2000 AD Continues Definitive ‘Sláine’ Editions Through Vol. 4 And Beyond
by Richard Bruton
The Sláine Definitive Editions were meant to finish with Vol. 3, collecting everything up to Pat Mills and Simon Bisley‘s The Horned God. Well, now they’re taking it further…
You can see the logic: collectors like continuity. And despite The Horned God being reprinted in so many formats since its original publication, you know there’s a market to see Mills and Bisley’s epic Sláine adventure, the high point of the character in so many ways, in the Definitive Format — after all, it’s always lovely to have your shelves full of collected editions all looking the same.
So, the Definitive Sláine collections will now continue with Vol. 4, collecting, once more, The Horned God. Available, as before, in standard paperback or as a limited embossed hardcover edition, Vol. 4 of the Definitive Sláine series will be available from the 2000 AD webshop and comic shops through Diamond and Lunar, published in February 2027, the 50th anniversary of 2000 AD.
If you didn’t know by now, if you’ve never had the pleasure, Sláine was created by Mills and Angie Kincaid, with subsequent adventures drawn by the likes of Massimo Belardinelli, Mike McMahon, Glenn Fabry, David Pugh, Bryan Talbot, Mike Collins and Mark Farmer, all of which took us, like I say, to the absolute high point of Sláine, The Horned God, where Mills and Bisley went deep into the reimagining of Celtic mythology mixed with sword-and-sorcery tropes thing.
Now, as to whether 2000 AD continue the saga of the Definitive Sláine past The Horned God will, no doubt, depend on sales of Vol. 4. All I can say is that, although there’s a lot of lovely art to come from the likes of Dermot Power, Greg Staples, Clint Langley, Jim Murray, Simon Davis, Leonardo Manco, and more in the Sláine tales following The Horned God, it’s fair to say that the writing reached its peak with what you’ll find here. It is, in so many ways, the perfect end to the saga, with Bisley’s art just the perfect foil to Mills’ Celtic mythology writing.
