ComicSeries· 1988· Science Fiction

L'Incal (The Incal)

by Mœbius, Alejandro Jodorowsky

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What influenced L'Incal (The Incal)

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Dune

Book · 1965

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The Incal exists because Jodorowsky's Dune did not. He spent 1974 and 1975 building an adaptation of Herbert's novel with Moebius, Giger and Chris Foss, the production collapsed, and he and Moebius then reused the world they had designed for a comic of their own. What carries across is the furniture of Dune rather than its plot: a decayed galactic empire, a messiah who may be manufactured, a psychic order behind the throne, and a substance everything depends on. Filed MEDIUM and Worldbuilding/Visual on purpose. The story is Jodorowsky's own; the debt is to the designs and the cosmology he and Moebius drew for a film that was never finished, which is why it is recorded against the novel they were adapting.

About the work

L'Incal (The Incal)

This is a series. Set in the Jodoverse universe.

John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called 'The Incal.' Difool's adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy's greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only his very survival, but also the survival of the entire universe.

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