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A grand scale space opera about family, sacrifice, and survival told within an immense universe, both in scope and originality. A must-read cult spin-off of The Incal, by Moebius and Jodorowsky, centering around the fascinating lineage of the ultimate warrior. This collection introduces the Metabaron's bloodline and reveals the origins of their deep-seated principles. Find out the source of the family's vast wealth, learn why every Metabaron has cybernetic implants, and why the only way to become the next Metabaron is for him to defeat his own father in a mortal combat. Follow each successive generation as it struggles to overcome the forces amassed against it in a galaxy corrupted by greed, power, and terror. A true classic in the pantheon of graphic storytelling and Science Fiction as a whole.
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First published January 1, 1992
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
692 books1,942 followersAlso credited as Alexandro Jodorowsky
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.
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.
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February 7, 2017
The Metabarons: Incest, Dismemberment, Genital Mutilation... but the Comedic Fails are Brutal
Alejandro Jodorowsky, at his age, will never master the art of shutting the fuck up. He will never write proper female characters that aren’t idealized and objectified sex-goddesses, insane fanatics, or spiteful old hags. He will never quit trying to be funny (and failing). He will never crack a book in order to make his science fiction even vaguely scientific. I've learned to accept all that shit, though I didn't know much about him before my first reading of 'The Metabarons'. This is Alejandro Jodorowsky's epic spin-off from the equally epic Incal trilogy. The character of the Metabaron was a supporting player in the fucked-up 'space-wizard' proceedings, but he was also a charismatic enigma, and Jodo had plans - ugly, evil plans - for him and his entire family. Ideas from his failed attempt at bringing Dune to the screen made their way into all the bande dessinee space operas he has written over the decades, but The Metabarons - after The Incal - squeezes the best of them from the tube, like a revised version of the film that completely expurgates Frank Herbert's story. The film had already ejected most of the novel anyway; Jodo was essentially using Dune as a subterfuge to raise capital for his own story. He had no intention of realizing Frank Herbert's vision, or any vision that wasn't his. If Kubrick could treat the source material for 2001 and The Shining like soft clay, to be shaped or cast aside by the auteur, so could he! That's another reason for the production's financial collapse, as investors suspected they were being conned into funding a mega-budget sci-fi sequel to 'El Topo', with sand-worms and spice.
Mega-macho murder by numbers:
Juan Gimenez provides page after fully painted page of otherworldly vistas and horrific mutant hybrids; carefully detailed robotic machinery, weapons and armor; beautiful women and brutal combat... blood spurting everywhere and often. The impressive array of artists that Jodo has worked with throughout his career includes some of the greatest comic artists of the 20th Century -- Moebius, Milo Manara, Ladronn, Georges Bess, Francois Boucq, Beltran, Das Pastoras, Arno, Travis Charest, Zoran Janjetov, etc., etc. Gimenez is far from the best of them. He's not the slickest, or the most technically proficient of Jodo's many collaborators, and there is occasionally confusion regarding both characters and action, stemming from the rough, unpolished feel. When he's at his best, though, his rich colors and dense compositions make The Metabarons look like the weird mix of beautiful and fugly that defines the spirit of the Jodoverse. It's unfortunate, in fact, that Jodorowsky's verbosity impinges on the art like it does, probably exacerbating the random bits of visual incoherence. A great deal of the action is obscured by this 'narrator-interference'... because Jodorowsky's biggest fault is an inability to just shut the fuck up and let the artist tell the story.
This is the kind of thing where Gimenez shines; his talent as a conceptual artist, imagining alien worlds and future-tech, is truly fantastic:
Nevertheless, this remains a multi-generational BD-epic like no other, telling the tale of four generations of Metabarons, and the harsh, inexplicably fucked-up demands they place upon themselves and their loved ones. It’s batshit crazy. They’re warriors, living by a kind of Bushido-code-on-steroids; the sick and brutal tests they inflict on their children are designed to prepare them for their final test, when the child will face the father in a battle to the bloody death. As for why? I have no fucking clue. Maybe if I was swimming in a pool of elephant testosterone and jamming steroids into my eyeballs it might seem reasonable for a family to torture, dismember and murder each other for the sake of claiming the 'Mega-Macho' crown. But… I don’t have a pool. Most of Jodorowsky’s weirdness can be distilled down to a super-violent machismo, draped with a pseudo-Zen mysticism meant to give all this earnest/ironic idiocy an illusion of depth.
