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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Metabarons: Second Cycle Finale (edizione 2024)di Alejandro Jodorowsky (Autore), Jerry Frissen (Autore), Pete Woods (Artist)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The Metabaron bandes dessinée originally appeared between 1992 and 2003, and while the original Metabaron character appeared in The Incal in 1981, I’m still not sure how that works out to a “40th anniversary edition” in 2015. Anyway, it’s a nice hardback omnibus of all the Metabaron stories, so who cares? The story is framed as a story told by the robot Tonto to the robot Lothar, both of whom look after the Metabunker, the home of the last Metabaron, No-Name. The Metabunker is located in a deserted city-shaft on a deserted world, and No-Name is absent for much of the length of The Metabarons. There’s a reason for this framing narrative, but explaining it would constitute a spoiler, so… Tonto explains how the first Metabaron, owner of a marble planet, was forced to reveal the existence of the epiphyte, a substance which counteracted gravity, to the Emperor and Empress, and so became fabulously wealthy, and was given the title Metabaron. He was also a superlative warrior, and with his new-found enormous wealth set out to improve his skills and his killing technology. And also institute the various traditions which were carried down through five generations to No-Name: that there can only be one Metabaron, so the son (or daughter) must kill the father, and that part of the training involves some form of mutilation and replacement prostheses. Jodorowsky wrote The Incal after the failure of his Dune project, and some of his work on Herbert’s novel ended up in that bande dessinée. But there’s also a lot of Dune in The Metabarons – there’s a Bene Gesserit analogue, a pain test that copies the one undergone by Paul Atreides (but involves real physical damage), and even mentat-like advisors to the Emperor and Empress. There’s also stuff that’s pure Jodorowsky – such as the Emperor and Empress being succeeded by a pair of conjoined twins of different genders, the Emperoress. Some of it is a bit silly. The third Metabaron, for example, is Steelhead, so called because his father shoots off his head as a baby, but his mother manages to fashion a robotic one in time to save his life. Um, right. The artwork throughout is gorgeous, and the story is pretty much pure-strain space opera. Totally worth buying. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A cult spin-off from The Incal that centers around the fascinating lineage of the universe's ultimate warrior. This collection introduces the Metabaron's bloodline and reveals the origins of their deep-seated principles. Discover the source of the family's vast wealth, learn why every Metabaron has cybernetic implants, and why the only way to become the next Metabaron is for him to defeat his own father in mortal combat. Follow each successive generation as they struggle to overcome the forces amassed against them in a galaxy corrupted by greed and power. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I loved it.
I never knew what to expect on each panel, the artwork is peerless. The detail on the ships, planets, aliens and battles is stunning, I found myself often just staring at a page trying to take it all in. Everything is big here, there's zero room for subtlety. 13 year old Henry would have never shut up about this. I liked the narrative of the two robots telling the story, even if it was silly it did tie nicely into the story in the end. Not for everybody, especially those with good taste. ( )