His adaptation style is always verbose, and has to be accepted as part of the package, but that’s not the real problem with this collection. As ever, Thomas is attentively sympathetic to the nuances of Moorcock’s original stories. This is the final Elric adaptation completed by Roy Thomas in the 1980s, following The Vanishing Tower, and never previously issued in book form. Did Michael Moorcock mean this as a fantastic allegory for addiction back in the day, or was it just a riff on Lord of the Rings? As threatening as they may seem, Elric’s coming to realise that his mystical sword Stormbringer’s hunger for death is the far greater problem, and one he’s no longer capable of controlling.
Among those keen for a bloody reunion are the sorcerer Theleb K’aarna and Elric’s spurned former lover Queen Yishana.
The Bane of the Black Sword is set late in Elric’s continuity, five years after he’s brought down the corruption of Melinboné, with all the complications and enmity it’s brought.
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