Simon’s Reviews > The Collected Fantasies, Vol. 3: The Airtight Garage > Status Update

Giving this another reread, it's fascinating that I consider different things important about "The Airtight Garage" every time I read it - today the Gnostic Christian allegories and anti-colonialist political subtext aren't what I pay most attention to like they were last time I read it

there's a lot of thinly veiled Gnostic subtext here I haven't noticed until now, what with the construction of worlds and universes being a major theme here - I wager the villain-protagonist Major Grubert would then be a Demiurge figure and Jerry Cornelius a Luciferian lightbringer

the story being framed as a espionage thriller also adds a bunch of Cold War era leftist subtext I might not get all nuances of BTW

interesting to see how much more Moebius' solo projects even the longform stories follow the "throw reader head first into complicated strange universe with minimum of exposition" writing style of 60s/70s science-fiction, than his collabs with Alejandro Jodorowsky that have much more infodumping

trying to patch together how the setting works is a lot more fun, even though the trippy art is the main attraction