Slaine: Demon Killer

Hmmn, so much for suspension of belief. He travels through the worm holes of time and ends up at Tara, only it's no longer his time. He arrived a couple of thousand years later, at a time when St.

Patrick was preaching Christianity throughout Ireland, Anyhow, Slaine though stricken down by Elfric and delivered to the dark gods of Cythrawl manages to somehow kill Elfric and escape. As Slaine and co. And with all the blood and ghastliness, the bone Prison reanimates Elfric. Elfric desecrates another sacred site and enrages Boudica to the point she marches her army into a defeat. Many Celts die in that battle and though Elfric is slain, yet again, the dark lords win.

Boudica and Slaine retreat and drink poison and are laid to rest. But the earth goddess doesn't send Slaine to the afterlife just yet. As a reward, she grants him return to Ireland. But in the time A.

In Ireland faced with the threat of a new dark god, Iahu, who thrives on human sacrifice. Slaine and Ukko encounter a tribe of dwarves, who crown him King Of Greenwood. To find the sword of the blood god, Slaine has to see Niamh, who has been reincarnated as a nun, Sister Marian.

Marian knows the whereabouts of the sword but she won't tell him coz she's on the dark side. Slaine manages to read her subconscious and in there he finds Niamh who gives him a clue, a puzzle. Slaine finds out that the sword is being kept at the nunnery.

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Marian however is confronted by Niamh and convinced to honour her past warrior self and leave the nunnery. The blood god doesn't like that. Slaine figures out the blood god's name and summons him. The blood god to spite Slaine sends Marian back to the nunnery to be tried as a witch. Slaine rushes to save her, even though he has to take the sword of Iahu first.

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At the stake, Marian invokes the goddess and the tree spirits to come to her aid. Iahu is summoned also. And what an epic battle ensues in which Slaine destroys the blood god with the 'arrow of truth. Slow start, but damn, it sure does climax well.

Great writing, great pencilwork, awesome story. Chema Santos rated it really liked it Oct 09, Tom Stevens rated it really liked it Jul 12, Nuveshen Naidoo rated it liked it Aug 19, Mooncrypt rated it it was amazing Apr 28, The enemies of the Tribes of the Earth Goddess, the Fomorians , and their leader Balor , are from the Irish mythological cycle. Other elements of the series are derived from non-Celtic mythological sources. Odacon is identified in Theosophist circles [8] with a Babylonian deity named Oannes and is considered closely related to Dagon.

Musarus, one of same species of Odacon, shares this origin. The term Ragnarok , for the end of the world, is also borrowed from Norse mythology.

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They have been collected in a number of volumes but recent trade collections include:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. But the river turned him over and he lay with his stone on his belly. His grave and his headstone are on the road beside the stream. Cecile O'Rahilly , p. Compare with the quote of Cathbad in Horned God, vol 1, page Archived from the original on 4 May Retrieved 18 April In the forgotten traditions of these people, we find that they claimed to have remained true to the teachings of Zoroaster.

Seems to work okay. This time, a brief review of Slaine: Demon Killer Rebellion, With their fifth volume in the collected adventures of Slaine , Rebellion has entered the long-running strip's somewhat questionable period. There's usually something worth looking at in the series, and happily, "Demon Killer" and its assorted stories have aged much better than I remember them.

It helps that Pat Mills' scripts were tackled by some tremendously good artists, but this is still the period where the rot began, and it's hard to approach them without knowing that subsequent episodes would be notably poorer. The previous four volumes saw Slaine as a wandering hero, returning to his tribe in time to become its leader, and unite all of the Celtic tribes as their High King in opposition to an army of demons and beasts.

The fourth book, "The Horned God," could well have been an excellent finale, but Mills found many more stories to tell and Slaine returned after about two years' break. In "Demon Killer," a storyline painted by Glenn Fabry 42 pages and by Dermot Power 54 , Slaine reaches the end of his seven-year reign as High King and is ceremonially put to death, only to have the Earth's goddess Danu resurrect him for a mission in her land's future, defending Britain from Roman invaders.

The story's peppered with very memorable moments, most stunningly its bleak tone towards the end when Slaine realizes he has underestimated the sort of atrocities that Romans would be willing to exact upon the native Britons.