Juan Giménez (1943–2020)

The Metabarons is beyond fantastic, beyond epic, it is MYTHIC! Rising from the ashes of Jodorowsky's failed Dune movie, The Metabarons chronicles themes of violence, revenge, salvation, and the sins of the father in a multigenerational tale of universe-spanning warfare. The artwork is simply incredible; imaginative and evocative in a way that Jodorowsky's films only wish they could be. And finally, this complete edition is beautifully bound and printed (important when you're dropping $$$ on show more a book).

Wow, just wow. show less

You know that voice in your head that sometimes comes when you read, or watch or play (or write) something fantastical - the voice that says 'That would never happen' or 'That's just silly'? If Alejandro Jodorowsky ever hears it, I bet he just tells it to shut up. :D
I've already heartily recommended The Incal. The Metabarons concerns the genealogy of one of that book's most memorable characters.
Imagine a family line of assassins - the most powerful and deadly warriors in the universe. Each show more Metabaron can earn that title only by defeating the previous Metabaron - their father - in a duel to the death.
We're deep in space opera territory here - perhaps at the pinnacle of the genre. The themes are huge and mythic, the plot contrivances outrageous, the tone relentlessly hysterical. The closest you'll get to an 'audience point of view character' - an easily identifiable bridge between 'normality' and the gleeful, epic weirdness these pages contain - are Tonto and Lothar, two bickering robots. And The Metabarons is all the better for it.
On any one page of The Metabarons you'll find more spectacle, sauce and soul than you'll find in an entire summer's worth of blockbuster movies. Sick of faded franchises, septuagenarian superheroes, risk-free reboots and sucking fequels? The Metabarons is a message from a parallel dimension - a better one. Seek it out and prepare to be astounded. show less

This is story of entity created through uncontrolled experiment that merged 4 women with extraordinary psychic powers into single being. That very soon gets out of control (like you expected something else here eh :))

There are several stories here that follow this energy being as it tries to evade its creators and their adversaries (that wont the creature for the same goal, to use it as a weapon).

Woven in this story is constant joking and ridicule of modern society - wars fought far away show more from the motherland, amoral experiments for the greater good, corrupt politicians letting mercenaries engage in gladiatorial battles to prove the value of this or other military equipment producer (aka sponsors).

Very interesting book, art is just beautiful and level of details is astonishing.

Highly recommended to any SF fan. show less

The two stars are purely for the art which I thought was nicely done, with some quite original design ideas in places. The story was dire though; macho and misogynistic throughout it was a hard slog to get to the end. I almost gave up several times. It made me glad Jodorowsky never got to film Dune; I hate to think how it would have turned out.