The Michael Moorcock Library Vol.1: Elric of Melnibone

I had the original issues from this series. This collection is excellent. The quality is high, the information in the introductions is interesting, and the art and story are just as great today as they were when the first issues hit. The Elric stories lend themselves to graphic novel format and these do not fail to deliver.My only minor criticism is that the color is not as vivid as in the original printings, but that is a small concern for an excellent product.

This is a great adaptation of the first book of the Elric saga. They kept all the essential elements and did a great job telling the story in graphic format.

I am shocked by the poor print quality of this release. I have the original First Comics TPB of this comic series, and the difference between that one and this new reprint is like night and day. Originally I planned to toss my old TPBs in the assumption these new print runs in hardback would beat them by a mile. However, I'm glad I did not get rid of my First Comics print run after seeing this one. The first chapter of this re-release has pages missing and for some inexplicable reason, both the first and second chapters have been totally redrawn. Traced, in fact. The trace is fat-fingered with thick lines blobbing all over the page rather than Russell's original beautiful fine lines. To top it off, several pages the black print was double-printed and the lines are a complete mess as a result. The colors have been totally redone in the first chapter, and they are sorely lacking now. A few faces have been changed. Partway through the book Russell's original inks DO come back thankfully, however the colors are not nearly as vibrant as the First Comics TPB release and the lines are slightly blurry as though scanned in on a middling scanner. I am overall completely unsatisfied with this product.As a comic adaptation of Moorcock's work, it's great and used to be the definitive edition (I now give that to the new Blondel/Poli release, personally). It follows the original books very closely. I have always had issues with the world feeling kind of hacked together (the Melniboneans don't look like a cohesive race, their architecture looks totally unrelated from page to page) but the artwork really lends itself to the surreal and fantastical as a whole. I always enjoyed the free-flowing drawings of the Russell adaptation and it is definitely worth having. Just...not like this.

I am a huge fan of the original comics/graphic novels and have been a die hard Moorcock fan for 40+ years. I was so excited when I found this only to be so turned off by the quality of the art work, which is completely inferior to the original releases. They even omitted some of the original dialog and story present in the First comics. Poor, poor quality and I have already thrown it in the trash as a waste of money and time.

I was disappointed in myself for not making sure this was the original novel. It is a graphic novel and difficult to read on small screen.

Book was in perfect condition, exactly as described. Recommended seller!

Over priced. The elric stories, all 10 should have all been sold at once for the price i paid for this one. If sold separately then 3-5 bucks is what the price should have been!! Disgrace!!

ink and colors not vivid and just satisfactory. Really takes away from the original art

Michael Moorcock’s classic swords and sorcery tales are told with skill and hand-drawn with a garish twentieth century colour palette in this nicely-bound series of hardbacks.Perhaps not to everyone’s taste nowadays, but in my opinion the home-crafted style seen here is far superior to the hyper real, computer drawn output of today’s big business comic book market; the personality and talent of the writer and artists come through. They’re more memorable, too, than the modern, virtually homogenised, style. Roy Thomas, Michael T. Gilbert and the great P. Craig Russell make for a dream team.The whole Michael Moorcock Library series is fantastic, and of course the stories and characters are consistently wonderful, but you might as well start at the beginning with volume 1...

this is what graphic story telling for adults should always be. this isn't a kids book. first off the art. I've always admired Paul Craig Russell but Gilbert seems to add an extra slice of almost abstract stuff. the result is quite magical. I'm no artist, i haven't got all the right words, but this book looks so good: not quite like anything I've seen before. I'm sure it wouldn't work so well without Roy Thomas' fine scripting; the combination just makes such a lovely book. this is as good as Russell and McGregor on the old marvel killraven series (if anyone else out there remembers that). can't wait for the second volume.

It's a cartoon comic book

A adaptação da obra de Michael Moorcock para os quadrinhos é muito boa. Não conheço o autor, mas já folhei um de seus livros. Como o pessoal do Canal Pipoca e Nanquim disse, o personagem é o Conan, mas tudo ao contrário: já nasceu rei, mas é fraco e doente, possui poderes mágicos e serve aos seus deuses, e tem muita compaixão, tudo o que seu povo de Melniboné não quer num de seus governantes.

A nice graphic compilation of comic book,i still like it because the story is great but the art quality is not much better than newspaper print. Too bad they couldnt make the page quality sharper