Roman collaborators are penned in a giant wicker man and burnt to death without even Edward Woodward to try and save them. Unlike Conan, who does his share of killing, Slaine does not spare women and children. As for character, frankly, I found Slaine a bit hard to take. That's the plot, which rolls along nicely. He tries to sacrifice Slaine to some dark Lovecraftian gods, beings from the stars. The Romans, called Caesarians by the Celts, are aided by an evil green demon called Elfric. So the Earth Goddess has Slaine leap into a deep well and after a slog through some damp tunnels, he emerges in Roman Britain. Slaine is happy at the prospect of some slaughter.
A man is gorily sacrificed though and revives from death to tell our hero he will soon go on a mighty quest to help Queen Boudica fight the Romans. He does his best to provoke a fight by insulting and thumping various subjects but they ignore him. It opens with 'The High King' in which Slaine is grumpy because it is the feast of Samhain and he is not allowed to indulge in violence. This collection is basically the story of Slaine and Boudica with a prelude and an epilogue. These ancient fierce people do not fear death because they believe in reincarnation so for them it is not the end. Actually, there are still a lot of modern Celts like that. Pat Mills' Celts are completely free of bourgeois middle-class suburban values for they like drinking, wenching and fighting. Slaine is chief of a Celtic tribe living in Ireland in pre-Roman times. Sláine has had enough of their tyranny and, through the Earth Goddess, he learns some shocking truths about the priesthood and his own future.Slaine is a mighty warrior with a punk rock hairdo and a huge axe called Brainbiter. This deluxe collector's edition returns us to the mist-wreathed realm of Tír na nÓg, the ancient land suffering under the dominion of the Drunes strange druids who have poisoned the land with their magic. As well as Mills' fascinating characters and saga-like storytelling, the stunning enormity of Bisley's work on the series cannot be understated, with epic battles and vast landscapes evoking everything from the work of Frank Frazetta to Gustav Klimt. One of the most popular stories ever published in the pages of 2000 AD, The Horned God is a heady mix of Celtic mythology, extreme violence, and beautiful artwork. Timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of its first publication, this new, larger paperback edition of the bestselling 2000 AD collection, written by industry visionary Pat Mills, features the groundbreaking fully-painted art of comics legend Simon Bisley. Rediscover one of the most influential graphic novels ever, with the Sláine: The Horned God - Collector's Edition. Brutal sword and sorcery meets Celtic myth in the number one best-selling graphic novel - back in print, bigger and better than ever in a deluxe collector's edition.
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