#Luther Arkwright

[cantsayidont]

1999 and 2004. Inspired by Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius, Nicholas Roeg, and METAL HURLANT, Bryan Talbot's LUTHER ARKWRIGHT saga is a psychedelic adventure story about a dimension-shifting psychic assassin who becomes a kind of reluctant cosmic messiah. His initial adventures focused primarily on his role in resolving an English Civil War on a parallel Earth where the tyrannical descendants of Oliver Cromwell still rule England in the early 1980s.

Talbot drew the character's earliest stories in 1978, but later retooled the original saga, in much more accomplished form, in the late '80s:

Intricately drawn, complex, and full of big philosophical ideas (and not a little adolescent wish fulfillment, like Luther's multidimensional girlfriend Rose Wylde), THE ADVENTURES OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT is not unlike the later work of Grant Morrison: It's sometimes compelling and sometimes full of shit, but even at its most indulgent, there's always something worth attention, not least Talbot's magnificent art.

There have been two sequels: HEART OF EMPIRE, in the '90s, about Luther's daughter, and the more recent THE LEGEND OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT, which I'm not crazy about. The original ADVENTURES, however, is a foundational work of ambitious English-language comics.

#comics #the adventures of luther arkwright #luther arkwright #bryan talbot #heart of empire has gorgeous color artwork #but ultimately feels a bit anticlimactic #and the way the more recent sequel treats its nonbinary villain is uneasy

[kinsey3furry300]

“Lol, why’s it called Steampunk when it doesn’t have any punk elements....”

Me: *sneak-crits them with my hardback compendium of 1978-1989′s The Adventures of Luther Arkwright sending thier goggles flying* “Because early examples of the genre were about exposing and criticising how Victorian colonialist, sexual, classist and racial values were still present in British culture of the 70′s and 80′s and were hiding behind elegant Victorian trappings!”

#Luther Arkwright #steampunk #punk

[zippocreed501]

Bryan Talbot art

#bryan talbot #art #comics #2000ad #the sandman #grandville #luther arkwright #fan tribute

[downthetubes]

Luther Arkwright returns to Big Finish, new audio drama stars David Tennant

David Tennant will reprise the legendary role of Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright in a long-awaited sequel box set, out next year

David Tennant will reprise the legendary role of comic creator Bryan Talbot‘s Luther Arkwright in a long-awaited sequel box set — 18 years after the first full-cast audio adaptation — set for release in June 2023. Big Finish released their first audio adventure, Luther Arkwright: The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, based on Bryan Talbot’s apocalyptic comic book series published from 1978, back…

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#Audio News #Big Finish #Bryan Talbot #David Tennant #Georgina Hellier #Heart of Empire #India Fisher #Jez Fielding #Luther Arkwright #Mark Wright #Robert Jezek #Siri O&039;Neal

[kawaiibarbariansublime]

That’s my schedule for today, right there. A work of genius. How do I know that if I haven’t read it? The same way I don’t have to check if a hammer I’ve let go of has hit the floor.

#Luther Arkwright #Bryan Talbot

[dynamobooks]

Bryan Talbot: The Legend of Luther Arkwright (2022)

#bryan talbot #luther arkwright #adrian tchaikovsky #comics #graphic novel #science fiction #utopia #dystopia #multiverse #parallel worlds

[geekcavepodcast]

Bryan Talbot Returns to the World of Luther Arkwright

Luther Arkwright is returning in a new graphic novel from Bryan Talbot titled The Legend of Luther Arkwright.

“Luther Arkwright, an evolved human with psychic power capable of traversing the swirling multiverse of infinite existences, is pursued by a far superior adversary across multiple historically divergent parallel worlds, both utopian and dystopian. Only Arkwright’s experience and force of will provide any hope to avert humanity’s annihilation.” (Dark Horse)

The Legend of Luther Arkwright goes on sale in comic shops on February 15, 2023, and in bookstores on February 28, 2023.

(Image via Dark Horse - Cover of The Legend of Luther Arkwright)

#legend of luther arkwright #luther arkwright #bryan talbot #dark horse #TGCLiz

[pers-books]

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To celebrate the release today of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright: Heart of Empire.

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#Big Finish #Sale #David Tennant #Paul Darrow #Doctor Who #The Adventures of Luther Arkwright #Audio Drama

[literatemisfit]

David Tennant returns to Big Finish Audio Drama "The Adventures of Luther Arkwright" after 18 years.

