{"id":4452,"date":"2010-01-11T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2010-01-09T18:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T18:36:20","slug":"michael-moorcock%e2%80%99s-the-swords-of-heaven-the-flowers-of-hell-uk-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2010\/01\/11\/michael-moorcock%e2%80%99s-the-swords-of-heaven-the-flowers-of-hell-uk-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moorcock’s The Swords of Heaven, The Flowers of Hell – UK Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Howard V. Chaykin<\/strong> & Michael Moorcock<\/strong> (Star Books)
\nISBN: 0-35230681-5<\/p>\n

Presented as a Heavy Metal Presents\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/strong> production this slim and scintillating fantasy thriller was one of the most successful early graphic novels, but has since slipped into seeming obscurity. Created Marvel-style (plot\/art and then script) it teamed two of the medium’s most outspoken and popular creators on a project that still has a phenomenal amount of punch.<\/p>\n

Michael Moorcock began his career as a comics writer and editor at age 15, on such strips as Tarzan<\/em>, Dogfight Dixon<\/em>, Jet Ace Logan<\/em>, Captain Condor<\/em>, Olac the Gladiator<\/em> and many, many other British stalwarts before making the jump to prose fiction, where he single-handedly revitalised the genre with the creation of Elric<\/em> and the high-concept of the Eternal Champion.<\/p>\n

This very adult fantasy thriller is a part of that extended cycle of sagas (and if you’re a fan this tale immediately follows the novels The Eternal Champion<\/em> and Phoenix<\/em> in Obsidian<\/em>) but if it’s all new to you everything you need to enjoy the epic is pr\u00c3\u00a9cised within the tale itself.<\/p>\n

Urlik Skarsol, known as John Daker, is an aspect of the tragic fate-tossed Eternal Champion. Unlike most he is always aware of his true nature so when he incarnates on a new world he already knows it is another place of conflict and jeopardy.<\/p>\n

Here he is Lord Clen of Clen Gar, a knight of the Dream Marches and wielder of a terrible soul-drinking black sword. His land is a buffer zone between the acid-scorched wastes of Hell and the lush highlands of Heaven, and for centuries his people have guarded the decadent body-warping elite above them from the desperate wild-men of the burned wildernesses.<\/p>\n

A final confrontation is drawing inevitably closer, and death is in the air, but Clen holds one final awesome secret. The floating acid-spewing beasts known as Angels are not what they seem and their final fate will determine whether this world thrives or dies in blood and flame\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

This is a classic romp from two masters of the form, painted with all verve and dash of Chaykin in his prime, and a treat fantasists and followers of exotic, erotic fantasy will simply adore.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a9 1979 Howard V. Chaykin & Michael Moorcock.\u00c2\u00a0 All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Howard V. Chaykin & Michael Moorcock (Star Books) ISBN: 0-35230681-5 Presented as a Heavy Metal Presents\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 production this slim and scintillating fantasy thriller was one of the most successful early graphic novels, but has since slipped into seeming obscurity. Created Marvel-style (plot\/art and then script) it teamed two of the medium’s most outspoken and … <\/p>\n

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