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Lone Sloane #3
Delirius
Lone Sloan es un neoterrestre de ojos rojos y poderes fuera de lo común, un rebelde que desafía a Emperador del Universo, a las fierzas oscuras del Cosmos, e incluso a los mismos dioses. Viaja con sus acólitos a bordo de la nave galática O Sidarta , visitando extraños planetas y corriendo un sinfín de aventuras.
Esta serie, inédita hasta ahora en nuestro país, nos ofrece la oportunidad de sumergirnos en el universo galáctico y psicodélico creado por Philippe Druillet, consagrado autor que con esta obra se muestra aún más rompedor y alejado de los anquilosados conceptos de la historieta clásica.
Tras el éxito conseguido con la publicación, por primera vez en España, de una obra del gran artista francés del comic Philippe Druillet: Los 6 viajes de Lone Sloane, EDT prosigue la publicación de las hazañas del héroe espacial con la siguiente entrega de su saga: Delirius. Ahora, tras las aventuras que en el anterior volumen nos presentaron al personaje y su universo, Lone Sloane incrementa la intensidad de su lucha contra el tiránico Imperator del Universo, Shaan, al intentar subvertir su dominio sobre el planeta Delirius, un mundo que es un enorme parque temático en donde todos los vicios y placeres están permitidos: drogas, prostitución, juego, incluso combates a muerte de gladiadores… todo lo cual, claro, produce pingües beneficios que acaban en las arcas del gobierno imperial. Lone Sloane intentará cortar este flujo de dinero, enfrentándose no solamente a las fuerzas imperiales sino también al oscuro poderío de la Redención Roja, una extraña secta con enormes ansias de poder. Y recuerden que en este volumen se puede apreciar, aún mejor, cómo Philippe Druillet revolucionó el modo en que eran entendidos los cómics hasta su aparición en escena.
Esta serie, inédita hasta ahora en nuestro país, nos ofrece la oportunidad de sumergirnos en el universo galáctico y psicodélico creado por Philippe Druillet, consagrado autor que con esta obra se muestra aún más rompedor y alejado de los anquilosados conceptos de la historieta clásica.
Tras el éxito conseguido con la publicación, por primera vez en España, de una obra del gran artista francés del comic Philippe Druillet: Los 6 viajes de Lone Sloane, EDT prosigue la publicación de las hazañas del héroe espacial con la siguiente entrega de su saga: Delirius. Ahora, tras las aventuras que en el anterior volumen nos presentaron al personaje y su universo, Lone Sloane incrementa la intensidad de su lucha contra el tiránico Imperator del Universo, Shaan, al intentar subvertir su dominio sobre el planeta Delirius, un mundo que es un enorme parque temático en donde todos los vicios y placeres están permitidos: drogas, prostitución, juego, incluso combates a muerte de gladiadores… todo lo cual, claro, produce pingües beneficios que acaban en las arcas del gobierno imperial. Lone Sloane intentará cortar este flujo de dinero, enfrentándose no solamente a las fuerzas imperiales sino también al oscuro poderío de la Redención Roja, una extraña secta con enormes ansias de poder. Y recuerden que en este volumen se puede apreciar, aún mejor, cómo Philippe Druillet revolucionó el modo en que eran entendidos los cómics hasta su aparición en escena.
80 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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February 8, 2019
Many a comic reduces my faith in the genre. And a few proffer little more than a lukewarm boost. However, it is rare that one not only rekindles but provides a superior reading experience to boot. Delirious: a Lone Slonae Adventure is just one of these exceedingly rare gems.
Deeply crisped in the zeitgeist of the 70’s, the psychedelic feel of the era resonates across all areas of storytelling. From the starchily multi-colored scheme to the planet hopping delights of a more cosmically connected period, everything here squeals with LSD coated fervor. Perfectly contravening the brilliant palette within is a decidedly pugilistic bevy of means and methods. Exemplified by none other than our protagonist Lone Sloane.