(Top) the idiocy in question. Is patricide/infanticide really necessary? Couldn’t the father-son death-match be swapped out for Scrabble, or some other ‘manly’ boardgame?
The more I read by Jodo, and come to recognize the same basic themes and characters repeating throughout his oeuvre, the more he... annoys me. For a guy who’s spent much of his career doing science fiction, he might know less about science than any SF writer since Jules Verne... and even though Verne belonged to a temporal locale where the Newtonian model of reality hadn't been molested by the brain-fucking revelations of relativity and quantum mechanics, I still think Jules could science the fuck out of Jodo. His solution to an awe-inspiring ignorance is adorable: he puts the words ‘techno’ and ‘space’ in front of everything. I take his books in small doses, usually, so the standard 48-page BD album is just about right. Worse than the ignorance, he thinks he's pretty fucking funny, and apparently no one's had the heart to tell him that his comedic failures are getting far more spectacular and explosive than the stories themselves. Still... there is a lot to like here, if you can tolerate tuning in to the Jodorowsky wave-length...
^^^ Yeah ^^^... that's Jodo's audio-visual frequency. And... \/ THIS \/ looks like Jodo's Zen-Viking-Christmas miracle:
So... yeah. If you're down for the whacky space opera, manly violence, and the slight risk of Jodo-psychosis, 'The Metabarons' remains one of the foundation stones of modern SF BD... even if the robot narrator and his pal come perilously close to Jar-Jar Binks-level shittiness.
While Gimenez is sometimes haphazard with his interior art, his covers for the various international editions of the series are spectacular, often combining Renaissance and early Baroque portraiture with classic SF elements, and somehow avoiding the artistic disaster that most SF illustrators would make of it:
If you’re feeling generous, however, you could take all the camp, the silly names and over-the-top violence, and see it all as satire and/or Kaufmann-esque comedy. Perhaps the Metabaron code is a satirical ‘reductio ad absurdum’, condemning the glorification of ‘Warrior-Codes’, and exposing their deleterious effects in civilized societies where that manipulative philosophy is not just antiquated, but dangerous. It could be satire on every level… or simply a gleeful writer’s ID unleashed. In a lot of ways, Jodo's ultra-violent visions remind me of Paul Verhoeven's 'Starship Troopers' or 'Robocop': brutality and gore and vaguely fascistic politics that almost seem like satire... but it's hard to say for certain. Or perhaps Jodorowsky’s days as a film auteur -- serving as writer, director, editor and actor for his hugely influential and successful avant garde masterworks like ‘El Topo’ and ‘The Holy Mountain’ – influenced Verhoeven. As I said earlier, you either accept Jodo's flaws and eccentricities, or avoid his entire body of work. Despite the image he tries to project of himself as a shaman-philosopher in tune with the music of the spheres, walking the ley-lines and shuffling his tarot deck, he owes his success to an arrogance so intense it's blinding. He's a Director, dammit!
2.75/5.00 Stars
Alejandro Jodorowsky, at his age, will never master the art of shutting the fuck up. He will never write proper female characters that aren’t idealized and objectified sex-goddesses, insane fanatics, or spiteful old hags. He will never quit trying to be funny (and failing). He will never crack a book in order to make his science fiction even vaguely scientific. I've learned to accept all that shit, though I didn't know much about him before my first reading of 'The Metabarons'. This is Alejandro Jodorowsky's epic spin-off from the equally epic Incal trilogy. The character of the Metabaron was a supporting player in the fucked-up 'space-wizard' proceedings, but he was also a charismatic enigma, and Jodo had plans - ugly, evil plans - for him and his entire family. Ideas from his failed attempt at bringing Dune to the screen made their way into all the bande dessinee space operas he has written over the decades, but The Metabarons - after The Incal - squeezes the best of them from the tube, like a revised version of the film that completely expurgates Frank Herbert's story. The film had already ejected most of the novel anyway; Jodo was essentially using Dune as a subterfuge to raise capital for his own story. He had no intention of realizing Frank Herbert's vision, or any vision that wasn't his. If Kubrick could treat the source material for 2001 and The Shining like soft clay, to be shaped or cast aside by the auteur, so could he! That's another reason for the production's financial collapse, as investors suspected they were being conned into funding a mega-budget sci-fi sequel to 'El Topo', with sand-worms and spice.
