THE ADVENTURES OF LUTHER ARKWRIGHT ...not just tits and the hobbit

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August 14th, 2020

36 mins 35 secs

Season 1

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Are you into Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison and Garth Ennis? Well, they derived a lot of inspiration from Bryan Talbot's multiverse epic The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, which we're picking apart in this episode.

Guest-host Adam Boretz, an editor at The Millions and Publishers Weekly, swings by to share his take and lecture us about nachos in the 80s (among other things). How does Luther Arkwright hold up after all these decades? Why are British comic authors so obsessed with tantric sex? Why does reading the first third of this fantasy yarn feel like Ryan just assigned everyone homework?

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is beautiful, multilayered, and complex - often too compelx for its own intelligibility. In Raman's words, "It's not just tits and the hobbit."