So, I recently stumbled across an Italian comic called Druuna. It's an erotic sci-fi revolving around a girl in a post-apocalyptic future that feels like a porn version of Wall-E so far.
I read the first volume and figured it'd be right up the alley of you guys. So, storytiming.
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That's Volume 1.
Reminds me of those weird 60s- and 70s Sci-Fi stories like I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream, Zardoz or A Boy and His Dog. I was expecting more porn, though.
I was thinking the same exact thing, especially near the end.
Porn is heavier in the next issues, but the american releases are heavily (and inconsistently) censored.
If you want the comics as they were, look for euro versions, in italian or spanish. Those were released without censorship. A fan translation to english using those as a source would be the best way to properly enjoy the series.
That is a lot of quality comics being storytimed on Holla Forums recently. I salute these anons doing a great job.
Shit, I didn't know that it was censored. I don't know why the fuck they'd think it's necessary since it's already an erotica and even with the censorship, there's plenty of porn. Any clue where I can find a non-censored fan translation?
Anyway, here's Volume 2. Shit's good. An erotica that actually has a good story is all I've ever wanted in life.
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Shit, I still feel sorry for Hale.
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This is what I like about the series- it's not just about being sexy.
I mean, I'm sure someone out there has a fetish for castration, but…
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The old man is a fun side-kick. I can't help but think of all the series that try to add a sidekick but make something like 'he's forgetful' go way overboard into just being annoying.
This guy's sweet.
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End of Volume 2.
Something I noticed about this and Requiem Vampire Knight is that the artists are European and pretty unapologetic about drawing un-PC stuff.
That's how it seems to be. Especially the further East you go. I remember either reading or hearing about how American tourists to Yugoslav countries were always horrified to see uncensored pornographic magazines being sold right next to newspapers on corners and stuff.
Doesn't help with their view of women. Italy isn't much different than Croatia, and my Croatian grandfather never let my mother go to college because there's nothing for women there. She had to tell him where she went and he'd read the meter on her car to make sure that was where she was going, and she wasn't allowed out of the house until she was married.
It's just the culture of a lot of Europe.
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The Heavy Metal issue which had one of the Druuna books had like 8 pages taken away due to the porn. IIRC this came from Canada's censorship, which also had lots of trouble with Penthouse Comix. Some panels are mutilated, deleted, covered, etc.To my knowledge, only the most recent reprints are apparently uncensored. It only took them 30 years to do it apparenly.
In Europe it's enough to have an "adults only" tag on a comic. Nobody would go on a hissy fit because of it. Comics are often part of a country's cultural identity,which partly explains why so few of them are published in the USA.
What the fuck?
this art is downright great
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well that got cucktastic relatively fast.
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Yeah, there's a lot of cuckold stuff in here. I think it's mostly for the sake of having Druuna fuck as much as possible and not just fuck one guy all the time.
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End of Volume 3.
Why am I not surprised the Italian's went this route?
My niggest of niggas. Let me look for some other Serpieri goodies to storytime in this thread as well
Shit taste
ikr? he should be looking for some steven universe goodies instead
download where
No spoonfeeding.
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End of Volume 4, with some nice little prints to go with it.
Nice. If you can find and dump the Spanish scans here I could try to translate them
This is literally the western porn version of 13, with some Inception into the mix. Which is funny, because if I am not mistaken, 13 is newer than Druuna, so in this case the porn parody came before the SFW version.
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Shastar really does never seem to die.
He also never gets to properly fuck Druuna. There's a metaphor in here somewhere.
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I think the senile old man is probably my favorite character in the series.
The only thing I think is missing between the relationship of Shastar and Druuna is the fact that she's obsessively attached to him (even for a lover) and we don't really know why. She loves him enough to go to the ends of the Earth for him. When the comic first started, she was fucking anyone she could just to get viles of serum to him rather than let him die or turn into a monster.
I doubt we'll get backstory on their relationship at this point, though.
Any of you guys ever watch the ABCs of Death? This scene reminded me of the part where the guys had a competition of who could jack off for the longest or else they died.
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Gotta love that censorship.
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End of that volume.
Couldn't see the doctor's monster cock, but we got a full panel of Druuna sucking some other guy's cock till he cummed to death.
I know what that user means now when they said it's 'heavily and inconsistently censored.'
This volume is only 57 pages, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were plenty of pages removed considering other volumes are 67.
I wasn't expecting a porn comic to get this deep and philosophical. It's almost as if the real porn was happening in my mind because the author is fucking it.
WORDS
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According to Serpieri this mysterious virus is AIDS. The monks from the beginning are the Church.
Reading is teh hardz, isn't it?
Yeah, Mandragora got heavily butchered. After that Serpieri decided to tone down the porn, which is still there, but less hardcore and not as frequent. In the artbooks he would depict full frontal penetration, though.
Bump.
Wew, thank god this board is so slow.
Here's Volume 6. Shit's confusing.
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Is there any rape?
Yes.
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How much Rape?
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Might be my favorite comic ever.
bump
i've known about druuna for years but i think this is the first time i actually read it
First I've heard of it. Gorgeous stuff.
I just finished the second to last volume. Gonna dump it.
It's very trippy, but it's really god. The term 'the more things change, the more they stay the same' really fits. The one scene of Schastar bringing Druuna through a tunnel to a door guarded by a non-functioning robot priest has been remade in a few panels already. It's really good at making you think the story's gone so far, only to realize it hasn't gone anywhere at all.
