Heart of Empire: Issue One Cover

Dark Horse's publicity blurb for this issue was: In a world held in the iron grip of a totalitarian empire, the dying Pope, guided by a vision from God, sends his top assassin to the Imperial Palace with a dire mission -- but the countdown to total destruction has already begun! Meanwhile, the Princess Victoria embarks on a quest that will turn her world upside down. The long-awaited stand-alone sequel to The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is finally here. Bryan Talbot has created an amazingly complex, yet accessible universe filled with action, adventure, romance, heroism, and betrayal. An epic tale that builds inexorably to a roller-coaster ride that will have you hanging on every word and every image!

Also check out:
	You can buy this issue online right now at Things From Another World!
	The rest of the covers of Heart of Empire: issue two, issue three, issue four, issue five, issue six, issue seven, issue eight and issue nine.
	The other Heart of Empire galleries: Thumbnail gallery two and thumbnail gallery three.
	The Heart of Empire homepage: all of the info on Heart of Empire is here.
	The articles page: here are all text based articles I have been able to gather on Bryan, including interviews, book reviews, introductions to his works, quotes by other comic artists and more.
	The Image navigator page: browse every image on the entire site from a single page.
	The Comics International review of this issue.
	The whole of Heart of Empire - together with all pencilled and inked pages, 60,000 words of annotations by Bryan and the whole of the Adventures of Luther Arkwright is available on a CD-Rom for only 18 US dollars.