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Be the first to ask a question about The Collected Fantasies, Vol. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Collected Fantasies, Vol. Feb 23, mark monday rated it it was amazing Shelves: comicon , alpha-team , new-dimensions , special-collection. He's the Creator of this world The Archer! Samuel Mohad and his giant robot 'The Star Billiard'! Major Grubert and Malvina also get involved, with varying degrees of effectiveness.
Not the End! Then, I would break them apart again in order to create again a feeling of insecurity, so that, the next month, I would again have to pick up the pieces and do it again, and so on until the end of the story.
Moebius juggles styles and ideas and homage and makes it all look so easy and fun. View all 19 comments. Feb 24, Stewart Tame rated it it was amazing. Moebius did the first two pages as a parody of a serial, setting things up so that it couldn't possibly go anywhere, or so he thought.
One month later, Moebius was reminded of the promised ending, and he did two more pages to buy himself some time. And what began as a parody of a serial became an actual serial. Moebius intentionally set up a situation where his challenge every month was to solve the continuity problems that he had introduced in previous months.
Needless to say, I won't attempt to summarize the plot. It defies easy summary. For an artist with a lesser imagination than Moebius, such an approach would result in an incoherent mess.
Jun 07, Adam rated it really liked it Shelves: black-comedy , literature-disguised-as-science-fic , literature-fantastique , steampunkery. A hard to find and utterly weird, dreamlike comic. The more I think about it the less it approaches sense not really its intent , but still the images are wonderful. Reminds me of the animated film The Fantastic Planet. Oct 05, Sebastien rated it really liked it.
So for me the story and narrative were so-so, but the art is just phenomenal. Def worth reading just to experience the art of Moebius. Speaking of which, I'd be curious if Moebius ever cited McCay's work as an influence, will have to look into that. View 1 comment. May 15, Andrew rated it it was ok Shelves: c-comics , i-dont-own. I read the 4 issue reprint edition by DC.
Each issue had a page prose recap of the plot I have no idea what just happened in this comic. The story is serialized, so every few pages the page reprints the title.
This causes the story to lose its smoothness of narration. Which isn't a particular problem here because the story seems nonsensical. I think the author was making this up as he went along. The art is typical beautiful Moebius.
Unfortunately that is the only redeeming feature of this c I read the 4 issue reprint edition by DC. Unfortunately that is the only redeeming feature of this comic. I wish Moebius worked with writers more often because I find his solo work to lack a certain narrative cohesiveness. Jul 03, Peterk rated it it was amazing. For me this is the best comic novel ever, although not everybody's cup of tea due to its chaotic story structure and high level of complexity.
I've read it over 20 times and with each read I still discover things I hadn't thought of before. Graphically Moebius has performed better than this although the result he delivers here is still very impressive , but story wise it is so amazingly creative and refreshing it leaves all other comic books behind by far.
As always with Moebius, you have to ac For me this is the best comic novel ever, although not everybody's cup of tea due to its chaotic story structure and high level of complexity. As always with Moebius, you have to accept that you'll probably be more puzzled when reaching the end of the book than you were when starting it, given his love for stopping a comic seemingly in the middle of the storyline, but the effort of going through is very rewarding and you keep falling form one wonder into another.
A classic in every way! Oct 23, Jeff Jackson rated it liked it Shelves: graphic-novels. Psychedelic sci-fi adventure story dealing with multiple levels of reality. The storyline unfurls in short chapters that are designed to be alternately improvised and heavily-plotted.
The overall vibe falls somewhere between, say, the films "The Holy Mountain" and "Fantastic Planet" without being as coherent or successful as either, though Moebius's imagery is often breathtaking. Jun 16, Simon rated it it was amazing Shelves: s , europe-west , antiheroes , magical-realism , reviewed , mad-frenchmen , science-fiction , fantasy , postmodernism , action-adventure.
