Books like Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone

I've been meaning to read this series for a while. I'm a fan of the original publishing company (Pacific), as they seemed to be one of the best indy publishers during the direct market boom of the early 80's. Alien Worlds and Twisted Tales are two of my favorite titles from this era (when is someone going to reprint those?), and with an all start team heading up this series I thought it would surely be a good time. Additionally, it seems like every Elric story is being adapted to comics, so it made sense to start with the chronologically first story.It probably isn't fair to bash an adaptation without having ever read the original source material, so I'll lay off the story itself and only say that the plot line and pacing of this adaptation did not seem to flow very well. Cliffhanger moments seemed to happen in the first few pages or else 3 pages before the end of the chapter, and never at the actual end of the chapter where they would work much better.The artwork in this is not great. P. Craig Russel, who did the layouts, inks and coloring in this volume, has become one of my top ranked artists, but this showing of his early work leaves much to be desired. Or maybe Michael Gilbert's pencils were what ruined it for me. I'm having a hard time deciding where to lay blame. The pages seem to be laid out well (Russel) for the most part, but the figure drawings are bothersome (Gilbert). Not much can be done about that at the inking phase (Russel), but then the colors in this series look like they were done with a 12 pack of Crayola colored pencils (Russel). I should point out that I read this in the original comic book format, published by Pacific in 1983, and it is possible that Dark Horse re-colored this story for collection in the trade as is popular to do with stories from the early Bronze Age of Comics.Overall I'm going to have to pass on further Elric adaptations.