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End of Volume 7.
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Nice.
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I would like to say I want to fuck Druuna, but there's been so much weird shit in her pussy I am afraid of getting space AIDS from her
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That's a very reasonable position, user.
So, this is the end of Druuna? I… I think I have more questions than I did a few issues ago
Apparently there's another that came out this year that sounds from the title to be an origin story?
I'll see if I can find it translated.
Also, apparently there's a Druuna video game. I dunno how to feel about that.
I found out that it's wordless. Give me a moment and I'll post them.
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I don't know why I expected that to answer any questions.
There's another short comic at the end but it's in French.
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Like I said, it was a short comic.
So basically as far as I can figure out, the only true Druuna we knew was at the beginning. The moment that they introduced the ship full of people who landed on this odd place and Druuna wakes up from slumber without knowing how she got there, I'm pretty certain that that's a clone.
The only thing is, I think every time the scenery was different, and every time Shastar and the old man changed, that it's a new Druuna as well, and each time she's less human. I imagine the clone at first had to have been human– she survived the test of getting raped, and she wasn't torn to pieces. She was a clone but a human clone. Hell, that's probably why she met another Druuna when she went into Lewis/Shastar's dream. One Druuna was the real Druuna as left over by her memories the same way Shastar's memories were uploaded into Lewis, the other is the clone we see.
Though I think when she wakes up and everything is destroyed and Shastar wishes her goodbye, he wasn't saying he was leaving. He was telling the real Druuna (she was uploaded back into the body and mentioned that she 'took her memory back' from the clone) goodbye and that she'd always be with him as the part of her that's inside Lewis. Druuna took the conversation to mean that Lewis and Shastar are gone, but if you read what he's saying, he says the opposite. He talks about how 'there'll be a piece of her' wherever he goes, and that the bond between them will be severed.
When she wakes up again she's an android. That's why she remembers someone over her, it was probably whoever pieced her together. The old man seems to know she's an android from the start too because of how she talks about her ability to have children. Druuna says that the cyborgs are stupid for not realizing they're sterile, but the old man specifically talks about her being useless. This can be taken to mean 'sterile.'
This is where the second Druuna comes from. She sees it when meeting the machine Druuna meets that blabbers about machine loving man. I figure this is probably the real Drunna's body, considering the clone is dead and Druuna's conscious is dead. As far as I can tell, the cyborg Druuna we were with was just taken and began to decay with time because she's a failed prototype. The man who warns her about this is the same man she remembered making her. She calls him Shastar, but it doesn't look like him. He may have been a failed prototype as well.
I think whoever he was, he legitimately was trying to make her human again. She ran away before the process was complete, and maybe if she finished it, then she would have been entirely human. Or 'more than human,' as he puts it.
I think it becomes more obvious that they're different Druunas as we go on, though. Each Druuna is a little different. The real Druuna is essentially a prostitute to keep Shastar alive and well, and will weasel out of things with sex. Clone Druuna did not enjoy sex as much and only succumbed to pleasure when it was forced on her. She didn't willingly use it as a way to get out of things, though real Druuna did show those traits during the same time when she came to the Captain in dreams and through the parasite(I figure that's real Druuna, it seemed to be 'The Illness', we can argue this is maybe how the real Druuna died, Shastar maybe absorbed her? Hard to say). The cyborg Druuna is really different. She's actually mean. She constantly swears and tells the old man off. She's also alright with having sex with women, whereas clone Druuna and presumably real Druuna were only interested in men.
I can only see two possible moments in which Druuna could have been cloned and would actually make sense: during Carnivora (the Doc implies at the end they may actually be replicants who believe they are the real thing), and during Clone, when she walks out of the pool at the start of the issue (chances are the machine was right and the process got interrupted, which is why she is just 99% human).
Still, I don't think this comic actually makes much sense. It likely has the "artist draws whatever he wants to draw at the moment" syndrome, which also explains why it feels so similar to Thirteen. It also explains why Druuna is constantly waking up from dreams and forgetting about stuff and why everything seems so disjointed. Each comic has a continuity by itself, but references to previous volumes are symbolic at best.
What did she mean by this?
What I'm saying is that the cloning happens when she wakes up. These times where she wakes up in a new period and doesn't remember anything, for the most part I believe they're probably clones or cyborg versions of Druuna.
Though you could also be right as well. It's just interesting to try and find a plot in all of this.
this is some good shit, gonna keep reading tomorrow. bump to keep the thread alive
i haven't been on Holla Forums a lot lately, what have i missed?
That ending reminds me alot of those older shorts about dream-travelling to places and shit.
This is "In his likeness" and was a comic which gave Serpieri the inspiration for Druuna. It predates the series too.
I'll find a proper translation for that and dump it. Thanks for telling me!
I'll also try finding more of his work and start storytiming that too. I know he's got some good shit that takes place in the old West. I know some of you guys love your delicious brown girls.
finally got trough everything and i am a bit sad that it's over. i didn't really like the stuff after volume 6 as much as the rest but it's probably the best comic i've read.
where can i find more stuff like this?
I found some iffy translated versions of his other works. They're not like Druuna, they're short stories about the Wild West and not as sexual, but I hope you guys can still enjoy it.
I did find In His Likeness and another called the White Indian, but for some reason whatever asshole that posted them decided to crop up the pictures so that you can't fully appreciate Serpieri's page compositions. And especially for The White Indian, random bits are missing, which makes it unreadable.
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