Muriel a oranžová smrt

Inspired by the French Barbarella comic-book series, they began work on a cycle of graphic novels that featured a young, beautiful woman and a winged man (an 'angel').

[5] While the second installment was being planned, Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia, in August 1968,[6][7] and occupied the country, ending the Prague Spring liberalization period, and bringing about a restructure of the Czechoslovak communist regime.

Faced with official repression and censorship, Czech authors, filmmakers and musicians reacted with a spate of ingeniously subversive new works: Macourek was no exception, and wove his own experience and opinions of Czechoslovakia's occupation into a new installment of Muriel's adventures.

Once at the Orange Planet, Muriel is imprisoned, but Xeron, true to character, unhesitatingly joins its autocratic ruling regime, and persuades its leader, the Central Brain, to invade Earth.

After a brief, hopeless resistance, Earth is defeated; but Muriel's boyfriend Ró (a visitor from an alien planet of the distant future) contacts his compatriots and allies, and together, they drive the invaders back.

[3][4] Saudek employs visual techniques that were unusually inventive for their day, derived from film editing and story-boarding, with heightened and wide-screen perspectives, recurrent motifs and a strong narrative style.

Other minor characters are taken from Western comic-books; Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Alfred E. Neuman and Batman inhabit Muriel's world, which is rich with in-jokes, double entendres and hidden meanings, typical of Saudek's work.