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79-511: The first appearance of a Metabaron (chronologically the last of the Metabarons) was May 1981 in the Incal comic book series. This was followed by a series of prequels that concerned this character's origin, presented as the narration of the android Tonto to the android Lothar, of his masters' achievements. The series takes place over the course of several generations, and chronicles the life of each of

158-492: A French graphic novel series written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and originally illustrated by Jean Giraud (aka Mœbius) . 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

237-507: A battlefield, with the treacherous Imperial Black Endoguard as the victors. At the end of the war, Othon and his son Bari are the only survivors of the Castaka tribe. The Imperial couple, rulers of the known galaxy, are astonished by the achievement of Othon and reward him; and Othon shows them where the epiphyte was hidden in exchange for a percentage of the new market for anti-G Technology, a new planet to which their palace would be transferred, and

316-637: A bioweapon that rendered every man on the planet sterile. Oriela, having been shielded from the weapon, gave birth to Divadal's son, Dayal—the last fertile male on the planet, spared in contravention of the bushitaka due to necessity—then committed ritual suicide eight days later, leaving him only a bite on his shoulder as a memento. Once of age, Dayal became a breeding-stud to all the Castaka women, but once his offspring came of age themselves, Omezo gave up concealing his disgust at his half-Amakura "stepson" and banished him. His mentor General Pakko matched him with his daughter Antigrea, whom he had conceived just before

395-523: A city for his caste. Dayal takes ship back to Thor-Thougah with his daughters, seeking sires for them. En route, it emerges that Narda's brain and Myrtha's ovaries have sustained tumours that will rapidly kill them both. With their consent, Dayal has the robots graft Narda's lower body to Myrtha's upper body. Upon arrival in Thor-Thougah, the resulting being confronts the sole survivor of the Technos' assault on

474-527: A cybernetic head to replace his own, for which he is called Steelhead. Steelhead later kills his parents. At his claim to the title of Metabaron, the Princess Doña Vicenta argues that his offspring must be unworthy of the title. Therefore, Steelhead assumes the disembodied head of Zaran Krleza, the last poet in the galaxy. United in body and head (but somehow maintaining individual personas), Steelhead and Zaran become Melmoth, which declares Doña Vicenta as

553-402: A flowing-bearded divine being named Orh, witnessing a universe-shaking event, hurtling towards certain death in the acid lake. DiFool forgets about the cosmic encounter, and recovers his memory as the universe faces the threat of a metallic virus. The Prezident was cloned in a metallic body, equipped with both chemical and brutal weapons, but also an altered mind — operating under the influence of

632-411: A gift for his son intended to restore the joy lost with his crippled legs. The emperor gives him a horse , an extinct species revived by genetic manipulation , but pirates steal the horse . Othon kills them in retaliation, but accidentally kills his son, and is castrated by an attacker. Othon thereafter invests a large part of his fortune in the development of the first 'metabaronic' weapons and begins

711-595: A male clone : the Nameless Metabaron who reigns in Incal . In the last chapter of the saga ( Sans-Nom, le dernier Méta-Baron ), Lothar, the faithful android to whom Tonto is relating the Metabaronic lore in the frame narration , is identified as Steelhead himself, kept alive by his conversion to a robotic existence. Recovering his personality, but not his full memories, after a brief confrontation in which he gives Nameless

790-506: A mark on the chest) from his father-in-law. The main saga of the Metabarons begins on Marmola, on which Berard's tribe export huge blocks of marble . The existence of the epiphyte has been kept secret by the Castakas for many generations, until its revelation to save the life of Othon von Salza, the son-in-law of Baron Berard. Soon after the revelation of the epiphyte, the planet's orbit becomes

869-658: A part of their "Epic Graphic Novels" line, with translation by Jean-Marc Lofficier and Randy Lofficier . Later, between 2001 and 2002, was republished a series of The Incal and Before the Incal in a twelve-issue limited series, with the former in two parts, Orphan of the City Shaft and John Difool, Class "R" Detective , between 2002 and 2003, while the first in two parts The Epic Conspiracy and The Epic Journey softcover trade format by Humanoids Publishing . The Humanoids Publishing initial version (of both The Incal and Before