Something of a Han Solo (actually preceding his existence by a year or so) with a fiercer amorality, Sloane is all about the solo, and all out for himself. Save a telepathic shorty, most everything not only revolves around him but, ends up reacted against him. When caught in a game of deceit and lies on the universe’s epicenter of pleasure Planet Delerious, the story only becomes increasingly epic in scope with each trot across the phenomenally vast landscape and its decadent environs.
From twist to escape, each and everything here revels in its otherworldly awesomeness. Amazingly enough, cohesion is never lost nor is the energy within which only continues to abound with even greater vigor as the story sloughs on. And when the even the inevitable end is reached, you’ll be thirsty for more.
Deeply crisped in the zeitgeist of the 70’s, the psychedelic feel of the era resonates across all areas of storytelling. From the starchily multi-colored scheme to the planet hopping delights of a more cosmically connected period, everything here squeals with LSD coated fervor. Perfectly contravening the brilliant palette within is a decidedly pugilistic bevy of means and methods. Exemplified by none other than our protagonist Lone Sloane.
Something of a Han Solo (actually preceding his existence by a year or so) with a fiercer amorality, Sloane is all about the solo, and all out for himself. Save a telepathic shorty, most everything not only revolves around him but, ends up reacted against him. When caught in a game of deceit and lies on the universe’s epicenter of pleasure Planet Delerious, the story only becomes increasingly epic in scope with each trot across the phenomenally vast landscape and its decadent environs.
From twist to escape, each and everything here revels in its otherworldly awesomeness. Amazingly enough, cohesion is never lost nor is the energy within which only continues to abound with even greater vigor as the story sloughs on. And when the even the inevitable end is reached, you’ll be thirsty for more.
October 1, 2019
2019 est pour moi pour moi une année formidable en découvertes de trésors. Et les dessinateurs de la bande dessinée française naissante après Mai 68 forment une constéllation de métaux précieux richissime. Druillet précisement figure comme piece centrale dans cette effervescence artistique et culturelle qui commence avec Pilote (fondé par Goscinny, père d'Asterix) et s'épanouie avec Métal Hurlant, aux côtés d'un autre nom majeur de la BD, Moebius. Delirium est un auto-portrait, c'est Druillet par Druillet sous la plume du journaliste David Alliot. Un parcours de vie fascinant, un passé familial refoulé et douloureux qui va détoner en rage creatrice demesurée qui ménera Philippe Druillet à construire toute une réalité parallele, un univers onirique, barroque et quelque part futuriste aussi ou le genre 'hero fantasy' s'accouple tant bien au péplum comme à l'expressionisme et à la science-fiction - Salammbô, La Nuit que je lis en mode simultané, Vuzz, Lone Sloane, Yragäel, etc etc. Et encore les collaborations avec les decors pour le cinema et clips de musique - https://youtu.be/b6sWcUZh-zc - les objects et les meubles qui font aujourd'hui part de collections privées de gens tel que Benjamin Rotschild.
Comme personnage, Druillet lui-même pourrait bien être un mélange entre ogre, druide et sorcier, et hippie psychadélique. Tout ça à la fois ou alors allant jusqu'au fond de chaque personages.
Passion est un mot d'ordre et ses lecteurs s'y reconnaisse.
Comme personnage, Druillet lui-même pourrait bien être un mélange entre ogre, druide et sorcier, et hippie psychadélique. Tout ça à la fois ou alors allant jusqu'au fond de chaque personages.
Passion est un mot d'ordre et ses lecteurs s'y reconnaisse.
July 9, 2022
Tomes 1-3 NOT just tome #3
"Dragon's Dream" is a French publisher who seems to be an imprint of Dargaud from the looks of the copyright which also shows that this is the English edition printed for Heavy Metal
The stories are quite confusing and over-ambitious but plenty entertaining.
His painting is stunning with everything that doesn't have skin because the characters look too imprecise when compared to the architectural-type mastery of the settings that they populate but he does manage to make it work in his favor with the inordinate amount of grotesques who become sloppier looking because of it.
The color is absolutely horrendous throughout. I'd guess reprints look drastically different.
"Dragon's Dream" is a French publisher who seems to be an imprint of Dargaud from the looks of the copyright which also shows that this is the English edition printed for Heavy Metal
The stories are quite confusing and over-ambitious but plenty entertaining.