#david tennant #the adventures of luther arkwright #big finish

[surfingkaliyuga]

“The Adventures of Luther Arkwright #5. The Theatre of Cruelty” Bryan Talbot 1988

#illustration #drawing #comics #comic books #alternate history #the adventures of luther arkwright #bryan talbot #great britain #fascism #roman salute

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Traverse the multiverse in The Legend of Luther Arkwright from Bryan Talbot

Traverse the multiverse in The Legend of Luther Arkwright from Bryan Talbot #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Dark Horse Books and Bryan Talbot are proud to present The Legend of Luther Arkwright. Talbot returns to the science fiction world of Luther Arkwright for an all-new tale of legendary proportions.  Luther Arkwright, an evolved human with psychic power capable of traversing the swirling multiverse of infinite existences, is pursued by a far superior adversary across multiple historically…

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#bryan talbot #dark horse #dark horse books #graphic novel #graphic novels #the legend of luther arkwright

[ironsaguaro]

Bryan Talbot Does EVERYTHING! Sandman, Luther Arkwright, Bad Rat, Sally ...

#cartoonist kayfabe #Ed Piskor #jim rugg #Bryan Talbot #the tale of the bad rat #the adventure of luther arkwright #grandville #alice in sunderland

[davidtennantontwitter]

#DavidTennant Daily Photo!

A photo of David from 2005 (with India Fisher) when they recorded Luther Arkwright

#david tennant #david tennant daily photo

[downthetubes]

Luther Arkwright, the creation of Bryan Talbot, by Dave Gibbons, via http://www.arkeology.org.uk/index.html | Read my review of The Legend of Luther Arkwright https://downthetubes.net/in-review-the-legend-of-luther-arkwright-by-bryan-talbot/

#Luther Arkwright #bryan talbot #dave gibbons

[dndhistory]

301. Various Authors - Imagine #14 (May 1984)

For a magazine that had such humble beginnings as the zine for TSR UK, Imagine is really developing into something special. However, maybe not so much due to the coverage of D&D but a lot more due to the amount of talent that they can tap to participate in the magazine from the UK talent pool.

In this one we start off immediately with a cover by Bryan Talbot, one of the greatest UK comics creators, both writer and illustrator, who brings his talent both to the cover and to his Luther Arkwright story inside the magazine. If you don't know Arkwright and Talbot's work, it's definitely worth tracking down. 

However this magazine issue also deserves a place in history as it contains the first ever published story by none other than Neil Gaiman, Featherquest: The Tale of the Dreamer, a story with a dream-theme that really points toward some tales in that little known comics and now TV series known as... The freaking Sandman. There's also an article about insane swords, enchanted D&D weapons with "peculiar" personalities, but honestly in this issue it's really Talbot and Gaiman that are the highlights. 

#adnd #dnd #ttrpg #ad&d #d&d #dnd art #dungeons and dragons #dungeons & dragons #Neil Gaiman #bryan talbot

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Another Doctor Who fan design: The Red Doctor and their companions

I mentioned Red in Village/Marigold's post, but they're a Doctor living in an alternate timeline where the British Empire kept going, expanding to the stars by the 22nd Century, with the assistance of supremacist aliens married into the Royal Family and House of Lords. The inspirations here are Jerry Cornelius (particularly A Cure For Cancer) and...well basically the entire genre of sci-fi characters inspired by Cornelius (Luther Arkwright, King Mob, "Lewis Carnelian" from Airtight Garage), They're the Doctor pushed past War's warrior persona and into a full on psychedelic rebel, unmoored from the need to even appear fully human with a bald head, grey petrified appearance, bright red clothes, the stark white "war paint" over their eyes...The Doctor at their most aggressive and alien, basically. No longer just dubious of establishments of power but fully committed to their destruction in the light of alt!British Empire's atrocities (fueled further by an America that never broke from British control after their ruling elite were similarly placated with alien technologies).

Also, something I didn't get into with Marigold: Companions. Red's coterie is made up of Octobriana, "Reggie DeMaurier", and a young Belgian journalist (not pictured). They're all existing characters modified slightly for the universe, with Octobriana being the primary Companion traveling with Red. Reggie is pretty transparently meant to be Harry DuBois, both as a shoutout to Disco Elysium and an indication of the sort of world Red inhabits. Tintin (who still needs a design) is included because of the famous Anarchist bootleg comic he appeared in, as well as a piece of fanart I saw years ago that reimagined Tintin was a cyberpunk, Akira-Blade Runner type character that's always stuck with me.

tl;dr what if The Doctor was a sexy violent genius idiot fighting a guerilla war against Sliding Albion.

#doctor who #the doctor #red doctor #fan design #fanart #au #octobriana #oc