{"id":3704,"date":"2009-07-17T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2009-07-13T14:39:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:39:51","slug":"michael-moorcocks-elric-the-dreaming-city-marvel-graphic-novel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/07\/17\/michael-moorcocks-elric-the-dreaming-city-marvel-graphic-novel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moorcock’s Elric: The Dreaming City – Marvel Graphic Novel #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Roy Thomas<\/strong> & P Craig Russell<\/strong> (Marvel Comics)
\nISBN: 0-939766-12-4<\/p>\n

Elric is an absolute icon of the Sword and Sorcery genre: the last ruler of a pre-human civilization. The Melnibon\u00c3\u00a9ans are a race of cruel, arrogant sorcerers: dissolute creatures in a slow, decadent decline after millennia of dominance over the Earth. An albino, Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of his line, is physically weak and of a brooding, philosophical temperament, caring for nothing save his beautiful cousin Cymoril, even though her brother Prince Yrrkoon openly lusts for his throne.<\/p>\n

Elric doesn’t even really want to rule, but it is his duty, and he is the only one of his race to see the newly evolved race of Man as a threat to the Empire. He owns or is possessed by a black sword called Stormbringer: a magical blade that steals the souls of its victims and feeds their life and vitality to the albino.<\/p>\n

In this beautifully realized adaptation Elric has been ousted by Yrrkoon, who has cast Cymoril into an enchanted sleep and holds her hostage. The Faustian albino has entered into a devil’s bargain with assorted human rulers and now guides an armada of ships in an all-out attack on the island citadel of Immyr, determined to raze the city and eradicate his entire race if that what’s necessary to rescue his beloved…<\/p>\n

The Dreaming City<\/strong> was the first Elric story Michael Moorcock wrote, appearing in the pulp magazine Science Fantasy<\/em> #47 in June 1961. An instant hit, the last Emperor became the vanguard of a modern revival of the weird fantasy form and an inadvertent foundation stone for the new-born role-playing game market.<\/p>\n

This is a stirring, spectacular, entrancing tale of startling power, as are all the Elric adaptations Russell was involved with (see also the eponymous Elric of Melnibon\u00c3\u00a9<\/strong> ISBN: 0-936211-01-6 and Sailor on the Seas of Fate<\/strong> ISBN: 0-915419-24-6) and it’s high time somebody collected them and the Epic Illustrated<\/strong> vignette ‘While the Gods Laugh’<\/em> into some kind of definitive edition…
\n\u00c2\u00a9 1981, 1982 Roy Thomas and P Craig Russell. A Star*Reach Production. Adapted from the original story by and \u00c2\u00a9 Michael Moorcock 1961.\u00c2\u00a0 All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Roy Thomas & P Craig Russell (Marvel Comics) ISBN: 0-939766-12-4 Elric is an absolute icon of the Sword and Sorcery genre: the last ruler of a pre-human civilization. The Melnibon\u00c3\u00a9ans are a race of cruel, arrogant sorcerers: dissolute creatures in a slow, decadent decline after millennia of dominance over the Earth. An albino, Elric … <\/p>\n

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