Alexandro Jodorowsky's Screaming Planet Vol. 2

Screaming Planet #2

by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alexandro Jodorowsky steps up to the challenge of the short graphic novel story format by collaborating with an international panoply of artists. A collection of Sci-Fi short stories all written by Alexandro Jodorowsky ( The Incal, The Metabarons ) and illustrated by talent from various countries and different graphic traditions. The thematic thread of these tales: an asteroid spawned from the destruction of a planet produces sounds (a howling shriek ) which, when crossing an inhabited world, creates a change or imbalance within it...

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Horror

71 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 19, 2014

About the author

Also credited as Alexandro Jodorowsky

Better known for his surreal films El Topo and The Holy Mountain filmed in the early 1970s, Alejandro Jodorowsky is also an accomplished writer of graphic novels and a psychotherapist. He developed Psychomagic, a combination of psychotherapy and shamanic magic. His fans have included John Lennon and Marilyn Manson.

Reviews

[Vít Kotačka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pokračuje to tam, kde první díl přestal, ale začínají se k tomu přidávat povídky, které nejsou sci-fi a celkově je na tom znát, že Jodorowsky už začal ztrácet zájem. Prostě screaming planet není úplně nosné téma. 🤷‍♂️

Mimochodem, ta obálka vůbec nijak nesouvisí s tématem. Ani s jednou povídkou. 🙄

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Recenze Screaming Planet, Vol. 1 ★★★★

[Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a rag-tag bunch of stories and artists. Some of them are downright amazing - Robochrist / The Loyal Khondor - while others are just weird for weird's sake - The Debt. Though Tears of Gold is also good in that the story has a better 'moral' than the rest with a beginning/middle/end for the horrible family therein.

The general conceit is laid out in the first story of the first volume and the way that pushes through to the others is a very interesting way to give the stories their impetus.

[A M H · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this collection a lot more than the first. The short stories in this one are interesting, and unique and the art styles are great. It contains varied types of stories and genres from; dystopia, sci-fi, fantasy, religious, and horror, with different parables of things such as; the soul, the psychology of subconscious destiny, sacrifice and the horrors of exploitation.

[Mouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually enjoyed the first one better than this one. This one had a lot of weird slightly uncomfortable religious stories. Still it had some good stories and good art, a real interesting mix of stuff in this one.

[Dale Regnier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Screaming Planet#2

A superb collection of short stories, that are wonderfully written and drawn!
The last story was awful...The child was abused by his greedy relatives...
But they received their just desserts.

[Simon Sweetman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A random bunch of stories with a range of artists bringing Jodorowsky’s worlds to colour and life. Some work, some don’t. Most are weird, all are wild, the very best are quite brilliant - but it’s also pretty messy if you’re a fair weather comics guy like me.

[Hagay Hacohen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing, imaginative and moving

If you enjoy stories and comics, this is for you. A great collection by a true master, and for under 3 bucks...

[Adrian Bloxham · Rating 3 out of 5]

A couple of great short comics and some not so great

[Tristan · Rating 3 out of 5]

My comments on the second part of this two-parter are much the same as for the first. The last story, Tears of Gold, is rather good, but the rest is very uneven.

[Bria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing like some ol' Jodorowsky to make your Christmas go down weirder.

[Sonya Saturday · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great stories

Much better stories than in Vol. 1. Enjoyed this volume a lot. I especially liked Jodorowsky's short intros for each tale.

[Petr · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked how all the stories are different due to the cooperating author. Although I did not enjoy all the styles or stories I found it as a good compilation of short sci-fi world-building and ideas. Nevertheless, these stories enforced in me that Jodorowsky basically repeats a series of images in all of his work (androgyne images here ant in the Metabarons or Inkal, the various reproduction stories of weird sexual cults or interplays...) and this dulled the sense of the originality of his works. However, I loved the small introductions that tied the stories also to Jodorowsky's life.