Mega-macho murder by numbers:
Juan Gimenez provides page after fully painted page of otherworldly vistas and horrific mutant hybrids; carefully detailed robotic machinery, weapons and armor; beautiful women and brutal combat... blood spurting everywhere and often. The impressive array of artists that Jodo has worked with throughout his career includes some of the greatest comic artists of the 20th Century -- Moebius, Milo Manara, Ladronn, Georges Bess, Francois Boucq, Beltran, Das Pastoras, Arno, Travis Charest, Zoran Janjetov, etc., etc. Gimenez is far from the best of them. He's not the slickest, or the most technically proficient of Jodo's many collaborators, and there is occasionally confusion regarding both characters and action, stemming from the rough, unpolished feel. When he's at his best, though, his rich colors and dense compositions make The Metabarons look like the weird mix of beautiful and fugly that defines the spirit of the Jodoverse. It's unfortunate, in fact, that Jodorowsky's verbosity impinges on the art like it does, probably exacerbating the random bits of visual incoherence. A great deal of the action is obscured by this 'narrator-interference'... because Jodorowsky's biggest fault is an inability to just shut the fuck up and let the artist tell the story.
This is the kind of thing where Gimenez shines; his talent as a conceptual artist, imagining alien worlds and future-tech, is truly fantastic:
Nevertheless, this remains a multi-generational BD-epic like no other, telling the tale of four generations of Metabarons, and the harsh, inexplicably fucked-up demands they place upon themselves and their loved ones. It’s batshit crazy. They’re warriors, living by a kind of Bushido-code-on-steroids; the sick and brutal tests they inflict on their children are designed to prepare them for their final test, when the child will face the father in a battle to the bloody death. As for why? I have no fucking clue. Maybe if I was swimming in a pool of elephant testosterone and jamming steroids into my eyeballs it might seem reasonable for a family to torture, dismember and murder each other for the sake of claiming the 'Mega-Macho' crown. But… I don’t have a pool. Most of Jodorowsky’s weirdness can be distilled down to a super-violent machismo, draped with a pseudo-Zen mysticism meant to give all this earnest/ironic idiocy an illusion of depth.
(Top) the idiocy in question. Is patricide/infanticide really necessary? Couldn’t the father-son death-match be swapped out for Scrabble, or some other ‘manly’ boardgame?
The more I read by Jodo, and come to recognize the same basic themes and characters repeating throughout his oeuvre, the more he... annoys me. For a guy who’s spent much of his career doing science fiction, he might know less about science than any SF writer since Jules Verne... and even though Verne belonged to a temporal locale where the Newtonian model of reality hadn't been molested by the brain-fucking revelations of relativity and quantum mechanics, I still think Jules could science the fuck out of Jodo. His solution to an awe-inspiring ignorance is adorable: he puts the words ‘techno’ and ‘space’ in front of everything. I take his books in small doses, usually, so the standard 48-page BD album is just about right. Worse than the ignorance, he thinks he's pretty fucking funny, and apparently no one's had the heart to tell him that his comedic failures are getting far more spectacular and explosive than the stories themselves. Still... there is a lot to like here, if you can tolerate tuning in to the Jodorowsky wave-length...
^^^ Yeah ^^^... that's Jodo's audio-visual frequency. And... \/ THIS \/ looks like Jodo's Zen-Viking-Christmas miracle:
So... yeah. If you're down for the whacky space opera, manly violence, and the slight risk of Jodo-psychosis, 'The Metabarons' remains one of the foundation stones of modern SF BD... even if the robot narrator and his pal come perilously close to Jar-Jar Binks-level shittiness.
While Gimenez is sometimes haphazard with his interior art, his covers for the various international editions of the series are spectacular, often combining Renaissance and early Baroque portraiture with classic SF elements, and somehow avoiding the artistic disaster that most SF illustrators would make of it:
If you’re feeling generous, however, you could take all the camp, the silly names and over-the-top violence, and see it all as satire and/or Kaufmann-esque comedy. Perhaps the Metabaron code is a satirical ‘reductio ad absurdum’, condemning the glorification of ‘Warrior-Codes’, and exposing their deleterious effects in civilized societies where that manipulative philosophy is not just antiquated, but dangerous. It could be satire on every level… or simply a gleeful writer’s ID unleashed. In a lot of ways, Jodo's ultra-violent visions remind me of Paul Verhoeven's 'Starship Troopers' or 'Robocop': brutality and gore and vaguely fascistic politics that almost seem like satire... but it's hard to say for certain. Or perhaps Jodorowsky’s days as a film auteur -- serving as writer, director, editor and actor for his hugely influential and successful avant garde masterworks like ‘El Topo’ and ‘The Holy Mountain’ – influenced Verhoeven. As I said earlier, you either accept Jodo's flaws and eccentricities, or avoid his entire body of work. Despite the image he tries to project of himself as a shaman-philosopher in tune with the music of the spheres, walking the ley-lines and shuffling his tarot deck, he owes his success to an arrogance so intense it's blinding. He's a Director, dammit!
