There is no task for you to perform here as it's your own star sign.' Myrddin: 'May I remind you we have an important mission on which the future of Earth depends?'

Sláine: 'Real ale! Look at the head on that! No gnat's water here!' Sláine: ' Blood-prow blazed like a Viking fire ship, but it was the Sluaghs' funeral. You really are an animal, Sláine MacRoth!' 2000 AD prog 451. I thought humans were meant to be good and noble. I shall call it Blood-prow! For it cuts through Diluvials like a ship through the waves. Sláine: 'This sword is a worthy successor to my old axe Brain-biter. boosting his normal aggression into a terrible, manic rage and lust to kill. Ukko (narrating): 'The serpent raged within him. causing his skin to wriggle and pulsate, as if there was a snake inside.' 2000 AD prog 417. A current of energy hissed out of the ground and ran through him. Ukko (narrating): 'As Sláine looked across the battlefield, the sounds and smells of death excited him - and he began howling and moaning as his warp spasm came on. Sláine: 'It's time I got more gore on my war weapon!' 2000 AD prog 415. Myrddin: 'Ah, but I sense hidden depths behind that brutal exterior.'īrotor: 'Aye! I'm sure there's none he wouldn't sink to!' Ibid. And talk to it on long winter evenings, as was the custom in those days.' 2000 AD prog 413.īrotor: ' That is the face of mindless violence! He lacks the noble brow of a great hero. and wanted to remove it cleanly.So he could pickle it and show it off to his friends. Being a head-hunter, he'd taken rather a fancy to Mogrooth's. Ukko (narrating): 'Sláine didn't use his leyser-gun. Sure you weren't in the Yellow Branch?' 2000 AD prog 336. Ukko: 'You fairy-fighter! You couldn't lift the scum off a horn of ale! Bet you were thrown out of your tribe for being chicken. Sláine: 'Don't make his grave too narrow, for you'll be lying beside him!' 2000 AD prog 335. I'll stop that mouth with steel!' 2000 AD prog 334.Ĭonn of a Hundred Battles: 'You'll pay for my boy's death, warped one!' Sláine: 'I can't waste time talking to you. Gobhan Mac Tadg: 'You want to drink with the men, boy - I'll give you a drink of death!' Ukko: 'You think you're really big! Showing off your muscles! Going round naked, but for a waist-mat! All you can do is beat up little dwarves!' 2000 AD prog 331. I have a low opinion of barbarian or fantasy heroes who act and talk like modern day Americans.' Interview with Geek Chic Elite.

Pat Mills: 'I think all comic book characters should have moral dilemmas and challenges and Sláine as a Celtic barbarian should be true to his authentic roots as far as that is possible.

Slaine by Pat Mills