The misadventures of a sex-addicted cyborg humorously subvert classic science fiction and super-spy tropes.
The European Defense Organization (EDO) is entrusted with protecting the Earth from cosmic terrorists bent on the destruction of humanity. Their key weapon: a sex-obsessed secret agent by the name of Anibal 5. As Anibal and the rest of EDO's eclectic team battle evil dictators, nymphet clones, and a mysterious criminal syndicate, things turn inevitably, and irrevocably, delirious and erotic.
Son of the Gun. A modern-day spiritual western by the same creative team behind "The White Lama." Writer : Alejandro Jodorowsky. Art : Georges Bess. When an abandoned baby, sporting a tail, is rescued from a South American rubbish bin by a dwarf transvestite prostitute, you know you’re reading a story that only the mad genius of Alejandro Jodorowsky ("The Incal," "The Metabarons") could conceive! The child grows up to become Juan Solo, a vicious gangster and political enforcer, whose savagery sees him quickly rise through the ranks. Until his past catches up to him.
The story from the unfinished After the Incal was rewritten to provide a separate narrative for this volume. The story starts after The Incal climax in which John DiFool encountered flowing-beareded divine being named Orh, witnessing a universe-shaking event, hurtling towards certain death in the acid lake. DiFool forgets about the cosmical encounter, and recovers his memory as the universe faces a threat of a metallic virus. The Prezident was cloned in metallic body, equipped with both chemical and brutal weapons, but also altered mind - operating under the influence of the "destroyer of all living things", the Bentacodon (equivalent to The Incal's Black Egg). He unleashed destructive organic virus called the Biophage 13-X with the purpose of forcing the population to abandon their natural bodies in favor of robotic ones.
The only way to counteract is to reunite John DiFool with his true love, Luz de Garra (from Before the Incal), and the Elohim (a force of goodness) makes four John DiFools from different realities to encounter each other on a quest to find her. It is ridiculed the ego of the allegedly evolved guru DiFool and the super-evolved "angelic" DiFool, and the least enlightened DiFool, the ugliest and most craven, is selected to save the universe. In the end, the cosmic humanity managed to become one collective consciousness, as a true love saves from turning into unfeeling metallic beings. Final Incal.
The story is considerably more straightforward noir tale of boundless urban corruption with the relative absence of spiritualistic elements, which dips deeper into exploring the urban fabric of the world of The Incal. The story follows young DiFool living in demimonde. He soon finds that his prostitute mother devoted herself to growing amorine, a drug that restores the ability to love. His father, Olivier DiFool, breaks the law in wearing a fake halo that is the mark of an aristo.
Justice is harsh for such transgressions of class — a legal clause "allows the condemned man to choose between a tablet at the morgue-wall, where he'll sleep away his thirty-year-and-one-day term", or "remodeling", which means having entire memory wiped. His father chooses remodeling. DiFool soon begins to investigate the mystery of disappearance of the children of prostitutes, something he shouldn't find out. Before the Incal.
The Incal (French: L'Incal) is a French graphic novel series written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and originally illustrated by Jean Giraud. The Incal, with first pages originally released as Une aventure de John Difool ("A John Difool Adventure") in Métal hurlant and published by Les Humanoïdes Associés, introduced Jodorowsky's "Jodoverse" (or "Metabarons Universe"), a fictional universe in which his science fiction comics take place. It is an epic space opera blending fantastical intergalactic voyage, science, technology, political intrigues, conspiracies, messianism, mysticism, poetry, debauchery and satire. The Incal includes and expands the concepts and artwork from the abandoned film project Dune directed by Jodorowksy and designed by Giraud from the early 1970s.
Originally published in installments between 1981 and 1988, and followed by Before the Incal (1988–1995, with Zoran Janjetov), After the Incal (2000, with Jean Giraud), and Final Incal (2008–2014, with José Ladrönn) has been described as a contender for "the best comic book" in the medium's history. From it spin-off related series Metabarons, The Technopriests, and Mégalex.
In the streets, the Nazi reign of terror. Powerless witnesses of barbarism, two men and a woman trying to survive. One of them is called Pietrolino. It is mime. He knows how to forget the gloom of these dark years only by the magic of his hands. His partner and traveling companion is called Simio. Little man full of resources, but unattractive to the infinite resourcefulness, he is the narrator of this story. A woman Colombella, accompanies reluctantly, punctuating their peregrinations of his continuing disputes with Simio.
The story was written Pietrolino there a decade by Alejandro Jodorowsky at the request of Marcel Marceau, of which he was touring partner in the 50 absence of funding for the wear on stage, the show project was canceled and the manuscript ended up in the drawers of Bruno Lecigne, the publisher Humanoids. The years passed, the text went astray but remained in the memory of the man who spoke to Olivier Boiscommun, very interested in an adaptation. The agreement Jodorowsky and the reappearance of the valuable document then accelerated collaboration between these two figures of comics. The story, told by Simio, companions of Pietrolino begins under Nazi occupation in Paris. To survive, the two men, accompanied reluctantly provocative Colombella, occur in cafes.
Late 19th century Tibet. When the Grand Lama Mipam dies, the seeds of corruption are sown across the land. Raised by locals, Gabriel, the orphan of white explorers, is chosen as the reincarnation of the Grand Lama. Torn between two worlds, he must master the sacred ways, defeat his own personal demons, and battle a great evil. He will need to enlist the aid of warrior monks, yetis and the Lord of Cats if he is to save his adopted country from utter devastation. The White Lama.
