The Metabarons by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Juan Gimenez (Online)

Note: due to the tube strike, this is now an online event.

Let's start the year with something different. Following up the Incal, Jodorowski set about giving us the origin of on only the character of the Metabaron, but of his family line. Many of the ideas of his famously failed Dune film adaptation found a home in this book. On art, Juan Gimenez provides some pretty breath taking imagery.

The Techno Empire’s cruel reign and boundless ambition have the universe in a chokehold, but one obstacle remains before them: The Metabaron.

The Metabaron once single-handedly brought the Techno-Techno Empire to its knees. In the chaos that followed, however, a new regime has taken hold, one that has seized control of the rare and vital fuel for intergalactic travel known as epiphyte. As the Metabaron launches a counter-offensive, the Empire will send its most feared soldiers to defend the power they have amassed, even to the doors of the Metabunker itself. To make matters even more dire, the Metabaron’s less than honorable son seeks to usurp the power of the father who abandoned him. Can the Metabaron withstand the many challenges before him and save the universe once more?

This book is available in a number of ways. Most importantly, I'd like to highlight the Humble Bundle "The Incal to Twilight Man" running until around the 17th of November. For about £20 you get not only the Metabarons, but 100 other volumes of European comics. I can't recommend this enough and we will surely be covering other volumes from this bundle in the future.

If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can get The Metabarons: Digital Omnibus for free. Otherwise it's £12 (as of me writing this) on kindle.

There is also the hardcover "40th Anniversary Edition" and a paperback called "The Metabarons: The First Cycle".

Finally, you might have these in the old collections:
v1 Othon & Honorata
v2 Aghnar & Oda
v3 Steelhead & Dona Vicenta
v4 Aghora & The Last Metabaron

Note: this is a fairly long and dense book so don't leave it too late to start!