We had a pretty good thread a few days ago.
Who wants me to storytime Elric comics?
Fuck, does any of you even KNOW Elric?
>>84585943
Guess not then. I don't wish to spend time dumping comics that no one is going to read, despite how much i like them
Shame.
>>84586044
Just a page i guess.
Looks neat.
>>84586044
BRO BRO I WANT YOU TO STORY TIME ELRIC COMICS!!!
THAT WAS AN EPIC THREAD
I NOW NEED MORE SUSTENANCE OF ELRIC
PLEASE MAH NIGGA
>>84586153
I ain't beggin.
But I would appreciate it.
>>84586153
Fuck it let's do it.
I am gonna take a quick break after this first issue. Just got back from boxing and i'm filled with sweat.
I just hope there's some interest in this.
I heard the Elric hardcovers Titan has been putting out have some production problems, can anyone confirm?
>>84586210
I'm also hoping a few people show interest in this. I WANT to do a storytime of the entire saga but the last time i tried that, i was LITERALLY responding to myself.
>>84586199
YESHHHH!
>>84586235
>>84586234
Will confirm tomorrow. They just arrived for me and should be here in the morning.
>>84585943
I'd like that
>>84586528
Taking that aforementioned break.
You better get a discussion going or else i will be very disappointed.
>>84586559
> You better get a discussion going or else i will be very disappointed.
Okay, I'll start us off:
This is a comic.
>>84585943
I fucking love P. Craig Russell
more opera comics when, please
>>84586404
Cute kid
>>84586609
>>84586559
Correction. This is a good comic.
>>84587150
Going back to this series made me realize something about the new adaptation.
Elric is a different character in each series.
>>84587181
I like the new adaptation but here's the thing.
Elric in the 2014 books is an asshole raised by a society of bigger assholes
>>84586559
Pretty damn cool. I liked the art on the Stormbringer comic better, but this one has an interesting psychedelic look and goes more into the backstory. Ginger!Yyrkoon looks a bit ridiculous, but I could get used to it. Going to have to see more before I can judge, because I read last thread's Elric-dump in one sitting.
I didn't know anything of Elric before last threadaside from Black Blade, but now I've read some plot summaries and I'm intrigued.
>>84587218
While in the books and this, he's a good person that was raised by a society of asshole and just had to conform to his peoples identity of being dicks.
>>84587384
Short break.
>>84587399
Thanks for the posts so far, OP!
>>84586199
Thanks
>>84587261
>>84587555
Ginger Yyrkoon is the one thing i never understood about this series.
>>84586528
Spooky, dragon isles sound pretty british btw.
>>84587771
I want to bring attention to this page.>>84587748
This is what i was talking about Elric being a good person raised by bad people who go by terrible traditions that he is supposed to uphold.
>>84587879
Break time.
>>84587181
From when is this one?äI also guess one should read the books.
>>84587989
1983 if i'm correct.
>>84587989
>>84588007
>>84587989
Also, you should read the books.
It's really surprising how much influence Moorcock's work has had but also how it's slipped under the radar.
Thanks for posting these. My uncle lent me his copies a while ago but there were a few missing issues. I found a stash of his Moorcock novels recently and they're now on the top of my to-read list: All the Corum and Hawkmoon but only a handful of Elric.
>>84587813
I feel sorry for him
>>84588103
>>84588116
Doing yourself a disservice. Gollancz has the entire series compiled in paperback novels. Still holding out for a hardcover compilation though i know the likelihood is minuscule.
>>84588189
>>84588178
You should.
>>84587675
I think this was was done better then in the new comic
>>84588574
Break time.
>>84585943
Everyone knows some grubby dipshit who was way into Elric when they were 14.
Most people grow a little older and realize how fucking terrible it all is and put it behind them.
>>84588658
bait
>>84587889
>>84587879
>>84587869
Amazing!
Thank you.
I ask myself how the lords of law present themself...
>>84588050
Similar to Tom Waits, a lot of famous musician like his work.
>Temptation.
Y'know, people always talk about Tolkien and Lewis, buy why don't people seem to be aware of how much the fantasy genre owes to Moorcock? I can think of dozens of authors who show clear Moorcock influence (when they're not outright plagiarizing him).
>>84589005
>>84588979
Lack of marketing i guess.
>>84589304
Break time. Last issue for tonight up next.
So are you enjoying this?
>>84589339
yes
>>84589339
You rock anon. That other thread was awesome.
>>84589339
Yes, very much so.
A friend told me ablut Elric ince , so I am helpfull to see it.
>>84589339
YES
>>84589827
Oh Shit.
>>84589559
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCxL3-Fl7bM
Appropriate music time
>>84590019
And there you have it. So begin the travels of Elric of Melnibone.
Stay tuned because tomorrow, shit gets trippy as we board the Black Ship on the seas of fate.
Hope you enjoyed this dump of such an old and relatively obscure comic series and you will stay for the entire saga.
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>>84589995
Everything will be fucked, right?
I think that this comic captures the dreamlike feel of the books better than The Ruby Throne, as cool as it was. It's probably the art too.
>>84590147
You have no idea.
i'm the guy who said i have the books on amazing wishlist but haven't gotten to them yet because other stacks of books to read
>>84590189
They read surprisingly fast. None of the books are really that long.
>>84590177
I will return worried.
>>84589339
I remember seeing some artwork similar to this. Some scifi comic with an alien soldier, a meekrat like creature and a dumb talking mountain.
This series is a bit more form over substance but still intriguing. You don't get stuff like this now.
Keep going.
>>84590363
I will. Tomorrow. This is a long ass series that i have no time nor patience to dump in one go. One arc per day is my rule. There are five more to go.
>>84588979
The Warhammer 40k chaos gods are pretty much taken directly from Moorcock.
I liked the other adaptation's version of Stormbringer better, but this Elric has more character. I am seeing how he got his mopey reputation, though. Born into a society of assholes while not being an asshole himself, sickly as hell, and now saddled with a soul-eating blade that's undoubtedly lol'ing at the notion that he's "mastered" it. That's enough to make anyone depressed.Especially because everything gets worse from here
>>84590873
>I liked the other adaptation's version of Stormbringer better,
I agree. I like yandere Stormbringer
>>84591247It also explains why Elric ends up with all his lovers and companions dead.
>>84591353
Yep
OG Stormbringer is probably more calculative but a jealous sword is more ftn
I just want to be a lover, not a red-eyed screaming ghoul
>>84585943
thank you so much op
do you like hawkwind? I started getting interested on moorcock's stuff by hawkwind songs
I'll be waiting the next storytime
>>84587005
>pardon my appearance
He looks pretty dressed to me.
Good comic though, and uh, explains a bit of Cerebus for me, funnily enough.
>>84587289
I like this porky human captain. He doesn't seem to give no fucks.
>>84588658
I can see grubby dipshits being into this but it's pretty good. I like the intense stylization of the art and constant story development so far.
>>84592180I wish it'd picked another to be its killing tool!
>>84585943
I read the first collection of Elric stories. Pretty overrated in my opinion. Moorcock was open about the fact that he lifted a lot of the story from Poul Anderson's works.
I really enjoy the mix of the contrasting styles of Gilbert and Russell's work together, with Russell giving his clean rendering of the fantastic and Gilbert's flair for melodrama putting together Elric's big emotional swings.
