In this volume eight, the writer Jerry Frissen accompanied by the artist and colorist Pete Woods continue the saga of the Meta-Baron. Find out what happens to the most powerful soldier in the universe in his confrontation with his father and a living ship.
The rise of Adal
In the future, the Meta-Baron, the ultimate warrior of the universe, confronts techno-techno. The dominance of the machine empire is challenged by the lack of pyphite. To obtain it, the machines then approach the home planet of the Meta-Baron, the only source for this fuel allowing interstellar travel. The reader has also discovered the origins of the new Meta-Baron. Adal gradually assumed his destiny through the many initiatory rites. The young albino grows stronger as his body becomes more and more mechanical.
Adal also sacrificed his family and broke his love. Unwittingly, he relives his father's curse. Indeed, the moral code of the Castaka family is so strict that it breaks the lives of individuals with each generation. This eighth volume, leaves the planet Marmolad to propose a new Adal quest. He confronts his father at greater length to complete his destiny as Meta-Baron. In parallel, a living ship approaches Marmolad to dominate this strategic place. The Saaw worldship is a frightening symbiosis between science and biology.
The previous adventures may seem strange or even totally absurd. However, the cartoonist Pete Woods succeeds wonderfully in transcribing them as the infiltration of the living ship. Under his brushes, this idea becomes an infiltration of two soldiers in a hot vein. The reader is both seduced and disgusted. The large size and almost square format are perfect for enjoying impressive scenes like the invasion of a planet. More intimate boxes are ideal for representing the collapse of a being. Woods also offers original designs: a spaceship of looters looks like a microorganism and its occupants are brown crustaceans in armor.
Freudian Meta-barons
Volume eight rewrites the past of Adal's father but also marks the beginning of a new cycle. The reader understands why the Meta-Baron was defeated so easily by Adal. In the midst of the depression, he had saved the universe seventeen years earlier. Since then, he has lost the will to live because of the disappearance of his partner. The universal alpha male no longer exists because he has feelings. This decline forces him to flee the only being he loved: his daughter Dargona (whom he believes to be unique). In this last volume, however, he changes his mind when the survival of the universe and that of his daughter are linked.
By this description, we see that complicated relations with the father run through the cycle of the Meta-Baron. Saaw created a son in his image. This Mab Dyn clone must allow him to enjoy the pleasures of the body vicariously. His son, keeping his umbilical cord with this vessel, is limited in his movements and freedom. However, he seeks to emancipate himself and consciously makes him suffer for this purpose. Meanwhile, Adal hates his father and wants to kill him in a duel. For this, it forces it to regain its vigor. In contrast, girls can heal men's trauma.
With this volume eight, a mythical saga of Franco-Belgian comics and Humanoïdes Associés is coming to an end. Beyond the battles between galactic empires, the young Meta-Baron confronts his father while the son of a ship opposes his father. Boys are no longer a promise for the future but above all a problem. Fortunately, there is a girl…
If you liked this chronicle, find on the site the previous volume marking the relaunch and Kill Tête-de-Chien on a character of the Incal.
