eBook by George Mann
Cover by Alex Horley (aka Alessandro Orlandelli)
Chapter illustration by Patrick Zircher
From Titan Books and Heroic Signatures
Spoilers! Spoilers!
We start with some poetry by Yrkonis.
King Kull of Valusia is in his court, sitting on the Topaz Throne, next to his brother from another mother, Brule the Spear-Slayer.
Jolanta of Elegaria manhandles the guards of Kull, she wants the King to help her find her missing sister (Nola) who is under the spell of a cult dedicated to a god of the sea (the cult of Piri'nach (an elder god of annihilation), the cult's emblem is an eye inside a flame). Jolanta saw a priest with a white skull visage... the sorcerer Thulsa Doom take her sister away.
Kull, Brule and Jolanta go to the cult's temple (recently magically teleported from beneath the ocean back to land) in the port city of Alimantos, they kill the sentinels and enter the slimy structure.
Wearing cyclopean breathing masks, three cultists drug the air of the temple with smoke, Kull overturns the brazier, Brule and Jolanta each kill a cultist, Kull keeps his cultist alive.
They see effigies of Piri'nach... an unblinking eye on top of a torso with tentacle limbs.
The captured cultist tells Kull that Nola is aboard the docked galleon: The Kraken's Eye.
In the Kraken's cargo hold, Kull and co. slay over sixteen scimitar swinging cultists, the rest of the cultists flee below.
Beneath the main deck, our heroes discover the giant green corpse of... Piri'nach.
Thulsa Doom killed the rest of his cultists and knocks Jolanta unconscious.
Thulsa Doom has reanimated the corpse of Piri'nach, its monstrous heart has now been replaced with... Nola. Thulsa Doom wants Kull to take Nola's place as Piri'nach's new, more potent ticker.
The undead Piri'nach attacks, Brule stabs the base of Piri'nach's eye with his spear, Piri'nach knocks Brule out.
Kull destroys the eye of Piri'nach with his sword. Piri'nach brings Kull close to its heart (Nola), Jolanta frees one of Kull's arms, Kull pulls at the blood vessels bounding Nola to Piri'nach, Kull extracts Nola from Piri'nach's thorax. Piri'nach dies once again. Thulsa Doom escapes.
The galleon is set on fire.
What I did like:
Kull of Atlantis RETURNS TO COMICS in 2027! The new series will be written by John Arcudi, illustrated by Mark Buckingham and coloured by Dave Stewart.
Aurochs mentioned.
What I did not like:
The editor is not doing his job.
The typos.
I give it an 8/10. About Twenty Thousand times better than a poke in the eye! This viscous story is sure to steal many hearts.
Oh, and TITAN BOOKS, don't forget, we still need a Heroic Legends Series version of Scott Oden's CONAN: THE DAY OF THE LION (with Oden's CONAN: UNCONQUERED as a free bonus)!
