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Director of Publishing: Dave Olbrich
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Welcome to the City Shaft. A pockmark on an
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above the law and beyond the limits of nature
Commander of the elite Purple Endoguard.
- The Prez; ruler of Terra #2014; representative
of the “people” and commander of his own
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- The Chief Cybo-cop; commander of the robotic
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within the City Shaft- descending from the
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the Prez and his sadistic Hunchback army.
Lost in the hypnotic misery of their daily
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televideo, addictive beverages and mind
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leaping to their death over the acid lake.
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elements; depravity, crime, drugs and most
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The Incal is sprawling story of intrigue and
adventure that started back in 1981 with the
collaboration of Moebius and Jodorowsky on
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Incol. As the story goes they sat down together
with only a few loose ideas and just started
talking. Jodo would start describing characters
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‘own- beginning with the insignificant misfortune
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1988 there was demand for more and, of
course, there was more to tell. So Jodorowsky
launched another story arch, this one taking
place before l'Incal Noir and taking the reader
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begins. This series was entitled Avant UIncal;
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Here the story will unfold as few have seen it;
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advantage of the recent and revolutionary
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Overseeing the process and setting the tone
Beltran has laid the groundwork for the brilliant
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because its readers were already familiar with
the world of The Incal and the subversive
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undercut the depravity of the world.
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direction of the book, the "comic™ tone of the
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audience's taste for coloring, in light of the
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was sorely needed. So while the comic tone is
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Alexandro Jodorowsky was born in Chile in 1929.
He traveled Chile for and wide with a traveling
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with 50 dollors in his pocket. In Paris, he created
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spent his time with the surrealiss, with whom he
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countercultural "Panic movement" with Topor and
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Arrabat’s play, Fondo & lys, then wrote, direcled
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adapting Frank Herber’s novel, Dune, for the
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design artists, such as H.R. Giger, Christopher Foss,
and Mesbius to draw the storyboards, ond offered
the role of The Emperor to Solvador Dali. The film
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lynch. Out of this disappointment came a new duo
to hit comic books; in 1978, Moebius ond
Jodorowsky completed their frst collaboration, on
illustrated foble: The Eyes of the Cat. In 1980, the
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legendary series, The Incal
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published oll over the world. Alexandro Jodorowsky
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contributed fo record and book covers, magazine
designs, production design for children's TV series,
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Basic obsessions: Classic TV and genre movies
He lives in Novi Sod, Yugoslavia with his wife
Ivano, son Zoran and three cats.The artist commonly known as Moebius was born
under the name of Jean Giraud in France, 1938
Beginning in 1955, he illustrated several issues of a
fiction mogazine. His first comic strips appeared in
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comic, betler known aterwards under the name of
its hero, Blueberry, quickly became extremely
successful in France. It became the signature series
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collaborated in the founding of the magazine Métal
Hurlont ("Screoming Metal"), 1o which he entrusted
his first episodes of Arzach, and later Airtight
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Jodorowsky, and they began a long collaboration
which gave rise, most notably, to the famous Incal
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There he pursued various interests, including
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collaborating with several renowned filmmakers,
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projects, ond created The Man from the Ciguri, the
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three part series, Madwoman of the Sacred Heart,
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JOHN DiFOOL: a boy raised in the heart of
depravity but destined for something more. The
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jaded by life and addicted to Amorine.
JOHN'S FATHER: a hapless inventor perpetually
going to jail for his petty thefts.
DEEPO: a orphaned concrete seagull and good
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SNAILHEAD: a supplier of Amorine and promi-
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THE ROUGHS: the rough and tumble youths of
the Red Ring; John’s only friends.
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rior ond mercenary for hire.
THE HUNCHBACKS: the prezident’s private
army; loyal, brutal and large.
THE CYBO-COPS: the robotic police force of
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Places:
THE RED RING: a lower level renowned for it's
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CYBOPRISON: a fully automated prison.
DAREDEVIU'S: the brothel in which John's
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Artist: “THE INHUMANS" and “CABLE”
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cs@humanoids publishing.comLETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Welcome to the first issue of The Incal.
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introduced to this wonderful universe. You are
getting a unique experience, reading the
complete story of John Difool; from child to man.
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in this incredible recolored edition. The colors
where amazing before but now, under the
masterful fingers of Fred Beltran, Dan Brown,
Stufio F and others this book is simply stunning;
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Moreover, with the incredible covers by Jose
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over, this has truly been a labor of love by each
and every person involved in its creation.
Read this book, devour it; | promise that it only
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to see how this book will inspire you, os it has
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through to the end and never be afraid of the
exireme and the absurd; the touching and the
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truth about his mother, the nature of love and
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