Yup, leave it to those weird british comic guys with their constant gender bending to bring lesbians into mainstream.
It´s a brillaint re - imagination of the Arthurian legend with really great art by Michael Bolland and I remember it had far stuff like some alien invaders, Arthur revealing himself to the world on live tv ( I think Merlin transformed the microphone of a news reporter into a snake ) and Sir Tristan who was reincarnated as a woman which put a unique twist on his relationship with Isolde.
It´s one of the best sci fi series ever, in fact one of THE best comics period.
I don´t even know how to praise this absolutely mindblowing book. Since then there has been a german reprint by the fine folks at CrossCult but I do hope DC does another volume of their SHOWCASE edition so I can finally read the entire series. But the Mike Grell issues were great stuff. All the others are buried under tons of other comics in some god forgotten place or became victims of my mother throwing away my entire comic collection. From all the WARLORD books there are only two left where I know exactly where they are. What can I say ? I had a tight budget since I got no regular pocket money from my parents and even back then I had some standards where quality is concerned. I certainly read all who had art by Mike Grell and some of the later ones but I don´t think I held out to the end. Gosh, I´m getting all misty - eyed just thinking about how great DC´s comic books were when I was reading them as a teenager.īack to Die großen Phantastic Comics, WARLORD was one of my favorite series although I´m not sure I read all of them. Back in 1980 they were just darned good comics. I´m not sure but I think the first one I bought was DANGER ON THE PLANET OF THE CATWOLVES and even though I was not sure what the hey a catwolf was it sure sounded very exciting. I just read anything sci fi I could get my hands on. I don´t think I ever heard of any of the writers but I didn´t care. And you always had enough money to buy one more and read it on the bus or while waiting at the bus station which I did a lot when I was still in school. No kidding, the books were so small they could fit into the palm of your hand and you could literary take them everywhere. The line was called TRAMP, it could fit into any poket and they only cost 1 Deutschmark. Back in the day I was a big sci fi geek and I read everything from CAPTAIN FUTURE to MARK BRANDIS to PERRY RHODAN and even those small - or rather tiny pocket sized - sci fi mini books by Pelikan.
The series started in 1980 and I guess fantasy was a bit more popular around that time, otherwise the series probably would have been called Die großen Science Fiction Comics. The line brought all the great fantasy and sci fi series to german readers and it was in the album format. Die Großen Phantastic Comics was published by the german comic company Ehapa / Delta which was the german publisher for DC comics.