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This is a text only guide to
the images on the site of Bryan's: I have created it so that there is
more than one way to browse the images and you can choose whichever method
suits you best. Also in the Textgallery series is Textgallery
Six, Textgallery Five, Textgallery
Three, Textgallery Two and Textgallery
One; alternatively, there are the thumbnail galleries, and the best
list of those are on the gallery guide page;
and finally for those that just want to see the images with minimum hassle
then there is a single page with a link to every image on the site in
the image page navigator.
On this page, there are links to the images from thumbnail
gallery seven and thumbnail gallery eight , thumbnail
gallery nine, thumbnail gallery ten and thumbnail
gallery eleven, thumbnail gallery twelve, the
entire memento strip, and gallery
thirteen. Bryan suggested that I add to the site a list of all of
the complete strips that are on it, and the strip
listing is the result.
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Luther flying |
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This is Luther telekinetically propelling
himself from the Cathedral across the street to where the Puritan
Cabinet are meeting in order to assassinate them. All of them. |
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Page 236 of Heart of
Empire |
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I am bidding for this page myself, mainly because of
the first two panels where I am haranguing the crowd in my capacity
of Leveller Committee Member! |
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Luther begins to
meditate |
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Luther starts to absorb psionic energy from the Multiverse
in a meditation session... |
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The start of the duel |
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The start of the duel where Luther first finds out where
Firefrost is hidden. |
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Exorcism |
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Luther "exorcises" the demons
from Mad Murdoch - in reality draining off the psionic energy that
Murdoch unconsciously taps and cannot control.... |
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So, what is the purpose? |
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This page was only in the Dark Horse editions of the
Adventures of Luther Arkwright: it was not in the Valkyrie Press
edition, nor the infamous Proutt exploding one.... Bryan added it
to get the page number even.
If you look closely at the window top left you can
see Bryan himself working at his drawing board....
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The start of
Black Tuesday |
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Luther being very cool in the face of the
Puritan attack and causing maximum mayhem with just one well placed
shot... |
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The spear of Destiny
pierces his side... |
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Luther just on the point of dying, the Spear of Destiny
piercing his side.... |
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Luther's descent |
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Luther completes the violent descent into his own subconscious....
Also see the next page: Luther's
ascent....
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He sees... he sees a
door.... |
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Luther struggles to refine and narrow his range of input
to something he can work with... after removing the filters of perception
that we are all born with he has to create a new working map of reality
in order to be able to interact with it... |
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On the Disruptor
base |
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Luther takes cover in the Disruptors base as the Rooks
leave through the trans parallel gateway. |
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"Miranda
was right..." |
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His adventures done, he casts aside his weapon and forswears
violence... |
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Luther's walk in the
woods |
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After resurrecting himself, Luther walks through the
woods, totally at one with nature... |
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"Flowers that
cannot bloom by day..." |
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Luther searches for Harry in the Shoreditch Tavern,
whilst a certain Mr Michael Jagger Esquire plays a ballad |
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Montpelier at
Heliopolis |
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The archaeologist JR Montpelier finds Firefrost....
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Luther at Marx's tomb |
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Luther drops a tarot card in front of Karl Marx's tomb,
and it seems to flutter away into infinity.... |
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Thundadoom! |
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Chester P Hackenbush, the Psychedelic Alchemist
approaches the villains stronghold. |
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"Someone's
buggering with unreality!" |
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Another page from Chester P Hackenbush, with the immortal
line:"Affirmative! Someone's buggering with unreality!"
