Slaine: Search And Destroy

was he better than Hawk The Slayer though?

some of the Glenn Fabry / David Pugh drawn ones are good.

none of the Simon Bisley drawn ones are ANY GOOD WHATSOEVER.

has Pat Mills ever done an über rub story in which Slaine meets Nemesis?

i have a signed copy of the tpb of this. travelled miles and queued for hours in megacity, camden.

*sobs*

andy

hello

I know there was an argument in the "Nerve Centre" letters page about how to pronounce the name but at school we all pronounced it "slain". I did have an argument about how to pronounce Gulegig tho, with me favouring "gool dig" and my friend Andrew preferring "goolie dig".

It's a shame Angie Mills didn't continue to draw Slaine. She drew the first ever episode then vanished. Is she related to Pat and if so how?

she drew one or two issues of the New Statesmen. And she drew them very, very badly. God bless her.

maybe we should start a thread "wives and girlfriends of famous male comic strip writers - search-destroy"

I recall a goth mate at sixth form insisting that it was pronounced 'schlawna' and looking down on those of us who could not speak Oghamic runes, or whatever celtic tosh it was.

This is what comes of going to the pub with top Slaine fan Dave B.

these are ok

the fada thing makes sense because who'd name a hero slawnya on purpose

the warp spasms and gae bolga and red branch stuff is all pretty faithful to the myths and tellings, I want to say its Thomas kinsella has done the high profile work on collation/translation but it could be another poet I misremember from junior cert days. ilx, as I've said before, should be nuts for this stuff I may try to push it again but I'm no expert, ive just been on wiki-spirals of it a bit

kinsella, translation of the táin:

The first warp-spasm seized Cúchulainn, and made him into a monstrous thing, hideous and shapeless, unheard of. His shanks and his joints, every knuckle and angle and organ from head to foot, shook like a tree in the flood or a reed in the stream. His body made a furious twist inside his skin, so that his feet and shins switched to the rear and his heels and calves switched to the front... On his head the temple-sinews stretched to the nape of his neck, each mighty, immense, measureless knob as big as the head of a month-old child... he sucked one eye so deep into his head that a wild crane couldn't probe it onto his cheek out of the depths of his skull; the other eye fell out along his cheek. His mouth weirdly distorted: his cheek peeled back from his jaws until the gullet appeared, his lungs and his liver flapped in his mouth and throat, his lower jaw struck the upper a lion-killing blow, and fiery flakes large as a ram's fleece reached his mouth from his throat... The hair of his head twisted like the tange of a red thornbush stuck in a gap; if a royal apple tree with all its kingly fruit were shaken above him, scarce an apple would reach the ground but each would be spiked on a bristle of his hair as it stood up on his scalp with rage.

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strong want on me now for this

I've got a copy of this version around somewhere but I've never read it.

http://images.randomhouse.com/cover/9780140455304?alt=no_cover_penguin.jpg

Bump to ask if anyone's read the tain as per above (pinefox chief candidate perhaps) as I'm on the verge of purchasing but would like encouragement

am currently reading the Tain and did a search for this to say what everybody has already said. i was expecting names such as medb, i wasn't expecting warpspasm to feature verbatim (penguin classics epub edition, which mis-spells the title in the second chapter heading - TALN)

i think you got the estonian version