Lord De Garra (Character)

Lord De Garra was an aristo, and father of Luz De Garra. He was the Prime Minister of City Shaft, and -along with the Supra-divinoid, the Prezident and the Techno-pope- he was one of the main conspirators regarding the secret origin of the aristos' haloes. He eventually fell in disgrace with the elite and was demoted to administrator of Correction Center 315, and later appointed cultural attaché of Odiozona, a planet far away from terra 2014.

He made his first appearance in the second issue of Before the Incal, Class "R" Detective.

Early Life
De Garra was born into an aristo family, and eventually became Prime Minister of City Shaft and had a daughter, named Luz. He and his daughter lived in the aristo area 993865, in the multi-conapt 3612.

As a representative of one of the main structures of power of the endocity Lord De Garra was aware of the true nature of the haloes, and conspired with other forces of the elite to keep it secret from the public.

Attempt to entrap John DiFool
When the young pre-detective John DiFool initiated his investigation into the disappearance of newborns from poor mothers the Supra-divinoid became worried about the possibility that the haloes true nature would be discovered. The Supra-divinoid informed the Techno-pope, the Prezident, and Prime Minister De Garra about the danger that DiFool posed. Since DiFool had met De Garra's daughter, Luz, the conspirators planned to use her to entrap DiFool.

Thus, Luz invited John to her conapt, and after she gave him a tour of the house, she used her charms to manipulate John into becoming her mandog (men who have their humanity removed leaving them with only their animal self, humanimals). She asked John to sign a contract with his handprints, saying that he relinquished his human will and intelligence over a span of ten years. John signed it, falling into the Prime Minister's trap, since now he had permission to erase DiFool's memory. However, when PM De Garra was about to activate the excavator needle to extract John's pineal gland Kolbo-5 broke into the conapt, and managed to save John.

Blamed for the conspirators' mistakes
After the incident PM De Garra sent some spies on John and Kolbo-5's hideout. He also wanted to let her daughter have her revenge on DiFool, but the Supra-divinoid discouraged the idea, suggesting that they should let John make the first wrong move.

However, John eventually managed to infiltrate the Cocaloco factory, witnessed how the Top-33 was administred, and escaped succesfully. These series of blunders made the Supra-divinoid lose confidence in Lord De Garra's ability to stop John, and was demoted to administrator of a correction center (the public was told that this was because the Prime Minister regularly failed to use deodorant).

As administrator of Correction Center 315
De Garra was demoted to administrator of Correction Center 315, which housed degenerates and cocaloco addicts. One day, a mutiny broke out in the correction center, and the center's addicts took Lord De Garra and Luz as hostage, demaning kublars and more cocaloco in exchange, but using their secret weapon -the haloes- they killed some addicts, and survived. Luz, fed up with the fact that his father's demotion had worsened her living standards went to cry in her room, where she was visited by John DiFool, rekindling their relationship.

Kidnapping and separation from Luz
Knowing that John and Luz were planning to divulge the secret about the haloes at the cancer-freak championship the Supra-divinoid ordered to have Lord De Garra kidnapped, so that he could be used as a hostage. At the championship, the Supra-divinoid threatened Luz with killing Lord De Garra if she and John told the truth. At that point John and Luz realized that in that situation love was more important than telling the truth, so they decided to keep the secret, and in exchange Lord De Garra was spared.

As part of the cover-up Lord De Garra was appointed cultural attaché on the jungle-planet Odiozona, to teach the bald aboriginal gorillas popuation to consume vhiskey, spv and super-heroinium. He was also forcefully separated from Luz, who was taken to Diavaloo's satellite.