The Axe Man Returns.....

[Standing-Stone]

Yes, in the latest 2000AD prog.

The adventures of Slaine contiues

Artwork by C. Lanely

Unfortunitly, being in Oz, I would be nine weeks behind and will be waiting awhile before I can see all of this.

Someone did of course do me the favor of putting up this one picture on the relevant thread in the 2000AD forum.

I wonder if Mongoose Accolyte will find any more inspiration in this latest strip.

 

[Daithi O'an tSionnaigh]

That is gorgeous! I have to get my hands on that!!

 

[tarkhan bey]

Hey there fellow Slaine afficionadoes. I have picked up the first two episodes of this new strip. It goes under the title of "Slaine the Wanderer: The Gong Beater".
Its a bloodthirsty start to the tale and the art is terrific. 8)

 

[Standing-Stone]

While I'm still waiting on mine......

Those names have raised abit of controversy on 2000AD online.

The next arc after " Gong Beater' will be called " Amber Smuggler ".

 

[Standing-Stone]

They arrived yeasteday, very interesting reading. I'll be looking forward to forth coming episodes.

I wonder if that stuff about the twelve doors of eternity would be worth researching further for amending the combat system.

Although planting firmly tongue in cheek to see someone such as Slaine needing to bury his axe into these vital locations to make faster work of a supposedly mortal opponent.

it's large wepon, I say he might have been dead once Slaine hit in the head.

Those vital locations would apply to somebody who is humaniod, mortal, still alive.

 

[alex_greene]

The thirteenth door to eternity's the best doorway of the lot!

 

[Standing-Stone]

About those --Twelve Doors of Eternity--....

I have since obtained/read progs 1635 and 1636 & fund that I was correct in my assumptions about what was actulley being referred to there.

I even found some interesting articals on the celtic martial arts that expand on what I have read about Slaine's Red Branch training in in 'Slaine warriors Dawn"

I'll put up a link here if I find them again on the World Wide Web if anybody interested in reading these.

Off the top of my head, I believe this goes under the heading "'The Twenty Two Combat Manuevers of Cuchulain"

It goes on about the these twelve doors in much the same fashion as the Jewish Tree of life (Kabbalah).

Anyway, I have also obtained progs 1637 and 1638.

Spoiler

Where for the firrst time I get to see the High Cyth Gods whom have returned via Slaine's beating of the gong.

There were three of original six already featured in the Slaine comiics on much ealry and one recnt occasion if your ocunting the death scene of the abino Moloch demon in the first book of the Slaine Book of Invasions".


Sorog - The one without pity -whose crimes shamed a star-system.

Niohoggar - The galactic gourmet who tried to suck the cosmic egg.

The Dreaded Gomboo - The World Doppelganger.


Of course you may remember the

Guledig, which happens to mean 'The Great Ruler or High King' of Britain of something like that.

Who is actualley Myrrddin's Cythron father. According to what I have just read about him or it. He is just a (severed) head with three arm/leg appendages attached. As I have now read that Cythrons despise the lower bodily functions. I remember this one from the pages of "Time Killer" when Slaine is fighting in the Cythron arena in their subterreanan city Gulagg in Cythrawl . Supposed to be located at the Earhs core.

The Aten. That is supposed to be 'The Great Sun Disk' of Egyptian mytholodgy.

Whom I have just remembered to be the Cyth God summoned by the Formorian whom having failed to fhave suffucient sacrifice ready it turns on them taking Mocloch instead. whom slaine had just thrown over a cliff.
From the pages of MOLOCH, Slaine the Books of invasion. It did seem undefeatable.

Grimnismal. One of the many identities of the Norse God Odin and described as the soiled Prince of Thrones from pages of 'Time-Killer'.

Hailing from the pages of "Tomb of Terror" also part of "Time-Killer" which at that time was impressively illustrated to appear to be totally existing on every plane of exitstence combined. Of which Slaine and co could only see a small fraction of this monster in the tomb where it was reborn/hatched without going complety unhinged from the spectacle of seeing it whole.

Of these three that appear in Gong-beater. It's really hard to say which is which. But I guessing that Sorog - The One without pity -- also the one with the deadly gaze that outclassis the evil gaze of Balor and it should. As he is only the formorian leader.

I hope to see these cataloged in yet to be published Slaine supplement or expansion.

 

[Standing-Stone]

Slaine is rumored to return in another nine progs