March 23, 2019
This Jodorowsky's book recounts an astonishing tale about the History and lineage of the Metabarons. A traditional lineage of pre-historic galactic warriors with an ancestral code.
The narrative is conveyed through a conversation between two robots. One of the robots is the loyal servant of the unfeared Metabaron who recounts the lineage history of this pre-historic guild, an ancient guild that dwells through the Galaxy with a particular state of mind.
The story is quite appealing with an artwork that resembles H.R. Giger style. A lineage narrative that depicts loyalty, comradeship, and pre-historic traditions with Earthly roots. Furthermore, a sci-fi short story with mystical events and galactic battles.
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
The narrative is conveyed through a conversation between two robots. One of the robots is the loyal servant of the unfeared Metabaron who recounts the lineage history of this pre-historic guild, an ancient guild that dwells through the Galaxy with a particular state of mind.
The story is quite appealing with an artwork that resembles H.R. Giger style. A lineage narrative that depicts loyalty, comradeship, and pre-historic traditions with Earthly roots. Furthermore, a sci-fi short story with mystical events and galactic battles.
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
January 3, 2017
Crtež odličan, priča tako tako. Nije dovoljna jedna grafička novela "postanka" da shvatim sve o Metabaronima, ali zanimljivo je na nekakav tinejđersko ufurani kvazifilozofski način :)
Davno smo prerasli ovakve priče, no, meni je ovo prva grafička novela u životu koju čitam tako da... može proći. Crteže gledam dulje nego što čitam oblačiće.
Davno smo prerasli ovakve priče, no, meni je ovo prva grafička novela u životu koju čitam tako da... može proći. Crteže gledam dulje nego što čitam oblačiće.
April 26, 2021
"A MULTI-PROTONIC PELVIS..."
May 2, 2020
I knew what I was getting into when I started this since I've read the Incal and a few other things by Jodorowsky. It was pretty standard epic sci-fi fantasy fare. Things haven't gone quite off the rails yet despite part of the plot involving a space pirate heist ending with the main character getting his crotch shot off with a laser. This of course leads to the ending with a great emphasis on the guy's robot crotch. Giménez's really does elevate the book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 12, 2025
A book of its time, with the hyper violence, hyper sex, and hyper techno bable (I enjoy the idea of tech-priests, but techno-techno-priests is a too much), BUT has a solid story idea, it's emotionally void, fun world building, and the artwork I grew up idolising - I gravitated (still do) to the European line drawing much more than that from Mangas and, leagues away, the US comic books
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7.5/10
(read in English)
7.5/10
July 22, 2018
La ilustración es brutal, y la historia es tanto atrapante como interesante. Una sociedad construida con tanta profundidad que hasta los personajes menores tienen importancia.
January 31, 2017
(com fotos do interior em https://osrascunhos.com/2017/01/20/ot...)
Série clássica de ficção científica onde o esplendor da tecnologia se cruza com a humanidade, interligando-se em seres poderosos de base animal, mas levados ao expoente por adições mecânicas, Metabarões apresenta a imensidade das estrelas em Impérios intergalácticos, poderosos e implacáveis. Ao contrário dos sonhadores, o mundo altamente tecnológico aqui representado não é um paraíso idílico, mas um mundo frio e impiedoso onde a honra vale mais do que a vida.
Através de duas entidades artificiais que conversam sobre o seu herói e senhor, semi-humano de capacidades quase infinitas, é-nos dada a conhecer a história do trisavô do Metabarão. Neste volume explica-se a riqueza da família, bem como a sequência de eventos que terá fundado a famosa casta, e os rituais dolorosos que caracterizam a passagem para a idade adulta.
