

The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. The book's namesake, the brooding albino emperor of the dying nation of Melniboné, is a sort of Superman for Goths, truly an archetype of the genre. Author Michael Moorcock, already a major player in science fiction, cemented his position in the fantasy pantheon with the five-book Elric saga, of which Elric of Melniboné is the first installment. The_Mad_SwedeĮlric of Melniboné is a requisite title in the hard fantasy canon, a book no fantasy fan should leave unread.

This volume is a comics adaptation of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné made by Roy Thomas and P.
