The Technopriests

Alejandro Jodorowsky wrote The Technopriests with art by Zoran Janjetov and color by Fred Beltran. Its protagonist Albino recounts childhood, training, and battles on a path toward confronting a technological plague. The series places his personal ambition inside a cruel galactic hierarchy.

The story treats virtual reality and technological power as parts of a social order. Albino's apprenticeship is not simply a sequence of new abilities; each stage reveals who controls the tools that promise progress.

The work extends Jodorowsky's interest in grand speculative myth, but Humanoids describes it as distinct from the tragic family line of The Metabarons. Its central journey is one of training and leadership, with technology serving both liberation and coercion.

The artist and colorist are essential to that contrast. Janjetov's imagined systems give the virtual and the material different visual registers, while Beltran's color makes the sprawling setting readable.

Virtual reality is not presented as a harmless escape. It belongs to institutions whose power over people can be as brutal as physical force. The technological plague gives the story a galactic threat with roots in how technology is used and governed.

Albino's route through those systems asks whether mastery of a tool can change the order that built it. The question keeps the series' cosmic scale connected to education, ambition, and control.

Janjetov designs dense, layered environments that support a journey through many kinds of technological space. Figures move between overwhelming structures and more intimate scenes of learning or conflict.

Beltran's color helps separate these spaces and sustain the mythic tone. Together the visuals make advancement look seductive while retaining the violence underneath it.