The Definitive Slaine Begins in April 2025

Following the huge success of Nemesis The Warlock: The Definitive Edition, in 2025 a new trilogy of ‘Definitive Editions’ will begin collecting another one of 2000 AD‘s most enduring and loved characters – Sláine!

Sláine Mac Roth of the Sessair tribe is known as the Warped Warrior – a mighty barbarian who can master the ‘warp-spasm’, harnessing the power of the Earth to transform into a monstrous creature. Accompanied by his dwarf sidekick, Ukko, and wielding his legendary axe Brain-biter, he travels Tir-Nan-Og – ‘The Land of the Young’ – an ancient and magical realm marred by warring tribes and ruled by merciless gods.

Created by Pat Mills and Angie Kincaid, with art by Mick McMahon and Massimo Belardinelli, Sláine: The Definitive Edition collects the complete series in order, and includes original covers from the full run.

The three-volume Sláine: The Definitive Edition begins in April 2025, offering readers a chance to read the violent adventures of the Woad Warrior in a comprehensive collection which presents the complete storyline up to ‘The Horned God’ in order.

The first 256-page volume will be published in large-format size measuring 276 × 210 mm in paperback, on sale from 8th April 2025. There will also be a limited embossed hardcover edition, available from the 2000 AD webshop and comic shops through Diamond Distribution.

Tir-Nan-Og is a violent world, home to warring tribes who worship gods both benign and malevolent. One such tribe is the Sessair, brave warriors of enormous skill and the best of them is a young barbarian named Sláine Mac Roth. Sláine is, among other things, a master of the ‘warp-spasm’ channeling the mystical power of the Earth through his body to become a mighty, monstrous berserker!

In the first Definitive Edition you’ll meet a young, reckless and angry Sláine as he lives in exile, travelling with his repellent dwarf companion, Ukko. The series quickly introduces readers to the customs and wonders of his world and the horrors, like the Sloughs: sinister magicians who worship death and destruction and can raise armies of the dead to do their dark bidding…

Featuring the artwork of co-creator Angie Kincaid, as well as 2000 AD legends Massimo Belardinelli and Mick McMahon, Sláine changed 2000 AD forever. A pure swords-and-sorcery fantasy adventure set in a ruthless and cut-throat world, it was a sharp contrast to the sci-fi adventures which filled the rest of the Prog. One of 2000 AD‘s most beloved characters, you can take home his earliest adventures in ‘Definitive Edition’ form!

Sláine: The Definitive Edition Volume 1 is available for pre-order now, and will be on shelves in April 2025.

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