De geração em geração os guerreiros da família vão sendo treinados para suportar, sem expressão, os extremos da dor. Inteligentes e inexoráveis, colocando a honra e a promessa acima da vida, os antepassados de Metabarão vencem contra todas as probabilidades, ultrapassando em estratégia e força os que os rodeiam.
Só com uma ascendência destas se explica o guerreiro que veremos surgir, fruto de um contexto brutal, impiedoso e supremo, ao qual se adiciona uma avançada carga tecnológica, resultado de uma imensurável fortuna.
Entre paisagens de planetas onde vingam outras civilizações e o espaço povoado por gigantescas naves, as páginas estão carregadas de sonhos tecnológicos, puros e frios como o metal, imagens que reflectem uma ordem quase idílica, mas sem espaço para sentimentos. Seguem-se guerras e batalhas onde o espírito honrado confronta, para além dos heróis naturais, a vigarice da esperteza, nem sempre sem danos, mas sabendo integrar as mazelas numa estratégia insubmissa.
Série clássica de ficção científica onde o esplendor da tecnologia se cruza com a humanidade, interligando-se em seres poderosos de base animal, mas levados ao expoente por adições mecânicas, Metabarões apresenta a imensidade das estrelas em Impérios intergalácticos, poderosos e implacáveis. Ao contrário dos sonhadores, o mundo altamente tecnológico aqui representado não é um paraíso idílico, mas um mundo frio e impiedoso onde a honra vale mais do que a vida.
Através de duas entidades artificiais que conversam sobre o seu herói e senhor, semi-humano de capacidades quase infinitas, é-nos dada a conhecer a história do trisavô do Metabarão. Neste volume explica-se a riqueza da família, bem como a sequência de eventos que terá fundado a famosa casta, e os rituais dolorosos que caracterizam a passagem para a idade adulta.
De geração em geração os guerreiros da família vão sendo treinados para suportar, sem expressão, os extremos da dor. Inteligentes e inexoráveis, colocando a honra e a promessa acima da vida, os antepassados de Metabarão vencem contra todas as probabilidades, ultrapassando em estratégia e força os que os rodeiam.
Só com uma ascendência destas se explica o guerreiro que veremos surgir, fruto de um contexto brutal, impiedoso e supremo, ao qual se adiciona uma avançada carga tecnológica, resultado de uma imensurável fortuna.
Entre paisagens de planetas onde vingam outras civilizações e o espaço povoado por gigantescas naves, as páginas estão carregadas de sonhos tecnológicos, puros e frios como o metal, imagens que reflectem uma ordem quase idílica, mas sem espaço para sentimentos. Seguem-se guerras e batalhas onde o espírito honrado confronta, para além dos heróis naturais, a vigarice da esperteza, nem sempre sem danos, mas sabendo integrar as mazelas numa estratégia insubmissa.
March 14, 2011
Después de venir amarreteando estrellitas en varios libros meritorios, acá vuelvo a ponerle cuatro a uno que quizás tiene varias pifiadas (según mis oscilantes criterios) o cosas que no me convencieron, pero que a grandes rasgos me sorprendió para bien y me dieron ganas de leer más (de hecho, eso hice, ya que me bajé tres tomos casi de golpe). Este tomo de "La Casta" tiene todo lo necesario para mostrar una historia con gancho, ir del pasado al presente intermitentemente y plantear un mundo épico que se vale por sí solo. No sé qué tanto valdrá la pena "El Incal", comic en el que nace el Metabarón que da nombre a esta serie, pero si está al nivel de su spin-off, seguro valga mucho la pena. Volviendo a este título, el dibujo de Jiménez es increíblemente bueno tanto en batallas y escenarios grandilocuentes como en gestos y escenas más bien cotidianas, como cortar un bloque de mármol con un rayo láser. La historia de Jodorowsky es interesante, emotiva y atrapante a la vez, pero falla a veces en los diálogos. Si la idea era hacer simpaticones a los dos robots que llevan la historia, me parece que fracasó estrepitosamente, porque son de lo más odiosos. Y todo el robo-léxico que usan no hace más que ridiculizar lo que dicen, aunque alguna sonrisa me ha de haber quitado. Como ya leí también el #2 y el #3, no sé si ahora les escribiré reseñas largas como esta, pero sin duda alguna se lo merecen. Ahora me veo forzado a leer el #4 digitalmente, formato que mucho no favorece a este tipo de obras, pero espero que eso no me impida devorarme la Casta completa hasta el final, ya que ni le faltan méritos a la obra ni a mí ganas.
