Afrodites tegn

Druuna #6

by Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Jens Peder Agger (Translator)

Published by Heavy Metal, 1997 edition. Printed in Spain

Genres: Comics, Erotica, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Graphic Novels, Post Apocalyptic

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri is an Italian comic book writer and illustrator, noted for his works of highly detailed renderings of the human form, particularly erotic images of women. He is best known for his work on the Druuna erotic science fiction series.

Reviews

[Marc Bosch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Druuna frente a sí misma descubre porque “Yo soy Tu” no es lo mismo que “Tu eres Yo”.
Genial el arte de Serpieri (mejora aun en relación a los números anteriores, si esto era posible) y maestra la aportación que desde el noveno arte hace a la única pregunta que verdaderamente tiene sentido: Quien soy yo en el aquí y el ahora?

[Leila Anani · Rating 3 out of 5]

This follows directly on from Mandragore. Captain Will enters the computer dreamscape to look for Druuna and try and find the secret of the serum. He encounters weird mutated anti-bodies, erotic statues and finally meets Shastar before being forced to return. We soon learn however that he has left a residual trace of himself in the dream dimension for Druuna to encounter later on.

Naked Druuna is busy having sex on the beach with a young stud provided for her pleasure. An older voyeur writes the word Aphrodite in the sand which seems to have great significance as its the same word Will and Doc are trying to decipher back on the ship.

Her lovers disappear and the landscape shifts to a rocky cliff where Druuna encounters... herself! (crop top- stockings Druuna) I think she's a residual clone like the one of Will we meet later - We know she's not the real Druuna as she has a mutating arm. Clone Druuna vanishes and enters Druuna's physical body back on the ship. Nude Druuna in the dreamworld runs into Paula, tells her she's just an echo from Lewis' memory. Then they both join a random orgy.

Druuna wakes up - got confused here is this clone Druuna in Druuna's body? It seems we've jumped into the future - she's on an escape pod. the mutation virus took over the ship and most of the crew are dead. Shastar turns up claiming for the last time and tells her the auto destruct sequence on the ship has been activated - It explodes and kills clone Druuna??? and Lewis? One Druuna escapes through a tunnel of light. Back on the pod she says her goodbyes to Shastar who turns into a constellation of lovers (with Druuna) and the Druuna left on the ship falls asleep saying she'll worry about everything tomorrow.

Ummmm. The plot on this one is really confusing. By the end I was lost in trying to work out which Druuna survived. In the end does it even matter? As ever the reason to read this is not for the story, but for Serpieri's fabulous artwork. Druuna is perfection in female form and the weird shifting nightmare landscape is suitably freaky.

[Rick Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

The most surreal entry of Serpieri's Druuna series since the "Anima" story. The first half of "Aphrodisia" follows directly from the "Mandragore" story, and the captain of the rescue ship is wandering a desolate planet and hallucinates various encounters. The second half follows Druuna who wakes up to find herself also traversing a dreamscape, but then encounters a clone of herself. While Serpieri tones down the excessive explanations for this volume, it's undoubtedly still a confusing story. But taken as a bizarre escapade with fantastic art, I had a pretty great time with "Aphrodisia". A solid entry in the series for sure.

[Jenika Ioffreda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Five stars for the art, one star for the story and two for the world building, so I give three stars as a mix of the three. Sex, monsters and violence are not really my cup of tea, but still the beautiful art made me turn the pages.

[Al Capwned · Rating 2 out of 5]

It keeps being repetitive but at least this specific volume gave a few "answers" about what's going on.

[StrictlySequential · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Narrative **
Finally, after flopping from books 5->1->2->6, I'm near entirely familiarized ->definitively<- to the happenings that were constantly confusing me previously! It's still a bit too vague~outerspace~dreamscapey for my sensibilities...

Art ****
There's an stretch of non-gross/seedy background where she gets a sort of reward of some well-appreciated and sensually orchestrated tender-rendered voluntary!consensual sex reps on a beach, after Aphroditing, then selfexciting, in some surf- that looked wonderful and refreshing to me from everything seen usually being perpetually grimy.

[Lio Lio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great Plot and awesome drawings!