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Summary: Awful, Ugly, & Pointless
Review: 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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Summary: Great stuff..
Review: 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...
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