"In a pulpy alternate universe, a great inventor named Doctor Grordbort is selling ray guns and rockets to colonize the solar system."

io9.com speaks to Greg Broadmore at Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop about his Grordbort Comic, the character Cockswain and a few other things.

While Greg Broadmore considers himself to be working simply with retro sci-fi and not "Steam Punk" its certainly in a similar vien all be it without the steam power. Certainly it feels like a take on the worlds created by Edgar Rice Burroughs an author whom like Wells, Doyle, Verne, Haggard, Rohmer etc. finds himself at the heart of the love affair with the action, adventure and sci-fi of the late 1800's and early 1900's

Read about  The Savage World of Doctor Grordbort At io9 and then check out Dr. Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators.