Morbus Gravis I: Druuna

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Summary: Lost in Space....
Review: 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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Summary: The Worst In the Series
Review: Druuna has always been a record breaking series, proving that erotic fiction does not have to be plotless or just for men. With the first book, Morbus Gravis, the author presented this idea - which is why it's so beyond me that he wrote this sequel the way he did. Still, though a little light on plot and a little heavy on S&M, there are some developments, and some extremely memorable moments. If you miss this one, I wouldn't sweat it; it's not crucial to what is otherwise a fantastic and ground-breaking series. This book is good, but not great; if you're looking for great, check out the third and fourth books in this series, Creatura and Carnivora. For some "light" fun, get this one.

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Summary: wonderful book
Review: if you love druuna, you will love this wondereful book. The Serpieri's imagination is at its maximum. And the story will go on loving Druuna more and more.

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Summary: Softcore Druuna
Review: In this book we see some bits of the marvelous Serpieri mind. But the censorship forbids the genious from showing in his series what we see so clearly in his illustration books, like Druuna X or Obssession. Still, this is a wonderful work, with Drunna exposing her nude body and the scene where a woman is attacked from behind by a mutant more than worth the price of the book.

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Summary: A Mutant Nation....
Review: 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.

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Summary: Sci-fi meets erotic art
Review: Morbus Gravis means "Grave (or deadly) disease." In this book from a series about Druuna, Serpieri's full bodied heroine, she is the only one that is healthy while everyone dies of a disease that turns people into sexually depraved monsters.
Druuna loves, runs, searches...all in in sci-fi setting that is full of weird and wonderful scenarios.
Serpieri draws Druuna to the fullest: huge [chest] and a great behind. I actually own the original paperback and still go back and read and look through it, still amazed at the attention to detail to the female body.
There are a few S&M scenarios that are not too explicit to turn off the softer reader.
If you like Serpieri, this is a must have!

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Summary: Sci-fi meets erotic art
Review: Morbus Gravis means "Grave (or deadly) disease." In this book from a series about Druuna, Serpieri's full bodied heroine, she is the only one that is healthy while everyone dies of a disease that turns people into sexually depraved monsters.
Druuna loves, runs, searches...all in in sci-fi setting that is full of weird and wonderful scenarios.
Serpieri draws Druuna to the fullest: huge [chest] and a great behind. I actually own the original paperback and still go back and read and look through it, still amazed at the attention to detail to the female body.
There are a few S&M scenarios that are not too explicit to turn off the softer reader.
If you like Serpieri, this is a must have!

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Summary: One of the best examples of comic creation I've ever seen.
Review: This was a beginning for Serpieri, the start of one of the greatest comic epics ever produced, his artistic and literary skills complement one another beautifully. He presents a horrible and brutal future without apology or pity and in the heart of it all is this paragon of feminine beauty and innocence, Druuna. Serpieri actualizes the potential of the media in this work, and to our benefit he only improves upon it with each progressive effort.