May 6, 2016
Första delen av Alejandro Jodorowsky och Juan Gimenezs serie om Metabaronerna som avslöjar dessas släkthistoria. Metabaronen är ju en av huvudpersonerna i den storslagna SF-sagan Inkalen (se
The Incal: The Epic Conspiracy
och
The Incal: The Epic Journey
, där Jodorowsky samarbetade med den franska seriemästaren Moebius (alias Jean Giraud).
I detta första album handlar det om Metabaronens farfars farfar, Othon von Salza, som blev den första Metabaronen. Den värld som Inkalen introducerade var en fantastisk, futuristisk space opera, som denna släktkrönika bygger vidare på i en närmast Dune-artad anda. Gimenez visuella still skiljer sig ganska kraftigt från den Moebius använde i Inkalen, men den är helt och hållet passande för materialet och ger det både djup och liv.
Hela historien ramas in av en "nutida" (läs: i "vår" Metabarons tid) situation där Metabaronens robotar dödar lite tid i väntan på sin herre genom att den ena berättar om Metabaronernas historia för den andra. Ett snyggt grepp i en i övrigt mycket snygg och läsvärd serie.
Ett stort kudos till Albumförlaget för att de gjort denna serie tillgänglig på svenska.
I detta första album handlar det om Metabaronens farfars farfar, Othon von Salza, som blev den första Metabaronen. Den värld som Inkalen introducerade var en fantastisk, futuristisk space opera, som denna släktkrönika bygger vidare på i en närmast Dune-artad anda. Gimenez visuella still skiljer sig ganska kraftigt från den Moebius använde i Inkalen, men den är helt och hållet passande för materialet och ger det både djup och liv.
Hela historien ramas in av en "nutida" (läs: i "vår" Metabarons tid) situation där Metabaronens robotar dödar lite tid i väntan på sin herre genom att den ena berättar om Metabaronernas historia för den andra. Ett snyggt grepp i en i övrigt mycket snygg och läsvärd serie.
Ett stort kudos till Albumförlaget för att de gjort denna serie tillgänglig på svenska.
January 13, 2021
This graphic novel is currently available on Kindle Unlimited. The Metabaron was an intriguing character in the Incal series by Jodorowski and Moebius, but was he intriguing enough to justify an origins saga? Not really.
The writing of this episode is simplistic, dull, and frankly adolescent. The art by Jimenez is detailed, but not particularly clear or conveying much story for all that intricateness. Overall, this episode is underwhelming, but I’ll give the beginnings of this saga the benefit of the doubt.
The writing of this episode is simplistic, dull, and frankly adolescent. The art by Jimenez is detailed, but not particularly clear or conveying much story for all that intricateness. Overall, this episode is underwhelming, but I’ll give the beginnings of this saga the benefit of the doubt.
October 23, 2016
J'attaque enfin ce grand nom de la bd avec son souffle prophétique et sa sf dans l'espace digne d'un space opéra. On sent l'influence du projet Dune que Jodorowsky avait tenté de réaliser. C'est intéressant de voir comment il aborde les thèmes du livre à sa manière.
November 14, 2014
Grandiose, batshit insane space opera, based partly on Jodorowsky's aborted plans to film Dune. Beautiful art, far-out ideas.
February 4, 2018
I had to check this out after watching Jodorowski’s Dune and finding out that he used some of those ship designs in this comic.
And you can see the influence Dune had on him in this comic. The barons, the political intrigue, that one item that people covet that can allow them to rule the entire galaxy. (Though some of this seems to fade out in the first part of the book.)
But Jodorowsky sure is weird. The protagonist is the first in a line of megabarons that become great warriors, in part by ripping off parts of their body and adding cybernetic parts. And how did this first one start? He gets shot in the groin and gets a bionic pelvis!
And it just gets weirder and crazier. The story is really convoluted. And to be honest, by middle of the book, I felt like it wasn’t really worth reading any more.
It’s too bad. The art was cool. But I just didn’t think it was worth my time.
And you can see the influence Dune had on him in this comic. The barons, the political intrigue, that one item that people covet that can allow them to rule the entire galaxy. (Though some of this seems to fade out in the first part of the book.)
