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Title: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Colin YNWA on 22 August, 2019, 07:21:11 AM
So I know there's a few Luther Arkwright fans, certainly a number of Bryan Talbot fans still hanging around this quiet corner of the internet. If you are you will be delighted to hear that there a new volume coming... in 2022!

So settle down, get a cup of tea, maybe something to read. Heck you've even got time to pop to the shops and I'll see you back here in three years.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/08/21/bryan-talbot-legend-of-luther-arkwright-after-almost-twenty-years/ (https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/08/21/bryan-talbot-legend-of-luther-arkwright-after-almost-twenty-years/)
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: karlos on 22 August, 2019, 08:43:43 AM
That is beyond exciting!

Just want to add that, if there's anyone here who hasn't yet grabbed the Dark Horse Luther hardcover - do so as fast as you can, as it's the very best way to read this amazing work.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: maryanddavid on 22 August, 2019, 08:47:58 AM
Great stuff!
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Colin YNWA on 22 August, 2019, 09:07:41 AM
Quote from: karlos on 22 August, 2019, 08:43:43 AM
That is beyond exciting!

Just want to add that, if there's anyone here who hasn't yet grabbed the Dark Horse Luther hardcover - do so as fast as you can, as it's the very best way to read this amazing work.

Yeah I only saw that existing when reading the linkie below. What is the extra content?
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Proudhuff on 22 August, 2019, 10:22:28 AM
Good news! I read em at the time, but have forgotten most of it  :-[
Maybe time to buy the collection?

I'm going to the Lakes Comic Con in Oct so hopefully see Mr Talbot there.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 August, 2019, 11:48:56 AM
Excellent news, big LA fan here! I loved the pseudo-Arkwright that appeared in Nikolai Dante.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Tjm86 on 22 August, 2019, 12:02:23 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 22 August, 2019, 09:07:41 AM
Yeah I only saw that existing when reading the linkie below. What is the extra content?

Awkwright Integral is a sumptuous tome that would only be improved by a slipcase (as DH did with the Complete Martha Washington).

Extras:

Introduction by Michael Moorcock (I think this was also in the DH tab - nope the original UK tpb, my bad).
Cover gallery (Dark Horse, original UK tpb trilogy and Valkyrie).
Interview by Steve Bissette
Heart of Empire cover gallery
Afterward by Warren Ellis

I'd say that DH did miss a trick by omitting quite a bit of the material from the Valkyrie Press Arkeology which includes Talbot's history of the printing of the original series, "The Debentures of Loofah Bathknight", "A vision of Albion", an analysis of the work compared to Blake's poetry by Dave Thorpe, "An overview of the Arkwright Cosmology" by Mike Brunton, illustrations by Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons, Ian Gibson and Hunt Emerson and a closing strip by Dave McKean.  Some of the illustrations from the various articles have been used in Integral, mind.

If I'm honest, if DH were to address these faults I would be sorely tempted to double dip!
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Dandontdare on 22 August, 2019, 01:35:11 PM
Yeah I felt no need to replace my 2 paperbacks with that collected version as the extras weren't that impressive, but I would buy one with all those other bits you mentioned - just been looking at "The Debentures of Loofah Bathknight" on t'net which I'd never heard of
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Dark Jimbo on 22 August, 2019, 02:58:00 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 22 August, 2019, 01:35:11 PM
Yeah I felt no need to replace my 2 paperbacks with that collected version as the extras weren't that impressive, but I would buy one with all those other bits you mentioned...

I really don't think the two series sit together particularly well - Bryan's style changed so much! I was hoping for two separate hardbacks together in a slipcase, myself.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: I, Cosh on 22 August, 2019, 03:14:27 PM
Think I've asked this before, but what size are these collections?

Like the old Titan Nemesis and VCs collections, you'll have to take my proper, 2000AD sized reprints of old Luther from my cold, dead hands.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: karlos on 22 August, 2019, 06:48:41 PM
Not sure about exact dimensions, but it's a size!

Also, it's the only, to date, remastered version available outside of (I think) the Polish release.

Note that the current Dark Horse Integral hardcover is now out of print, so find a decently priced copy asap!
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: sheridan on 23 August, 2019, 01:05:46 AM
For those not familiar - the Dave McKean 'strip' is illustrations to go with Neil Gaiman's Villanelle (which was also in a later one-off, with piccies by somebody else).  May be misremembering, but I think the later publication was called The Great Exhibition of 1851.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: sheridan on 23 August, 2019, 01:08:34 AM
For those not familiar - the Dave McKean 'strip' is illustrations to go with Neil Gaiman's Villanelle (which was also in a later one-off, with piccies by somebody else).  May be misremembering, but I think the later publication was called The Great Exhibition of 1851.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: sheridan on 23 August, 2019, 01:09:19 AM
(and was very small-press in feel, though emulating the Valkyrie editions).
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Robin Low on 23 August, 2019, 08:36:17 AM
I have pretty much every printed version of the first Arkwright series, a signed poster, and even a jigsaw of the in-world painting 'The Battle of London' from Heart of Empire. So, I'm really excited by this.

