The Four John DiFools

The Four John DiFools is the first issue of Final Incal.

It was published in 2008 by Les Humanoïdes Associés. It was written by Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by José Ladrönn.

Plot
In a virus infected City Shaft, a confused John DiFool is falling down Suicide Alley, when he's located by a cybo-cop using a bio-pulse detecto. He’s saved by the cybo-cops before touching the Great Acid Lake, and is taken to a police craft, where he’s interrogated about exactly what he remembers. The cybo-cops are reporting to the Supra-divinoid, who is willing to disintegrate DiFool if he ends up remembering the past. When John starts remembering his “brain cleanse” and the existence of Luz the cybo-cops prepare to kill him, but suddenly an explosion happens in the craft due to a scarab. John is rescued by the scarab, but the insect is quickly destroyed.

While hiding from the cybo-cops, he sees people infected by the people, and decides to go into the sewers. Since the sewers are so big, Supra-divinoid suggests using tantrin gas, even though it could affect other levels. Meanwhile, Diavaloo is reporting about the cloning of the Prezident into a new body (a metallic robot), when suddenly the mysterious virus (now revealed to be a biophage 13X virus) starts to spread among the crowd, targeting all organic matter. John runs into the crowd and wonders what’s happening, when he sees one of the infected persons melt, only leaving a small piece of coal behind. The cybo-cops surround John, but just when the Supra-divinoid is about to order his execution the connection is lost and the cybo-cops are unable to move and their PK-56 guns won’t work either. Suddenly, a giant dragonfly, who’s the one suppressing the techno system, comes flying and saves him. The dragonfly lands on the bottom of a police craft, making the cybo-cops shot a ultra-charged K35 at themselves. They fly to the surface, and see a black golem at the top of the Floating Palace, the Benthacodon. The dragonfly explains to John that the Benthacodon was created by Techno-experimentation, and is responsible for the biophage virus posing a threat to all living things. John and the dragonfly escape using mental speed, thanks to a psycho-quartz drive.

Meanwhile, the Benthacodon takes control of the Prezident's new cloned body, eliminating the Prezident’s consciousness, which allows him to function independent of the Techno system. The Benthacodon, in his new metallic robot body, infects the Technopope, since he considers him a lower bio-creature. The virus spreads in the City’s hospitals. The Benthacodon-prezident penetrates the Supra-divinoid’s ultra-armored temple and kills the Supra-divinoid because he was against the Benthacodon’s plan of a metallic future, valuing the primordial intelligence that resides in cells more. While John gets away from Shaft City he sees war convoys and robot warships on the teflo-concrete surface. The dragonfly tells John that a war between the Bethacodon’s metallic robots and the bio scarabs is going on right now in the planet. Back in the City, the Bethacodon-prezident forces all the citizens to resign their bio-names and to clone themselves into a metallic form.

Meanwhile Deepo is brought before the Bethacodon-prezident, so that he can be used to find John. The Bethacodon-prezident has prepared a tantalic probe that retains its full ultra-nuclear charge and is ready to launch on autopilot, but he needs a target. He taps into Deepo’s subconscious to get information about John's whereabouts, but his brainwave is going in circles. The Bethacodon-prezident concludes that DiFool is directly under them, in the antipode. John, has actually reached the Mother Tree, which he enters through the vegetable vagina. Inside the Mother Tree John meets Elohim, the white meca-mutant, who's engaged in a war with the black meca-mutant, the Bethacodon, Elohim tells DiFool that this is only one reality among infinite realities, and that Orh the supreme projected him into this one. John starts to remember his past. He gazes the unified incal, which has materialized above the table, and a metamorphosis begins. She has a vision of Luz where she tells him to find him, since she and John are the only living beings who know true love they will become the universal antidote, “like a stone thrown into a lake, their love will produce ripples that touch the farthest shores of the cosmos”. John is launched into space in a spaceship guided by Elohim to find Luz, just as the probe destroys the Mother Tree.

In outer space a Black Vampire suddenly appears before them, and Elohim can’t seem to do anything. Thankfully, an Archangel (one of Elohim’s emissaries appears, and blocks the Black Empire, forming a galactic hurricane. The hurricane pushes John's ship away, and is swallowed by a hole that servers as a conduit between universes. The ship’s walls dissolve and time starts to intermingle, leaving only a platform. Unexpectedly, another John Difool (wearing a blazer with stars in the arms) falls on the platform. The “new” DiFool says that Orh dissolved his universe to create a new one, and then kicked him out. They start fighting, when suddenly Deepo appears flying. They start fighting over who’s the real owner of Deepo, when Deepo suddenly starts talking and explains to them that both of their Deepos are dead, and his actually from another universe, where his master is Sami Siri Johnan DiFool, who suddenly materializes in the platform. Sami Siri claims to be in a higher level of consciousness, since he has spent years meditating in a temple built on Hede. Finally, another DiFool appears, a Seraphim, who says that the entire network of parallel universes is in danger, because if the Benthacodon triumphs in DiFools reality the virus plague will leak into all universes. In order to avoid that outcome the four Johns must find Luz and create the center of love. The Seraphirm informs them that Luz has entered a sacred union with Kaimann the pirate. Guided by Elohim, they arrive to Tortuga Island, the cosmo-pirates refuge and Luz's home.

Other issues

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