But Jodorowsky sure is weird. The protagonist is the first in a line of megabarons that become great warriors, in part by ripping off parts of their body and adding cybernetic parts. And how did this first one start? He gets shot in the groin and gets a bionic pelvis!
And it just gets weirder and crazier. The story is really convoluted. And to be honest, by middle of the book, I felt like it wasn’t really worth reading any more.
It’s too bad. The art was cool. But I just didn’t think it was worth my time.
July 17, 2019
This is an Epic-Fantasy-Sci-Fi comic, and a really good one
This series have all, from techno-sword battles to intergalactic space ships explosions, with a metaphysical atmosphere and the feeling of an epic fantasy story.
In this first installment we are told the story of Otho Von Salza, the first metabaron, and the character that tell us the story is a tiny cleaning robot.
The art is simply amazing, very realistic and with lot of details.
In conclusion, if you like sci fi, epic fantasy, and a good story, just pick this book and start reading the series.
Jodorowsky is a master of storytelling
This series have all, from techno-sword battles to intergalactic space ships explosions, with a metaphysical atmosphere and the feeling of an epic fantasy story.
In this first installment we are told the story of Otho Von Salza, the first metabaron, and the character that tell us the story is a tiny cleaning robot.
The art is simply amazing, very realistic and with lot of details.
In conclusion, if you like sci fi, epic fantasy, and a good story, just pick this book and start reading the series.
Jodorowsky is a master of storytelling
April 1, 2020
3.5 estrellas.
Encontré esta historía my apurada. Todo el comienzo no pude relacionarse con los personajes y no sentí impulso emocional. El progreso de la historía estaba hecho por el libro y todo tenía un sentido de ya visto.
Pero alcanzando el final de esta edicion la historía ralentizó el ritmo y tomó su tiempo para desarollar los actores más importantes. Se terminó en una nota fuerte y una promesa que vaya a augmentar el mundo y mejorar el mito de los Metabarones... espero!
Oh! Y no puedo terminar esta revisión sin comentar el arte. Es magnifico. Estaba totalmente asombrado con cada marco de ese comic.
Encontré esta historía my apurada. Todo el comienzo no pude relacionarse con los personajes y no sentí impulso emocional. El progreso de la historía estaba hecho por el libro y todo tenía un sentido de ya visto.
Pero alcanzando el final de esta edicion la historía ralentizó el ritmo y tomó su tiempo para desarollar los actores más importantes. Se terminó en una nota fuerte y una promesa que vaya a augmentar el mundo y mejorar el mito de los Metabarones... espero!
Oh! Y no puedo terminar esta revisión sin comentar el arte. Es magnifico. Estaba totalmente asombrado con cada marco de ese comic.
May 2, 2020
Primera incursión en el universo narrativo de Jodorowsky
Graficamente una completa delicia, un trabajo muy fino, cuidado, de primer nivel, con una excelente narrativa, reviste a la obra de un aire épico muy clásico, pero a la vez futurista
En este primer tomo empezamos a conocer la historia de estos metabarones, partiendo con el relato del Tatarabuelo Othon, el primero de esta dinastia de guerreros perfectos, todo narrado por Tonto, el robot que sirve al actual metabaron, a un emocionado Lothar, otro robot que sirve a estos guerreros
Graficamente una completa delicia, un trabajo muy fino, cuidado, de primer nivel, con una excelente narrativa, reviste a la obra de un aire épico muy clásico, pero a la vez futurista
En este primer tomo empezamos a conocer la historia de estos metabarones, partiendo con el relato del Tatarabuelo Othon, el primero de esta dinastia de guerreros perfectos, todo narrado por Tonto, el robot que sirve al actual metabaron, a un emocionado Lothar, otro robot que sirve a estos guerreros
September 25, 2022
A saga dos metabarões contada pelo robot de um deles a
outro robot apresenta uma perspectiva ao estilo star wars muito interessante . Ficamos a saber que o primeiro metabarão era um ex-pirata que face a uma história incrível acaba por cometer um ato terrífico e que inicia após isso a criação das primeiras armas metabarónicas e os implantes cibernéticos , o que vai levar a rituais cruéis mais tarde entre pai e filho para poder ser um metabarão.
