The Incal: Dying Star
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A mutant commander leads a desperate mission of revenge.A millennium away, a Sister of Entropy faces certain death.Will love triumph... or will all fall to the rot and the worm?
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Things are not going well for Commander Kaimann. Luz, the love of his life, is dead, his home of Tortuga destroyed, his crew ghostly apparitions, and his crocodilian mutation taking over more and more of his body -- Kaimann is fighting for his life on multiple fronts. Just when it seems like despair may overtake him, a chance encounter with a strange violin connects him to Aurora, a woman living in a future where she is staring down almost certain destruction...
With his passions renewed, Kaimann hatches a bold plan to find a cure for his mutation and a future with his newfound love. However, Kaimann’s past is catching up with him, and Aurora’s future
Part of the expanding universe of The Incal, soon to be a major motion picture from Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, Our Flag Means Death).
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Watters (Limbo) and Davis-Hunt (Clean Room) deliver a grim yet thrilling entry in the Incal/Metabarons space opera series, which was originally created by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius in 1980. In a distant future ruled by the powerful, sociopathic cyborg Metabarons, space pirate Commander Kaimann, a former "aristo" (aristocrat) himself, cuts a swath of destruction across the galaxy with his crew of holographic ghosts. A mutation is causing Kaimann to degenerate into a reptilian monster ("He was born looking on the outside as all look within," the sardonic narration notes), but he's briefly distracted from his angst when the music of a space-age violin summons Aurora, a priestess of entropy from even further in the future who has been reading about Kaimann's adventures in a book. That's as much sense as any plot scripted from the Metabarons universe typically makes, and its scaffolding provides the structure for lavish worldbuilding: Davis-Hunt fills pages with exotic planets, bizarre aliens and cyborgs, space battles, and brutal violence, all rendered in elegant clear-line art that evokes Moebius's original visions without overtly mimicking. One of the stronger installments in this inexhaustible saga, it will leave readers eager for more.
