The Trigan Empire (Rebellion/£19.99)
Mike Butterworth (w) Don Lawrence (a)
Probably the greatest British comic strip story of all time (for me and many others) was the full colour painted adventures of the Emperor Trigo and his family on an alien world which mixed Roman imagery with science fiction.
Appearing in the children's magazines Ranger and Look & Learn this strip ran from 1965 to 1982. I picked up the story from the latter as Look & Learn arrived with the papers payed for by my parents. An educational magazine which was quite interesting but it contained two features that appealed to me the main one of which was this story.
Each week we saw the battles on the Planet Electron as the Trigan Empire rose out of a barbarian tribe building a city on several hills, hence the "Roman" connection with ancient world architecture. Yet the civilisations also had airships, lasers and other advanced machinery which was interesting to this young mind and many others.
Oh and there were monsters, aliens, civilised moons and much else that I enjoyed exploring in this first volume produced by Rebellion who now own the rights to this and so much else of British comics history. This, the first of several volumes runs to well over 300 full colour pages and is amazing value.
The stories involving the discovery of a crashed spaceship with the records of a dead civilisation which crashed in Florida and are finally translated by a British eccentric lead to the tales of the wars with treacherous Lokans, the Hericons. an Alien Invasion and more.
The second volume is currently scheduled for November.
Available from Rebellion here: shop.2000ad.com
Rating: 5 Stars+ (Highly Recommended)
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