TRIGAN STORM FREE
Trigo confronted a sabre-toothed tiger (the Sacred Yalt) wearing his breastplate and cloak by the time he wriggled free of its claws, he was wearing the remains of a white shirt. A fleet of hundreds of aircraft was retconned into six aircraft between one episode and the next of the very first Story Arc. The writers and artists often got things wrong. Certainly, not many characters in modern comics "slake their ravening thirst" at waterholes or "feel the icy fingers of terror course down their spines" but maybe the world of comics, and the English language, are the poorer for it. Howard wrote that Conan the Barbarian was destined to "Tread the Jewelled thrones of the world beneath his sandalled feet" has there been more overblown verbiage in a piece of popular entertainment. But that never stopped Trigo, any more than it stopped Kirk or Picard. In the early stories it made sense that the leader should do his own adventuring, as he was a young hero founding an empire, but later it made even less sense for the leader of a superpower to keep running about swashbuckling and leading expeditions than for The Captain of the Enterprise to keep leaving The Bridge to lead landing parties in person. Later, Janno and Keren aquired another friend, Roffa, and Trigo had three sons of whom one, Nikko, lived to be a major character.
TRIGAN STORM SERIES
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. Presumably, a decline was supposed to happen after this. To begin with, the story was entitled The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire, and tried to trace the development of the eponymous civilisation from a humble beginning as a bunch of nomads to becoming the greatest power on the planet. 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. Daveli are a more turquoise colour, and are very good-looking. In fact, they were yellow, in the early stories. 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. The main recurring non-white races are green-skinned, ranging from yellowish to turquoise with little consistency between episodes. The Trigans look basically human, although they stand 12 feet tall (in the stories they appear normal since everything else that looks vaguely Earth-like is also twice the as tall) the Trigan race looks Aryan, but there are no black people, apart from the occasional dark-skinned tribe that pops up in a supporting role, generally depicted as primitive but friendly. on the planet Elekton, which has twin suns and twin moons (although another "moon", Gallas, falls to the planet in an early story). The story is set A Long Time Ago, in a Galaxy Far Far Away. The artwork was originally by Don Lawrence (also known for Storm), and was way better than anything else available at the time indeed, you'd have to look to modern day artists as Alex Ross or Serpieri to see it bettered, yet Lawrence was paid a pittance. This book is a testament to the the greatness of this famous British strip and the artists who drew it.The Trigan Empire was published in installments in a number of British and European comics during the 1960s and '70s. It is also a superb permanent record of these rare originals, many of which will go into private collections and probably never be available for public view ever again.įeaturing work by Don Lawrence, all 24 pieces of rarely seen Ron Embleton art, as well as work by Miguel Quesada, Oliver Frey, Philip Corke and Gerry Wood. First it serves as a sales catalogue from which collectors can purchase rare original art for their collections.
This is an illustrated catalogue of original artwork for sale, which will appeal to two audiences.
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