Wow. The illustrations are absolutely stunning and the story so haunting. It wasn't what I was expecting looking at the cover alone. This was full of gore, back stabbing, growth, vengeance, and destruction, that I couldn't turn the pages quick enough. Can't wait to continue reading!

I thought this was brilliant. The storytelling was excellent, managing to weave together the story of
Commander Kaimann who has just lost his crew mates in battle and who is mutating into a beast, and Aurora, a woman living in a future where she is staring down almost certain death from invaders. The two manage to connect across the gulf of time and Kaimann fights desperately in his own time to save Aurora in her’s.

This is sci-fi at it’s best, overflowing with adventure, chaos, battles and plots, with a subtle hint of romance. I have read a few books from this series and in the wrong order, but the storytelling is always so rich with complex characters, a good pace and excellent artwork. The best aspect of this book is how it manages to tell a complex story without using lots of prose.

It is an enjoyable story with brilliant storytelling and great artwork.

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I normally dont read comics, but this one was very engaging. The artwork was gorgeous too. Felt very stylized without being too fantastical of a sci-fi

Fue una novela gráfica que me costó mucho terminarla, no porque fuera mala, sino porque estaba entrando en un bloqueo lector. Más allá de eso, creo que fue particular la historia, no se si me agradó del todo, pero estuvo buena la trama.

I was not familiar with The Incal at all, and I loved this story. It's a good thing I was unaware that Jodorowsky came up with it, because given my dislike of him, I would not have read this graphic novel and that would have been a shame.

Non conoscevo affatto l'Incal e questa storia mi é piaciuta tantissimo. Per fortuna che ignoravo l'avesse ideato Jodorowsky, perché, considerata la mia antipatia nei suoi confronti, non avrei letto questa graphic novel e sarebbe stato un vero peccato.

I received from the Publisher a complimentary digital advanced review copy of the book in exchange for a honest review.

very touching and amazing story! i didn't quite know what to expect going into this read but I actually quite enjoyed everything! Kept me very entertained for quite a while!

I really loved this story, it was a surprisingly touching and cool story that kept me interested all the way through. The art is fantastic and I do want a copy of this when I can get it. I hadn’t even heard of anything from this universe before and now I need find more!

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I've read a couple of volumes of The Incal, but I don't think I've even reached the introduction of space pirate Captain Kaimann, so why am I reading his new spin-off? Well, principally because it's written by Dan Watters, and while Jodorowsky's comics can be a frustrating melange of mad, brilliant ideas with utter cringe, Watters is one of comics' most reliably interesting new-ish writers, someone who seems like a great bet for carrying on the scale of what's come before, while gently shelving the more face-palm elements. So it proves: our hero is not just a space pirate, he's a space pirate who's gradually mutating into a lizard, with a crew of ghosts (albeit science fiction ghosts – they're electrical!), up against hissable aristocrats. All of it given further scale by a framing story in which a cultist at the end of time is recounting the story.
"Why did people do things like that? Those grand gestures, trying to change things in the universe?"
"Because they didn't know, child. They didn't have the perspective we have here in the monastery at the end of it all. They didn't know that every mortal act was futile, and all was destined to lead here, to the end."
You can tell what decade Watters is writing in, can't you? But even back in the far earlier future of Kaimann himself, it's all feeling a bit pointless. He's stolen a legendary musical instrument, but can't play it with his devolving hand; his crew are pirates, but pirates who being electrical phantoms, can no longer drink or whore to celebrate a successful raid. And then, something remarkable happens, even by the standards of an age of marvels. Though admittedly, even amongst all the wonders and weirdness, the detail which struck me most was the awareness of how all Kaimann's heroic determination, misdirected, could achieve just as little in practical terms as the quietism of the cultists.

Art comes from Jon Davis-Hunt, who if I still find it odd that people influenced by McKelvie can now be a big deal when I remember a time before McKelvie was, remains a dab hand at hi-tech adventure. Sure, he's no Moebius, but then who is? He gives good gloopy alien, cyber-bureaucrat and spaceship, which are the key skills here.

(Netgalley ARC)