Psycho Anarchist

***Psycho Anarchist*** is the fourth issue of *Before the Incal*. Unlike the previous issues, this one isn't divided in chapters. In this issue John discovers how the aristos get their halos, and Snailhead reappears.

It was published in 1992 by Les Humanoïdes Associés. It was written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, illustrated by Zoran Janjetov.

## Plot

A mutiny breaks out in De Garra’s correction
center, and the center's addicts take the ex-Prime Minister and her daughter as hostage, demaning kublars and more cocaloco in exchange, but they both use their halos as a weapon to kill some
addicts. Eventually, the police arrive and save the De Garras using anti-coagulant grenades. Luz is fed up
with the fact that after his father's demotion her living standards have worsened and goes to cry in her
room. John uses the chaos created by the mutiny to get into Luz’s room, where
they reconcile having sex. Whoever, Luz is still seems incapable of true love
since she has never been exposed to amorine.

Both the Techno-pope and the Prezident (now
cloned into a bearded lady) go before the Supra-divinoid, who’s angry about the fact that DiFool is uncovering the truth, and argues that now that John knows where Top-33 is
manufactured, they should hatch a plan: They should let everyone enter in the
aristo-maternity, but no one will exit without being inspected.

Meanwhile, DiFool convinces Luz to help him in the mystery of the Red Ring babies. John and Luz drug Mr. De Garra in order to steal his holo-mask and use Oliver’s trunk containing the counterfeit halo, which they will use to pretend Luz is pregnant and that John is an aristo.

   They board and ambulance-craft and get into the aristo-maternity ward, making it through the shield. Once inside, they are sent to the birthing chambers, where John shoots sleeping darts at the Techno assistants and puts on their Techno clothes.

John and Luz witness how the macabre operation functions: The Technos open the skull of the prostitutes' frozen babies, extracting their pineal gland which has been injected with the Top -33. Then, the baby of the aristo mother is birthed using the luokan birth-machine, and the Technos insert the pineal gland in the “aristo” baby, making the halo appears. Luz is angry that the aristo class is built on the spawn of low-level prostitutes. In the meantime, Supra-divinoid realizes, after consulting the databanks, that Luz de Garra can't be pregnant and thus has lied to get into the aristo-maternity, and alerts the cybo-commander.

When the
alarm at the ward goes off John and Luz escape on board of a stretcher. To
go through the shield again they use an atomic ultra-minibomb that John had hidden in the
heel of his shoe, making
a chunk of the roof fall into the abyss of Shaft City. Kolbo-5 tells them that he
will try to come to them in the levi-craft as fast as he can, but they will
need a miracle. As the roof falls down, John starts praying. Suddenly, as
they’re falling down, they’re saved by a Psycho-anarchist craft, who are
impressed with their terrorist action, and fire with super-cogan at the
cybo-cops to lose them. They hide in a decrepit part of the City.

The
Supra-divinoid is so angry about John’s operation that emotions start to take
over, melting down the isolation around his diodes. A crew of robots repairs
him but he orders them to autodestruct, since he doesn’t want any witness of
his emotional collapse.

Kolbo-5, who’s in the levi-craft alongside Deepo,
can’t seem to find John and Luz in the vastness of the sewers. Meanwhile, John and Luz are
taken to the Psycho-anarchists' leader, who wants to interrogate them about the
secret they have uncovered, and is willing to threaten with murder and torture,
initially Luz refuses to talk, but when they threaten to castrate John Luz
gives in, proving that love is stronger than pride. The leader takes them to
his private lair, revealing that he’s actually Snailhead. His antennae and legs
where cut off on the mutant concentration camp and hurled into a common pit to
rot and die, but he was rescued by the Psycho-anarchists. Snailhead has fed their
psychotic delusions with holy anarchy, so that they can discover unbridled
love. Snailhead also managed to acquire Techno-techno skills and equipment to
develop superb antennae and an anti-h hoverchair.

Kolbo-5 gives up on trying to find John in the
sewers, and goes back to the hideout, managing to hack into the Supra-divinoid. Apparently the Supra-divinoid
has a spy among the Psycho-anarchists. Snailhead decides that all the galaxy
should know the secret about the aristos, so they want to use Diavaloo and the imperial broadcast to reveal the truth.

## Other issues

1. *Farewell, Father* (1988)
2. *Class "R" Detective* (1990)
3. *Croot* (1991)
4. ***Psycho Anarchist*** (1992)
5. *Vhisky, SPV and Homeo-Whores* (1993)
6. *Suicide Alley* (1995)