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The "skull" panel
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This panel illustrates a lot of what I love about Bryan's
work - especially the amazing care and detail that he devotes
to every single panel of his work, and also how it repays
to revisit his stuff. I had read Arkwright about 15 times
before I realised that the characters in this panel actually
formed the shape of a skull.
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The Meaning of Life...
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This scene has always appealed to the atheist in me... the
brutal honesty of Arkwright followed by the unconscious humour
of Fairfax - who is also unwittingly proving what Luther has
just said... ah, the sublimeness of it all!
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The first page...
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This is it... this is what started the whole thing for me...
when I first saw this I was hooked.
Putting this, the very first page of the Adventures of Luther
Arkwright up on the site, fulfills another long term ambition
of mine....
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The Signing of the Treaty
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Yet another of Bryan's images which makes me wish I wasn't
limited by bandwidth speeds... the signing of the Treaty of
St Petersburg.
Just look at the detail and love that has gone
into this - which is after all simply a single panel from
a comic strip
I have seen entire comics that have had less
care and attention lavished on them than this single image.
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"How did you know I was cheating... I mean I'm not..."
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This is the first time that Luther meets Harry Fairfax, his
contact in the London Royalist underground...
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How th' fuck did you did y'throw that Pankhurst
cocktail so far?
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This scene illustrates so much about how good
Bryan's stuff is that I hardly know where to start... well,
the art is superlative as always, then there is the hysterical
humour of Arkwright ("clean living" indeed!), and
the subtle hint that Fairfax knows something is unusual about
Arkwright in how far the Molotov got thrown, showing his own
intuition, and finally there is the wonderful touch of how
things are different on this parallel with what we call Molotov
cocktails getting called Pankhurts's instead.
All this from one page of the comic!
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