A review by lukemosher
Final Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky

I was more mixed on this one that I wish I was. The Incal, the original Jodorowsky and Moebius comic, is one of the best comic books of all time, and truly melted my brain when I read it earlier this year. Before the Incal is also really good. This one, like I said, I was more mixed on. The main thing was that it felt "modern" in a way that the first two didn't - they were more in the "classical" 70s and 80s style where everything was drawn by hand, in simpler panels, and everything was over-written--in this case a good thing. There simply weren't as many ideas at play, and the writing and dialogue felt a bit thin. There is just so much packed into the original Incal; this one plays out like any standard sci-fi action comic of the last 20ish years. The colors in this are more muted, softer, pastel almost, where the old Incal really popped with vivid color. This is also drawn on computer, and not by hand; it kind of numbs my brain a little, though a lot of the art is still very good. It does finish the story in a pretty satisfying way, though. I've got Metabarons and Technopriests lined up to read next, which I hear are both quite good, so here we go...