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948-403: A quest to find her. The egos of the allegedly evolved guru Difool and the super-evolved "angelic" Difool are ridiculed, and the least enlightened Difool, the ugliest and most craven, is selected to save the universe. In the end, the cosmic humanity manages to become one collective consciousness , as true love saves it from turning into a collection of unfeeling metallic beings. "I dreamed I

1027-458: A script, but recounted and mimed the ideas to Moebius who sketched the scenario, recorded their conversation on tape, and they jointly altered the plot. Jon Evans considered resemblance to the De Stijl school of art inspired by artists like Piet Mondrian and Vilmos Huszár . Moebius refused to do Before the Incal , thus Jodorowsky found Zoran Janjetov . Although Janjetov had his own style, he

1106-460: A selfish humanity among others. Some touches are borrowed directly from Dune : the Emperoress, a "perfect androgyne", or Aquend, a planet composed entirely of water which is Arrakis's seeming opposite, and a "mentrek" who betrayed his former master. Jean Giraud 's (also known as Moebius) artwork and Yves Chaland 's colouring from The Incal were well praised. Jodorowsky initially didn't have

1185-425: A significant effect on the microenvironment of their host, and of ecosystems where they are abundant, as they hold water in the canopy and decrease water input to the soil. Some non-vascular epiphytes such as lichens and mosses are well known for their ability to take up water rapidly. Epiphytes create a significantly cooler and more moist environment in the host plant canopy, potentially greatly reducing water loss by

1264-502: A son, by the priestesses of Shabda-Oud. For her disobedience, the Shabda-Oud attempt her destruction. Othon, to assure his son's ability to avenge her, orders Aghnar to fight him to the death, and Aghnar seizes the title of Metabaron for himself. The sole human in a hostile world, Aghnar befriends a single primatoid, and becomes its tribe's messiah . He then seizes a Shabda-Oud cetacyborg battleship with which to carry out his vengeance; but

1343-440: A spiritual core that ... reflects Jodorowsky’s abiding idiosyncratic Buddhism ", while "Moebius’s work is simply some of the most beautiful not merely in his catalog, but in the comics world at large". He noted that the "echoes of The Incal can also be found in the work of Hayao Miyazaki , Katsuhiro Otomo ’s Akira , the decaying futurity of Ridley Scott ’s Blade Runner , The Matrix , and even depictions of Coruscant in

1422-497: A tablet at the morgue -wall, where he'll sleep away his thirty-year-and-one-day term", or "remodeling", which means having his entire memory wiped. His father chooses remodeling. Difool soon begins to investigate the mystery of the disappearance of prostitutes' children, something he shouldn't find out. 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

1501-478: Is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phorophytes . Epiphytes take part in nutrient cycles and add to both the diversity and biomass of the ecosystem in which they occur, like any other organism. They are an important source of food for many species. Typically,

1580-399: Is a plant that spends only half of its life without the ground before the roots can reach or make contact with the ground. Orchids are a common example of holo-epiphytes and Strangler Figs are an example of hemi-epiphytes. Epiphytes are not connected to the soil, and consequently must get nutrients from other sources, such as fog, dew, rain and mist, or from nutrients being released from

1659-449: Is an epic space opera blending fantastical intergalactic voyage, science , technology , political intrigues , conspiracies, messianism , mysticism , poetry , debauchery , love stories , and satire . The Incal includes and expands the concepts and artwork from the abandoned film project Dune directed by Jodorowsky and designed by Giraud from the early 1970s. Originally published in installments between 1980 and 1988 in

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1738-486: Is distracted by the Cetacyborg's crew's original objective: to capture Princess Oda, to use her for the sisterhood's breeding experiments. After a telepathic confrontation with the sisterhood, Oda suffers debilitating injuries; whereupon Honorata, kept alive by her own mental powers, transfers her own soul to Oda, who thereafter bears Aghnar a son. Disgusted by his incest, Aghnar attempts to kill his son, whom Oda/Honorata gives

1817-466: Is inaccurate, as there are many aquatic species of algae that are epiphytes on other aquatic plants (seaweeds or aquatic angiosperms ). The best-known epiphytic plants include mosses , orchids , and bromeliads such as Spanish moss (of the genus Tillandsia ), but epiphytes may be found in every major group of the plant kingdom. Eighty-nine percent of (or about 24,000) terrestrial epiphyte species are flowering plants . The second largest group are

