Sadly, as I said, they too were drowned in the huge texts and speech bubbles. Truly, some spash pages (especially at the finale of this great story of the stormbringer.The battle of the lords of law and chaos, as well as the battle between Elric and Jagreen were breathtakingly drawn) were phenomenal. Not my style but I can see why some people adore his illustrations. Or, stop using other people's creations and ideas to creating a name for yourself and try writing something original. The 9th art provides the creator with so many tricks, narrating options and most of all, visualization that can, with each panel skip 2-3 pages. It seems he can't understand that what's said in a way in a book, doesn't have to be necessarily said the same way in a comic or vice versa. Adapting means transfering what can be transfered from the text of the book/opera script to image, leaving the least to be told in speech bubbles, not transfering EVERYTHING from the book in the same exact form and stylization. He did the same thing with 'The ring of the Nibelung'.

When it comes to that, Russell sucks at adaptations. On that matter, Russell had excellent source material so no excuses there. I know the story, elric is one of my favorite epic-fantasy series, third after LotR and Wheel of time. If it wasn't for the last 20 pages (the ones Russell drew first), i'd give this one 1/5.

I was a thousand times more evil than thou. I'll be grabbing the rest of the Moorcock library.įarewell, friend. Nothing I can say really conveys how much I enjoyed this. It's a gorgeous book for being about the end of the Earth. It would have been tempting to use heavy blacks but Russell went the other way with it. He keeps things surprisingly open for such a dour, moody tale. Snippets of Moorcock's texts are included to drive the narration and the dialog is also Moorcock's but PCR sets the pace and lets the images set the mood. His monsters are suitably squamous, maidens fair, and his sad albino Elric looks exactly as I pictured him. His style is cartoony at times, grotesque and magnificent. Craig Russell is a maestro with his linework, knowing when to go nuts with the hatching and when to leave things much more open. Sure, Stormbringer doesn't look like Moorcock described it and Moonglum is too handsome but in the grand scheme of things, those details ultimately don't matter all that much. Craig Russell's masterpiece and I'm inclined to agree. This adaptation of Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer is hailed as P. Once I got over that, this was something else. I'd been avoiding it for years because I didn't want it to influence how I pictured the characters in the novels. I reread my two Elric omnibuses a couple weeks ago and finally caved in and picked this up. When Elric's wife is kidnapped and the forces of Chaos threaten to overwhelm the world, he must once again take up his soul-sucking blade, Stormbringer!

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