The story starts at street level with John DiFool finding the Incal and scales up a few times until it's the ultimate battle between light and darkness with the entire universe at stake. Do I mention the far-future, near dystopian setting where most of humanity spends most of its time watching TV? Or the giant flying space jellyfish? Or the dark eggs? Or The Metabaron, the biggest bad ass in the galaxy? Or the Prezident and his hunchbacks? Or the conjoined twins that rule the empire, The Emperoress? Yeah, that's grossly oversimplifying it but The Incal throws so many concepts at you it's hard to simplify. But what is the Incal? And what will other people do to get it? If you spend time trying to find the threads of an actual narrative here, it'll just drive you nuts every time someone yells, "Oh no! The Necrodroid!" or "Quickly, Metabaron! We must stop the shadow egg from devouring the sun!" Just don't ask questions and you'll be fine.ĭown and out class R detective John DiFool has a powerful artifact, The Incal, fall into his grasp. It starts weird, and gets weirder, so it's more important to just appreciate the unbridled creativity that Jodorowski and Moebius bring to life. My suggestion for tackling The Incal is to leave your expectations of traditional storytelling at the door. Lewis's Space Trilogy-not a connection I was expecting to make as I read this.
In a weird way, this story reminded me of C.S. In a lot of ways, The Incal does what Jodorowski wasn't able to do with his film adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel.Īs far as I can tell, The Incal is about.proto-scientific neo-spiritual existentialism? That sounds about right.
I think that seeing the documentary Jodorowski's Dune helped prepare me for this book, since I knew what I was getting into.
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