The first of a four-volume series reprinting The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire - a landmark 1960s science fiction series "Vastly influential. Stunning. Dominated the genre of Science-Fiction epics." * The Independent * "Lawrence [is] celebrated for his richly coloured, highly detailed visions of fantastic worlds." * The New York Times * "I love Trigan Empire! It's absolutely epic." -- Duncan Jones (director Source Code, Moon) "Don [Lawrence] painted a comic I loved. It was called the Trigan Empire - two comic pages a week, in the children's magazine "Look and Learn", which even schools who banned comics allowed" -- Neil Gaiman