Triumph: Unecessarily Violent Tales of Science Adventure for the Simple and Unfortunate

Doctor Grordbort

by Greg Broadmore

Stephen Fry: "When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure, the result is a Triumph. Dr. Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present." TRIUMPH : Unnecessarily Violent Tales of Science Adventure for the Simple and Unfortunate In his third book from the universe of Dr Grordbort, master illustrator and story-teller Greg Broadmore chronicles the interplanetary misadventures of Lord Cockswain as he enforces earth justice on the belligerent savages of our solar system using excessive violence, bad language and good old-fashioned rayguns. Written and Illustrated by Greg Broadmore. Adam Savage, Mythbusters: "Greg Broadmore's fertile and twisted imagination has conjoined multiple genres, memories, and a sharp sense of pulp, colonialist nostalgia/parody in this lavish, fully realized, imaginative tour de force. It's Jules Verne meets Fritz Lang meets Tintin. It's beyond Steampunk. It's clearly an insatiable passion for the talismans of a bygone civilization and its slavish addiction to the early industrial age in all its filigreed, ignorant glory. Greg has raised the bar."

Genres: Graphic Novels, Steampunk, Science Fiction

48 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

By day I work at award winning design and effects shop, Weta Workshop as a conceptual designer, but at night I go home and wash dishes.
I joke.
My girl friend will tell you as much.

No, I go home and write and draw more.
I mainly photoshop rude pictures of people I know in compromising situations and write offensive comments emanating from speech bubbles on said pictures, but from time to time I write and illustrate a book or two.

I've worked on many big name effects-heavy feature films like King Kong and Narnia, but I'm least ashamed of having been lead designer for District 9.
I joke again! I am very proud of all the films I've worked on. Too proud actually. Haughty even. Smug.They make me feel very important.

Reviews

[AB · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lol. Nicely detailed artwork.

[Nickolas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Similar to my review of Victory, Lord Cockswain is a cross between Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt and Hunter S. Thomson thrown into a Jules Verne novel. Imperial brutish British machismo at the turn of the century in African campaigns but instead of Africa it's Mars and Venus...but the mass murdering and game hunting is the same. It's a turn of the century Starship Troopers meets Futurama's Zapp Brannigan. The print and art style in this has improved. I really like the humour and this campy romp through space.

[Susannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

An enjoyably steampunk, tongue-in-cheek comic book. It satirises colonialism in its depiction of inter-planetary relations, and particularly British gung-ho attitudes of that time. It also profiles more ray-gun designs, and features delightful movie art posters starring our "hero", Lord Cockswain.

[Raoul G-dot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Superb!!! As of Autumn it will be available in Germany!!!

[Becky Bone · Rating 5 out of 5]

love greg broadmore's art, imagination and pure talent...love the work he's done for Weta workshop as a concept artist too...genius.

[Tim Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

A rollicking alcohol-fueled romp about the solar system with ray-guns, strange aliens and the most manly or men; Lord Cockswain.