WEEK TEN; Jodorowsky Moebius The Black Incal

This story was a welcome change of pace as far as our stories are concerned. We've been delving pretty deeply into stories with real life parallels which have been eye opening don't get me wrong, I personally never realized how heavy comics books could be, and I certainly never realized they could be close to biographical. The Black Incal was a welcome diversion though. It felt like I was reading about a character that would be played by Harrison Ford, bitter, salty, not on any particular side merely out to serve himself. It was fun, really out there, crazy ridiculous, and a lot of fun. The design of the comic was fascinating as well. You look at the first few panels and you think you are set in the seventeen hundreds, next think you know you are falling off of a bridge titled Suicide Bridge, and the further you fall the more you see about the off planet world and just how strange and twisted it is. It was an incredible intro to the world though and I thoroughly enjoyed the story.

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