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L'Incal #5-6
The Incal, Vol. 3
A crise cósmica em que o detetive classe R John Difool se meteu está prestes a ganhar dimensões catastróficas. Parece que o fim do universo é inevitável - e salvá-lo exige que todos os seres atinjam o sono-teta.
Mas o grupo que protege o Incal já está exausto e se sente sem chances de reverter a situação.
Mas o grupo que protege o Incal já está exausto e se sente sem chances de reverter a situação.
45 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 1988
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
692 books1,940 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 5, 2019
Through all the ups and downs in this wildly fast space-opera with E. E. Smith overtones mixed with the weirder and best tones of Arthur C. Clarke... oh, screw it... let's just call this a metaphysical trip, man... I have to admit this one has more than a little charm and DEEP STORY, man... so long as you can get through the gratuitous base nature of John Difool. :)
He's a real fool, our John. The everyman forever excluded from all the deep and wonderful one-ness of the universe, man, but still forced to play the biggest parts in this everyman play.
For the fate of the universe!
Seriously, this comic is a class all on its own. I've read a number of really cool metaphysical comics, almost all of them from Alan Moore, but this one is sharper and crisper than most of them. In fact, on the wild colorful splashy surface, I think it outdoes them all.
I have my normal reservations about 80's comics in general and that's the only thing that prevents me from giving this all the stars. You know, sex-crazed comics, massive reliance on stereotypes... but then, without these stereotypes, no one would be able to fly THIS FAST through SO MUCH STORY so quick and still put a few underlines under the last punchline that scores the table beneath the paper.
This is a real trip. And fortunately for me, it's a good one. :) Welcome those cosmic eggs and an epic battle between light and dark and while we're at it, go ahead and put the whole damn universe to sleep why don't you. (This is not a reflection on the coolness of the comic, lol)
Thank god for creativity. This sure as hell hit the spot. :)
He's a real fool, our John. The everyman forever excluded from all the deep and wonderful one-ness of the universe, man, but still forced to play the biggest parts in this everyman play.
For the fate of the universe!
Seriously, this comic is a class all on its own. I've read a number of really cool metaphysical comics, almost all of them from Alan Moore, but this one is sharper and crisper than most of them. In fact, on the wild colorful splashy surface, I think it outdoes them all.
I have my normal reservations about 80's comics in general and that's the only thing that prevents me from giving this all the stars. You know, sex-crazed comics, massive reliance on stereotypes... but then, without these stereotypes, no one would be able to fly THIS FAST through SO MUCH STORY so quick and still put a few underlines under the last punchline that scores the table beneath the paper.
This is a real trip. And fortunately for me, it's a good one. :) Welcome those cosmic eggs and an epic battle between light and dark and while we're at it, go ahead and put the whole damn universe to sleep why don't you. (This is not a reflection on the coolness of the comic, lol)
Thank god for creativity. This sure as hell hit the spot. :)
June 7, 2020
The final volume! Everything has been building toward this moment. I don't want to spoil anything, but let's just say that everything pays off nicely and leave it at that. The final image is a bit of a cliché, but I think it works in this context.
I’m especially impressed by Moebius’ ability to depict the cosmic and the ineffable without having it seem trite. This is not an easy trick to pull off. Off the top of my head, the only other artists who I’ve seen do this with any degree of facility would be Jim Starlin and Jack Kirby.
Also, like Jack Kirby, some of Moebius’ best work happened in collaboration with others--The Incal, Blueberry with Jean-Michel Charlier, “The Long Tomorrow” with Dan O’Bannon. It's not that Moebius’ solo work is inferior or anything, but there's often something about bouncing ideas off of another person that seems to bring out the best in him.
Highly recommended!
I’m especially impressed by Moebius’ ability to depict the cosmic and the ineffable without having it seem trite. This is not an easy trick to pull off. Off the top of my head, the only other artists who I’ve seen do this with any degree of facility would be Jim Starlin and Jack Kirby.
Also, like Jack Kirby, some of Moebius’ best work happened in collaboration with others--The Incal, Blueberry with Jean-Michel Charlier, “The Long Tomorrow” with Dan O’Bannon. It's not that Moebius’ solo work is inferior or anything, but there's often something about bouncing ideas off of another person that seems to bring out the best in him.
Highly recommended!
April 12, 2013
Η σειρά έχει εκπληκτικά εμπνευσμένο σχέδιο που στέκεται ακόμα και σήμερα. Υπηρετεί τέλεια τον φιλοσοφικό στοχασμό που κρύβεται πίσω από την ιστορία που ωστόσο κατά την άποψή μου αποτελεί και το αδύναμο σημείο της σειράς. Επίσης είναι από τις λίγες περιπτώσεις ιστοριών που έχω διαβάσει, που ενώ ξεκινάνε χλιαρά, ανεβαίνουν σε ρυθμό και ποιότητα καθώς εξελίσσονται. Μοναδικό μελανό σημείο μέχρι τέλους, είναι ο ίδιος ο βασικός χαρακτήρας, ο Τζον Ντιφούλ που παραμένει χαζοχαρούμενη καρικατούρα και κόμικ-ριλιφ/"αμερικανιά" μέχρι τέλους.
