The overall story is significantly influenced by Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series, whose various implementations of his Multiverse concept shape the sequence, as does the primal conflict waged in much of his work between Peace and Chaos, with Balance always a precarious enclave in time and space Between the Wars.

The main iterations of the sequence seem to be The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Volume 1 (first appeared 1978-1980 Near Myths, 1982 Galaxy Media and Pssst! graph 1987), The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Book 2: Transfiguration (various sources graph 1987), all of this material, possibly resorted, later released as The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (graph 1997). Talbot is of strong sf interest for his two main Graphic Novel sequences, the first of them being the Adventures of Luther Arkwright beginning with 'The Papist Affair' (1976 The Mixed Bunch 1) and produced through various incarnations, sometimes confusingly arrayed, a situation common to the comic/graphic novel world, where distinctions between the two modes can be procrustean and/or adventitious. He has illustrated episodes of Neil Gaiman's Sandman sequence. In SF Magazines, his comic strip Frank Fazakerly, Space Ace of the Future ran from October 1978 to September 1981 in Ad Astra. After the nature of comics, most of his work escapes realistic trammels as with the material assembled as Bryan Talbot's Brainstorm: The Complete Chester P Hackenbush and Other Underground Classics (various original works here assembled graph coll 1982).

(1952- ) UK Comics artist and author, a prolific and at times excitingly experimental author/artist of much work since the beginning of the 1970s.

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