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klemler's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
jackb_93's review against another edition
Another supreme achievement, The Incal saga may be one of the great works of our age. John DiFool is still a man for our times, perpetually falling in a debauched metropolis, having lost his innocence, and needing to wake up to the possibilities of increased consciousness. The book feels like it contains the whole spectrum of human emotion.
arrianne's review against another edition
5.0
So I read this after Akala mentioned the series is his favourite in Natives. I started with The Incal, which in the timeline should be second but was the first written, on some vague recommendation I read online and I think it would work either way.
If you read it the way I did, this is the backstory of John DiFool, Class R Detective, and the tale of him falling in love and solving some of the most scandalous crimes set to at least keep people glued to their TV sets for a bit.
The world it’s set in has very obviously inspired other things, most clearly The Fifth Element, with its malevolent corporations, focus on consumption, lack of morals and obsession with televising more and more scandalous events to keep interest. The art is amazing. I definitely think I preferred this to The Incal but both are great.
CW: near-constant violence or threat of violence/rape, substance use.
If you read it the way I did, this is the backstory of John DiFool, Class R Detective, and the tale of him falling in love and solving some of the most scandalous crimes set to at least keep people glued to their TV sets for a bit.
The world it’s set in has very obviously inspired other things, most clearly The Fifth Element, with its malevolent corporations, focus on consumption, lack of morals and obsession with televising more and more scandalous events to keep interest. The art is amazing. I definitely think I preferred this to The Incal but both are great.
CW: near-constant violence or threat of violence/rape, substance use.
donfoolery's review against another edition
4.0
The book almost defies your expectations of a prequel for [b:The Incal|10842223|The Incal|Alejandro Jodorowsky|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328039960s/10842223.jpg|15756581]. Still, you get the origins of pathetic Class "R" detective John DiFool, you see the byzantine and surreal chain of events that push him directly to his role in that story, and you see in the last chapter--which I personally could've done without--wherein Jodo feels the need to show every other character in The Incal and how they're positioned to take up their roles in that book. But that doesn't take away from how brilliantly the Jodoverse was fleshed out by Zoran Janjetov in true Moebius-like fashion. And while this story is a significantly lighter on spiritual concepts than The Incal, Jodo does a great job highlighting the existential and practical suffering of a world which lacks the spiritual.
amadswami's review against another edition
3.0
Beautiful art, but little to no plot.
What a disappointment.
What a disappointment.
lukemosher's review against another edition
Jodorowsky continues to dazzle, and Janjetov continues Moebius's spirit. One thing I didn't notice until the interview with Janjetov at the end, but when Jodorowsky was first introduced to his artwork, he said it reminded him of Moebius's early stuff, before he refined his style, so he decided to write an Incal prequel to fit the style, and over the course of the book the art style gradually becomes more refined, until the very last section, where it looks pretty much exactly like Moebius, at which point the timeline of the original Incal starts. What a fun ride. I also got myself After Incal, The Metabaron, and The Technopriests, and hope to read straight through them this Christmas, to give myself something to do. Long live Jodorowsky!