![]() ![]() His monsters are suitably squamous, maidens fair, and his sad albino Elric looks exactly as I pictured him. His style is cartoony at times, grotesque and magnificent. Craig Russell is a maestro with his linework, knowing when to go nuts with the hatching and when to leave things much more open. Sure, Stormbringer doesn't look like Moorcock described it and Moonglum is too handsome but in the grand scheme of things, those details ultimately don't matter all that much. Craig Russell's masterpiece and I'm inclined to agree. This adaptation of Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer is hailed as P. Once I got over that, this was something else. I'd been avoiding it for years because I didn't want it to influence how I pictured the characters in the novels. I reread my two Elric omnibuses a couple weeks ago and finally caved in and picked this up. When Elric's wife is kidnapped and the forces of Chaos threaten to overwhelm the world, he must once again take up his soul-sucking blade, Stormbringer! ![]()
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