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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The world in this series is as big as Star Wars. This edition collects 6 volumes of Une Aventure De John Difool published from 1981-1988.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An unbelievable ride. Even the ending doesn't give you a second to catch your breath. The universe is on the brink of collapse and The Incal doesn't want you to contemplate anything deep necessarily, it just asks you to hold on for dear life. No time for questions, because there aren't answers anyway. It's a real trip too, somewhere between psychedelic and cyberpunk, has a kind of corny 70s charm. Deepo, the talking bird, is easily one of my favorite characters in any sci-fi. So much of what's here bleeds into Mœbius' later work in Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element, and The Abyss. If the story isn't really your thing, nearly every page is a work of art and you could pore over the details for a long time. I got this through interlibrary loan and am bummed to return it today, especially with that ending that compels you to head right back to the start.
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A damn fun Space Opera romp that cheerfully has that classic underground, independent comics humor and pacing. There is a tiny bit of suffering from the "side character exposition what is happening as it does or "explaining what I'm doing out loud", and the early side characters don't really go through too much crazy development at all really, but overall for me it's about the damn vibes. This thing is just fun to read as you experience both Moebius's amazing artwork in combination with this rag-tag group of spacefarers and political backstabbing among god-like figures and corporate monarchists. You can definitely see SOME of the Dune allusions that were taking from Joderowsky's left over script, but it absolutely is it's own thing over all, at most the previously mentioned political backstabbing is the most prominent aspect that I think people could point to that Dune script as a crossed-over element. But it's at best only maybe a fourth of the plot and has much less of the commentary and multiple key plot factors that Dune did in it's political drama.
Compelling, creative, grand, gentle, and visually stunning, the use of archetypes as characters leaves a flatness, a lack of depth or development. It's not necessary to have believable relationships or character growth in a galaxy-spanning sci-fi romp of mystical passion, but they're pretty important in a story about love and transformation.
Beautiful art, but the storyline gets so convoluted (or maybe too deep for me???)
Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius’s THE INCAL (1980-1988, trans. Justin Kelly & Sasha Watson) is a big space opera full of broad comedy and gorgeous artwork. It gets a bit woowoo psychedelic for my taste on a story level, but it’s quite the feat of imagination.
Jodorowsky's work is brilliant and bizarre. I can recognize the brilliance, but sometimes it's just too bizarre for my taste.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes