It was Chaosium, the Call of Cthulhu, people who produced the Stormbringer RPG (back in the early 80s). Blondel is also a game author and journalist, Poli has worked on animation and storyboards for gamers and Recht has worked illustrating the Devil May Cry series. That means the three artists worked on some 172 pages together. Julie Blondel helms the project has writer. Given how impressive Moorcock is we must give credit to the team of Julie Blondel, Didier Poli, Jean Bastide and Robin Recht who are responsible for this comic book adaption. Moorcock was listed among The Times’ 50 greatest British writers since 1945. There’s an easy way to explain why Michael Moorcock’s books have been in print for over 40 years – it’s a great story. The tension jumps up when it is discovered a tribe of pirate mercenaries have somehow found a way through the nautical maze that protects the island and are on their way. It turns out that chaos might be pretty awesome if given a chance. In fact, the book hints at a backstory or special connection with demon lords that might be the dark fuel of the nightmare engine that is the Melniboné empire. Sure enough The Ruby Throne deals with the rising ambition of one of the other royal family.Įlric may be physically week but he has an aptitude for magic and summoning. You can imagine this doesn’t make being emperor and ruling over this people any easier. He also seems to have a degree of control or perhaps conscience. He’s physically week and so old he’s kept alive by drugs (sorry special herbs) and magic. There are lots of naked people sometimes having sex, sometimes acting as decoration or apparently being lunch.Įlric is different. The Ruby Throne graphic novel illustrates this well. His people seem to have no conscience and the culture is aggressive and decadent as a result. Melniboné is an island and a civilisation made great by Elric’s ancestors. I don’t believe the novels have been out of print since. Elric did not appear in an original novel again until 1972. The novellas which followed became Stormbringer (1965). The albino champion first appeared in a novella called The Dreaming City back in 1961. I’ve not read any of the Elric of Melniboné books but I, as most gamers, have heard of Stormbringer. The Ruby Throne is the first in a new comic adaption of the books by Michael Moorcock. “Slender but impressive” – two words which could be used to describe the skull-white, 1000 year old, lord of Melniboné or the latest hardback from Titan Comics.
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