His painting is stunning with everything that doesn't have skin because the characters look too imprecise when compared to the architectural-type mastery of the settings that they populate but he does manage to make it work in his favor with the inordinate amount of grotesques who become sloppier looking because of it.
The color is absolutely horrendous throughout. I'd guess reprints look drastically different.
August 13, 2022
The artwork is fantastic at times but its too busy, the panel layout is nonsensical, and the color makes the whole thing a bit blurry and hard to see. I own a digital copy of some of Druillet's work, and even blown up on a large screen his art is incredibly dense and difficult to interpret.
So on the one hand, the artwork is mind-blowing but, on the other hand, its a bit too mentally taxing. Combine that with the incomprehensible story (complete with tonnes of pointless text boxes and dialogue) and this is not an enjoyable book.
I'll still be excited whenever I see a magazine with Druillet's artwork but his long form work has yet to impress.
So on the one hand, the artwork is mind-blowing but, on the other hand, its a bit too mentally taxing. Combine that with the incomprehensible story (complete with tonnes of pointless text boxes and dialogue) and this is not an enjoyable book.
I'll still be excited whenever I see a magazine with Druillet's artwork but his long form work has yet to impress.
January 3, 2020
Probablement ma BD préférée de tous les temps!
April 13, 2017
This comic was one of the hardest comics I've ever read, it was very hard to follow the story and the art style is to say the least extremely abstract, while its awesome to wander in the pictures for extended periods of time lost in details you lose touch with the story. The whole comic was like a psychedelic art piece. Still one can realize how many artists copied bits and pieces from Druillets works, this is a unique piece indubitably.
February 13, 2025
Every comic I read by this guy I fall a bit harder in love with him. Philippe Druillet you genius fuck you
March 27, 2017
This is even better then the last of of Druillet I read because this have a sane story inside, or more correctly stories as the whole book are full of small stories connected pnly by the head protaginist and his adventires in space.
As the last book the author's pictures are haunting, full of great details and disrubing yet deeph and sureqlistic in nature and colouring.
His protagonist, Lone Sloane, is some kind of antihero, a warlord only intrested in himself and how he can rule the galaxies and are the instument of some dark Gods. Great backgound story and together with this fantastic imagery its a dark, fantastic and amazing grapic novel!!!
Some references to other things in here are the ship Sidara (=sidharta?) and one Elric the necromanter (Michael Moorcock's Elric?) and maybe also Lovecraftian inspirations together with a big city of pleasure and drikning, las vegas, with a district called killjoy and a readclad sect novice named Jeriko.
As the last book the author's pictures are haunting, full of great details and disrubing yet deeph and sureqlistic in nature and colouring.
His protagonist, Lone Sloane, is some kind of antihero, a warlord only intrested in himself and how he can rule the galaxies and are the instument of some dark Gods. Great backgound story and together with this fantastic imagery its a dark, fantastic and amazing grapic novel!!!
Some references to other things in here are the ship Sidara (=sidharta?) and one Elric the necromanter (Michael Moorcock's Elric?) and maybe also Lovecraftian inspirations together with a big city of pleasure and drikning, las vegas, with a district called killjoy and a readclad sect novice named Jeriko.
February 27, 2019
C'est peut-être ma BD préférée de Druillet. Son style est incomparable, fantasmagorique et terriblement détaillé, ce qui peut soit émerveiller, soit complètement désarçonner. En ce qui me concerne, son dessin m'épate et me rend bouche bée. Delirius se distingue des autres parce que la narration est quasiment parfaite, le scénario impeccable, et que tout s'emboîte idéalement en quelques pages. J'ai refermé ce livre en ayant l'impression d'avoir lu un chef-d'œuvre, qui restera en moi très longtemps et vers lequel je risque fortement de revenir.
