Karmatron

Karmatrón y los Transformables (Karmatron and the Transformers) is a comic book created in 1986 by Oscar González Loyo, and published first at CEPSA. The comic itself was meant to deliver a pastiche of multiple philosophies, doctrines and new age concepts -some of them contradictory between them-, through the story of an intergalactic battle between two forces marked as definitive good and evil, reinforcing the intention of the author of establishing his own conception of Ying and Yang. It ran from 1986 to 1991 (#298), even though the last numbers where dedicated to themes that did not dealt with the comic story itself, including 8 whole numbers filled with an indoctrination manual called "Manual del guerrero Kundalini" (see controversy). The comic had a decent reception between Mexican comic book readers, as at the time the amount of new national titles was close to zero, and even American franchises were scarce at the moment, with only Vid Editorial and Novedades taking on the occasional publishing of comics. However, as the storyline progressed and the indoctrination attempts became more dense and evident, both the editorial and the public became more and more alienated until the comic ceased to be published. The comic has been called a space opera by its author, though it also had certain elements of comedy, adventure, and fantasy.