Rebellion

The Technopriests #4-6

by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Zoran Janjetov, Fred Beltran

To fight power one must have it, but power always has a price Rebellion tells the story of Albino's continuing training to become a member of the powerful Technoguild to destroy the guild from within. In this epic Sci-Fi series, Alexandro Jodorowsky (The Incal, The Metabarons) collaborates with artist Zoran Janjetov and digital artist Fred Beltran to create a universe that is truly imaginative and limitless.

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Graphic Novels Comics

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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

[Entazis · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love Jodorowsky. With his bizarre and strange motifs he is telling us a stories about a family and trauma. His stories (both in movies and comics) are shortly psychoanalysis 101 - illustrating the Oedipus complex, incest, castration... - and full of spiritualism, metaphysics, and biopolitics. So, I really enjoy his works, especially his family saga The Metabarons, which is almost perfect in depicting Oedipus complex. Also it has great grotesque atmosphere and beautifully weird illustrations (thanks to illustrator Juan Giménez).
So it hurts me a little when I give so low rating on The Technopriests.
Of course it has some fucked up shit, in a positive way. Something interesting, and weird and bizarre happens now and then, it has a great critique of modern decadence and you can easily recognize Jodorowsky in that stuff. But this comic is just too much repetitive. Always same formula of narration, just different levels of difficulties that protagonist needs to solve. And although The Metabarons also have repeating pattern, it is because it's a story about constant falling and rising of different generations of one family, while here it's really not necessary. Naive kid - comes to place that crushes his dreams - does something rebellious - goes to another training place - that place crushes his dreams - so he again must do something rebellious - goes to another soul crushing place... and again and again. And since we have three parallel stories, all three of them has its own pattern.
Also, just like in The Metabarons, protagonist is unbeatable. And again, in The Metabarons it has perfect sense - it is a story about best warriors of entire universe, and in there that motif of unbeatable hero is raised to an absurd level - while here it just looks cheap.
All in all, The Technopriests have their moments, but I just didn't enjoy in them in the way I enjoyed in some other works of Jodorowsky and I have a felling that he just wanted to make another Metabarons.

[Comicland · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much better than Book One. The game bs storyline is kept under control by Jodo. The art is fabulous. Points off for the undersized format and newsprint paper quality from Humanoids/DC Comics. Why didn’t Humanoids continue publishing the rest of the story in oversized hardcovers? Even the recent omnibus is undersized! Bah.

[Drizztl · Rating 3 out of 5]

5/10

[Sylvester · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really do enjoy Technopriests. It's humourous and well written, every page had beautiful drawings and the story weaved together perfectly. I love the underlying theme of the dangers with National Socialism too. However, it may still be considered weird by most people.

[Amber Kantor · Rating 4 out of 5]

For when you want something kinda weird....

[Brock · Rating 2 out of 5]

The art is fantastic but the story is all over the place. Whackness beyond whackness.