~Oh, Jodorowsky.~
have you seen the illustrated screenplay for Jodo’s Dune? It goes hard but it is nowhere near as edgy or risque as any of Ralph Bakshi movies from that era. It would’ve been way easier to pull off an animated version and given how successful Heavy Metal movie was just a couple of years later - it would’ve had quite a fighting chance at box office. Alas, it wasn’t to be - but we got one of the best comic books ever out of it so it is hard to complain.
I have, yes, and I cherish it. ✨ Agreed, though.
what’s your favorite Jodo work? I used to be hardcore Incal/Metabaron fan but lately i’ve vibing with his prose books - dude is so good at spinning yarns - just telling stuff and fooling around.
Oh, I’m just a filthy casual and haven’t even prodded the prose, but I’ve enjoyed his brand of surrealism in all its wildness that quietly coexists under/beside/within our conjoined timelines —with only the thinnest of gossamer membranes separating any of it and holding those endless worlds unique ✨🍄👾
Herbert is such an inspirational writer if you look at the way he wrote things.
Dude went out of his way to make his style as distinct as possible compared to other American Sci Fi writers of that - namely Heinlein, Bradbury and especially Asimov. So upon conceiving the initial Dune idea he did the funniest thing and adapted the ornate language of Melville, Hardy and James to get the otherworldly feel, then compressed that melange into what are essentially haiku bricks - that’s why his prose is so expansive but brisk. It is literally poetry - written according to poetry methods of conveying imagery - you have a lot of space to let imagination run wild based on his pointers. Double the fun. Then he poured that into the framework of CS Lewis style of worldbuilding (especially the religious aspects of different factions), bolted on some hard sci fi flourishes in vein of Clarke and Anderson and tied it all together with freewheeling Latin American Magical Realism - namely Marquez, Borges, Asturias.
