The Technopriests is an eight-issue comic book

Comic book

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 limited series

Limited series

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 created by writer Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...

, artist Zoran Janjetov

Zoran Janjetov

Zoran Janjetov is a Serbian comics artist. He lives in Novi Sad. Janjetov is best known as the illustrator of The Technopriests, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In 1986 he was chosen by Moebius to continue his work The Incal.- Biography :At very early age he started to draw with a strong support...

, and colorist

Colorist

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 Fred Beltran.

Story

The Technopriests follows three plots: The first follows Albino, as Supreme Technopriest, as he leads 500,000 young technopriests to the promised galaxy and the obstacles that they encounter along the way. During this time Albino also narrates, in the form of dictating his memoirs, the other two plots: his rise to the position of Supreme Technopriest and the experiences of his family during that same time period.

Plot

Albino is an old man, recording his memories in the spaceship where he navigates through space with his pet Tinigrifi, leading 500,000 young technopriests to the promised galaxy. His story begins when a spaceship of pirates attack on the sacred asteroid where Panepha, a young virgin destined to become oracle of the Imperial Palace, lived. The pirates rape Panepha and she gives birth to three children: Almagro, Albino and Onyx. Albino is rejected by his mother, who creates and leads the Great Kamenvert Factory. But Albino doesn't like making cheese, he wants to be a videogame creator. With some reluctance, his mother sends him to Don Mossimo, the director of a technopriest training school. There he begins his journey to become Supreme Technopriest and start a new society, where human relationships will be valued more highly than scientific advance.

Characters

Albino: The future Supreme Technopriest and the narrator of the series.

Tinigrifi: Albino's lifelong companion and co-narrator.

Panepha: Former priestess and mother of Almagro, Albino, and Onyx.

Almagro: Albino's older bother and the most-favored child of Panepha.

Onyx: Albino's younger sister and the least-favored child of Panepha.

Albums

The Technopriests was originally released in 8 issues:

• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #1: TECHNO PRE-SCHOOL
• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #2: NOHOPE PENITENTIARY SCHOOL
• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #3: PLANETA GAMES
• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #4: Halkattraz
• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #5: The Sect of the Techno-Bishops
• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #6: The Secrets of the Techno-Vatican
• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #7: The Perfect Game
• THE TECHNOPRIESTS #8: The Promised Galaxy