For a long while, the most widely-available collection of Trigan Empire stories was The Trigan Empire, a 1978 hardcover edition published in the United Kingdom by the Hamlyn Group and the United States by Chartwell Books. He's so loved that when a military junta overthrew him in secret, they were only able to quell the population by declaring a young man as Emperor Trigo the 2nd - as people love the original so much they'd follow anyone with the same name. Sole Survivor: Of Trigo's triplet sons, only Nikko survives and he becomes the heir to the Hericon throne.

The Trigan Empire, the focus of most of these tales, is a hybrid of Greek and Roman motifs, though they are also an advanced civilization with airships and modern weaponry.Their chief, Imbala, is Trigo's blood brother, and Imbala's son Keren is one of the good guys, usually the only non-white among the good guys. Scientists from all over the world tried to encrypt the books and after many years one of them found the way to translate the books.

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. 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.Besides the stories by Don Lawrence and Mike Butterworth, each book contains a well illustrated dossier with detailed background information about how the stories were made and interesting documentaries about the Trigan Empire.

The series was primarily written by Mike Butterworth (1924-1986) and later by Ken Roscoe, and was illustrated initially by Don Lawrence (1929-2003), who was then followed by Ron Embleton, Miguel Quesada, Philip Corke, Oliver Frey, Gerry Wood, and Ernest Ratcliff. Mook Chivalry: If the hero needs to spot something in mid-fight, the enemy will pause while he looks round. Villains, often officers or councillors appointed by Trigo, who must have been a Horrible Judge of Character, try to usurp the throne or place upon it a puppet emperor; happened lots of times. How We Got Here: On a huge scale; the very first story is about the last of the Trigans crash-landing on Earth.

That's just a fraction of how schizo the tech level is on Elekton (much of the tech weirdness is socially based, the people respect tradition a little too much on that planet). Gorgeous Period Dress: Flash Gordon, ancient Rome and Arabian Nights stuff all mixed up in lovely colour. The Lokans, enemies of the Trigans, are pale olive green, and look like a cross between very ugly black people and Yellow Peril-type orientals. While most inhabitants of Elekton look human (more or less), they're around 12 feet tall and if one particular instance where Janno learns how to fly the aircraft is anything to go by, their eyes can move independently. Apart from occasionally awkward anatomy in the fight scenes, it's virtually flawless comic art, to the extent that Lawrence immerses you in the story so effectively and convincingly you don't notice just how good he is at first: you're inside his work, rather than looking at it.

Mooks: Guards can arrest and oppress when needed, but as soon as the rebellion occurs they can be pushed aside by angry civilians. The main recurring non-white races are green-skinned, ranging from yellowish to turquoise with little consistency between episodes. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Released from 2004 to 2008, a twelve-volume reprint of about 40 stories from the Don Lawrence run on The Trigan Empire. Throughout the series, the Trigans confront the Hericon empire, their main rival, whose appearance and motifs lean more toward the Byzantine and Persian.Comics fans usually rave about it because of the art by Don Lawrence, an overlooked talent if ever there was. Thanks to this man the whole world gets to know the history of the rise and fall of the Trigan Empire. i first read these as an 8 or 9 year old in Ranger and Look and Learn magazines in Melbourne Australia. That's because despite decades of study, human scientists were never able to understand and reverse-engineer Trigan technology.