A long fall and a mini-nuke later, we're getting more information on how Difool got the stone, and are thrust into more action as it seems like everyone, including the clone body hopping President, is looking for the thing. Jodorowsky and Moebius start us out smack in the middle of things as Difool is being thrown down Suicide Alley to make him talk about his knowledge of the artifact. Especially as it gives Difool's pet bird, Deppo, the ability to speak. The first volume introduces us to John Difool, a low level detective, as he finds himself stuck in the middle of a battle for the titular MacGuffin, The Incal, which starts out as a glowing blue stone and just gets weirder as the story progresses. The earliest works in the series, from Alejandro Jodorowsky, Moebius, and Yves Chaland, as translated by Justin Kelly, are collected in English in The Incal – Volume 1: The Black Incal. It's space opera with hints of black humor, politics, and weird science that feels intrinsic to much of our current conceptions of how science fiction operates.

It introduced us to the highly influential world of the “Jodoverse” -which would expand into The Metabarons, The Technopriests, and Megalex-inspiring and influencing works as wide ranging as The Fifth Element, The Authority, and The Expanse.

emerson eddy - It's the 40th anniversary of Une Adventure de John Difool, more commonly known to us in English as The Incal, specifically as it was serialized in Métal Hurlant (the magazine that would be published in English as Heavy Metal) back in 1980 through 1988.

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