Rina la Méta-Gardienne

The Metabaron #5

by Alejandro Jodorowsky (Histoire originale), Jerry Frissen (Scénario), Valentin Sécher (Dessin, Couleurs)

Sur la berge, l'homme mutilé reprend son souffle. Comme tous les intrus, il est arrivé par le lac d'Épiphyte. Alors que les guerriers exigent de tuer l’étranger, Rina l’épargne : Gardienne de la planète Algoma, elle ressent le lien sacré qui unit l’inconnu à son univers. En suivant son instinct, Rina accueille non seulement le Méta-Baron, mais aussi le chaos qui le suit…

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Fiction, Ebooks

56 pages, Hardcover

First published October 25, 2017

About the author

Also 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.

Reviews

[Alina Brzozowska · Rating 1 out of 5]

The author is an old, pathetic, impotent old man. The comic depicts disgusting ageism towards women. For the author, women only exist when they're young, while men in his comics can be old, disgusting, and sleazy. It's sickening. The author is completely detached from reality. The comic is kitschy, chauvinistic, ageist, and unworthy of any attention. The author is a pathetic old man who perpetrates ageism towards women and fulfills his pathetic fantasies.

[Julia · Rating 1 out of 5]

The worst of the series so far, seems they are running out of ideas and repeat the same story again and again.

[Nina · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is fine , but It could been better

[Zare · Rating 3 out of 5]

After escaping in the previous volume through what might be called [sort of a] wormhole, Metabaron ends up on remote and strange planet where fantastic gravity resisting materiel exists in abundance. Here he comes across mysterious race and their protector, Rina, female Metabaron. To say anything more is to spoil the story but I will just say it remains true to Greek tragedy roots of Metabaron.

Art is excellent as is always case with this series but story it is so rigidly told, in manner of he came, he did this, she said, they said.... I mean this is fantastic setting and series it is incredible that they cant make story flow more naturaly.

On the good side there are no mutilations and sadism and that is great IMHO (third in a row, yes!).

Recommended to fans of Metabaron universe. I hope they tell more vibrant story in follow up volumes.

[C. Varn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jodorowsky and Frissen take us to the origins of the Metabarons and flesh out a fair amount of the multiverse in a way that has been done since the Metabarons series and the original Incel. There are twists and turns here, but they are also rigidly predictable for the genre in ways Incel was not. The story does get more tragic and the Metabaron becomes a more interesting character.

[Peter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very predictable story with a pulp scifi feel to it. The Metabaron moves across universes and visits his planet in the alternate timeline. The art is great in the series' style but the story could be better.

[Vitaliy Hristyuk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sad...

Sad, but good. This is one of a tragic story... Which still going on. What will happen with our heroes?..

[Dave Corun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mœbius meets Avatar.