Morbus Gravis I: Druuna Hardcover – January 1, 1997

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.The Series in order, not including Serpieri's art books are:Morbis Gravis I (Serious Disease)Morbis Gravis IICreatura (Creature)Carnivora (Carnivore)Mandragore (Mandrake)AphrodisiaForgotten PlanetClone

One of my favourite parts of the Druuna saga. Love the artwork. Let's face it, who wouldn't love to have Druuna in one's bed? Serpieri is a consummate artist and I quite like the angst-filled narrative. The device of the terrifically brave "little man" is quite funny and effective I find. Really enjoyed this!

There are some excellent female spreads, especially the female ass is drawn very well. One of the few sci-fi nude books that has a decent plot. This is only one part in the series, but it is excellent if you just want to pick it up for the art. I highly recommend the whole series. The only reason that I gave it 4 out of 5 starts is that the coloring could have been better. For the time it was created, it was superior comic book coloring, and it stays true to the original, but comic coloring has advanced some over the decades.

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.

Excellent strip.

Not as graphic as the later ones but still a good read!

great addition to my collection, condition was as advertised

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.

that's a classic! I am happy to have it in my collection.

não tem quase o que falar, somente que o Mestre Serpieri conseguiu criar uma musa que me deixa apaixonado, a história ambientada em um submundo de ficção científica que só poderia sair do intelecto de um mestre mesmo, vale e muito a aquisição.

One of the most surreal comics in history. An ardent gem of the path of graphic novel.

Wonderful to see Heavy Metal's hardbound editions available here - i just wish the rest of Paolo Serpieri's works were cheaper - the rest is insanely priced for some reason.

tenho duas divisões na minha prateleria, elas se resumem em quadrinhos ou referênciasa maestria do serpieri é tanta que esse livro se tornou mais uma referência do que um quadrinho em si, uma obra de arte magnifica