1896-655: Is kind of a call for revolt to organize life in a different way, because as individuals people are mortal, but as humanity itself they are immortal. To learn that others exist, to live together and give, that there is continuity only as part of humanity as a whole. It demonstrates that "love is the ultimate purifier; a force that can cleanse, renew and revitalize". The series capture worlds with cityscapes, huge spacecraft and lands populated by technopriests, rubbish-dwelling mutants, doppelgängers, giant jellyfish, chiming forests of gems and jostling, old gurus floating on crystals, an underground rat army, flying leeches, "necro-panzers",

1975-447: Is mediated through the TriD (TV), even people's dreams. People are addicted to "love drug" amorine, while the president is engaged in repeated body transplants. The masculine role is ridiculed by mass-produced holographic prostitutes. The technopriests represent the most damning, avaricious human drives. John Difool is based upon The Fool from tarot with his name being a pun upon "John,

2054-404: Is reluctant to accept; he constantly wishes to return to his own ignorant reality of simple hedonistic pleasures. It is an allegory for the sins repeating , the futility of complacency and the necessity for individual transformation. As the story progresses he keeps changing, becoming more heroic, even physically more handsome. The original six installments begin and end by DiFool falling from

2133-553: The Star Wars prequel films. Daniel Kalder from The Comics Journal noted that the drawing by Moebius in After the Incal was of lesser ability, also saying: "Moebius was and always will be The Man but he was not the man for this story: Ladrönn was. And so while After the Incal is certainly an intriguing footnote, a glimpse of a path not taken, Final Incal is the real deal". Hugh Armitage from Digital Spy noted that Moebius's After

2212-723: The leptosporangiate ferns , with about 2,800 species (10% of epiphytes). About one-third of all fern species are epiphytes. The third largest group is clubmosses , with 190 species, followed by a handful of species in each of the spikemosses , other ferns, Gnetales , and cycads . The first important monograph on epiphytic plant ecology was written by A. F. W. Schimper ( Die epiphytische Vegetation Amerikas , 1888). Assemblages of large epiphytes occur most abundantly in moist tropical forests , but mosses and lichens occur as epiphytes in almost all biomes. In Europe there are no dedicated epiphytic plants using roots, but rich assemblages of mosses and lichens grow on trees in damp areas (mainly

2291-645: The "destroyer of all living things", the Benthacodon (equivalent to The Incal' s Black Egg). He unleashes a 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

2370-570: The Castakas—who adhere to respective versions of a once-shared warrior code, known by the Amakuras as Bushikara and by the Castakas as Bushitaka. One day, the Castakas' queen Oriela was abducted by the Amakura king Divadal, taunting her king Omezo by publicly raping her and taking her hostage. Omezo, employing guile over the established codes of combat, overwhelmed the Amakuras, but not before Divadal released

2449-583: The Dark Incal. Animah (an allusion to anima ), the keeper of the Light Incal, seeks it as well. During the journey Difool and Deepo (Difool's loyal concrete seagull) are joined by Animah, The Metabaron , Solune, Tanatah (sister of Animah) and Kill Wolfhead, with a task of saving the universe from the forces of the Dark Incal, and the Technopriests manufacture and launch into outer space the sun-eating Dark Egg. As

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2528-607: The Fool". Animah's name is based on the Jungian concept of the anima , the feminine part of every male's psyche, as well in Latin "anima" means "psyche". The series has no taboos, an attitude towards sex, violence and general social stigmas that may be avoided in more conventional comics. They include black-and-white dualism or the conflict between good and evil , mystical symbolism, archetypes , metaphysics , tarot and other influences. In

2607-450: The French magazine Métal Hurlant , 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 ), it has been described as a contender for "the best comic book" in the medium's history. From it came spin-off series Metabarons , The Technopriests , and Megalex . The story is set in

2686-780: The Heart of the Impregnable Metabunker , also known as Incal: The Lost Pages , drawn by Giménez instead of Moebius and The Crest of Castaka that formed the bases for the second volume of Castaka (The Rival Twins). This is a prequel to the original series. The artwork is by Das Pastoras because Juan Giménez was busy with other projects. Another spin-off by Travis Charest and Zoran Janjetov: Spin-off by Jerry Frissen , Valentin Secher, Niko Henrichon and Pete Woods : Spin-off by Jerry Frissen and Jean-Michel Ponzio : An origin story for Simak from Jerry Frissen´s The Metabaron series. All

