Some classmates did laugh at me reading this, they found the title absurd not knowing it contains one of the most epic stories ever 😅 and one of the best crossover ever was with the incal !
You spelled the words, "of ALL time", wrong. Please show me someone working today in Comics, in Gimenez' realm and caliber. Whoever you show me...will disagree with you.
I'm a huge fan. Ever since i encountered Gimenez in the pages of Heavy Metal. They should do a movie version of the Metabarons. Done right, and it would be EPIC.
man i remember the main character parents well there both as one and there both non binary and it was really sad they both loved their son after the son killed them both for traditions
@@danielcruz2354 A little but not as grim. It's more based on the concepts of Utopia and exploration. It also deals with the conflict of science and magic.
@@danielcruz2354 I mean his description could just as easily relate to the DC or Marvel universe. Maybe aside from the epic part. Or any other world that has forms of science and magic like even Elder Scrolls series. It has its own brands of medievalesque fantastical sciences...
You have made such a fine presentation that honors the convergence of the great artist Juan Gimenez and the visionary fantastical story teller Alejandro Jodorowsky. I have collected many of Gimenez' earlier works many not translated into English, the art of story telling is so visual that one gets it from the magnificent illustrations that bring magic to the story. I then got the full large and heavy numbered special edition of the Metabarons that comes it a magnificent box like case. I was lucky to get that while it was available, it is the treasure of my art book collection! I am subscribing to see your other presentations as this one is so well done.
I'm glad you like the content of the channel and especially this video. You are certainly lucky to have The Metabarons in that presentation, I have a Spanish edition that has all the volumes together.
Metabarons, Incal and Technopriests take up half a shelf of my inside bookcases. My only problem is that Humanoids has re-released and repackaged a few times that I never know the proper order to read them. If anyone knows of a definitive guide to reading the series it would be greatly appreciated. Not even sure if I have every piece.
Are you joking? He ruined Prometheus with Alien Covenant, he should stay away from directing, too old, and that goes for Jodo as well, although I love him but they are just too old for modern film making.
Really good video, just that the character description is word from word the same one as in the Spanish version of the Metabarons page in Wikipedia, maybe they copied it from you, bro. Thanks again! I'm gonna try and get the books!
I'm glad you liked the video. I got the description from a Spanish edition that compiles the whole saga that also has in the last pages interviews and information about the story and the characters, maybe they got it from there too. I recommend you to get the books, I have enjoyed it very much.
I am very conflicted about this work. The art is some of the most sublime and breathtaking ever to be put onto paper in a comic. The writing is... really grating. Nevermind that all the character speak their dialogue like they're in a 60s Spider-Man comic, telling the readers their thoughts out loud in pretty clumsy exposition, it's not a style of narration I enjoy, but I know it's a classic one. Nevermind that the comic seems to treat most of its female characters as scenery to prop up the mostly male main characters, I guess Jodorowsky like a lot of other writers were used to seeing stories like that and didn't overly scrutinize it. Nevermind that Jodorowsky's take on scifi is just throwing random ideas at the page and adding "paleo-", "space" or "techno" or something to it to make it futuristic, I find it grating, but I can understand if someone sees it as charming. Nevermind that most of the characters are utterly unsympathetic assholes, this is sorta true for classical heroes like Achilles or even Herkules too. But Jesus Christ those two fucking robots narrating the story CONSTANTLY interrupt the narrative and have the most GROAN-WORTHY fucking anti-funny schtick going on. Haha, the little robot threatened to beat the big robot for being dumb. For the SIXTH TIME. Haha, hilarious! Genius! Brilliant! AAAAARRRGGHHH. I struggled my ass through this saga for the art. And because I grew up LOVING the Incal. But it was painful.
yep. I don't even remember reading the metabarons, I'm pretty sure I did, it's just that the "story" was just... just not. It's clearly the "art" and not the sense that drive this work, quite interesting but in the end simply lacking.
I share some of your thoughts; the story is great... conceptually. Lots of mixed feelings. Lots of people consider it to be better than The Incal, but I found myself struggling through bits (it doesn't help either that the integral tome is a heavy ass book), while The Incal felt like a page-turner
I would have really loved to watch this and it's not even really the strong accent, but more the completely strange intonation and weird sentence structure that made me quit after 2 minutes. 😟 Why not get a native speaker? Should be easy with this quality of video.
"Images that bordered on hyper-realism" - dude, what you're showing is just classic comic book art, nothing realistic, and certainly not hyper-realistic, about it.
love your videos, good content, but please try to read script not as robot :D do alcohol, drugs so your voice would get more joyfull :D or just let AI to read instead of you. :D just advice, not hate :)
I'm glad you like the videos, in real life my voice is a bit boring and robotic, I'll try to inject a little more life into it at some point, thanks for the advice and comment.
