--- product_id: 29405325 title: "The Nikopol Trilogy" price: "4647 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/29405325-the-nikopol-trilogy store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # The Nikopol Trilogy **Price:** 4647 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Nikopol Trilogy - **How much does it cost?** 4647 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/29405325-the-nikopol-trilogy) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A LEGENDARY COMIC BOOK, FINALLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH! For thirty years, Alcide Nikopol has floated alone in space, sentenced to cryopreservation. When he finally returns to Earth, the year is 2023, and the world has been ravaged by two nuclear wars! But the strongest change in the world floats above Paris - a giant pyramid, home to the recently returned Egyptian Gods, who would like to reclaim humanity as theirs, if only they could all agree... Review: Surrealist cyber punk - I'll state my bias straight up, Enki Bilal is what got me into graphic novels, particularly European graphic novels, which are a slightly different breed from most of the North American style. So if you enjoy the European contribution to the graphic novel world, writers/artists like Moebius, Druillet, Schuiten, Jodrowosky, chances are you have already checked out Enki Bilal. If you haven't, stop reading this review and go do it now. He's one of the best of the bunch. First up, the artwork. Bilal has a unique, scratchy sort of style that evokes a grungy sense of hopeless dystopia while incorporating the fantastical; alien races, Egyptian gods, robots and grotesque and beautiful human beings alike populate his world. The colouring is unbelievable and really immerses you in the mood of his work, but its his line work that underpins the believability. It's dirty and manages a kind of cartoony realism that is hard to explain in words. This printing of The Nikopol Trilogy is grade A, the panels are well sized, the colours vibrant. In short the artwork will blow you away and is worth the price of the book alone. I think few would deny Bilal on this front. Now to the story, which is perhaps less likely to be universally appreciated. Firstly a little context, and this is important. The kind of story telling Bilal employs, like many European artsists, is stylistically very different to what most North American audiences are used to. Where Hollywood and mainstream literature have emphasised Aristotle's famous outline for the 'proper pleasure', conventions such as beginning middle end, conflict/resolution, likable characters, etc, other styles are less formulaic and rigid in their framework, allowing for greater ambiguity, more focus on character than plot, even sometimes contradiction and paradox as a story telling device. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. At its worst the former ends up 'going through motions' that are too familiar, old and boring, telling the same stories in different iterations, over and over again, with only a superficial treatment. It's a passive experience that doesn't require much in the way of audience involvement. Think Michael Bay. On the other hand, at its worst the other style can lead to incoherence, pretentious and impenetrable works that alienate the viewer. Think Southland Tales perhaps. But at their best both styles bring something interesting to the experience of the audience. The latter requires more engagement, is more challenging, but also more visceral and often a deeper more engaging experience because of it. I think a lot of the complaints about the story in the reviews here are from people who don't appreciate or understand another style of story telling to what they're familiar with. They've perhaps been raised expecting certain boxes to be ticked and are uncomfortable when they're not. If you think that's you, then you probably won't enjoy this. If, however, you like to be challenged, you don't mind when things aren't spoon feed in logical sequential order, and you don't have a problem with ambiguity and loose ends left flapping in the breeze for you to engage with and piece together yourself, then you will have no trouble here. Bilal's work is most certainly not incoherent, is far from pretentious, and is accessible as long as you aren't looking for a Hollywood screenplay in the classical Western framework. The Nikopol Trilogy remains a seminal work in graphic novels, a mature and original story told with a unique and inspiring artistic talent. Bilal, along with Moebius, was the inspiration behind Ridley Scott's Bladerunner, and no doubt countless other 'mainstream' artists working in both film and graphic novels today. These guys helped lay the foundation for sci fi, steampunk and cyberpunk as we know and love it today. Review: Heavy Metal Nostalgia from the 80s - I remembered 'Bedlam of the Immortals' from Heavy Metal magazine in the early 80s. I always remembered this particular story more than most others because of the artwork and the uniqueness of the story. The 2 succeeding stories in the collection are even stranger than the first. The idea of the future Earth degenerating into a chaos of city-states, with Paris being ruled by a fascist dictator and aliens being everywhere, appealed to me, as did the politics of the immortal Egyptian gods. The book itself was in very good/excellent condition. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,743,611 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #778 in Dystopian Graphic Novels #7,151 in Science Fiction Graphic Novels (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 157 Reviews | ## Images ![The Nikopol Trilogy - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81rDZcSxmML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Surrealist cyber punk *by G***S on May 1, 2013* I'll state my bias straight up, Enki Bilal is what got me into graphic novels, particularly European graphic novels, which are a slightly different breed from most of the North American style. So if you enjoy the European contribution to the graphic novel world, writers/artists like Moebius, Druillet, Schuiten, Jodrowosky, chances are you have already checked out Enki Bilal. If you haven't, stop reading this review and go do it now. He's one of the best of the bunch. First up, the artwork. Bilal has a unique, scratchy sort of style that evokes a grungy sense of hopeless dystopia while incorporating the fantastical; alien races, Egyptian gods, robots and grotesque and beautiful human beings alike populate his world. The colouring is unbelievable and really immerses you in the mood of his work, but its his line work that underpins the believability. It's dirty and manages a kind of cartoony realism that is hard to explain in words. This printing of The Nikopol Trilogy is grade A, the panels are well sized, the colours vibrant. In short the artwork will blow you away and is worth the price of the book alone. I think few would deny Bilal on this front. Now to the story, which is perhaps less likely to be universally appreciated. Firstly a little context, and this is important. The kind of story telling Bilal employs, like many European artsists, is stylistically very different to what most North American audiences are used to. Where Hollywood and mainstream literature have emphasised Aristotle's famous outline for the 'proper pleasure', conventions such as beginning middle end, conflict/resolution, likable characters, etc, other styles are less formulaic and rigid in their framework, allowing for greater ambiguity, more focus on character than plot, even sometimes contradiction and paradox as a story telling device. Both have their strengths and weaknesses. At its worst the former ends up 'going through motions' that are too familiar, old and boring, telling the same stories in different iterations, over and over again, with only a superficial treatment. It's a passive experience that doesn't require much in the way of audience involvement. Think Michael Bay. On the other hand, at its worst the other style can lead to incoherence, pretentious and impenetrable works that alienate the viewer. Think Southland Tales perhaps. But at their best both styles bring something interesting to the experience of the audience. The latter requires more engagement, is more challenging, but also more visceral and often a deeper more engaging experience because of it. I think a lot of the complaints about the story in the reviews here are from people who don't appreciate or understand another style of story telling to what they're familiar with. They've perhaps been raised expecting certain boxes to be ticked and are uncomfortable when they're not. If you think that's you, then you probably won't enjoy this. If, however, you like to be challenged, you don't mind when things aren't spoon feed in logical sequential order, and you don't have a problem with ambiguity and loose ends left flapping in the breeze for you to engage with and piece together yourself, then you will have no trouble here. Bilal's work is most certainly not incoherent, is far from pretentious, and is accessible as long as you aren't looking for a Hollywood screenplay in the classical Western framework. The Nikopol Trilogy remains a seminal work in graphic novels, a mature and original story told with a unique and inspiring artistic talent. Bilal, along with Moebius, was the inspiration behind Ridley Scott's Bladerunner, and no doubt countless other 'mainstream' artists working in both film and graphic novels today. These guys helped lay the foundation for sci fi, steampunk and cyberpunk as we know and love it today. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heavy Metal Nostalgia from the 80s *by W***N on August 25, 2025* I remembered 'Bedlam of the Immortals' from Heavy Metal magazine in the early 80s. I always remembered this particular story more than most others because of the artwork and the uniqueness of the story. The 2 succeeding stories in the collection are even stranger than the first. The idea of the future Earth degenerating into a chaos of city-states, with Paris being ruled by a fascist dictator and aliens being everywhere, appealed to me, as did the politics of the immortal Egyptian gods. The book itself was in very good/excellent condition. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ mind blowing *by S***S on August 25, 2025* It must be read many times. At least once a year. 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