August 20, 2024
still lightly plotted, but this is far superior to "six voyages" because the focus on the planet delirius - rendered in gory, grand guignol detail by druillet - gives the sense after 70 or so pages that one has experienced a full story, right down to the fact that the civil war that sloane instigates is understood by him to amount to nothing, a struggle between grifters who agree on the underlying stakes of a rigged game (the closest thing we'll get to philosophy out of this series, one assumes...not that we need any to enjoy these layouts).
October 22, 2021
Sometimes overambitious and excessively violent, each page looks like one of those old black velvet paintings hippies used to hang... The author experiments constantly with his panels, there is an entire escher sequence. The story is nihilistic and epic, can and should be compared to the Incal
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March 6, 2024
Delirius is an awesome follow up to The 6 Voyages. We get a more structured story, though still somewhat basic and ridiculous, and the art is just as awesome.
For some reason Goodreads has Delirius 2 (the sequal to Delirius, a completely separate work) listed as an alternative edition of Delirius. This is obviously wrong and will hopefully be fixed by the editors.
But anyway, since this is my only option, Delirius 2: it was started by Jacques Lob and Philippe Druillet not too long after the original Delirius, but they never finished and then Lob passed, which messed Druillet up and the sequel was shelved indefinitely. Druillet finally finished it in in 2021. He used a bunch of preliminary sketches in the final work, so the line work is really rough for many of the drawings. But it features some classic full page drawings that make the book a must-have for any Druillet fan, despite the meagre story.
For some reason Goodreads has Delirius 2 (the sequal to Delirius, a completely separate work) listed as an alternative edition of Delirius. This is obviously wrong and will hopefully be fixed by the editors.
But anyway, since this is my only option, Delirius 2: it was started by Jacques Lob and Philippe Druillet not too long after the original Delirius, but they never finished and then Lob passed, which messed Druillet up and the sequel was shelved indefinitely. Druillet finally finished it in in 2021. He used a bunch of preliminary sketches in the final work, so the line work is really rough for many of the drawings. But it features some classic full page drawings that make the book a must-have for any Druillet fan, despite the meagre story.
February 9, 2016
I read the recent Titan Comics hardcover English edition. The reproduction quality of the artwork is stunning. You can see that Druillet has drawn tiny individuals in many of the vast crowd scenes on the decadent pleasure planet, Delirius.
In contrast to The Six Voyages, this volume is a single long graphic novel, rather than short episodes. While it is less a mind blowing journey and more a caper story, it has a satisfying cynical edge. The mysterious Sloane and his friend Yearl careen from one dangerous scrape to the next, making enemies of the tyrannical government and the corrupt Red Redemption church. But in the end Sloane is playing his own angle, and out-thinks them all.
In contrast to The Six Voyages, this volume is a single long graphic novel, rather than short episodes. While it is less a mind blowing journey and more a caper story, it has a satisfying cynical edge. The mysterious Sloane and his friend Yearl careen from one dangerous scrape to the next, making enemies of the tyrannical government and the corrupt Red Redemption church. But in the end Sloane is playing his own angle, and out-thinks them all.
July 18, 2012
Pretty impressive - equal parts groundbreaking (for the time) and unbalanced. The story is nonsense for the most part, and the artwork splashes all over the pages in an impossible to follow progression of panels, but the end result is pretty awesome. It's a shame so little Druillet stuff was made available in English, and even less of it is still accessible - you could name 25 artists who were inspired by this stuff without even trying.
January 17, 2016
Trippy. cosmic and fantastic. Philippe Druillet is taking you out there
among the stars. His layouts are exotic and its interesting to note
that he is influence by american comic book artists such as Jack
Kirby,etc. Of course, you would never know this as the story is
psychedelic journey that will leave your head spinning.
June 28, 2013
Reading all Heavy Metal magazines from 1977 - the eighties.
August 18, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMrs...
(Entrevue avec l'auteur)
(Entrevue avec l'auteur)
December 31, 2018
Trippy. cosmic and fantastic. And totally unbalanced.
If Jack Kirby was more classically trained.
If Jack Kirby was more classically trained.
April 13, 2020
Troisième de la série de Lone Sloane. Si c'est ce à quoi ressemble le rêves de Philippe Druillet, je ne voudrais pas faire partie des ses cauchemards.
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