This is an adaptation that does not flinch from the gruesome aspects of Moorcock’s vision. This would be a graphic novel series that would be unwaveringly loyal to the writer’s work. There was passion, fueled by nostalgia for the books read in adolescence and for the epic role-playing game (the legendary game Stormbringer, originally published by Chaosium)… and then came a slightly mad idea, one which originated with the artist Didier Poli: what if, after so many English adaptations, French authors created their own Elric? An Elric freed from the constraints of comic book fantasy cliches - as, in spite of his power, Elric is NOT a superhero, not a new Conan the Barbarian. A passion for the dark, baroque and decadent world of Elric the necromancer… Elric is a sickly albino sorcerer-emperor, a drug addict, plaything of the gods, tormented anti-hero of a violent world, a rider of dragons, and an invoker of demons… Cover by Frank BrunnerĪs author Julien Blondel says in his Afterword to the first volume, Stormbringer role playing game by Ken St. The Elric tales are set in a violent and merciless world, where true power flows from pacts with dark and capricious gods, and Elric is a man who easily walked the corridors of power and trucked with soul-thirty entities, and - through schemes not entirely of his own making - now walks a different path. Howard and the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser adventures by Fritz Leiber, are seen as the very cornerstones of the genre of sword & sorcery. There’s a reason the Elric tales, alongside the Conan stories of Robert E. Produced by the French team that includes the writer Julien Blondel and several enormously talented artists, including Didier Poli, Julien Telo, Robin Recht, and Jean Bastide, these books belong in every decent library of modern fantasy.įirst off, these are gorgeous stories.
The four volumes, The Ruby Throne, Stormbringer, The White Wolf, and The Dreaming City, are among my favorite comics of any kind in the past few years. Titan Comics has had a long partnership with Moorcock, and recently it has released the best Elric adaptation I have ever seen, in any medium. I think my favorite was Mark Shainblum’s lengthy Chronicles of Corum adaptation. First Comics had a lengthy association with Moorcock for many years, producing highly regarded adaptations of Elric, Hawkmoon, and others. Craig Russell, James Cawthorn, Walter Simonsen, Mike Mignolia, Howard Chaykin, and many more.
Perhaps the most famous is the French artist Philippe Druillet’s ambitious rendition of The Eternal Champion, but there have been many others associated with the character, including P. There’s been a lot of comic adaptations of Michael Moorcock’s Elric over the years. All four volumes in Michael Moorcock’s Elric from Titan Comics (2014 – 2022)
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