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The Convent of Hell
By Barreiro & Noé.
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First published March 1, 1998
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Ricardo Barreiro
99 books33 followersRicardo El Loco Barreiro nació el 2 de octubre de 1949, en el barrio de Palermo, Buenos Aires. Autor de una extensa obra, siempre comprometido con la realidad, publicado en el extranjero, es uno de los más importantes guionistas de Argentina.
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December 1, 2009
Noe and Barreiro, Convent of Hell (Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 1998)
Messrs. Nantier, Beall, and Minoustchine, whoever they may be, are the oddest of ducks, and I love them for it. They picked up a selection of titles from obscure European imprint Eurotica for distribution on this side of the pond a while back, including the best-known, and most infamous, collaboration between Noe and Barreiro, Convent of Hell. NBM quickly found that despite its built-in audience, Convent of Hell lacked something it needed: retail outlets. No one would stock the thing except porn shops. Not a surprise, really, given that Convent of Hell is about the best fit for the definition of “pornography” I've ever seen. This isn't the highbrow prurience of Alan Moore or the hip, sexy erotics to be found in any number of Rachel Kramer Bussel-edited anthologies. No, this is not only sexually explicit (and, to follow the definition to the letter, with no redeeming social value whatever), but in the classical mode of porn—and by “classical” I'm talking “let's go back five hundred years” here—it also takes as many jabs at Mother Church as possible. Now that's porn, folks.
If you're a horror movie fan, you've seen this plot a hundred times before, though probably not with these players; nun stumbles upon hidden doorway in basement of convent, other nuns decide to open it, evil comes out and corrupts everyone, the Church must drive the evil back through the door. (Just when you thought you'd seen everything, wait till you get a load of the Church's secret weapon against evil!) Of course, the bulk of the book centers on what happens between the door opening and the Church cracking down, which means a good deal of sex. Sex with the devil, sex with other nuns, sex with visiting priests, sex with God's own emissaries, and (in one final, if extraneous, jab at religion), sex with a newly-married couple who'd gotten lost in a storm. (While the double-standard depicted in that bit is so old it's been gathering frost for decades, you're so caught up in the porn that you won't notice it until an hour or so after you've finished reading. Unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool media critic like me. I hate to say that my enjoyment of porn is not at all what it was twenty years ago.) In other words, like most porn, Convent of Hell is a tissue-thin plot that exists solely to hold together many lengthy sex scenes. Unlike most porn, however, Convent of Hell is quite liberal in its name-checking of the works of H. P. Lovecraft, which is always fun if it's done in a work of decent quality. Whether Convent of Hell defines “decent quality” I will leave to the individual reader to decide. But hey, it'll take you all of fifteen minutes to read, even if you're doing it with one hand, and it's much more easily found these days (for benefit of those not reading this on Amazon, I'll go into a coughing fit now: *cough*piratebay*cough*), so why not give it a go? Assuming, of course, you're of an age to do so. Never let it be said that I am encouraging the corruption of minors (at least, not when I'm not directly involved). ***
Messrs. Nantier, Beall, and Minoustchine, whoever they may be, are the oddest of ducks, and I love them for it. They picked up a selection of titles from obscure European imprint Eurotica for distribution on this side of the pond a while back, including the best-known, and most infamous, collaboration between Noe and Barreiro, Convent of Hell. NBM quickly found that despite its built-in audience, Convent of Hell lacked something it needed: retail outlets. No one would stock the thing except porn shops. Not a surprise, really, given that Convent of Hell is about the best fit for the definition of “pornography” I've ever seen. This isn't the highbrow prurience of Alan Moore or the hip, sexy erotics to be found in any number of Rachel Kramer Bussel-edited anthologies. No, this is not only sexually explicit (and, to follow the definition to the letter, with no redeeming social value whatever), but in the classical mode of porn—and by “classical” I'm talking “let's go back five hundred years” here—it also takes as many jabs at Mother Church as possible. Now that's porn, folks.