2765-523: The Incal "delivers some typically breathtaking scenery, but his characters take on a cartoonish, Sergio Aragonés -like style that is both atypical for the artist and at odds with the dark story. [Valérie] Beltran's colours leave the images looking flat and uninteresting", and praised the Ladrönn's artwork in Final Incal . The publishers sued Luc Besson , director of The Fifth Element (1997), claiming that

2844-418: The Incal and Final Incal , in one complete collection called Final Incal , as a 9.5 x 12.5" deluxe slipcase hardcover, as well limited and numbered edition 12 x 16" coffee table format. In 2015 they released a 7.9 x 10.8" hardcover trade edition, but without After the Incal . All four volumes were digitally released by Humanoids Publishing in 2014. Humanoids released three prequel graphic novels as part of

2923-478: The Incal ) was recolored in a more modern style and had the nudity censored . Jodorowsky did not like the change of the series to seduce a young audience. In December 2010, Humanoids released a limited and oversized hardcover edition of The Incal , with 750 copies printed. It was sold out and soon the series was out of print in the United States. In 2011 more hardcovers were released by Humanoids Publishing in

3002-583: The Incal Universe project, to which Alejandro Jodorowsky gave his blessing: Psychoverse by Mark Russell and Yanick Paquette , Dying Star by Dan Watters and Jon Davis-Hunt, and Kill Wolfhead by Brandon Thomas and Pete Woods . Psychoverse was released on November 15, 2022, while Kill Wolfhead was the English-language debut of Kill Tête-de-Chien , released on November 17 2021, in France. The series

3081-625: The Light Incal, a crystal of enormous and infinite powers (it guides and protects those who believe in it), from a dying Berg. The Incal is then sought by many factions: the Bergs; the corrupt government of the great pit-city; the rebel group Amok (led by Tanatah); and the Church of Industrial Saints, commonly referred to as the Techno-Technos or the Technopriests , a sinister technocratic cult which worships

3160-413: The Technos. Eventually, the Technos catch the pirates in an ambush and Antigrea is mortally wounded. Seeking a burial site, they land on the planet Marmola, but find its marble composition impossible to dig. They are ambushed by bandits who seek the planet's hidden treasure, a secret guarded by the giant eagle-like Gangez, and use Antigrea's remains as bait to capture him. Loosing their bonds they overwhelm

3239-663: The US and Self Made Hero in the UK. Smaller than the oversized hardcover edition, they resemble it in that they restore the original colouring and remove the censorship. In 2012 Humanoids Publishing released 9.4 x 12.6" limited deluxe edition of Before the Incal with a foreword by José Ladrönn , artist on the upcoming Final Incal . Between January 2013 and 2014, they released a sold-out 12 x 16" limited coffee table edition of The Incal six volumes. In 2014, Humanoids released 7.9 x 10.8" hardcover trade collection of The Incal and its sequels, After

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3318-465: The assault on the Amakuras, and despite initial antipathy they fell in love. Antigrea bore Dayal twin daughters, Myrtha and Narda, but Dayal's disappointment at lacking a male heir drove him to withdraw to the wilderness, hunting wild game, while Antigrea and Pakko raised the twins in the martial arts. Some years later, the Technopriests elected to build their new space station in Ahour's system. While they saw

3397-418: The asteroid. He agrees to impregnate her followed by a fight to the death, but when bested he takes his own life, asking to be remembered by his unborn progeny. Berard concludes his tale by revealing that he is the child of that union, and he welcomed Othon (a fugitive pirate) seeing in him a trace of his own father. Othon is now ready to receive the mark of the Metabarons (the absorbed spirit of Gangez, worn as

3476-458: The bandits, and pledge themselves to the now-dying Gangez who by eating her has become Antigrea's sepulchre. Gangez leads them to the planet's only fertile valley, where they bury him, and his spirit leads them to the planet's treasure: a subterranean reservoir of epiphyte , a substance that defies gravity. Summoning the Techno robots he cast into space on their first raid, Dayal develops the valley into

3555-469: The bridge; he descends, ascends and later re-descends in "closed" circularity. The universe is split into two galaxies, a human (with 22,000 planets), and a Berg (featherless birdlike aliens), and the story is set on four planets in the human galaxy: Ter21, Techno-Gea, Aquaend, and the Golden Planet. On the planet Ter21 there are two social classes: the fortunate (common and aristocrats), who reside at

