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    Question Anyone remember Slaine?

    I'm looking for an old Slaine comic I owned as a child. From what I remember Slaine and a few other characters are on a giant blob flying through space/time and land on a planet. There he is captured and is put in an arena match with a 4 armed creature. He escapes and rescues a man and his daughter and there was something about a mind control ring. I took this to school in grade 4 and it got destroyed, because hey, kids =S I regret it to this day! Anywho, Hopefully someone out there knows a lot more than me =]

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    Rebellion have published a lot of Slaine in collected editions. Wikipedia provides the following helpful list:

    Sláine (written by Pat Mills unless stated):

    Warrior's Dawn (2005, ISBN 1-904265-33-2):
    "The Time Monster" (with Angela Kincaid, in 2000 AD #330, 1983)
    "The Beast in the Broch" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in 2000 AD #331-334, 1983)
    "Warrior's Dawn" (with Mike McMahon, in 2000 AD #335, 1983)
    "The Beltain Giant" (with Mike McMahon, in 2000 AD #336, 1983)
    "The Bride of Crom" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in 2000 AD #337-342, 1983)
    "The Creeping Death" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in 2000 AD #343, 1983)
    "The Bull Dance" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in 2000 AD #344, 1983)
    "Heroes' Blood" (with Mike McMahon, in 2000 AD #345-347, 1983)
    "The Shoggey Beast" (with Mike McMahon, in 2000 AD #348-351, 1983–1984)
    "Sky Chariots" (with Mike McMahon, in 2000 AD #352-360, 1984)
    "The Origins" (two page text article, 2000 AD #352, 1984)

    Time Killer (2007, ISBN 1-905437-21-8):
    "Dragonheist" (with Massimo Belardinelli, in 2000 AD #361-367, 1984)
    "The Time Killer" (with Glenn Fabry, David Pugh and Bryan Talbot, in 2000 AD #411-428 and 431-434, 1985)

    Slaine the King (2008, ISBN 1-905437-66-5):
    "The Tomb of Terror" (with Glenn Fabry and David Pugh, in 2000 AD #447-461, December 1985 - March 1986)
    "Spoils of Annwn" (with Mike Collins and Mark Farmer, in 2000 AD #493-499, October–December 1986)
    "Sláine the King" (with Glenn Fabry, in 2000 AD #500-508 and 517-519, December 1986 - April 1987)
    "The Killing Field" (written by Angela Kincaid, with Glenn Fabry, in 2000 AD #582, July 1988)
    "Slaine the Mini-Series" (with Glenn Fabry, in 2000 AD #589-591, August–September 1988)

    The Horned God (2008, ISBN 1-905437-73-3):
    "The Horned God, Book I" (with Simon Bisley, in 2000 AD #626-635, May–July 1989)
    "The Horned God, Book II" (with Simon Bisley, in 2000 AD #650-656 and 662-664, October 1989 - February 1990)
    "The Horned God, Book III" (with Simon Bisley, in 2000 AD #688-698, July–September 1990)


    The list goes well into the 90's at Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sl%C3%A1ine_(comics)
    Hopefully you can work out from this list which volume is most likely to include what youre looking for

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    Quote Originally Posted by McGondy View Post
    I'm looking for an old Slaine comic I owned as a child. From what I remember Slaine and a few other characters are on a giant blob flying through space/time and land on a planet. There he is captured and is put in an arena match with a 4 armed creature. He escapes and rescues a man and his daughter and there was something about a mind control ring. I took this to school in grade 4 and it got destroyed, because hey, kids =S I regret it to this day! Anywho, Hopefully someone out there knows a lot more than me =]

    Cheers,
    Michael
    It's reprinted in Slaine: Time Killer.

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    Slaine still shows up in 2000 AD pretty frequently. I know he had an arc at the tail end of the 2010 progs. I believe there was another either at the end of the 2011s or the beginning of the 2012s.

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    Something that some readers may not know is that the proper Celtic pronunciation for Slaine (actually Sláine) is "slan-yeh", not "slain".
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    I remember him in a bunch of 2000 AD -character comic books sold here in the U.S.



    but he really didn't appeal to me.
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    God, I need to reread Sláine again, fantastic series
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    I'd like to read the first few to try them out and the Bisley ones for the artwork if nothing else, but I'll stay away from anything Glenn Fabry does.

    I heard the new collections have been re-coloured, and that it isn't an improvement.

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    Quote Originally Posted by berk View Post
    I'd like to read the first few to try them out and the Bisley ones for the artwork if nothing else, but I'll stay away from anything Glenn Fabry does.

    I heard the new collections have been re-coloured, and that it isn't an improvement.
    Slaine is b&w until Bisley's work in The Horned God. Fabry's pen & ink work is pretty far away from his painted style, and it suits Slaine well, which is helped by returning Slaine to his Celtic roots rather than that bizarre sci-fi/horror period the OP was asking about. The '90s Slaine stores after Horned God get slammed a lot, but even though there's more time travel, I've found the stories in Demon Killer and Lord of Misrule to be quite good, and if they were recolored, I didn't notice it. The Books of Invasion are the second high water point of Slaine after Horned God, and while I can understand people hating Clint Langely's photo-manip art, I think it works for Slaine (as opposed to ABC Warriors).

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    Quote Originally Posted by FanboyStranger View Post
    Slaine is b&w until Bisley's work in The Horned God. Fabry's pen & ink work is pretty far away from his painted style, and it suits Slaine well, which is helped by returning Slaine to his Celtic roots rather than that bizarre sci-fi/horror period the OP was asking about. The '90s Slaine stores after Horned God get slammed a lot, but even though there's more time travel, I've found the stories in Demon Killer and Lord of Misrule to be quite good, and if they were recolored, I didn't notice it. The Books of Invasion are the second high water point of Slaine after Horned God, and while I can understand people hating Clint Langely's photo-manip art, I think it works for Slaine (as opposed to ABC Warriors).
    I believe the re-coloured books were from the Bisley period, though I haven't read the originals or the new ones, so I couldn't say for sure. Will try to look at Fabry's pen & ink art with objective eyes, but I will be struggling against a pretty strong prejudice against him due to his painted covers.

    As with a lot of long-lived series or characters, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of stories in the Slaine corpus. It's a bit daunting for an interested newcomer to the character. But I always meant to check out at least the Bisley stuff, as I never have read a complete story of his in spite of enjoying his art whenever I saw it.

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    Yeah Slaine is still a recurring series in the pages of 2000 AD, so I don't so much 'remember it' more like 'regularly experience it'.

    Its not my favorite series ever. I generally find Pat Mill's writing a bit obtuse, and Clint Langley, who's the current primary artist on the series, has this really unappealing digtial style that uses photographs of real people as a base. No sir, I don't like it.

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