Morbus Gravis I: Druuna [Hardcover]

Paolo E. Serpieri (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Heavy Metal Magazine (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878162224
• ISBN-13: 978-0878162222
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best examples of comic creation I've ever seen., December 8, 1998

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This review is from: Morbus Gravis I: Druuna (Hardcover)

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.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Erotic, beautiful, disturbing, April 9, 2008

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Steven A. Switzer (Buffalo, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Morbus Gravis I: Druuna (Hardcover)

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.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful book, November 27, 1998

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[e-mail] (Bari,Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Morbus Gravis I: Druuna (Hardcover)

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.