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Simon (toastermantis) | 206 comments I've been writing quite a few reviews of the French underground comics legend Jean "Moebius" Giraud's work. Remembered that quite a few of his comics are basically futuristic hardboiled detective stories, in the process: Most famous are The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 4: The Long Tomorrow and Other Science Fiction Stories and The Incal. I am pretty sure that both the "Harry Canyon" segment in "Heavy Metal" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" were strongly inspired by "The Long Tomorrow".

His later epic The Incal, co-written with Alejandro "El Topo" Jodorowsky, is also basically a cross between a Raymond Chandler style gambit pile-up convoluted noir story and Dune type feudal future space opera. To this day, Moebius' artwork in those two stories are my gold standard for sprawling futuristic high tech city noir and more or less how I imagine everything to read when reading Philip K. Dick or William Gibson.


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