Anyone remember Slaine?

[McGondy]

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

[CromagnonMan]

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

[FanboyStranger]

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.

[shaxper]

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.

[The Confessor]

Something that some readers may not know is that the proper Celtic pronunciation for Slaine (actually Sláine) is "slan-yeh", not "slain".

[MajorHoy]

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.

[Johnny P. Sartre]

God, I need to reread Sláine again, fantastic series

[berk]

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.

[FanboyStranger]

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).

[berk]

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.

[The Adventurer]

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.