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The Incal
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Half-baked, with some beautiful moments scattered throughout. Jodorowsky throws a hundred semi-related ideas, worlds, colors, and characters at a wall. Some of them stick, many don't.
This is a very disjointed experience. We often cut from one location to another, but the plot is so fuzzy and expository that it's hard to follow the thread. I was often confused as to whether we were cross-cutting between different scenes or we were still in the same one, since the use of color and world design is so wild and fluid that I couldn't get my bearings.
The writing and exposition are abysmal. There was only one section in the sixth volume, when we peel away the flimsy secondary characters and get a straightforward story of the protag and his sidekick, that I was able to be engrossed in the plot and ideas presented. Otherwise, this thing lives and dies by the gorgeous and wacky panels of Mœbius.
The Incal is a mess, but I'm glad I read it.
This is a very disjointed experience. We often cut from one location to another, but the plot is so fuzzy and expository that it's hard to follow the thread. I was often confused as to whether we were cross-cutting between different scenes or we were still in the same one, since the use of color and world design is so wild and fluid that I couldn't get my bearings.
The writing and exposition are abysmal. There was only one section in the sixth volume, when we peel away the flimsy secondary characters and get a straightforward story of the protag and his sidekick, that I was able to be engrossed in the plot and ideas presented. Otherwise, this thing lives and dies by the gorgeous and wacky panels of Mœbius.
The Incal is a mess, but I'm glad I read it.