Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright, In Development As TV Series Bryan Talbot's Luther Arkwright, In Development As TV Series Posted on Bryan Talbot's Heart of Empire to develop, finance, and produce a live action, returning, Luther Arkwright TV series. Considered to be one of the most significant and influential British graphic novel series to come out of Britain, Luther Arkwright first appeared in 1976 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". His solo series,