I would vanish to my bedroom and absorb every page, every image, every word like dry wood sucking up creosote. The most important item Mum bought home was of course my copy of 2000 AD. Oh yeah, she was right (Mums always are) Saturday was the best day of the week in the 70s, we actually had a whole hour of childrens TV every Saturday morning, an entire hour! We had cartoons, Swap Shop, daft game shows and then Laurel & Hardy or over to BBC2 to watch Big Daddy defeat The Giant Haystacks yet again.īy the time our TV for the week was over Mum would be back from her weekly shop at the new supermarket in Cherrybrook that had 3 tills, 3! Can you imagine it? I can still remember that wonderful day when my Mum bought home 2000 AD issue number 1 saying " I saw this new comic, thought you might like it more The Beano! " This add depth to Sláine's world, making it a more fascinating world to explore.Ī real classic but Kindle version has issues. While we may be more used to 'idealised' gods that are only good or bad, in Sláine's time the gods and goddess have various aspects or forms that interact with humanity and expect worship, sacrifices, wars and death to satisfy their various aspects. This book fleshes out some of the role of the various gods and goddess worshipped by the various tribes, both in the north and south of the land. That would be the focus of the next book. After a ritual that chooses Sláine as their new king, he prepares his tribe to throw off their conquerors and to rid their land of them. Sláine's tribe is, by now, is under the heel of northern conquerors who came out of the cold. Now healed of his injuries after battling the Cythrons, Sláine continues his journey north back to his tribe, bearing with him a magical cauldron that can serve food and death. With the completion of that tale, Sláine (and Ukko) travel with Nest to a strange and unusual country to fulfil a series of tasks and challenges as he prepares for the role of becoming king of his people. Containing the conclusion of the main story in the previous book, Sláine, Ukko, Nest and a group of warriors and a sorcerer are now facing the awakening of one of the old gods worshipped by the evil Cythrons, beings who have been 'harvesting' the aura of humans over vast periods of time to awaken their gods so that they may break out of their prison on ancient Earth and sow chaos in the galaxy.
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