Excelentes desenhos de Giménez mais fluidos que o seu normal e argumento sólido de jodorowsky
outro robot apresenta uma perspectiva ao estilo star wars muito interessante . Ficamos a saber que o primeiro metabarão era um ex-pirata que face a uma história incrível acaba por cometer um ato terrífico e que inicia após isso a criação das primeiras armas metabarónicas e os implantes cibernéticos , o que vai levar a rituais cruéis mais tarde entre pai e filho para poder ser um metabarão.
Excelentes desenhos de Giménez mais fluidos que o seu normal e argumento sólido de jodorowsky
February 22, 2020
Dune serisini filme çekmek isteyen ancak yeterli bütçe bulamadığı için vazgeçmek zorunda kalan yönetmen ve çizgi romancı Alejandro Jodorowsky'nin Dune serisinden esinlenerek ama hikayeyi fazlasıyla zenginleştirerek/geliştirerek yarattığı Meta-Baronlar serisinin ilk kitabı.
Hikayenin başlangıcını bize anlatıyor. Böylece Meta-Baronların nereden geldiğini, neden cyborg özelliklere sahip olduklarını, vs. öğrenebiliyoruz.
Hikayenin başlangıcını bize anlatıyor. Böylece Meta-Baronların nereden geldiğini, neden cyborg özelliklere sahip olduklarını, vs. öğrenebiliyoruz.
August 4, 2023
Plot narrativo trito e ritrito con personaggi stereotipici a seguito.
Da un punto di vista di 'regia fumettistica', mi è sembrato molto poco dinamico.
Non riesco a capire come mai questo fumetto sia così apprezzato...potrebbe darsi che sia per il nome prestigioso dell'autore.
Di Jodorowsky lessi anche 'Il Lama Bianco'. Mi piacque molto di più, anche se trovai le stesse caratteristiche di stereotipia.
Da un punto di vista di 'regia fumettistica', mi è sembrato molto poco dinamico.
Non riesco a capire come mai questo fumetto sia così apprezzato...potrebbe darsi che sia per il nome prestigioso dell'autore.
Di Jodorowsky lessi anche 'Il Lama Bianco'. Mi piacque molto di più, anche se trovai le stesse caratteristiche di stereotipia.
July 11, 2020
I was thinking for a while what this series reminds me now it struct me it kind of feels like a Shakespearean tragedy but in Scifi setup instead of historical England. With that, you can expect a complex story of one dynasty full of twists and surprises but it is not cheerful and will probably feel a bit depressed at the end.
December 3, 2023
The visuals are gorgeous, the setting is interesting, but the characters and the writing are abysmal. The 2 robots providing "comic relief" throughout the story are everything but comical, and by the end of the story I had no disbelief left to be suspended. The story is just too inconsistent, with absurd characters that cannot be identified with.
January 14, 2019
Capolavoro assoluto di Jodorosky e Gimenez, in cui si narrano le tragiche ed eroiche vicende dei meta-baroni, una famiglia dedita solo alla guerra ma che viene travolta ad ogni generazione dall'amore.
February 3, 2021
Meh
Not Jodorowski's best work, in fact surprisingly conventional, and lacking his trademark wit or insight. Quite disappointing, since the Metabaron made such a splash in the Incal series.
Not Jodorowski's best work, in fact surprisingly conventional, and lacking his trademark wit or insight. Quite disappointing, since the Metabaron made such a splash in the Incal series.
March 14, 2023
Wow, just breathtaking illustrations by Gimenez that instantly transport you to this joyride world of hardcore 80s sci-fi cyber-terminology and post-shenanigans. Can't wait to read the rest of the saga.
July 5, 2024
J’ai enchaîné direct après ma lecture de l’Incal et ça a le mérite d’etre plus simple, plus cohérent et d’avoir plus de personnages intéressants en 60 pages que dans les 300 de l’Incal. Mais je crois que je suis un peu fatigué de ce monde, je verrai si je me laisse tenter par la suite.
January 3, 2018
After hearing so much about this series, I was incredibly happy to discover that it met expectations. Crazy story with gorgeous art.
April 9, 2019
Sì però Jodorowski ritirati in una fogna.
December 11, 2019
The opening of the metabarons
A fantasy tale in the style of Dune. Simple but satisfying and fast paced tale of warriors and virility, told with typical Jodorowsky humor.
A fantasy tale in the style of Dune. Simple but satisfying and fast paced tale of warriors and virility, told with typical Jodorowsky humor.
January 16, 2020
A really good space shi-fi story with some tragic elements and excellent art. Read it in a heartbeat!
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