This is a character from the Incal. There is no better comic, ever (Except for Lone Wolf and Cub? Yeah, except for that.)

Make it this one:

Why? It's written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, one of the world's great visionary creators of both comics and film and illustrated by one of the greatest artists ever to draw sequential art, Moebius. Impossibly, it lives up to that extraordinary pedigree. It's a glorious, madcap thrill ride of a book, jumping from one insane danger to another at a breathtaking pace.

There are single panels of this book that are more amazing than entire 6-12 issues runs of some other comics. There's more creativity and beauty in a single page of this book than you will find in some comic artists entire careers. The universe they inhabit is probably the most vibrant, truly alive fictional universes I've ever encountered. It's also big. The scale of the stories is often vast and the powers at play are planet-shattering.

In other words: hell. yes.

It's the best.

Listen

And then think of comics that look like this (art by Moebius and Enki Bilal):

I approve

Did this last night after reading Aghora & The Last Metabaron. I'm a huge fan of the comics work of Alejandro Jodorowsky, so I felt the urge to draw after finishing the final book in the magnificent Metabarons story. This drawing isn't exactly the proper scale to really honor the incredible storyline and vision of Jodo and Gimenez, but that's cool.

Maybe I'll revisit and try to make a drawing as big as the book itself.

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Enter the Dragon? I'm seeing it.