Coincidentally I'm writing this just as a third story is about to be released after so many decades.

Struggled a bit with this due to verbose prose, minimally developed characters and overstuffed plot. I'm simply not aware of anyone having picked up the gauntlet it threw down with some of its innovations and achievements of storytelling and layout. Comic that it's a son of the 60s and 70s, tantric sex and drugs to free consciousness and travel through parallel worlds. The recurring motif of the figure dying with their arms outstretched (not to mention Arkwright's little resurrection trick!The overall result of this book is one that is a multidimensional literary achievement that is rooted in British history and various tropes, but has such an old feel that is difficult to overcome. Luther Arkwright is as much a game of tradecraft (espionage) and intrigue (shifting loyalties, betrayal, treachery, mysteries, string pulling, suspense) as it is a science fiction steampunk romp. since the story is about alternate similar timelines and dimensions, i thought it might be intentional, but it wasn't intentional, because the page numbers repeat as well.

Luther Arkwright on itsensä vakavasti ottavaa synkeää ja kovaksikeitettyä seikkaluscifiä brittilästä. In 1969 his first work appeared as illustrations in Mallorn, the British Tolkien Society magazine, followed in 1972 by a weekly strip in his college newspaper. You get the idea…no, not really—-both novels have more twists and turns than Timothy Leary’s intestines.The fate of a swirling multiverse of infinite existences depends on one man, a being of vast psychic power capable of traveling between realities – Luther Arkwright! In this parallel, the English Civil War has been indefinitely prolonged due to the actions of these agents.

But at its best, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is a visually engaging, crafty sci-fi story that captures the imagination well.

It was a bit difficult keeping the parallel dimensions straight, but eventually it seemed not to matter. It definitely reads like something that was cut up and remastered and fiddled with over years and the first third at least is this wild impenetrable fog of captions and timestamps. This book combines Arkwright's first adventures with it's sequel 'Heart of Empire: The Legacy of Luther Arkwright' which features his daughter, Victoria and her own adventure full of p ower, mysticism, history, murder, romance, politics, religion, sex, conspiracy, spectacle, and heroism. And Michael Moorcock's 'introduction' was more a self-serving rant than illuminating of the work, to boot. The Adventures of Luther Arkwright webcomic — the whole of the comic available to read online as a webcomic.