One reason is that the "Major Grubert" trilogy in every volume throws the reader headfirst into a weird and complicated universe with minimal exposition, with this volume having a complex plot moving at a fast pace with new twists constantly popping up every chapter. Then we have the fact that Moebius "The Hermetic Garage" is the 2nd volume in the "Major Grubert" series, which is among Moebius' most famous output but also in my book one of the most inaccessible and the most difficult to follow.
Then we have the fact that Moebius expects the audience to be familiar with quite a bit of literature that most readers under a certain age and outside certain countries are unlikely to even have heard of in the first place.
This mythology follows the many different incarnations of a cosmic champion fighting for chaos and freedom against the forces of order and tyranny, through a multitude of parallel universe.
One of the Eternal Champion's many incarnations appears as a main character here, Jerry Cornelius who can best be described as a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of David Bowie that moonlights as a time-travelling secret agent. The forces of order are represented by Major Grubert, a mysterious figure who appears as a stereotypical 19th century colonialist complete with pith helmet introduced in the previous volume "Horny Goof".
What really made "The Airtight Garage" click for me was realising how Moebius has basically written a Gnostic Christian allegory here: Grubert is depicted as a Demiurge figure, that is a malevolent creator of the physical world masquerading as the true god, whom Jesus Christ is sent to expose.
Notice the initials of Grubert's adversary Jerry Cornelius, whom Moebius depicts as a spiritually enlightened mystic who liberates the residents of an artificial planet. The blending of New Agey mysticism with nuts-and-bolts space opera, as well as the Gnostic themes involving artificially constructed universes, nonetheless allows Moebius to pull out all stops when depicting strange and inventive settings that seamlessly blend elements from epic fantasy, "used future" science fiction, even superhero comics and spy thrillers.
The landscapes and cities clearly draw upon his experience from mainstream Western comics, but are much more creative because he no longer has to stick to real-life societies and cultures.
If you want to dig deeper, there's also some Cold War-era anti-imperialist left-wing political subtext: Parts of the artificial planet Grubert rules over resembling a futuristic North Africa, Grubert himself dressing like an old fashioned British colonialist etc. This aspect becomes clearer if you notice all the playing around with the genre conventions of espionage thriller novels that appear in the story, sometimes giving the feel of Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" on mescaline.
The trippy art might be the main attraction for readers of "The Airtight Garage", but if you are more familiar with all the literary and religious sources that Moebius draws on you might get even more out of the story. In particular if you try to patch together in your head how the fictional universe works.
Nov 19, zxvasdf rated it really liked it. I order things I can't find through the local interlibrary loan system, and quite often I don't have much expectations towards actually acquiring a copy of an object of desire.
Especially one as elusive as The Airtight Garage. Well, I was surprised. The only reason I wanted to read this is the Jerry Cornelius fiasco. Moorcock coined the character with the intent of allowing other authors to toy with him as they wished, and this was collected in The Nature of the Catastrophe.
Well, apparently Moeb I order things I can't find through the local interlibrary loan system, and quite often I don't have much expectations towards actually acquiring a copy of an object of desire. Well, apparently Moebius went ahead and made his own version of Jerry Cornelius. This caused a tiff between the two creators. Moorcock wasn't happy Moebius did this and Moebius wasn't happy that Moorcock wasn't happy. All in all, this resulted in Moebius's Cornelius being renamed Lewis Carnelian.
Now the two creators are claiming that their disagreement was overblown in context, and that there wasn't really any animosity in the first place. I call bullshit on that—they're probably doing this because with the advent of technology and ease of shared content, their fanbases have grown larger and mingled.
Now at risk of offending respective parties, they've pretended to make peace. Soem might say Moebius' Carnelian isn't a Cornelius knockoff in anything but name; this is definitely not true. Moebius' weird world borrows elements from Moorcock's Eternal Champion Multiverse, including, especially, the Second Ether. If you were ignorant of the controversy behind, and hadn't read Moorcock, you'd still enjoy this book, because Moebius is a genius in his field. His pages are gorgeous and despite the episodic nature of the narrative, you enjoy indulging in the title blocks and abosrbing the weirdness of the storytelling.
Nov 24, Ethan rated it it was amazing. Not everything is as it seems. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.
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