Erotic, beautiful, disturbing ^ This review will cover the entire series. I have the entire Druuna graphic novel series from "Morbis Gravis" to "Clone".
I enjoyed the entire series of Druuna. Serpieri is a wonderful artist and he certainly knows how to draw a beautiful woman. I wonder if a real woman inspired his Druuna character. I also notice that he seems to like his women amply proportioned with big backsides and breasts.
There is certainly a great deal of eroticism in his works and each novel in the series gets progressively more explicit than the one before it. The middle ones in the series actually show full penetration and oral and anal sex. But the later ones sort of slack off from extreme graphic sex.
These books are definitely not for youngsters and they are not for the squeemish. Some of the themes in his books are disturbing. "Mandragore" (Mandrake) is perhaps the most disturbing of all which has elements of sadism, brutality, rape, and mutilation and murder.
The basic story is about a young attractive woman who is on board a space ship, but neither she nor the others in this space ship know that they are actually on board a space ship. She has adventures as she tries to find the truth about herself and this world she lives on which is a spaceship and even after she leaves the spaceship she still has adventures to find out the truth of who she and everyone else is and where they come from and how they came to be on the spaceship in the first place. One the way they have to fight a deadly disease that transforms people into alien mutant monsters, they battle creatures, monsters, and other bizarre situations. This is basically the plot of the story. They all follow a sequence of events, but some of the stories are more like dream events.
I enjoyed them all and from time to time leaf through the books to view the lovely artwork in them.
SICK ^ This book does have a very sexy girl in it but she gets raped in a very violent way. If you like watching women get raped then you will love this book. It also has alot of demons in it with a sexual connotation. The artist does know how to draw a womens body but the story line is rather sick and morbid with Druuna having sexual adventures with monsters. A very sick book. I would say the only thing good about it is that the artist knows how to draw a women.
Fair adventure, fairer ladies ^ What's good about this book is quite good. The heroine, Druuna, is on a quest she doesn't understand, across a shattered cityscape filled with vigilante bands and diseased mutants. Except for one other female character that we lose early on, Druuna is about the only character that looks human, let alone beautiful. But Serpierie makes the most of that beauty, as her wardrobe gradually leaves her throughout the book.
This book is one of the inner chapters in a series that started and finished elsewhere. Although it stands by itself, neither explanation nor resolution are very strong. There are a few sex scenes, but most of them don't treat the lady gently at all - with one pleasant exception involving between her and her spirit guide, that part of the book is not to my taste. Still, it's fair adventure with gorgeous babe in the lead role, so it has at least a little going for it.
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A Mutant Nation.... ^ Morbus Gravis is the first book in a superb series of sci-fi graphic novels about a woman named "Druuna". In a violent and depraved city, tyrannized by a mysterious religion and a callus military, people live and die at the whim of bureaucracy and the hungers of mutants that crawl up from the underground. The population is completely reliant on a "serum" provided by the government to keep them from becoming mutants themselves, and hope for the chance to be sent to the "upper" level where the most healthy live. This is the city that Druuna calls home. A place where her beautiful body is her most valuable asset, as well as her greatest liability. Can Druuna survive this hell, while she struggles to save her lover from the disease that has claimed countless others? What is this city, and what is it's terrible secret that Druuna is about to discover?
This is a masterfully illustrated novel. Serpieri's beautiful linework is both lush and precise. He paints, literally and figuratively, a fascinating world that is tremendously dreamlike in its tone. For those looking for a clinical exercise in speculative fiction, look elsewhere. For anyone interested in a subjective, erotic, and metaphorical journey, this is a necessary read.
Lost in Space.... ^ Continued from Morbus Gravis I, Druuna meets the ancient "Lewis" and learns the secrets of the "city" and the "upper level". Alerted to the threat of impending danger, Druuna returns to the city she knows, guided my Lewis, where she is entailed once again in a web of lust and danger. As the city moves and shifts around her, will Druuna ever be able to reach her goal or contact Lewis again? Can she face and escape the "lower levels"?
Once again, Serpieri creates a fantastic story that more-or-less closes the arc begun in Morbus Gravis I. His artwork continues to get better. We meet many new characters as well as revisit important ones from Morbus I, anyone interested in "Druuna", should get these two great volumes.
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