The Trigan Empire

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Dramatic Ellipsis: "And then... It Happened", "And then he saw... IT", "And then... sheer blind panic", etc., ad nauseam. Freeman, John (28 September 2018). "British Comic Heroes under one roof! Rebellion snaps up TI Media's classic comics catalogue". downthetubes.net . Retrieved 11 September 2022. His numerous credits include screenwriter for The Viking Raid VR Experience for The Ridley Scott Creative Group / Viking Planet and articles for The Times, The Telegraph, NME, Shortlist, The Guardian, Private Eye and more.

Originally published in the anthology title Ranger from the first issue in September 1965, and Look and Learn from June 1966 until April 1982, the series told the story of an alien empire on the planet Elekton that was heavily influenced by history, particularly Roman. Created by Mike Butterworth, who died in 1986, and artist Don Lawrence, who passed away in 2004, the series’ mix of political intrigue and Lawrence’s lush painted artwork won a host of fans worldwide, and proved to be highly influential, inspiring a generation of comic book creators with its depth and beauty. However, as the story progressed, it became a series of adventure stories featuring the same cast of characters, principally Trigo, the emperor; Brag, his brother; Janno, Brag's dashing son; Keren, Janno's friend; Peric, a wise architect and scientific genius, and his daughter, Salvia. Later, Janno and Keren aquired another friend, Roffa, and Trigo had three sons of whom one, Nikko, lived to be a major character.

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Fountain of Youth: There's a hidden city who's nobles are believed to have the secret to reverse aging (it's actually a scam). Peric actually creates one by re-engineering Zogg's Rapid Aging invention and it never gets used again after it fulfills its story role. Ancient Grome: The Trigan Empire has the togas, spathas, triremes and other mishmash of ancient Rome and Greece. Tripwire’s contributing writer Tim Hayes takes a look at Rebellion’s The Rise And Fall Of The Trigan Empire Vol.2 out now… Retcons and reboots galore. Facts could be changed whenever the story needed it. The Vorg calendar mixes names with numbers, e.g. "In the third year of Zemm..." or "In the month of Yuss of the solar year..." or "In the seventeenth year of Neva..." and we never find out how these time periods fit together. The fist volume of "The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire" covers the period from the founding of the Trigan empire by warlord Trigo to the first interplanetary journey off planet Elekton, which is where all the stories take place.

The series ran in Look and Learn until the title ceased publication with issue #1049, in April 1982, comprising a run of 854 issues in total, divided between the two magazines. The story by Mike Butterworth should not be dismissed out of hand just because it is completely absurd especially in its assumptions about time, space and technology. Butterworth managed to do something unique - to get inside the mind of an intelligent unformed pre-adolescent.In this sense, “The Man from the Future” affirms that history is not only written by the victors but also to preserve the dignity of the ruling class. If there was any semblance of tyranny or embarrassment in the record of the Trigan Empire, it has been systematically but ineffectively wiped out. For there is another unspoken question at the end of this tale. As I have mentioned, the comics which comprise The Trigan Empire are supposed to be histories in themselves. Who then wrote this “correct” history of Elekton and uncovered Peric’s deception? I bought Fleischer the book,” Peter told downthetubes, “and he kept it in his library in spite of the project not happening. He was taken by the detailed art.

This world is one of simple good and evil but certainly not along politically correct lines. We are not supposed to turn a hair at conquest or slavery so long as the slaves are well treated and the conquest is by a noble and just hero. And we channel our inner boy to go along with that. I want you to think very seriously over this question of poison gas… It is absurd to consider morality on this topic when everybody used it in the last war without a word of complaint from the moralists or the Church. On the other hand, in the last war bombing of open cities was regarded as forbidden. Now everybody does it as a matter of course. It is simply a question of fashion changing as she does between long and short skirts for women.” (6th July 1944) Throughout, you can spot places where Butterworth has used real-life incidents or stories from popular culture to give him a starting place. There are stories or episodes that seem to draw on the fate of the RMS Titanic, or the story of Gollum from Lord of the Rings– and even a famous Star Trek episode, that itself was an adaptation of an older science fiction story, “Arena”.We had the entire first season written and the next two in outline. [The] first season (10 sixty minute episodes) was loosely based on ‘The Reign of Thara’, but absolutely littered with references to other classic storylines.” Wie soll ich es bewerten? Aus einer Sicht wie jeder andere Comic-Leser, kann es dafür maximal einen von fünf Sternen geben. Über die Zeichnungen kann man noch diskutieren, aber die Stories, die zwischen 1965 und 1982 geschrieben wurden, sind einfältig und haben einen üblen reaktionären Grundton. Alles Übel der Welt kommt von draußen und der zweitgrößte Feind sitzt im eigenen Hause. Die Stories sind Varianten der gleichen 3–4 Grundmuster. Die Chance über 20 Jahre ein Kaiserreich sich verändern zu lassen, wurde nicht genutzt – abgesehen von zunehmend grauen Schlägen Trigos und dem Einzug von 70er-Jahre Brutalismus-Architektur im vormals römisch geprägten Kaiserreich.