Gorgo the Foul

***Gorgo the Foul*** is the third and final issue of *Final Incal*.

It was published in 2014 by Les Humanoïdes Associés. It was written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by José Ladrönn.

## Plot

The Archangel is mortally wounded after the
Meca-prezident's hit, but keeps heading towards the Floating Palace. The Meca-prezident
orders his warship captains to sacrifice themselves, placing their vessels in
the Archangel path, making it plummet into the City Shaft, and submerge in the
Great Acid Lake.

Meanwhile, Gorgo and the mutants are hunting a
Protosaurus in Center Earth, when they’re attacked by Psychorats. John and Luz,
who have also landed in Center Earth, find themselves surrounded by Psychorats, however, Luz
manages to mentally communicate with them and become friendly. They
soon encounter Gorgo the Foul, who considers Luz to be a paleo-goddess
fulfilling one of their prophecies.

Gorgo takes John and Luz to the Dumping Ground, a
rebel stronghold, where they meet General Kill Wolfhead of the First Rebel
Division of the Bio-army, along with the other chiefs: Lieutenant General
Hipo-san, Commander Avicene and Colonel Don Poilpo, the only four mutants that
survived the plague. Luz convinces the rebel leaders to enlist Gorgo’s help. The rebels use the waste passage to arrive to the surface, and they start
bursting in through the lower levels and pillaging the lower zone. The
Meca-prez deploys anti-riot units against them, but they fall into the rebels’
trap, since the insurgents are actually hiding between buildings armed with
weapons they had stored in the surface.

Now that the Technopope has the upper had he
uses the opportunity to transmit a list of demands to the Assembly, such as the
restitution of their goods, rights and properties in exchange for securing that
the virus is contained in Terra 2014. In fact, the Technopope is sending the
Techno Armada to Terra 2014, headed by Kaimann.

Kill flies away in a ship, and uses a bazooka
to shoot a thermal bomb at the Bethacodon, who’s getting bigger, destroying the
antigravity generators of the Floating Palace, making it to start collapsing,
although auxiliary systems are activated to last a little longer. The rebels
have also managed to sabotage the enemy’s anti-air batteries. The enemy
releases the hyper-halo in response, but the chiefs of the bio-army decide to
sacrifice themselves, destroying the hyper-halo generator, creating a huge
opening in the Palace’s shell. Gorgo’s army uses the slime ropes to board the
Floating Palace.

The techno-armada -protected by the tail of an
Archangel- is approaching Terra 2014 but they begin to be attacked by the
Mec-preziden'ts orbital defenses and their communications is closed. Elohim starts to approach, destroying all
the robot satellites. Half of the Techno Armada has been destroyed in the
battle, but now with the help of Elohim they reassemble again and enter Terra
2014’s stratosphere. Once there the Techno-army starts attacking the Palace’s
defenses and taking down virus-carrying vessels, since the Bethacodon is immune
to their weapons. Elohim starts attacking the Bethacodon, creating an energy
hurricane. Kaimann and Olaf’s ship enters the Palace.

Inside the Palace the rebels are fighting the hunchbacks
and they finally reach the Meca-prezident. The Bethacodon's plan becomes clear,
they’re going to spread a viral cloud through the Palace’s upper ventilation
system so that the air current created by the energy hurricane will spread
throughout the atmosphere, leaving no organic molecule in the planet or any of the
other parallel universes. The rebels bring on the technicians, but they tell
them that the process is irreversible. After Olaf dies in battle Kaimann offers to destroy
the ventilation control system so that they have enough time to escape, and
suggest setting his ship to self-destruct before the pressure from the virus
blasts through the ducts and is released, the rest will only have a few minutes
to escape. When Kaimann starts manually postponing the release of the virus
he turns into solid metal.

The Palace is now almost completely collapsed
and DiFool must find the pirate ship to set off the detonator, while Luz and
Gorgo escape through the bridges of Shaft City. John sacrifices himself by
setting off the auto-destruction protocol. The Meca-prezident is trying to
escape but Kill melts its engines and the ship falls down to the Great Acid
Lake.

In the aftermath the robo-cranes start
clearing out the damage. Elohim connects his arms to the ground and starts
healing the planet from its center outwards. The Archnagels start singing,
which stirs up a flood of emotion, creating vibrations that affect the senses. Now that John is gone Luz feels like her heart
is empty, while Kill Wolfhead says that he must overcome his pain and bury the
past, “the dead are no longer suffering and we must move forward”.

Elohim is victorious, and the bio-phage virus
is neutralized, although a few of the Meca-prezident’s transport vessels do
manage to escape with the lethal load. Gorgo assumes the position of king,
choosing Luz as his queen, who he tries to rape. However, Deepo, with the power
of the Incal, stops Gorgo’s actions, after which he spits out the Incal.

The Incal speaks to Luz, telling that her love
for DiFool is the universal antidote, but the war still isn’t over because Black
Vampires still possess the metallic virus and could threaten the bio-universe.
The Incal leads Luz to Elohim, who needs her to undertake the holy battle. Luz,
through the power of true love reconstitutes John, allowing her feelings for
him to fuse his cells once again. Elohim tells them that now they shall sow
their love throughout the metallic universe.

Since the white meca-mutant is preparing to
leave the planet, the Mother Tree is opening a hyperspace portal with its
energy field. The Technos activate the geo-shield in the planet. The Emperoress
puts the confined Terra 2014 under techno-guard, and their good and titles are
restituted. The Technopope offers to eradicate the remains of the virus in the
rest of the galaxy, but under a new contract and a different price.

Meanwhile, the sex between John and Luz is refilling
the Mother Tree with life. Their love also re-engages the surface’s life cycle,
fertilizing the vita-pollen, which millions of insects carry to the citizens of
City Shaft, turning them back to normal.

Elohim absorbs John and Luz, flooding them with
light and turning them into the united Incal, forever destined to melt into the
universe like a star.

## Other issues

1. *The Four John DiFools* (2008)
2. *Luz De Garra* (2011)
3. ***Gorgo the Foul*** (2014)