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[[File:megalex_cover1_9069.jpg|frame|The cover of the first volume, featuring Adamâ and a Megalex Shock Trooper]]

 

A [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness|soft science fiction]] [[Comic Book|graphic novel]] written by [[Alejandro Jodorowsky]] and illustrated by [[Fred Beltran]]. The book is published by French publisher Humanoids, set in the same universe as Jodorowsky's other science fiction comics, ''[[The Metabarons]]'' and ''[[Comic Book/The Incal|The Incal]]''. Megalex is a [[City Planet]] ruled by a royal family and an elite noble class. The common people are kept addicted to drugs and kept in line by police clones programmed to be loyal to the ruling class and implanted with control tabs that will kill them after four hundred days of life. The common folk can only live to forty, while the ruling class can hope for at least four hundred years, and the actual royal family will live for over four thousand.

 

Like all of Jodorowsky's work, ''Megalex'' features surreal science fiction technology including some that may or may not be magic. It's not as dark as ''[[The Metabarons]]'', but still quite brutal and featuring plenty of gorgeously-drawn nudity and [[Scenery Porn]]. Beltran uses a hybrid hand-drawn and computer-generated style that gives the whole book a unique look. Three volumes have been released so far, only the first in English as of yet.

* [[Action Girl]]: Adamâ is a very effective fighter, and doesn't take shit from anybody.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Holds true for the noble class and the royal family on Megalex.

* [[Expendable Clone]]: The police clones are terminated after living for four hundred days, the limit enforced by explosive control tabs implanted at the base of their skulls. This is done to prevent them being infected by dissidents. The clones are filed into a large room like a group show, made to strip, disinfected to allow more efficient recycling, and then their control tabs are detonated. The allusions to concentration camps are obvious.

* [[Explosive Leash]]: The control tabs implanted in every citizen. The Undergrounders remove them from new recruits.

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Ram generally has a kind and compassionate personality, but he is capable of violence when necessary.

* [[Giant Mook]]: Ram starts out looking like one, but is actually one of the Heroes.

* [[Lady of War]]: Princess Kavatah. She wears elegant - if revealing - dresses and also leads her troops to war.

* [[La Résistance]]: The Undergrounder rebels.

* [[Metamorphosis]]: Zerain's hump bursts and a pair of wings sprout from his back when he and Ram win the battle of the twelve chiefs. This is a sign that he's [[The Chosen One]].

* [[Mummy]]: King Yod, Princess Kavatah's father, is a mummified corpse attached to a supercomputer that contains his consciousness. He's not a good person.

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Ram wakes up to find [[Intimate Healing|a naked Adamâ sleeping on top of him.]] She wakes up and angrily tells him to turn around so she can get dressed, and not to get any ideas because "it's not what you think."

* [[Sapient Ship]]: Shalise, the sinister female personality of the police clone training ship.

* [[Serious Business]]: The twelve clan chiefs among the Undergrounders engage in ritual combat to determine who should lead the rebellion -- by chickenfighting. To the death.

* [[Uterine Replicator]]: The police clones are born from a techno-vagina in a large black sphere - complete with a flashing red clitoris to signal the birth of a clone.

 

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