Alain Mengel est un mandarin de la Sorbonne, féru de philosophie rationnaliste. Troublé par une ravissante élève-disciple, il s'est pourtant abandonné, dans la Folle du Sacré-Coeur, à une incroyable expédition mystique. Inattendu, féroce et plus drôle encore que le premier volume de cette irrationnelle saga métaphysique.
Better known for his surreal films El Topo and The Holy Mountain filmed in the early 1970s, Alejandro Jodorowsky is also an accomplished writer of graphic novels and a psychotherapist. He developed Psychomagic, a combination of psychotherapy and shamanic magic. His fans have included John Lennon and Marilyn Manson.
A different side of Jodorowski and Moebius's collaborations, one that feels far more in line with El Topo than Incal. This introduces Alan Manguel, an aging professor that seems to embody Jodorowski's more pretentious moments, who is discredited and then adopted into a group that seems to think he will help bring about the birth of the messiah. The story moves quickly and when it is its own inner-logic, which is more and more alien to the writer but consistent to Jodorowski's world. The artwork is more naturalistic and engaging that some of Jodorowski and Moebius's more futuristic work.
More developed in this volume, the miracles start to build and the strangeness of the world Jodorowski builds shows that the weirder side is more the consistent to the vision. Great stuff.
Chef d'oeuvre, un récit hors du commun, qui mêle obscurantisme, mysticisme, ésotérisme, et autres thèmes très intéressants...tout cela avec en toile de fond un récit d'aventure captivant et un dessin très agréable à lire...