3634-409: The darkness is overcome, Difool is brought before Orh, the fatherlike divinity, who tells him he must remember what he witnessed. As Difool falls away, he finds himself where he was at the beginning, falling down the shaft. The story is a considerably more straightforward noir tale of boundless urban corruption with the relative absence of spiritualistic elements, which dips deeper into exploring

3713-475: The dystopian capital city of an insignificant planet in a human -dominated galactic empire , wherein the Bergs, aliens who resemble featherless birds and reside in a neighboring galaxy , make up another power bloc. It starts in medias res with Difool thrown from the Suicide Alley to the great acid lake below by a masked group, luckily saved by a police cruiser. During the questioning he denies that he received

3792-407: The failure of their machinations, destroyed the whole planet, leaving the bunker adrift as an asteroid. There, Dayal finally acknowledged his warrior daughters and completed their training. The family hijacked a Techno convoy and leveraged its booty and their lethal martial skills to claim leadership of the pirate asteroid of Thor-Thougah, from which they wage a bloody and profitable offensive against

3871-415: The film borrowed graphic and story elements from The Incal , but lost their case. In an interview given to Chilean newspaper The Clinic , Jodorowsky claimed that neither he nor Moebius actually sued Besson, but instead that the lawsuit was filed by the editor of the comic series. He further claimed that the case was lost because Moebius "betrayed them" by working directly with Besson on the production of

3950-540: The film. In a 2002 interview with the Danish comic book magazine Strip! , Jodorowsky considered it an honour that somebody stole his ideas. In the 1980s the Canadian animation director Pascal Blais created a short trailer for The Incal (i.e. Dark Incal ), but the movie was never made. In 2011 and 2016, his studio made updated versions of the original trailer. In 2013, in an interview by France Inter , Nicolas Winding Refn

4029-426: The five Metabarons. The stories depict a space opera reminiscent of Greek tragedy, and heavily influenced by Frank Herbert 's Dune novels. Jodorowsky had been in the early stages of making a Dune film in 1973. Every Metabaron is mutilated by his father in his youth so that his endurance to pain is tested, and receives a powerful mechanical body part as a replacement for the destroyed limb. In each generation,

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4108-472: The form and character of Steelhead, and takes care of his bride. When unable to preserve both of Vicenta's twin children alive, Steelhead removes the male twin's brain and implant it in the female child, and trains the androgynous Aghora would be trained as a warrior, who eventually faces his/her father in single combat to become Metabaron. To conceive an heir, he/she extracts the male cells from his/her own brain and implants them in his/her womb, thereby creating

4187-422: The ground rooted plants by decomposition or leaching, and dinitrogen fixation. Epiphytic plants attached to their hosts high in the canopy have an advantage over herbs restricted to the ground where there is less light and herbivores may be more active. Epiphytic plants are also important to certain animals that may live in their water reservoirs, such as some types of frogs and arthropods . Epiphytes can have

4266-404: The history of the medium that are this imaginative, this thoughtful, this heartfelt or this good". Mark Millar called it "quite simply one of the most perfect comics ever conceived and probably the most beautiful piece of graphic literature ever drawn". Anthony Paletta from Los Angeles Review of Books considered that " The Incal isn't only a parade of thrilling grotesqueries: it also has

4345-873: The host through transpiration. CAM metabolism , a water-preserving metabolism present among various plant taxa , is particularly relevant to epiphytic communities. For example, it is estimated that among epiphytic orchids, as many as 50% are likely to use it. Other relevant epiphytic families which display such metabolism are Bromeliacee (e.g. in genera Aechmea and Tillandsia ), Cactaceae (e.g. in Rhipsalis and Epiphyllum ) and Apocynaceae (e.g. in Hoya and Dischidia ). The ecology of epiphytes in marine environments differs from those in terrestrial ecosystems. Epiphytes in marine systems are species of algae, bacteria, fungi, sponges, bryozoans, ascidians, protozoa, crustaceans, molluscs and any other sessile organism that grows on

4424-515: The iconic scarring in his eyebrow, he allies himself with a vampiric creature to enact his vengeance upon his descendant. Ultimately, he repents; whereupon Nameless has himself sterilized , and remains in self-pity until the Spirit of the Castaka family, embodied by the mark on his chest, prompts Nameless to become a force for good, protecting life whenever he can. With this new mission, the Metabaron becomes

