Somewhere in here is a story. Fortunately the artwork makes it a far more interesting ride. ( )

This is a rare one. For any of ya'll who are familiar with Jodorowky of that documentary called Jodorowsky's Dune, this is the same guy. The guy who almost got Bowie to play Feyd in an earlier version of Dune before Lynch! The guy who got H R Geiger to make all that trippy art pieces for the sets reused later on Lynch's 1984 version. :)

The weird guy. :)

Okay, so this comic came out in 1981 and it's just as good now as it was back then. Think quality, think the artist Moebius. Add trippy writing and VERY imaginative settings and KEEP the WEIRD coming! :)

I'm reminded of Heavy Metal meets Lynch's Dune with Zardos and an incompetent detective getting thrown into a space-opera revolution. Think about a god-like entity called the Incal doing trippy things inside this guy, think about body factories, super tall towers with acid at the bottom, wolf-men, angelic (evil) nobles, cloning presidents, spaceships, and Shadow Eggs.

Nah, skip that. Just try to figure it out for yourself and above all, ENJOY THE RIDE. :) So cool. ( )

The Incal is a curious creation, born of the meandering spiritual obsessions of Jodorowsky and the wonderfully vivid drawings of Moebius. While the story lacks much coherent structure or purpose after a casual read, as with anything that Jodorowsky is involved with, there are tidbits of meaning and mystery sprinkled throughout, even if the sum total of those bits seems rather light in the final weighing. But the rather random nature of the narrative elements (not to mention the characters themselves) is somewhat relieved by the frenetic pace and the simple joy of watching a comics master like Moebius at work. ( )

Brilliant and imaginative space opera with elements of mysticism. One of the finest SF comic series I have ever encountered. I first came upon part 2 of this story in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine, as "The Incal Light / The Further Adventures of John Difool". A film version of this would be the Heavy Metal movie that we should have had, putting to shame the weak anthology of 1981 and the execrable Heavy Metal 2000.

This book contains the first two parts of the saga. In part 1, "The Dark Incal", low-rent detective John Difool finds himself at the center of interstellar political machinations after stumbling upon an alien artifact called The Bright Incal. In part 2, "The Bright Incal", Difool finds the Bright Incal's Dark counterpart, gains allies, and proceeds to a cliffhanger ending. ( )