The 2022 graphic novel Psychoverse by writer Mark Russell and artist Yanick Paquette freshly extends the the Jodoverse story continuity. It consists of five 24-page chapters, but I can't tell if these were originally published as floppy comics or serialized in some other format. The events of this plot arc are just chronologically prior to the original Métal Hurlant Incal stories (and after the stories in Before the Incal). As was the case for Jodorowsky's Incal stuff, Psychoverse offers mystical space opera leavened with comedy and social satire.

The Psychoverse of the title is a more actual reality to which people and things revert after their destruction in the "Matterverse" where the Incal saga takes place. It is also home to the merciless order of Psycho-Nuns. Russell does an admirable job of keeping the sort of metaphysical stakes typical of Jodorowsky's original Incal, without simply re-hashing the older material. The planetary designation of "Earth 2014" for John DiFool's homeworld is for some reason abandoned in favor of references to "Pit City." There is also an exploration of the "fanatical and officious" Berg sapients (55) and their homeworld in the Berg Galaxy, along with the preposterous Anthro-planetary Republic of humans apotheosized into planets.

I enjoyed Paquette's art, which doesn't hew very closely to the style of Incal original artist Mœbius or his successor Ladrönn. Characters such as the Metabaron, Solune, and Wolfhead are all recognizable, of course. So is John DiFool, but the differences in his appearance here highlighted for me the stylistic distance of Paquette from the earlier treatments. In Pit City, we are given what I'm sure are a few portraits of contemporary comics creatives (87 e.g.), but I don't know who. Page compositions include swirly black art-nouveau-style panel borders for episodes in the Psychoverse, and I think this design is both attractive and an efficient storytelling device.