4503-451: The main French albums were reprinted in English in their original version by Humanoids . These include: Humanoids Publishing released 17 issues, published in 2000–2001. All were collected into censored trade paperbacks, with a fifth volume containing 4 short stories. Contains Vol 1 to 6 in hardcover form. The Incal The Incal ( / ˈ ɪ ŋ k əl / ; French: L'Incal ) is

4582-458: The object of his affections, and resurrects her father, along with a rare, titanic tree (both destroyed by Steelhead himself). Doña Vicenta consents to the match; but the clone of her father attempts to take her by force, whereupon Vicenta gives him her eyes. Mollified, he permits Melmoth and Doña Vicenta to marry; but Melmoth discovers that Tonto, his robotic servant, has replaced her eyes by cybernetic sensors, and shuns her. Eventually, he reverts to

4661-406: The occasion of his son-in-law Othon's succession to the title of Metabaron (intended to be resolved by mortal combat but forestalled by his use of guile to seal victory), Baron Berard of Castaka tells of his caste's lineage leading up to the present. On the remote planet Ahour-The-Dwarf, a long-forgotten schism had drawn its inhabitants into an interminable civil war between two castes—the Amakuras and

4740-417: The older parts of a plant will have more epiphytes growing on them. Epiphytes differ from parasites in that they grow on other plants for physical support and do not necessarily affect the host negatively. An organism that grows on another organism that is not a plant may be called an epibiont . Epiphytes are usually found in the temperate zone (e.g., many mosses , liverworts , lichens , and algae ) or in

4819-417: The only alternative to victory is death, and even forsake their own family members in the pursuit of total victory. Each Metabaron draws upon an array of advanced weaponry. These include cybernetically implanted lasers, nanotech nuclear warheads implanted in the body, swords which can disintegrate in bursts of flame, and advanced spaceships. Many of the Metabarons also exhibit powerful psychic abilities. On

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4898-457: The planet as no inherent threat, their concern that an enemy might use it as a bridgehead led them to lobby the ageing Omezo to install planetary defences on-world. When he declined, they infected him with a virus in hopes his heir (Dayal) might be more accommodating. The dying Omezo abhorred having Dayal succeed him and ordered the murder of him and his family, but Pakko bought time for them to reunite at Dayal's remote bunker. The Technos, witnessing

4977-454: The pregnant Honorata with them; but Othon injects a potion of epiphyte into Honorata. This deprives his son, Aghnar von Salza, of weight; wherefore Othon lets Honorata train Aghnar by herself. When Aghnar is seven years old, he defeats a machine set against him by his father; whereupon Othon continues his training. Honorata then confesses she was ordered to give birth to a hermaphrodite instead of

5056-458: The rewritten sequel Final Incal is much darker and grittier; the streets are emptier, less colorful, more muted. He excelled at drawing, but as if he has studied not only Moebius but also the movies that Moebius influenced, directly or indirectly (like Blade Runner ). The Incal was initially serialized in French between 1980 and 1985 in the magazine Métal Hurlant , which was published by Les Humanoïdes Associés . An English translation

5135-494: The son and heir must eventually face his father in a battle to the death. These battles have taken many forms, from hand-to-hand combat to space duels, and the succession is only achieved once the son succeeds in killing his father. The Bushitaka is the strict code of honor followed by the Metabarons, named after the Japanese bushido . It demands that the practitioners dedicate themselves to victory in all things at any cost, wherein

5214-471: The story there's often a conflict between life or nature and dead technology (even uniformity and diversity ), as "glasses enable you to see, that's technology. But happiness is not that, it's not your glasses. It's what you are able to see. If you have wonderful glasses but don't know how to see what's in front of you, then that technological tool is useless". The series also showcases religion, economy, politics and warfare, all mixed together. The Final Incal

5293-416: The surface of a plant, typically seagrasses or algae. Settlement of epiphytic species is influenced by a number of factors including light, temperature, currents, nutrients, and trophic interactions. Algae are the most common group of epiphytes in marine systems. Photosynthetic epiphytes account for a large amount of the photosynthesis in systems in which they occur. This is typically between 20 and 60% of

