The Rise and Fall of The Trigan Empire Volume One - The Runaway #1 Bestselling Graphic Novel: Volume 1

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The Big Guy: Brag, if only by default. He's quite willing to stand aside and let his more ambitious brother Trigo not only rule their people, but completely transform their way of life while carving out an empire — but Brag retains his barbarian robustness, and can always be relied on to supply a strong sword arm when things turn violent on a personal level. Overall, the story quality could be cheesier and mouldier than a well-matured Stilton, but there was still something great about it. It has the same kind of place in the hearts of its fans that the old Batman (1966) show with Adam West has.

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. The best-selling Treasury of British Comics archival series The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire reaches its fourth astounding volume. Immune to Bullets: Some wildlife on Elekton are immune to the bullets from the high-tech guns of that world. Mook Chivalry: If the hero needs to spot something in mid-fight, the enemy will pause while he looks round.

Obviously Evil: The Worst Man (yup that's his name) is a brutal Diabolical Mastermind who waged a highly effective terrorist campaign against the Trigan Empire and if Beauty Equals Goodness, this guy looks like a Frazetta Man got boinked by a werewolf and then gave birth to a butt-baby.

Alien Invasion: The alien Trigans were occasionally subject to invasion by aliens from distant worlds, including a trio of bodysnatchers and before that a pair of telepathic aliens.Even Evil Has Standards: The monstrous Worst Man is the foulest criminal on Elekton but he does have one specific standard - he's a firm believer in a fair fight (he even kills a henchman who tried to shoot Trigo in their match) and when he's dying due to a snakebite accident after his scrap with Trigo was interrupted, he's a Graceful Loser and concedes that Trigo is the winner. Aside from his writing, Butterworth was a gifted editor and created a number of new papers for the firm including Playhour Pictures (soon after abbreviated to Playhour), Valentine and the teenage girls' magazine Honey. Disintegrator Ray: The guns in Trigan are alternately described as heat guns or disintegrators. One poor giant beast found out the hard way what a disintegrator can do. Even the disintegrator is alternately a ray or a shell.

Heads or Tails?: One that decides the fate of an entire world. The Lokan dictator is wondering who to crush next; the nomadic warrior Vorgs or the cultured Tharvs? Expecting to conquer both in good time, he tosses a coin to settle the matter. It's the Tharvs, and their refugees flood into Vorg territory where they form an alliance with the Proud Warrior Race that defeats the Lokans and establishes the Trigan Empire.

Fantastic Racism: White people will turn on Green ones if the story requires it, otherwise they're all sweetness and light. Gorgeous Period Dress: Flash Gordon, ancient Rome and Arabian Nights stuff all mixed up in lovely colour. Verges on Crystal Spires and Togas.

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Loony Laws: The Vorg tribe has an ancient law of revenge, anyone who harms a member of the tribe needs to be avenged immediately regardless of circumstance. This law was never removed despite Emperor Trigo concerned about its implication. A scummy merchant uses this against the Hericon kingdom when they legitimately punished him for fraud and this law causes a major war between the Trigans and the Hericons because of Cycle of Revenge. It got so bad that Trigan citizens wanted to lynch Trigo's royal wife Ursa because she's a Hericon native. Nolen-Weathington, Eric, ed. (2003). Modern Masters: Alan Davis. TwoMorrows Publishing. ISBN 9781893905191. Mooks: Guards can arrest and oppress when needed, but as soon as the rebellion occurs they can be pushed aside by angry civilians. Guards who fight heroes go down like skittles. This fourth omnibus of The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, a classic of the science-fiction genre, collects the stories published in Look and Learn from 1973 through to 1975.