Regarding to the script by Mike Butterworth, he manages to get away from the Flash Gordon stories getting his own personality, being enough for what this comic sets out to do. Otherwise the reader will delight with the magnificent drawings by Don Lawrence, which is the best part of this comic. However, the Trigan stories err of Eurocentrism -but in no case of racism- and women are practically invisible in the plot, but we must assume that this is typical at the time it was written. Other Elekton civilizations are copied from other Earth ethnicities: the empires of China and Persia or the Zulu Kingdom. The Trigan Empire is clearly similar to the Roman Empire, the brave men with their “centurion” style, its Gladius sword and with some updated details, such as visors on helmets and some futurist weapons. The aesthetics of the Trigan Empire comic, also like in the Alex Raymond’s, combine the aspect of historical nations with some modern technology: swords and laser pistols, horses and rocketships. Like its predecessor, the stories are simple, self-contained and in this case intended for publication in monthly installments, so that its continuous reading like in this volume can be a bit repetitive for the reader. It could be said that it is an adaptation of Alex Raymond's work at the sixties: the content of this first volume was published between 19. The comic is clearly indebted to the Flash Gordon comic strips: like in the world Mongo, there is the planet that we will get exploring and we will know abotu the intrigues and wars between the Trigan Empire and the other civilizations with the undisputed leadership of the main character Trigo, although little by little it gives way to its nephew Janno. The fist volume of "The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire" covers the period from the founding of the Trigan empire by warlord Trigo to the first interplanetary journey off planet Elekton, which is where all the stories take place.