Writer and Artist: Bryan TalbotPublisher: Dark Horse (May 21, 2008)
Price: $18.95 (Softcover)
Format: TPB
Includes: The Adventures of Luther Arkwright #1-9
"A work ambitious in both scope and complexity that still stands unique upon the comics landscape...stunning"-ALAN MOORE
"Surely one of the all time great epics of the medium."-GARTH ENNIS
"An alternative history of modern times...It is also a very good, romantic inventive, fast paced yarn"-MICHAEL MOORCOCK
Yes. I frontloaded this review with some heavyweights, putting aside my own enlarged ego to make you at least look at just who loves this book.
Behold the David Bowie Jerry Cornelius godhead, a being who exists in only one parallel reality but is able to navigate within all of them. His mission: to stop the parallel world advance of the Disruptors who are bent on nothing less than total enslavement or, if need be, total destruction of all counter earths.
Don't get bogged down in the plot. This is a dissertation on fascism and the creation of mythology masquerading as an action movie. Densely written and drawn by Bryan Talbot, it is a masterpiece that stands along Watchmen in terms of quality. Now that Dark Horse has put it back in print, there is no excuse for anyone not to read it.
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