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Morbus Gravis I: Druuna

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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.