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A comics masterpiece of classic sci-fi, illustrated by the acclaimed artist Moebius, starring private detective John Difool.
Book Details
Publisher:
Self Made Hero
Publication Date:
10-Mar-2011
ISBN:
9781906838393
Guardian review
The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky, illustrated by Moebius - review
the guardian Tue 11 October 2011
From its opening panels, in which shambling detective John Difool is thrown through the strata of a great city, passing snipers and copycats on his way to a lake of acid, The Incal is entrancing. Such were this wildly imaginative 80s comic's similarities to The Fifth Element that Jodorowsky sued the film-makers. He lost, but the series should get a deserved new audience with this one-volume reissue, which restores the colouring and the once-censored nudity of the original strip. The hyperactive plot involves a MacGuffin called the Incal; the book's twists and turns are sometimes incomprehensible and sometimes tiresome and there's a bit too much spiritual waffle along the way but the "Jodoverse" is an inspired creation, and the pair render it quite brilliantly. The wonderful drawings capture strange worlds populated by technopriests, rubbish-dwelling mutants, doppelgängers, giant jellyfish, chiming forests of gems and jostling, selfish humanity. It crackles with invention: if you like your sci-fi, you'll love this.