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A streetcar named
Delirium |
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The streetcar makes it's first appearance |
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"I wanna go home!" |
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Well, wouldn't you, when faced with this?! |
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The Ziggurat of
Cinnamon |
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... which ain't too bad, if you like cinnamon! |
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"Kreeeek"?! |
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The sound of the villains coffin opening.... |
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Chester comes down |
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And needs to do a quick check to see if
this really is reality... |
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Heart of Empire:
Barberini's walk |
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Barberini's walk through Rome, on the way to the Vatican
and the dying Pope. |
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Victoria enters Dee's
hideaway |
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"God, Dee, what an earwigs nest!" |
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Nemesis the
Warlock: the Garden of Alien Delights |
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This is one of the innovative "Diceman" comics
that 2000ad did, which was a roleplaying game in comics format where
you got to play out the actions of the 2000ad character: in this one
you got to play Torquemada in an environment heavily influenced by
Bosch... |
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Nemesis: book
4, page 65 |
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Nemesis and the ABC Warriors do what they do best... |
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Nemesis: book
3, page 18 |
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A classic Nemesis front page. |
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Nemesis: book
4, page 44 |
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Alien superfiends and Tyrannosaurs?! |
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Nemesis: book
4, page 45 |
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"Destroy the evil beast!" |
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Nemesis: book
4, page 64 |
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A superb full page spread of Nemesis and the ABC Warriors. |
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Luther and Rose |
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An image from the Arkwright Portfolio that
was never published: Luther and Rose make love. |
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A walk in the woods |
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Another unpublished image from the Portfolio: Luther
and Anne walk in the woods. |
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Luther lights the
flare |
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After assassinating the entire Puritan cabinet, Luther
lights the flare over Bosworth square to announce the start of the
revolution. |
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Victoria as Brittania |
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Victoria dressed as Brittania for the Comics 2000 festival. |
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The end of the duel |
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Luther puts the Disruptor Knight out of his misery,
after learning the location of Firefrost... |
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Luther takes off |
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Luther leaps from the Cathedral on hiw way
to wipe out the Puritan cabinet. |
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"Fire, Agamemnon!" |
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Sir Roderick of the Rhine revels in the
heat of battle! |
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The final page of
the adventures |
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The very last page of the adventures of Luther Arkwright. |
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Bryan, Victoria
and Me! |
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A photo from the Eagle Awards Ceremony at
Comics 2000, featuring left to right, me, Victoria Arkwright Stuart
and Bryan... |
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G-Man |
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G-Man was never published. It was written by Pat Mills
and one of the strips in a dummy magazine produced by Emap called
Heroes, a rival to 2000AD. This was the front cover. |
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San Diego Booklet
illustration |
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This is Bryan's illustration for the San Diego convention,
one of whose themes is "giant robots and dinosaurs"! |
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Serpents Kiss |
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This is promotional illustration for a film proposal
called Serpents Kiss for Ed Would Productions |
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Old 2000ad cover |
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This is an old 2000ad cover recently sent to me by a
fan, showing Bryan's work on the cover of the Galaxy's greatest comic...
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The one and only God
of the Guitar - Jimi |
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Bryan painted this image in the early '80's for a greetings
card: it has since been re-used many times, as a giant wall poster
and was used as a Hendrix CD cover in Germany and Warner Brothers
used it as the cover of their Jimi Hendrix video. |
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Ax Preston |
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Bryan has drawn these three protagonists for SF writer
Gwyneth Jones. They are from her forthcoming novel Bold As Love. |
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Fiorina |
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Bryan has drawn these three protagonists for SF writer
Gwyneth Jones. They are from her forthcoming novel Bold As Love. |
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Sage |
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Bryan has drawn these three protagonists for SF writer
Gwyneth Jones. They are from her forthcoming novel Bold As Love. |
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Winds of
Winter |
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This is the first piece of artwork Bryan has done completely
on computer.. It's for an Italian comic called Winds Of Winter,
written by Gianluca Pirreda and drawn by Stefano Cardoselli, to be
published in September. |
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Luther... on a cliff! |
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This is a picture that Bryan drew for Walt
Parrish's site... Walt has a unique hook: he asks people to
draw something on or near a cliff!
Check his site out: there are a lot of comic artist's work there.
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Bold as Love
frontispiece |
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The frontispiece to Bold as Love, by Gwynneth
Jones. |
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One Bad Rat
German edition cover |
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The cover to the German translation of One Bad Rat. |
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Page 244 of Heart of
Empire |
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A full page image of Victoria dressed as Brittania. |
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Crystal Palace |
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This is the cover to one of the famous Proutt exploding
editions of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright: the strange thing
is that I never even knew this cover existed until Bryan showed it
to me recently, and I thought I was a Talbot completist! |
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Gaze into the
face of Fear! |
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The only known drawing of the face of Judge Fear - anywhere! |
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Imagine Magazine
cover |
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This is it... this is the exact moment in time where
I first became aware of Bryan Talbot and his work.... this is yet
another ambition fulfilled: getting this on the site shows exactly
when I first began to appreciate the work of Bryan's: from this magazine
and it's role playing game scenario based on the Adventures of Luther
Arkwright I sent off for the first book of the Arkwright Adventures:
Rat Trap. |
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Luther and
Rose |
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This is an image of Luther and Rose originally drawn
for the never published Luther Arkwright portfolio. |
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A walk
in the woods |
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Another image from the unpublished Arkwright Portfolio:
Luther and Anne walk in the woods. |
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Alien
pin-up |
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A gorgeous image - in terms of both execution and subject - of an
alien pin-up. |
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Batman and the Joker |
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Batman and the Joker |
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Elaine as Victoria
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A fellow fan dressed up as Victoria. |
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William Hartnell |
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An image of William Hartnell as Dr Who. |
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Storm Dragon |
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Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming
Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the Storm
Dragon: for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead
Publishing. |
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Honesty |
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Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming
Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the personification of Honesty:
for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead
Publishing. |
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Greed |
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Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming
Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the personification of Greed:
for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead
Publishing. |
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Tree Sprite |
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Another of the images that Bryan has drawn for the forthcoming
Nobilis roleplaying game: this one is the Tree
Sprite: for more info check out the publishers site: Hogshead
Publishing. |
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Dr Who |
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An illustration by Bryan for a recent Dr Who book. |
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An entire online strip by Bryan, first published in
2000ad. |
1, 2,
3, 4 |
5, 6,
7, 8 |
9, 10,
11, 12 |
13, 14,
15, 16 |
17, 18,
19, 20 |
21, 22,
23, 24 |
25, 26,
27, 28 |
29, 30,
31, 32 |
33, 34,
35, 36 |
37, 38,
39, 40 |
41, 42,
43, 44 |
45, 46,
47, 48 |
49, 50,
51, 52 |
53, 54,
55, 56 |
57, 58,
59, 60 |
61, 62,
63, 64 |
65, 66,
67, 68 |
69, 70,
71, 72 |
73, 74,
75, 76 |
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Uncommon Mona |
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A version of the Mona Lisa by Bryan for one of the Uncommon conventions |
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Ragnarok |
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A video cover for a character called Ragnaraok,
designed and drawn by Bryan and created and written by Alan Moore. |
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Castles
made of Sand |
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Another frontispiece of a Gwyneth Jones book,
second in the series that started with Winds
of Winter. |
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The
Seafarer |
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Another of Bryan's images. |
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Luther
Emmanuel |
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A homage to Luther Arkwright, published in
the Nikolai Dante strip in 2000ad. |
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Diceman
page 52 |
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A very early role playing experiment by 2000ad
where you took the role of Torquemada
and tried to escape the Garden of Alien Delights: the original artwork
of this page is for sale at the time of writing - check out the full
size image page for more details. |
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Diceman
page 59 |
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A very early role playing experiment by 2000ad
where you took the role of Torquemada
and tried to escape the Garden of Alien Delights: the original artwork
of this page is for sale at the time of writing - check out the full
size image page for more details. |
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Diceman
page 60 |
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A very early role playing experiment by 2000ad
where you took the role of Torquemada
and tried to escape the Garden of Alien Delights: the original artwork
of this page is for sale at the time of writing - check out the full
size image page for more details. |
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Small
Press Expo flyer |
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Bryan will be at the Small Press Expo, September
6 - 7 2--2002, just outside Washington DC. Check out their fine
site, and also check out their
flyer: they used an image from Heart
of Empire! |
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Arkwright
figure preproduction image 1 |
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A stunningly good and an incredibly faithful
rendition of one of Luther's famous poses. |
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Arkwright
figure preproduction image 2 |
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A stunningly good and an incredibly faithful
rendition of one of Luther's famous poses. |
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