January 18, 2009
Not nearly as good as the first two, mostly due to the new colorist brought on for books 5 & 6.
June 26, 2017
As I first thought, this story feels exactly like Jodorowsky's films. The spiritualism, the mysticism, the metaphysical themes are all there. The wrap up was quite spectacular and Moebius's art was perfect for the story.
November 5, 2014
Incal 3 takes us to the conclusion of the series by Jodorowsky and Moebius. A 10 year journey according to the literature in the books. Moebius describes the last two books (both in this volume) as a break for him in his normal storytelling with traditional panels and heavy rendering with a more "American" style as he described in the end of the book. From the start and at a glance after purchasing and reading these 3 books this year for the first time I new I was on for a nice voyage and a strange one at that. Books 1 and 2 were exceptional though not by any means perfect work. Book 3 was a bit of a disappointment and I'll tell you why.
Almost everything was different. The story got a little boring in the middle even the characters literally have fallen to sleep. The line work was the least I liked from the series. Books 1 and 2 were beautiful. This one in Miebius' "American" style was sloppy and loose and all the intricate detail work in the backgrounds were replaced with a more Joe Kubert sort of line, but not as good. It is still obviously Moebius and I may be slightly exaggerating. The other thing with the storytelling was the panels. Moebius changed the traditional easier to navigate panels with white spaces in between for more overlapping and coming to the edges. He explains this is the future of comics and he is excited to see what Americans do with it. I'll tell you. The 90's blew hard with really poor work in very exaggerated storytelling with panels leaping at you like it was a person. Terrible work was done in the 90's and many artists through away the traditional style of easy to follow narrative for insanely disorganized hard to read sequences. It was not an improvement at all. Even today the better ones of this kind of work like Sam Kieth and MacFarlane I still think were too much. Maxx was crazy. It somehow worked in the cartoon. So going back to Incal 3. The art all along with the storytelling was not as good and I know once I reread it several times I will hate it more and more. The coloring job was bad also. Janjetov who they spelled his name wrong on the title page colored the work. He hadn't done it before. The first 2 books had a beautiful coloring job and this one seemed lazy and muted. So it didn't help bring the 3 books together. I know the colorist later on goes to work on another "Incal" series and I think it looked good, but here he doesn't seem to work to make the super saturated colors of the first two books come to life on the final. There really is no excuse for that. The lettering has been flakey throughout the series. With 3 different ones in each book. The fact that I noticed and on the 3rd there was a time it was hard to read the text because it was broken a bit in the printing. I wished the style of the lettering was the same, but it wasn't. So that's my take on it. If you look closely at the books I think you will see the things I just mentioned. By no means did I want to write this review. I was hoping to fall in love with the series, but I will only have the first two books for that. The third will always stick out to me in this way.
Almost everything was different. The story got a little boring in the middle even the characters literally have fallen to sleep. The line work was the least I liked from the series. Books 1 and 2 were beautiful. This one in Miebius' "American" style was sloppy and loose and all the intricate detail work in the backgrounds were replaced with a more Joe Kubert sort of line, but not as good. It is still obviously Moebius and I may be slightly exaggerating. The other thing with the storytelling was the panels. Moebius changed the traditional easier to navigate panels with white spaces in between for more overlapping and coming to the edges. He explains this is the future of comics and he is excited to see what Americans do with it. I'll tell you. The 90's blew hard with really poor work in very exaggerated storytelling with panels leaping at you like it was a person. Terrible work was done in the 90's and many artists through away the traditional style of easy to follow narrative for insanely disorganized hard to read sequences. It was not an improvement at all. Even today the better ones of this kind of work like Sam Kieth and MacFarlane I still think were too much. Maxx was crazy. It somehow worked in the cartoon. So going back to Incal 3. The art all along with the storytelling was not as good and I know once I reread it several times I will hate it more and more. The coloring job was bad also. Janjetov who they spelled his name wrong on the title page colored the work. He hadn't done it before. The first 2 books had a beautiful coloring job and this one seemed lazy and muted. So it didn't help bring the 3 books together. I know the colorist later on goes to work on another "Incal" series and I think it looked good, but here he doesn't seem to work to make the super saturated colors of the first two books come to life on the final. There really is no excuse for that. The lettering has been flakey throughout the series. With 3 different ones in each book. The fact that I noticed and on the 3rd there was a time it was hard to read the text because it was broken a bit in the printing. I wished the style of the lettering was the same, but it wasn't. So that's my take on it. If you look closely at the books I think you will see the things I just mentioned. By no means did I want to write this review. I was hoping to fall in love with the series, but I will only have the first two books for that. The third will always stick out to me in this way.
April 4, 2016
I've got mixed feelings about this one. I'm aware I'd have to think more in depth to figure it out, but I decided to let my first impression reign.
There were concepts I found iffy, actions that weren't cohesive enough.. However, the end, well, I quite like it. There's a grand approach. It took Jodorowsky quite the number of years to write it up, and he'd done it justice.
There were concepts I found iffy, actions that weren't cohesive enough.. However, the end, well, I quite like it. There's a grand approach. It took Jodorowsky quite the number of years to write it up, and he'd done it justice.
September 28, 2012
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