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Publication
Rebellion (2020), Edition: 01, 304 pages
Description
"A comic I loved!" - Neil Gaiman The first of a four-volume series reprinting The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire - a landmark 1960s science fiction series which rivalled Game of Thrones in popularity and was the precursor to every mythic sci-fi adventure to come! Under the leadership of Trigo, the Vorg tribesmen band together to resist the Lokan invaders, forming a new country, The Trigan Empire. This is the epic story of its rise and fall. Featuring an extraordinary combination of the Roman Empire and ancient Greece, Trigo's story is told in ground breaking fully painted artwork. This is the first in a series collecting all the stories painted by the legendary Don Lawrence.
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LibraryThing member gothamajp
When I was a wee lad my parents said they would pay for me to get two comics a week (one fun one, and one adventure one) as long as I also got an educational one of their choosing. The one they chose was “Look & Learn.” - What they didn’t realize was L&L was the home of the greatest
I have an earlier hardback volume that includes selected chapters, but in 2020 Rebellion Comics set out to reprint the entire saga over multiple volumes - a treatment it fully deserves.
Trigan Empire uses the framework of the Roman Empire, mixed in with tropes from other Earth empires such as the Greeks, Aztecs, Arabian, Egyptian and other contemporary cultures then adds in supersonic aircraft, hovercraft, spaceships, strange alien fauna and flora, to tell a generation tale of the intrigues of a star-spanning empire born on a distant world. - All sumptuously told through the astounding painted artwork of Don Lawrence, a master illustrator and story teller.
When I first read these in the mid-sixties I understood what comics could be. Now I’m in my own personal sixties I still regard this as a masterpiece of the medium that puts most modern comics art to shame.
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historical science-fiction epic ever told in British comics - The Trigan Empire.I have an earlier hardback volume that includes selected chapters, but in 2020 Rebellion Comics set out to reprint the entire saga over multiple volumes - a treatment it fully deserves.
Trigan Empire uses the framework of the Roman Empire, mixed in with tropes from other Earth empires such as the Greeks, Aztecs, Arabian, Egyptian and other contemporary cultures then adds in supersonic aircraft, hovercraft, spaceships, strange alien fauna and flora, to tell a generation tale of the intrigues of a star-spanning empire born on a distant world. - All sumptuously told through the astounding painted artwork of Don Lawrence, a master illustrator and story teller.
When I first read these in the mid-sixties I understood what comics could be. Now I’m in my own personal sixties I still regard this as a masterpiece of the medium that puts most modern comics art to shame.
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Language
Original language
English
Physical description
10.86 inches
ISBN
1781087555 / 9781781087558