'll tell you more about story when I read Slaine Time Killer OK, so Glenn Fabry is master of black and white illustration, just like Bolland (ok, not that good ) and Adrian Smith. I liked the other artist, too and bought the book for art. British know to use ink.
Great stuff.. This book starts with the begining of the Slaine saga then jumps off to how Slaine became a king and united the tribes as the Fumorian sea demons.
You wont understand a thing if u havent read anythin else before that so i would suggest buyin this book along with Slaine - Time killer which fills the gap between the start and the 'slaine the king' story.
Great read ,excellent artwork as always yet not recommended to poor fellows who grew up reading playboy magazines and conan the barbarian comics...
Supreme stuff if you are a slaine fan..
Highly recommended...
Awful, Ugly, & Pointless Slaine The King is the creation of Pat Mills, one of the most influential British Comic creators of the 1970's and 1980's. His work on such books as Judge Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock, and (My favorite!) Marshal Law has become the stuff of legends across the pond, and even here in the States via reprints of his material from Great Britan's weekly 2000 A.D. comic. I'd been hearing about Slaine since I was a kid, so I thought I'd give Slaine The King a try.
Ucch.
The story revolves around Slaine, a Celtic barbarian, and his unsavory dwarf companion, Ukko; Having been banished from his tribe, Slaine and Ukko wander Tir-Nan-Og, battling Druids and various and sundry monsters. And that's about it..... The writing is a barely comprehensible mixture of Celtic oaths and turgid prose, and the art is a mixed bag: The half of the book illustrated by Glenn Fabry (Famous for his covers for DC/Vertigo's "Preacher") is extremely well done, with clean, easy to follow art. The half illustrated by Mike McMahon is awful. Strangely exaggerated figures, dark, muddled panels, bizarre page layouts....They all serve to make the action hard to follow, none of which serves the story, which really ISN'T WORTH following. Perhaps the two volumes collecting "Slaine: The Horned God" will be more palatable because of the color art by Simon Bisley. Anyone looking for a well-told barbarian epic should seek out Marvel's "Essential Conan the Barbarian" instead, and avoid this expensive mess altogether.
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