Elric: Making of a Sorceror 3 & 4

[Schmakt]

So there was a little discussion on the board a while ago... even with Walter Simonson giving a little heads up on release dates... and we FINALLY got issues 3 & 4.

(http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=54937&highlight=Elric)

Did anyone else stick around for the end of the story? I still really enjoyed the individual issues, but I think I'm going to have to go back and reread all 4 to reall understand what happened in the story as a whole.

Obviously, Elric wins the "ordeal" as it were. But I'm sure I missed a lot of the nuances and details due to the long wait. The art held up great for an Elric tale too, I think. I wish we could have seen more of Stormbringer in the hands of Elric, but I'll live. Elric himself looked badass. :)

I haven't read any of the books except for Tales of the White Wolf (which I enjoyed). My initial exposure to Elric was from the First Comics books back in the early 90's written by Roy Thomas. I'm going to have to go back and read those too, I think, but can someone give me a quick summary of how, after Making of a Sorceror, Elric gets Stormbringer?

[mdg1]

It's from the first (chronological) Elric book:

After an unsuccessful coup, and some battles, Yrkoon gets away... to find Stormbringer & Mournblade, which would make him powerful enough to dethrone Elric. Elric chases after him, and they end up in the extradimensional cavern where the swords reside. Elric with Stormbringer, Yrkoon with Mournblade. They fight, Elric wins.

[DWEarhart]

Elric was one of my first favorite characters, and Michael Moorcock is the man that turned me on to writing.

I was hoping to have the tpb of this already, but at least it's finally ending. I'll get it soon enough.

[Kara Zor El]

So there was a little discussion on the board a while ago... even with Walter Simonson giving a little heads up on release dates... and we FINALLY got issues 3 & 4.

(http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=54937&highlight=Elric)

Did anyone else stick around for the end of the story? I still really enjoyed the individual issues, but I think I'm going to have to go back and reread all 4 to reall understand what happened in the story as a whole.

Obviously, Elric wins the "ordeal" as it were. But I'm sure I missed a lot of the nuances and details due to the long wait. The art held up great for an Elric tale too, I think. I wish we could have seen more of Stormbringer in the hands of Elric, but I'll live. Elric himself looked badass. :)

I haven't read any of the books except for Tales of the White Wolf (which I enjoyed). My initial exposure to Elric was from the First Comics books back in the early 90's written by Roy Thomas. I'm going to have to go back and read those too, I think, but can someone give me a quick summary of how, after Making of a Sorceror, Elric gets Stormbringer?

You have to read Storbringer it is amazing. I didn't see the comics.

[Schmakt]

thanks for the story synopsis replies... I'll check out Stormbringer when I get the chance. :)

Warren Ellis, at HeroesCon, was talking about how Moorcock wrote his Elric stories... I wish I could quote, but the general idea was that he just really didn't think about it at all and could churn the Elric tales out really really fast. From Ellis's story, Moorcock just had this great formulaic system down... when the bills came due, he'd write another Elric story. :)

[Shem the Penman]

thanks for the story synopsis replies... I'll check out Stormbringer when I get the chance. :)

Warren Ellis, at HeroesCon, was talking about how Moorcock wrote his Elric stories... I wish I could quote, but the general idea was that he just really didn't think about it at all and could churn the Elric tales out really really fast. From Ellis's story, Moorcock just had this great formulaic system down... when the bills came due, he'd write another Elric story. :)

Stormbringer is great, but it's the last Elric book. (Or was, for a while, until Moorcock started writing Elric books again.) You might want to seek out the others first.

[Agentum]

I'm A Moorcock fan too, i just love his writing, the flow he uses in his witing (and i'm not thet intrested in poetry but i like this), impossible to translate from english.
They translated Elric books to Swedish here and it losed a lot of the apeal to me.
But some books is really to weird for me.

Favorite to me is the Hawkmoon books.

[DWEarhart]

I'm A Moorcock fan too, i just love his writing, the flow he uses in his witing (and i'm not thet intrested in poetry but i like this), impossible to translate from english.
They translated Elric books to Swedish here and it losed a lot of the apeal to me.
But some books is really to weird for me.

Favorite to me is the Hawkmoon books.

I enjoyed the Hawkmoon series. The Corum Saga was equally good.

The Fireclown (a.k.a. Winds of Limbo) and Behold the Man are a couple of my favorites as well.

[Agentum]

Yes the Corum books is alright.
But i liked Hawkmoons world and concept so much so i ripped it right off for my RPG campaign long ago:)

And the Elric books is good too, i like that the original Elric books tells a whole story about his life and the end is one of the best i have read in fantasy books ever. (and i read a lot of fantasy books)

I have some of First Moorcock comic books, they are nice but they can never compare to the textbooks, they can give you the basic story and plot but not much else.

[Kara Zor El]

The first lot of Hawkmoon books were the best. But when he became a woman for almost a whole novel it got a bit too weird.

Corum is amazing and so are the Ericose the Eternal Champion ones. Ericose is the only incarnation of the Eternal Champion who can remember being all the others. There is that great story where Ericose, Elric, Hawkmoon and Corum all work together and Ericose remebers being them but Elric is totally oblivious, the others have an inkling. It is told in an Elric book and also in a Corum or hawkmoon one or maybe Ericose, (its been so long) from that characters perspective. So you get to read the same story twice from different points of view of the Eternal Champion.

[Agentum]

Erekose is supposed to be the only one remembering his other lives as the eternal champion.