If you aren’t familiar with Alexandro Jodorowsky as a comic book writer, you might be know him better as cult director of films like “Santa Sangre”, “El Top” and “Holy Mountain”. The illutration in this book are so unique and come from the award-winning team that created “Son of a Gun”. This series also travels a bit away from the world of sci-fi that Jodorowsky has conquered with his past comics but it does show his range and that he is able to show some great range.
Megalex city is an industrial perfection. It has spread almost all over the planet, destroying everything that is natural, random, abnormal. Megalex works correctly, with the perfection of the artificial. Police are cloned so that they are all the same, perfect, and can fight for Megalex during his four days of life. This is a happy world, as would Aldous Huxley. There are still some pockets of Nature, primarily Forest Chem, a conscious jungle trying to sabotage the unstoppable advance of Megalex, while waiting to Geomesías. In this world must survive a police clone cloned defectively the size of a giant. Only the love they feel Zerain and Kavatah can end this spiral of hatred and destruction. Created by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fred Beltran.
On Megalex, a gigantic planet-industrial city, every nature is banished. It Man and woman reproduces by cloning itself, people are preprogrammed from birth until death, regimented in classes with unequal privileges. The most spectacular life. The police only has live in 400 days, for citezen they are 40 years, but for the queen 4000 years. Everything would be fine in the Brave New World if only a few remaining ‘anomalies’: a forest irreducible and aggressive, rebels buried and, from time to time, there always a malfunction in the system.
Albino, bastard son of a space pirate, has only one goal, to become a member of the Technoguild and create the video games that influence every citizen in the galaxy, or die trying. And he just might! The path to become a Technopriest is a difficult one and Albino must face many trials before he can fulfill his destiny. Meanwhile, Albino's mother, brother and sister begin a perilous quest to find the brutal pirates who fathered Albino and his siblings. The Technopriests is an eight-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, artist Zoran Janjetov, and colorist Fred Beltran.
To fight power one must have it, but power always has a price. Through its technology and mind numbing entertainment, the Technopriest guild controls the entire galaxy. Albino, bastard son of a space pirate, has only one goal: to become a member of the Technoguild and destroy the guild from within. The path to become a Technopriest is a difficult one and Albino must face many trials before he can fulfill his destiny. Meanwhile, Albino's mother, brother and sister conclude their perilous quest to find the brutal pirate who fathered Albino.
Madwoman of the Sacred Heart is a series of comic book in three volumes. Alain Mangel, professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne, following an unexpected divorce, yield to the advances of one of his students, Elizabeth. Rife with mystical delusions, it will slowly plunge the teacher in a whirlwind of events that will totally delusional his knowledge to the test of irrationality. Helped by a prophet heroin addict and the daughter of a big shot of the South American drug traffickers, Elizabeth will not only get a child of Alain Mangel, but persuade him to open his eyes to a doubtful faith. Crowned Heart is the name of a cafe street of Ironwork, in Paris. Screenplay: Alejandro Jodorowsky. Drawings: Moebius. Colors: Florence Breton (Volume 1), Scarlett (volumes 2 and 3).
A collection of Sci-Fi short stories all written by Alejandro Jodorowsky ("The Incal", "The Metabarons") and illustrated by talent from various countries and different graphic traditions. The thematic thread of these tales: an asteroid spawned from the destruction of a planet produces sounds (a "howling shriek") which, when crossing an inhabited world, creates a change or imbalance within it.
Screaming Planet collects eleven of Jodorowsky's stories all sharing a creative thematic core, but transpiring within different times, places, and dimensions. To achieve such a diverse presentation, Jodorowsky employs a medley of artists on each strip.
The bouncer is a one-armed man that deals with safety saloon at the Infernio. Despite his disability, he is a formidable marksman. When his nephew, an orphaned, asks his help, this leads him to reconnect with a painful past. His two brothers and him are the bastard children of an itinerant prostitute, with whom they committed many misdeeds. The latter led to the breakup of the family in fighting over a diamond, one was left blind, one-armed and mother committed suicide. Since the elder became pastor, the bouncer found protection from El Diablo, his mysterious employer, and the third remained outside-the-law. The tribulations of the bouncer will lead him to elucidate the series of murders of notables of the city, all killed by a snake bite.
In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter's arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevre's photography, paired with the art of Emmanuel Guibert, tells the powerful story of a mission undertaken by men and women dedicated to mending the wounds of war.
1192. Richard, King of England, hasn't returned from the Crusades. Rumours say he may be dead, and his brother John Lackland begins moving his pieces to claim the throne, counting on the support - and money - of the kingdom's sheriffs. Deep inside Sherwood Forest, Marian, young Saxon Lady, tries to convince a family of outlaws to join her in fighting the prince, with the help of a mysterious man in a hood - none other than the Sheriff of Nottingham himself! by Vincent Brugeas, Emmanuel Herzet.
Founder of the Impressionist movement of which he was one of the most merciless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of many paradoxes. A loner, he loved only one woman without ever courting her. Looking into this unique relationship at the twilight of Degas’ life, Efa and Rubio open the pages of the artist’s notebooks hoping to unravel the mystery of this genius full of contradictions (Europe Comics: 95 pages).
