Elric #2 on Dec. 29 (#3 on Feb. 23)

[Krzysiek]

It's official!

[Jerico]

I does look as though Simonson used
some TLC...

Jerico, please fix this link. Looks like you grabbed the popup addy instead of the one you wanted. Then delete this quote.

http://web.tickle.com/match/mutual-m...h&uid=41166245

What a big ass sword!

[Krzysiek]

What a big ass sword!

Or: What a small Elric!

[MissDreamy]

Cool!... does anyone know when it'll be due in the UK (if at all?) I'm a bit naive about these things! :)

[Paul]

Since comics are sent to distributors worldwide before the day of release, it should be available in England on the 22nd, I know I'll be running off to Gosh! to grab mine.

My b'day is the 27th, I'll take that as an early present from you pard. ;)

[Whiskers]

Re: Elric #1 on Sept. 22

Don't miss this previously untold installment in Elric's storied history, mixing the sword and sorcery of the Lord of the Rings saga with Moorcock's unique brand of storytelling and Simonson's unmistakable artistic styling.

Another shitty fucking write up. Who are these guys?

[ghost]

I like how they add "mixing the sword and sorcery of the Lord of the Rings saga" in there so there is a connection to hot ticket. I know there is a lot of issues with LOTR (movie & books) on these boards, so thougt it was funny that Dc would link the two.

[Paul]

Re: Elric #1 on Sept. 22

Don't miss this previously untold installment in Elric's storied history, mixing the sword and sorcery of the Lord of the Rings saga with Moorcock's unique brand of storytelling and Simonson's unmistakable artistic styling.

Another shitty fucking write up. Who are these guys?

People who want to milk money from the recent "fantasy trend"?

Does anyone else find it funny that until a few years ago, people used to treat us like social lepers, and now all of a sudden it's cool?

[MissDreamy]

Thanks Paul!.. Off to Forbidden Planet for me then where I can indulge in another afternoon of spending far too much money, specially since they expanded the bloody shop!

[PsychicWarVeteran]

What a big ass sword!

Yeah, I'm not too much into that massive hilt. But then I'm getting the comics for Mike's writing, not Simonson's artwork.

But September 22 is so... far... away...

[manmiles]

I like the cover artwork. Very much going for the Indian Feel with Elric's appearence.

[krunky]

I gotta disagree PWV - Simonson is one of the great living stylists of the comic book medium. From the perspective of authorial intent, I have to think MM is more than aware of the choices being made by Simonson. Without knowing for sure, I'd guess that MM loves Simonson's stuff even if his readers do not. Let's not forget MM's avatar is by Simonson.

Simonson has one great flaw - his work can be too sketchy looking at times. But otherwise he is a genius of layout and overall design.











Sadly, I could not readily find any good Manhunter images...

[Michael Moorcock]

Just a couple of points here -- the 'massive hilt' will actually be explained in the first story! It won't remain massive throughout!
Walter's drawn the whole thing very much as I've asked him to, while
adding his own inimicable touches, which have heightened, never detracted from, my story. And I could also add that it might be worth
seeing how the four independent stories develop before entirely judging the series! :)

[Michael Moorcock]

I meant to add that the publicity stuff really is pretty far off the mark!
My guess the writer of the blurb has seen nothing of the book.
And comparisons with LOTR are inimitable. If I felt irritated by it every time a publicist does that, I'd be in a permanent state of irritation.
We are not, as I've been saying for some years, the literary pariahs we once were. This has been a trend for years. As I said in Boston a few years back, quoting Tom Paine on America and the 'mother country' -- it is unseemly that such a large country should be ruled by such a small one (that's a paraphrase). Meaning that the 'literary world' had long-since lost touch both with public taste and the uses to which literary fantasy can be put. It's just taken a while for it to catch up. The Whitbread prize going to Pullman and the Tolkien movies have, of course, finally helped. People will use these names a lot simply because they are far more in the consciousness of the general public than others.
It's always been done. At least nobody's saying 'in the great tradition of Robert E. Howard' any more... :)
As with all the other Elric stories, this one will have a moral underpinning, dealing, as with the earliest stories, with the rights and wrongs of Empire and what happens when we use our strength merely for our own greedy ambitions. But, as intended, the story will be fast and furious and add not only something to the Elric story, but will
show the beginnings of Melnibone and how it made the transition from
a group of idealistic, Law-embracing immigrants to a mighty, world dominating empire with all the forces of Chaos at its command... I was, of course, originally talking about Britain in 1960... :)

[Michael Moorcock]

God, I wish I was awake... Inevitable, not inimitable. It's Tolkien who's inimitable (though far too many have tried!).