EDENA - MOEBIUS

Beautiful and lush. Moebius discusses wanting to minimize the number of lines he uses in his drawing and he fucking nails it. They’re beyond next level. Crisp, vast, mind-bending. This comic could be word-less and still be wonderful. I don’t know that much about European comics so my frame of references is narrow, but there’s something about the colors maybe that remind me of Tintin. Maybe because it’s saturated but flat? Who knows? The story is very dope as well, genderless aliens are drawn mysteriously to a giant blue pyramid that turns out to be a spaceship that takes them and aliens from all over to a paradise planet called Edena. Things escalate and there’s eventually a very gnostic sort of evil god figure introduced. Much of the story is very PKDian for sure, I don’t know if Moebius was aware of PKD at the time of this writing but there’s alot of overlap in general themes (evil gods, biblical illusions, space-drugs). There’s a point where the male “Adam” character gets rape-y and it comes across as very Pepe Le Pue which you think the French would be sensitive to. This whole thing apparently started as a Citrone ad. That part of the book is there and it’s insane. After some characters fly a spaceship, then fly an asteroid and crash into a planet, they pull a ‘38 Citrone out of the wreckage and drive around the planet. One character explains that the car can go forward, backwards and has 3 gears. The other character, who has just literally flown a spaceship, acts impressed. It’s a very strange movement. But overall, fantastic, very great stoned read. Moebius is a better writer than I knew. There’s weird space costumes and customs, underground mutants, saviors from the stars, it’s a nice blend of classic Sci-fi tropes that manage to engage but not take away from the real star, his peerless drawings. 1 perfect planet.