The Incal is a science fiction comic book meta-series written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Moebius and others. The Incal takes place in, and introduced Jodorowsky's "Jodoverse", a fictional universe in which his science fiction comics take place. The story begins in the dystopian capitol city of an insignificant planet in a human-dominated galactic empire.

(The Bergs, aliens who resemble featherless birds and reside in a neighboring galaxy, make up another power bloc.) DiFool receives the Light Incal, a crystal of enormous powers, from a dying Berg. The Incal is then sought by many factions: the Bergs; the corrupt and decadent government of the great pit-city; the rebel group Amok; and the Church of Industrial Saints (commonly referred to as the Techno-Technos or the Technopriests), a sinister technocratic cult which worships the Dark Incal. Animah (an allusion to Animah), the keeper of the Light Incal, seeks it as well.

The series mixes space opera, metaphysics, and satire; a counterpoint to the grandiosity of the events is always Difool's base, even cowardly nature. Every major characters in The Incal is based upon Tarot cards – for example, John Difool is obviously based upon The Fool with his name being a pun upon "John, the Fool". (A small friendly companion, like Deepo in The Incal, accompanies the Fool on his journey.) Animah's name of course is based on the Jungian concept of the Anima, the feminine part of every male's psyche.

The Incal was the first comic set in what became the Jodoverse or Metabarons Universe. The ones translated into English are John Difool avant l'Incal, a prequel to The Incal with artwork by Zoran Janjetov, La Caste des Méta-Barons (artwork by Juan Giménez), which relates the history of a dynasty of perfect warriors prior to The Incal leading up to the Metabaron is the metabaron from the Incal stories. Technopriests with artwork by Zoran Janjetov and Megalex.

The later volumes of some of these works have not to date received English translations.

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