Bouncer: Raising Cain

(Humanoids, 2004)
™ and © 2004 Humanoids

On a threadbare homestead somewhere in the Old West, an adolescent boy ignores the dinner bell rung by his mother as he explores a canyon forbidden to him by his pious father. Inside an adobe house he finds the desiccated corpse of a woman and two revolvers engraved with his father's name. When he returns home, his father curses the weapons as tools of darkness, but before he can return them, the sound of hoof beats surround the house…

Chilean polymath Alexandro Jodorowsky has pushed boundaries in his plays, films (El Topo), and most recently in comic books (Metabarons), which he claims is the medium freest from outside interference. In Bouncer, he weaves a multi–generational tale of archetypes and vengeance as the boy, Seth, tracks down the band of renegade Confederate raiders that destroyed his life. He makes his way to the forsaken village of Jurytown, where the one–armed bouncer of the Inferno Saloon informs him of his family’s bloody history and instructs him in the ways of battle. Revenge is seen as a necessary duty (as opposed to a path of self–destruction), but as Seth sets out to take on Captain Ralton Van Dorman and claim the diamond known as the Eye of Cain as his own, he finds that love may provide more of an obstacle than blood or bullets.

— Joe Trela

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Alexander Jodorowsky

François Boucq