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Michael Moorcock's Elric 1-4 Slipcase Set
Elric and fantasy fans will love these stunning comic adaptations of the classic Elric of Melniboné novels by Michael Moorcock, collected together for the first time! Includes 3 stunning art cards!
Elric of Melniboné is the tortured hero of Michael Moorcock’s classics fantasy novels. His stories are brought to life in these exquisite graphic novel adaptations, collected together in this glorious boxed-set for the first time!
Fans of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and high fantasy fiction will reap the thrills and spills of this epic quadrilogy!
Includes 3 fantastic art cards!
THE RUBY THRONE
Elric, the albino emperor, has ruled Melniboné for millennia - a feat made possible through magic and various herbs that serve to strengthen and prolong his life. However, Elric's empire is crumbling before him and now his envious cousin and prince of Melniboné, Yyrkoon, plots to claim the Ruby Throne for himself.
Yet when Elric's people come under the threat of a pirate attack, Elric believes that he can once again restore his authority and regain their faith by defeating the pirates. However, the true cost of this task will force him to reveal his allegiance to the dark Arioch, the most dominant of the Lords of Chaos...
STORMBRINGER
When his people are mercilessly massacred, Elric, the albino former Emperor of the ancient island of Melniboné is cast out into the world. However, fate brings him into the possession of Stormbringer - the fabled, bloodthirsty demon-sword that will sustain him and dominate his destiny.
THE WHITE WOLF
A year has passed since Elric left Imrryr, his palace and his throne, leaving behind a heartbroken Cymoril. For a year he has walked the Young Kingdoms, under the distant gaze of his protector, Arioch. A year since he traded his skills as a wizard and fighter to the highest bidder, forging, in each battle, the legend of the albino warrior whose Black Sword terrifies the bravest of warriors. Today he is no longer Elric de Melnibone, the four hundred and twenty-eighth Emperor of the people of R'lin K'ren A'a. Today, the Young Kingdoms know him as the White Wolf.
THE DREAMING CITY
The albino emperor, Elric of Melniboné, is exiled from his home and cursed to walk the land under the influence of the god of chaos, Arioch. With his sword Stormbringer, Elric must find his way through the unknown, unaware he is being sought by his long-lost love. But is she looking to re-kindle their love, or something far more sinister?
Elric of Melniboné is the tortured hero of Michael Moorcock’s classics fantasy novels. His stories are brought to life in these exquisite graphic novel adaptations, collected together in this glorious boxed-set for the first time!
Fans of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and high fantasy fiction will reap the thrills and spills of this epic quadrilogy!
Includes 3 fantastic art cards!
THE RUBY THRONE
Elric, the albino emperor, has ruled Melniboné for millennia - a feat made possible through magic and various herbs that serve to strengthen and prolong his life. However, Elric's empire is crumbling before him and now his envious cousin and prince of Melniboné, Yyrkoon, plots to claim the Ruby Throne for himself.
Yet when Elric's people come under the threat of a pirate attack, Elric believes that he can once again restore his authority and regain their faith by defeating the pirates. However, the true cost of this task will force him to reveal his allegiance to the dark Arioch, the most dominant of the Lords of Chaos...
STORMBRINGER
When his people are mercilessly massacred, Elric, the albino former Emperor of the ancient island of Melniboné is cast out into the world. However, fate brings him into the possession of Stormbringer - the fabled, bloodthirsty demon-sword that will sustain him and dominate his destiny.
THE WHITE WOLF
A year has passed since Elric left Imrryr, his palace and his throne, leaving behind a heartbroken Cymoril. For a year he has walked the Young Kingdoms, under the distant gaze of his protector, Arioch. A year since he traded his skills as a wizard and fighter to the highest bidder, forging, in each battle, the legend of the albino warrior whose Black Sword terrifies the bravest of warriors. Today he is no longer Elric de Melnibone, the four hundred and twenty-eighth Emperor of the people of R'lin K'ren A'a. Today, the Young Kingdoms know him as the White Wolf.
THE DREAMING CITY
The albino emperor, Elric of Melniboné, is exiled from his home and cursed to walk the land under the influence of the god of chaos, Arioch. With his sword Stormbringer, Elric must find his way through the unknown, unaware he is being sought by his long-lost love. But is she looking to re-kindle their love, or something far more sinister?
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256 pages, Hardcover
Published December 6, 2022
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July 5, 2024
Judging solely by the five comics adaptations of Elric I've read, Moorcock is clearly a great admirer of the genre fiction tradition of Lord Dunsany and C. A. Smith -- so much so in the latter case that for the very first time since reading Smith's seminal Zothique, Averoigne, and Hyperborea cycles, I've found a "fantasy" universe - a genre ordinarily synonymous with triteness and trope hyper-saturation - that is as filled with characters motivated by selfishness, capriciousness, avarice, and amorality (including the protagonist!) as it is filled with supernaturalism, sorcery, abhuman and nonhuman cultures, mythological bestiaries, and pantheons of gods who all may as well be demons.
