The Adventures of Luther Arkwright is a nine-issue comic book limited series written and drawn by Bryan Talbot in the period 1978–1989.
[citation needed] Arkwright made his first appearance in the mid-1970s in "The Papist Affair", a short strip for Brainstorm Comix where Arkwright teamed up with a group of cigar-chewing biker nuns to recover the sacred relics of "St. Adolf of Nuremberg" from "a buncha male chauvinist priests".
The eponymous hero has the unique talent of being able to move between universes purely by force of will, and is aided by Rose Wylde, a telepath whose many incarnations across the parallels can communicate with one another.
[11] In 1987, Serge Boissevain paid for the printing of the Valkyrie Press trade paperback, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Book 2: Transfiguration.
In 2005 the artwork was digitally remastered by Comics Centrum for an edition in Czech (Dobrodružství Luther Arkwrighta), allowing proper reproduction of both light and dark parts of "tonal" pages.
[citation needed] In 2006, the story was republished as a webcomic using the digitally remastered files at the official fan page.
[14] In 2005, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright was made into a full-cast, three-CD audio adventure by Big Finish Productions, starring David Tennant (cast near the time of the CD's release as the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who) and Paul Darrow (Avon in Blake's 7).
David Tennant returned as Arkwright, along with the entire cast from the 2005 production, with the exception of Paul Darrow, who had passed away in 2019.
[15] In 2006, Benderspink announced a live action film adaptation of Arkwright, with producers Andrew Prowse and Sophie Patrick.