The other day, in connection with the new Michael Moorcock collection The Metatemporal Detective and its amazing cover by my pal John Picacio, I mentioned that John was also doing the cover and illustration of a new edition of the earliest Elric stories for Del Rey, The Stealer of Souls, due out next January. And that the Count Zodiac seen on the cover of the Pyr collection was the first glimpse of John's take on Elric.

Well, following close on the heels of that glimpse, John goes and posts the following, which has just been previewed in the second issue of Death Ray:



Now that, my friends, is pure awesome.