The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright

Paperback, 216 pages

English language

Published Dec. 12, 2007 by Dark Horse.

ISBN:
978-1-59307-725-9
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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Review of 'The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

extremely impressive work, the art is insane, but two things stood out to me as I was making sense of the alternative history that was at play and what Arkwright's capacities are.

the first is that this is ground zero for what Garth Ennis and Grant Morrison do, whether they know it or not. there's nothing I've read from Ennis that exceeds what's on offer here, but this goes in for too much sexy nun stuff for it to condescend to Preacher, or Wolverine v. Punisher for that matter. compared to Morrison it's quite limited; even if the Invisibles was just self-indulgent, Animal Man had incredible range and was often very moving, even in issues which were supposedly just formal or conceptual exercises.

the second is that if Alan Moore was writing this it would be much better. Moore wouldn't've reigned in the more tendentious world-building but would have conveyed …

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3 stars

While my awareness with British comics is mostly limited to second-hand knowledge of Judge Dredd, I had seen praise for this series and decided to check it out.

The book begins with a foreword by Michael Moorcock, which is extremely appropriate. The story that follows reminded very much of Moorcock's New Wave SF work on the Eternal Champion series and the Jerry Cornelius character in particular. The hero is a (somewhat groovy) super agent who journeys to various parallel Earths in a semi-mystical struggle against the Disruptors, a shadowy high-tech group trying to bring about their own ideal timeline.

Luther Arkwright debuted in the mid-70s, and the comic is definitely a product of its time. In addition to high tech weapons, over the course of his adventures Arkwright makes frequent use of psychic powers, meditation, and consciousness-expanding drugs. He powers-up via Tantric sex (narrated with myth-heavy stream of consciousness narration) …

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