Make it this one:
Why? It’s written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, one of the world’s great visionary creators of both comics and film and illustrated by one of the greatest artists ever to draw sequential art, Moebius. Impossibly, it lives up to that extraordinary pedigree. It’s a glorious, madcap thrill ride of a book, jumping from one insane danger to another at a breathtaking pace.
There are single panels of this book that are more amazing than entire 6-12 issues runs of some other comics. There’s more creativity and beauty in a single page of this book than you will find in some comic artists entire careers. The universe they inhabit is probably the most vibrant, truly alive fictional universes I’ve ever encountered. It’s also big. The scale of the stories is often vast and the powers at play are planet-shattering.
In other words: hell. yes.
It’s the best.
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By RobK 2011/09/15 - 23:16
Why is everything Moebius out of print? Highly annoying. Having said that, you did prompt me to look for this and I did manage to find one, so thanks. Too bad I never kept all those issues of Heavy Metal 😉
By rob 2011/09/17 - 21:14
Humanoids (the US arm of the French publisher that handles most of his stuff) has had a hard time publishing in the US. So, Moebius, Jodorowsky, etc. have had spotty availability in English for a long time.
Those Heavy Metals were indeed pretty cool. Some amazing stuff in there.