Drawing your attention to some rare Slaine art By G. Fabry.

Standing-Stone

Banded Mongoose
I had requested, that, the powers that be, find this lost piece of artwork as I had once owned, then lost or threw out this very magazine by accident. Tthe very same pieces of this Slaine art that had been used to help promote and advertise that Slaine Martech game, way back in the months of late 1987.

http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=fan&page=messagethread&choice=19983&Replies=14

Well, somebody was being good when they dug their copy of the very same magazine and uploaded the cover picture with the two page article to share witht he rest of the messageboard at 2000AD. Something I consider to be rare peices of art work.

Now that Glenn Fabry doesn't appaer to be drawing Slaine anymore and knowing Clint Lanely's revolutionary artistic flare with the help of photoshop. It's understandable that his, was the nature choice to feature in the new Runequest rules for Slaine.

Just a case of the new replacing the old.

Then again, I still think there should be place in these set of rules for those older pictures. Looking at the picture at the bottom of a colourised Slaine ( Drawing the eye to the right hand side of the page.) stepping over some unidentified thing. Stretching all the way back to the left hand side of the page where Ukko is sitting.

Perhaps on the inside cover or at the start of each and every chapter filling in the borders of the page.

I just wish there were more of these rare and hardly used, often discarded, before being otherwise used in the original comic.

The other picture of Slaine and Ukko again, featured on the cover. Now that would make a fine cover for the new rule book. If you could find the same picture without all the other writing all over it.

Or a supplement.

But thats just my opinion.

Not that I have a greater preferance for either of Clint Lanely's or Glenn Fabry's work as they have their own distinctions of the same character, and the world that he inhabits. Though there was a time when Clint Lanely did his work the old fashioned way and to describe his art work then, would be to say that he drew in style that not that much diffrently from Glenn Fabry's.
 
Just looking at this picture again and wondering if the green serpantine monster under Slaine's boot. Is one and the same as Clint's Lanely's version of the Nucklevee.( Featured in the new RuneQuest Slaine Preveiw.) That is that both these creatures are Nucklevee.

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Anyway, I had found another unused picture done by Glen Fabry. Taken from a scan of computer magazine clipping.

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Though it could very well be the same creature. It's hard to tell wether that it's head or most of it's body or both.
 
beautiful pictures full of ideas and thank you some of my favourite art is by quilliams done for the first edition of slaine 8)
 
Chris Quilliams is one of our artists, he did some work in the original Slaine RPG we did. Very good he is, too.

As for this Nucklevee it looks like a Nucklevee/Fomorian cross to me judging from the head (seeing how the Fomors seem to breed with anything going this is not beyond the realms of reason - Fomors seem to be the broo of Slaine's world!)
 
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