The Trigan Empire –the collection- is a deluxe series of twelve volumes, bringing you the 50 Trigan Empire episodes, which were drawn by Don Lawrence and written by Mike Butterworth. Obviously Evil: The Worst Man (yup that's his name) is a brutal Diabolical Mastermind who waged a highly effective terrorist campaign against the Trigan Empire and if Beauty Equals Goodness, this guy looks like a Frazetta Man got boinked by a werewolf and then gave birth to a butt-baby. The Big Guy: Brag, if only by default. He's quite willing to stand aside and let his more ambitious brother Trigo not only rule their people, but completely transform their way of life while carving out an empire — but Brag retains his barbarian robustness, and can always be relied on to supply a strong sword arm when things turn violent on a personal level.

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. Presumably, a decline was supposed to happen after this. Nolen-Weathington, Eric, ed. (2003). Modern Masters: Alan Davis. TwoMorrows Publishing. ISBN 9781893905191. Ancient Grome: The Trigan Empire has the togas, spathas, triremes and other mishmash of ancient Rome and Greece. How We Got Here: On a huge scale; the very first story is about the last of the Trigans crash-landing on Earth. Sole Survivor: Of Trigo's triplet sons, only Nikko survives and he becomes the heir to the Hericon throne.

Retcons and reboots galore. Facts could be changed whenever the story needed it. The Vorg calendar mixes names with numbers, e.g. "In the third year of Zemm..." or "In the month of Yuss of the solar year..." or "In the seventeenth year of Neva..." and we never find out how these time periods fit together. Find sources: "Mike Butterworth" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( September 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Scooby-Doo" Hoax: Both times a curse was put on Trigo, it was a fake. Once the arc even ended with unbandaging the "mummy" to reveal a person you'd never have suspected. And he almost got away with it, too! Battle for Trigan City” (aka “The Reign of Thara,” Look and Learn #298-316, 30 September 1967 to 3 February 1968) Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Kreeds (rhymes with 'steeds') = horses, Nobras (rhymes with 'cobras') = poisonous snakes, The Sacred Yalt = a sabre-toothed tiger, Robbis = marmot, Morrol = rat, Norva = orca, Zanna = piranha, Gorphin = dolphin, Ranta = tarantula. Weird Science: Any old whitebeard, dressed like a wizard but calling himself a scientist, seems able to invent almost anything. The one named Zogg even wears a pointy hat decorated with ringed planets and stars. In 1965, he became one of the main script writers for Ranger where he penned the sprawling science-fantasy The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire which remains one of the most popular boys' adventure strips published in the UK to this day.

Loony Laws: The Vorg tribe has an ancient law of revenge, anyone who harms a member of the tribe needs to be avenged immediately regardless of circumstance. This law was never removed despite Emperor Trigo concerned about its implication. A scummy merchant uses this against the Hericon kingdom when they legitimately punished him for fraud and this law causes a major war between the Trigans and the Hericons because of Cycle of Revenge. It got so bad that Trigan citizens wanted to lynch Trigo's royal wife Ursa because she's a Hericon native.

Bizarre Alien Biology: Downplayed. While most inhabitants of Elekton look human (more or less), they're around 12 feet tall and if one particular instance where Janno learns how to fly the aircraft is anything to go by, their eyes can move independently. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Mooks: Guards can arrest and oppress when needed, but as soon as the rebellion occurs they can be pushed aside by angry civilians. Guards who fight heroes go down like skittles.

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. Later, Janno and Keren aquired another friend, Roffa, and Trigo had three sons of whom one, Nikko, lived to be a major character. Scientists from all over the world tried to encrypt the books and after many years one of them found the way to translate the books. Thanks to this man the whole world gets to know the history of the rise and fall of the Trigan Empire. Argo, the son of Trigo while being controlled by an evil alien, had King Kassar, his own grandfather and previously a major character, executed.