One seldom finds a narrative whose main protagonist is as ignoble, unsympathetic, brutally violent, and transparently self-interested as Elric - a protagonist whom one absolutely can't root for as an audience - yet whose over-arcing plot and setting drive the story irresistibly forward and don't make one even momentarily regret reading a story whose "hero" is a colossal asshole. Indeed, the virtually conscienceless characters make the fatalistic melodrama all the more compelling.
This particular series has gorgeous, painterly bandes dessinées-style linework and character design, and sumptuous analog coloring that make every panel look almost like finished production stills for an ultra-high production value conventional cel animation film.
Most tellingly, the volumes in this collection also boast forwards by none other than Alan Moore, Jean-Pierre Dionnet (co-founder of Metal Hurlant!), Neil Gaiman, and Moorcock himself, and all one need know is that among these four luminaries exists a perfect consensus that these four books are the best graphic adaptation of Elric material to date.
So obviously now I gotta start reading the novels...
One seldom finds a narrative whose main protagonist is as ignoble, unsympathetic, brutally violent, and transparently self-interested as Elric - a protagonist whom one absolutely can't root for as an audience - yet whose over-arcing plot and setting drive the story irresistibly forward and don't make one even momentarily regret reading a story whose "hero" is a colossal asshole. Indeed, the virtually conscienceless characters make the fatalistic melodrama all the more compelling.
This particular series has gorgeous, painterly bandes dessinées-style linework and character design, and sumptuous analog coloring that make every panel look almost like finished production stills for an ultra-high production value conventional cel animation film.
Most tellingly, the volumes in this collection also boast forwards by none other than Alan Moore, Jean-Pierre Dionnet (co-founder of Metal Hurlant!), Neil Gaiman, and Moorcock himself, and all one need know is that among these four luminaries exists a perfect consensus that these four books are the best graphic adaptation of Elric material to date.
So obviously now I gotta start reading the novels...
October 4, 2023
9,5/10 Una meravella! Conjunció perfecta entre l'obra del mestre de la fantasia fosca Moorcock i la qualitat de l'équip artístic d'aquesta novel·la gràfica al temps que l'excel·lent feina dels guionistes que reflecteixen perfectament el món ple de foscor de Moorcock.
February 12, 2024
I liked this one a lot, to the point I am thinking reading original novels as well. My only gripe is, action scenes were too short, could have used few more pages, Its a comic book. However the art was extraordinary when it comes to the world, huge structures, and other epic stuff which I dont want to spoil. Art really showed off epicness and huge scope in this fantasy world, you wont see anything like this in TV series. I am really excited for next cycle but in meantime I might check original novels. Recommended!
November 8, 2025
Where the original Elric novels can seem episodic and asymmetrical for having been written out of chronological order, this graphic novel series imbues them with an epic significance that makes the overall narrative more compelling and gives its unpredictability a natural flow. This is some of the most beautiful dark fantasy artwork I've seen, let alone in a graphic novel. It doesn't remind me of Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, or even Conan. It's unapologetically itself. It's not constrained by the visual tropes that had accumulated around the books either, and where it departs from the source material, it's almost always faithful to the spirit of it.
Elric is shown to be gaunt and frail from early on as he should be. I wish Elric's moral misgivings about the cruelty of his inherited empire were more on display, but making him start out almost as ruthless presumably gives him more of a character arc as he wanders the world and interacts with humanity. Aspects of Cymoril's new arc make her less sympathetic, but even that might serve the story in the long run, in that she is characteristically Melnibonean in contrast to other characters Elric meets later on. Arioch's appearance, at least in the first couple of volumes, is fittingly eerie, more than he's ever been in an adaptation.
I appreciate that not much emphasis is placed on demons and Stormbringer as part of the dichotomy between chaos and law, or on the workings of the multiverse, themes that to me are mostly a distraction from the real substance of the series. I'm glad this adaptation seems to be sticking to just the original six novels, and what serves the overall story within them, but I'd love if after eventually completing the series, they went back to adapt Fortress of the Pearl and the rest.
This ongoing series is an easy recommendation for me.
Elric is shown to be gaunt and frail from early on as he should be. I wish Elric's moral misgivings about the cruelty of his inherited empire were more on display, but making him start out almost as ruthless presumably gives him more of a character arc as he wanders the world and interacts with humanity. Aspects of Cymoril's new arc make her less sympathetic, but even that might serve the story in the long run, in that she is characteristically Melnibonean in contrast to other characters Elric meets later on. Arioch's appearance, at least in the first couple of volumes, is fittingly eerie, more than he's ever been in an adaptation.
I appreciate that not much emphasis is placed on demons and Stormbringer as part of the dichotomy between chaos and law, or on the workings of the multiverse, themes that to me are mostly a distraction from the real substance of the series. I'm glad this adaptation seems to be sticking to just the original six novels, and what serves the overall story within them, but I'd love if after eventually completing the series, they went back to adapt Fortress of the Pearl and the rest.
This ongoing series is an easy recommendation for me.
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