If you're a horror movie fan, you've seen this plot a hundred times before, though probably not with these players; nun stumbles upon hidden doorway in basement of convent, other nuns decide to open it, evil comes out and corrupts everyone, the Church must drive the evil back through the door. (Just when you thought you'd seen everything, wait till you get a load of the Church's secret weapon against evil!) Of course, the bulk of the book centers on what happens between the door opening and the Church cracking down, which means a good deal of sex. Sex with the devil, sex with other nuns, sex with visiting priests, sex with God's own emissaries, and (in one final, if extraneous, jab at religion), sex with a newly-married couple who'd gotten lost in a storm. (While the double-standard depicted in that bit is so old it's been gathering frost for decades, you're so caught up in the porn that you won't notice it until an hour or so after you've finished reading. Unless you're a dyed-in-the-wool media critic like me. I hate to say that my enjoyment of porn is not at all what it was twenty years ago.) In other words, like most porn, Convent of Hell is a tissue-thin plot that exists solely to hold together many lengthy sex scenes. Unlike most porn, however, Convent of Hell is quite liberal in its name-checking of the works of H. P. Lovecraft, which is always fun if it's done in a work of decent quality. Whether Convent of Hell defines “decent quality” I will leave to the individual reader to decide. But hey, it'll take you all of fifteen minutes to read, even if you're doing it with one hand, and it's much more easily found these days (for benefit of those not reading this on Amazon, I'll go into a coughing fit now: *cough*piratebay*cough*), so why not give it a go? Assuming, of course, you're of an age to do so. Never let it be said that I am encouraging the corruption of minors (at least, not when I'm not directly involved). ***
May 7, 2018
Trashy, sleazy, great art, pure porn with no time wasted on titilation or euphemism. I fucking love this book and paf'd to it incessantly when I was in college! Who doesn't want an enormous horse bone in their butthole? It's even got an tentacle sex scene! This is displayed proudly on my rack of sadomasochistic porn comics.
October 30, 2023
Es un cómic erótico muy surrealista y con tintes blasfemos. Las monjas de un convento abren un portal al infierno y pasan *COSAS*. Divertido, aunque el final apresurado da la sensación de que se lo querían quitar de encima.
February 25, 2020
Three out of ten. CBR format.
An erotic comic about a group of Italian nuns and their eventual dalliance with a well-endowed Satan. Weird.
January 3, 2022
Total sacrilege! It's like hentai meets demon worshipping nuns or something. The plot is funnier than I thought it would be though... that poor cherub.
2.5 stars
2.5 stars
December 18, 2023
A fun erotic evil naughty nuns story with super hung goat devil. Very simple and blunt with creamy fleshy sensual art. The child cherub was creepy shit but otherwise floated my boat. :)
March 28, 2024
I read this either during middle school or during high school on one of the few websites that the school hadn’t blocked. At the time, I found it mostly entertaining. Now, I find it to be pretty dull; like, Bible Black (I think that’s the name of it) did it better, honestly, the anime with a lot of sexual assault and, well, sex in general, and it involves supernatural things and Satan, basically, so not much different than this.
July 18, 2020
This book really stands out among all the erotic graphic novels I have read. There is something very dark, twisted and wicked about this story. You can't help but laugh at its silly humour but also be aghast and repulsed at the same time.
The art is amazing in this book. It is sexy and horrifying.
Really recommended if you are into sexy and dark erotic stories.
The art is amazing in this book. It is sexy and horrifying.
Really recommended if you are into sexy and dark erotic stories.
January 1, 2009
Better than the piano tuner, and has its moments - some rather funny when the vatican shock troops are parachuted in to pour water on the flames so to speak.
August 11, 2012
How could you not like this???
Want to read
April 15, 2019
Oh man... I want this so bad! Doesn't look like I'll be getting it anytime soon though.
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