5372-463: The top, and the others (including the mutants led by Gorgo the Foul, who represent the poor living in misery, on the fringes of society, minorities of all kinds ), who live down in the pits. At the top, it's a near- panopticonical dystopia with standard TV program (with the same presenter Diavaloo) depicting filmed violence for public consumption, and indoctrination. Seemingly no one works anymore, and all life

5451-416: The total primary production of the ecosystem. They are a general group of organisms and are highly diverse, providing food for a great number of fauna. Snail and nudibranch species are two common grazers of epiphytes. Epiphyte species composition and the amount of epiphytes can be indicative of changes in the environment. Recent increases in epiphyte abundance have been linked to excessive nitrogen put into

5530-481: The tradition of cybernetic implants and later becomes a mercenary of extraordinary skill and power. By the destruction of 100,000 pirate vessels, he and his descendants receive the title of Metabaron, and the Imperial couple promise a gift. Later, a woman named Honorata offers that she can bear Othon a child if he places a drop of his blood in her uterus . With this done, two of Othon's servants try to commit suicide, taking

5609-657: The tropics (e.g., many ferns , cacti , orchids , and bromeliads ). Epiphyte species make good houseplants due to their minimal water and soil requirements. Epiphytes provide a rich and diverse habitat for other organisms including animals, fungi, bacteria, and myxomycetes . Epiphyte is one of the subdivisions of the Raunkiær system . The term epiphytic derives from the Greek epi- (meaning 'upon') and phyton (meaning 'plant'). Epiphytic plants are sometimes called "air plants" because they do not root in soil. However, that term

5688-583: The unstoppable mercenary featured in the Incal . In February 2019, American black metal band Bihargam released their debut album titled Castaka that is a musical adaptation of The Metabarons. The band's name is taken from the book Weapons of the Metabaron . The series has been published in French as follows: A special volume La Maison des Ancêtres (The House of the Ancestors) was released in 2000 containing interviews with Jodorowsky and Giménez as well as sketches, unseen art and 2 short stories. A remake of In

5767-430: 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

5846-405: The western coastal fringe), and the common polypody fern grows epiphytically along branches. Rarely, grass, small bushes or small trees may grow in suspended soils up trees (typically in a rot-hole). Epiphytes however, can generally be categorized into holo-epiphytes or hemi-epiphytes. A holo-epiphyte is a plant that spends its whole life cycle without contact with the ground and a hemi-epiphyte

5925-418: Was flying in intergalactic space. A cosmic being formed by two superimposed pyramids, one black, the other white, was calling me. I moved toward it and found myself submerged in the center. We exploded. And that’s how my subconscious mind introduced me to "El Incal"". — Jodorowsky on the Incal. The center of the concept is Difool's fantastic spiritual journey (or initiation ) on a cosmic scale, which he

6004-424: Was influenced by Moebius and imitated him. Finally, Moebius decided to do After the Incal , but beside his illness at the time he had a different style, and Jodorowsky was not satisfied by the overall work. He depicted the nightmare of the tech-world with a more abundant sense of optimism, something peppered with light and hope throughout. José Ladrönn 's rendition of the worlds that Moebius originally designed in

6083-487: Was reportedly working as a director on a live-action movie adaptation of The Incal , but it appeared to have been a rumor that Winding Refn dismissed in 2016. US black metal band Bihargam released the album Ove Tenebrae as a musical adaption of The Incal on October 16, 2020. In 2021, Jodorowsky officially announced a big screen adaptation directed by Taika Waititi , from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jemaine Clement and Peter Warren. Epiphyte An epiphyte

6162-620: Was serialized in the magazine Heavy Metal (published by National Lampoon ) from 1982 to 1984. Concurrent with its serialization in Métal Hurlant , Les Humanoïdes Associés collected the series as six hardcover volumes: L'Incal Noir (1981), L'Incal Lumière (1982), Ce qui est en bas (1984), Ce qui est en haut (1985), La cinquième essence – Galaxie qui Songe (1988), and La cinquième essence – La planète Difool (1988). In 1988, Epic Comics (a division of Marvel Comics ) published The Incal in three volumes as

6241-483: Was translated from French into more than eleven languages, selling millions of copies. Left unfinished but The New Dream is remade and expanded in the first volume of Final Incal. Rolling Stone magazine in "The 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels" list placed the original volume as #30, calling it "one of the great comics team-ups". Patrick Hess from Nothing But Comics placed it as fourth out of seventy best comics list, as "there are very few comics ever created in

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