I'm gonna spoil that enthusiasm by saying I'm not a great fan of his current style. I far prefer his earlier style to the thicker lines of his current. This hasn't stopped me buying all his Grandville stuff, though.

(Also, another opportunity to beg for large hardback editions of Nemesis, please.)

Regards,

Robin
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Link Prime on 23 August, 2019, 04:13:02 PM
Really, really excited for this, at a level that surpasses anticipation for literally every other comic on the horizon.

I'll almost forgive ColinYNWA for linking us to an article by humanoid mollusc Rich Johnson.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: sheridan on 23 August, 2019, 06:01:42 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 23 August, 2019, 04:13:02 PM
Really, really excited for this, at a level that surpasses anticipation for literally every other comic on the horizon.

I'll almost forgive ColinYNWA for linking us to an article by humanoid mollusc Rich Johnson.

Is he that bad?  Though I do tend to find there's so much flash / advertising / whatever on that site that my computer can freeze if I scroll down past the headline.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 23 August, 2019, 06:58:10 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 23 August, 2019, 06:01:42 PM
Is he that bad?

He provides 'political' cartoons for Guido Fawkes' blog. Remember that Bleeding Cool gave an open platform to actual white supremacist Vox Day, after which they pretended for almost two whole days that Johnston had been replaced as EiC before going back to business as usual.

I remain utterly disappointed that otherwise decent comic companies give that snivelling [spoiler]redacted[/spoiler] exclusives after he's shown us exactly who he is so many times.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: TordelBack on 23 August, 2019, 09:01:01 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 23 August, 2019, 04:13:02 PM
for literally every other comic on the horizon.
I'll almost forgive ColinYNWA for linking us to an article by humanoid mollusc Rich Johnson.

I read this as RIan Johnson, and was warming up my well-thumbed Last Jedi defence...

...no such intervention will be forthcoming on behalf of Rich or BC.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: Link Prime on 29 August, 2019, 11:46:56 AM
Quote from: sheridan on 23 August, 2019, 06:01:42 PM
Quote from: Link Prime on 23 August, 2019, 04:13:02 PM
Really, really excited for this, at a level that surpasses anticipation for literally every other comic on the horizon.

I'll almost forgive ColinYNWA for linking us to an article by humanoid mollusc Rich Johnson.

Is he that bad? 

Yeah, maybe a bit much, so forgive the uncharacteristic harshness of that comment.

Fact is, I really despise 'Bleeding Cool'. Saw it for what it was years ago - transparent shit stirring.

Quote from: TordelBack on 23 August, 2019, 09:01:01 PM

I read this as RIan Johnson,


He'll get his, Tordel!
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: karlos on 03 October, 2019, 09:07:47 AM
Cover and pre-order are now up on amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Luther-Arkwright-Bryan-Talbot/dp/1506717713/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=luther+arkwright&qid=1570090026&sr=8-1
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: CalHab on 03 October, 2019, 09:14:58 AM
This is great news! The first volume is very much a high point for British comics.
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: karlos on 10 January, 2020, 02:42:29 PM
Cover and pre-order up on Forbidden Planet now, as well:

https://forbiddenplanet.com/293516-luther-arkwright/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9dqtzqH55gIVSrDtCh2IWQaaEAYYAyABEgIjP_D_BwE
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: karlos on 10 February, 2020, 08:53:08 AM
Talbot goodness here, including link to decently priced copies of Arkwright Integral:

https://downthetubes.net/?p=114872
Title: Re: New Luther Arkwright coming - just be patient
Post by: rogue69 on 29 March, 2020, 05:37:19 PM
Bryan talbot is giving away a free 90 page download of some of his less known work on his webpage

It contains the stories Hasan i Sabah - coloured by Jim Stewart, Jabberwocky, Henry V's Speech before Harfleur, What is Corruption?, An Open Letter to a Comics Virgin, The Cannabis Conspriacy - written by Doug, Moench and coloured by Jamie Grant, Brainworms - written by Matthias Schultheiss, Cold Snap - written by Alan Moore, Komix Comics, For a Few Gallons More - featuring Ogoth and Ugly Boot from the Ogoth the Barbarian strips, written by Mick Farren and drawn by Chris Welch, The Papist Affair, An Honest Answer - written by Neil Gaiman and lettered by Sonja Curtis, From Homogenous to Honey - written by Neil Gaiman, inks by Mark Buckingham and lettering by Steve Craddock, Sloth - written by Neil Gaiman, The History of British Comics, Nick Cave - written by Nick Cave, The Fire Opal of Set

http://www.bryan-talbot.com/index.php