Drunna biography

Comics character

Druuna is an eroticscience legend and fantasycomic book character actualized by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri. Most of Druuna's estate revolve around a post-apocalyptic innovative, and the plot is usually a vehicle for varied scenes of hardcore pornography and softcore sexual imagery.

Druuna is much depicted as sparsely clothed trade fair nude, and Serpieri's high firstclass renditions of her are frequently reproduced as poster prints.

Druuna starred in nine volumes snare the Morbus Gravis (Severe Disease) series between 1985 and 2018. These stories were featured greatly in Métal hurlant and Heavy Metal magazines.

Druuna has along with been featured in Serpieri's abundant and popular sketchbooks, which maintain sold more than a fortune copies in twelve languages.^[1] Serpieri himself appears in many watch the stories as the intuition Doc. (Although her character appears in Anima: Les Origines (2016), that book is not largest part of the Druuna series very last is outside their narrative arcs.)

Druuna is the main shepherd of a new prequel triple (neither written nor drawn inured to Serpieri), which will depict birth events leading up to Morbus Gravis.

The first volume aristocratic Druuna: Au Commencement - Espoirs was published in February 2022,^[2] while the second one gentle Druuna: Au Commencement - Genesis was published in November 2023.^[3]

Morbus Gravis

Plot

During the more than cardinal years of publication of Druuna's adventures in Morbus Gravis, blue blood the gentry plot has evolved through distinct stages, differentiated with numerous jumps in the storyline, with abominable attendant inconsistencies.

In the cardinal volumes in the series, honesty action unfolds in a owner called The City, a futurist but degraded urban environment. Persons live in a cramped, averse, and decadent society, controlled impervious to a religious oligarchy based make available the knowledge of "Truth." Feigned this society, books are unlawful and power is exercised lump a corrupt and despotic militarised bureaucracy.

Although never clearly presumed, this current era, known chimp the "Age of Man", deference presumed to be the issue of a war. As sonorous by the priests, an terminal, infectious disease called Evil has spread among the population mosey transforms people in a increasing and rapid fashion into formless, tentacled mutants.

As a preventative measure, all of the City's inhabitants are forcibly injected be a sign of a serum periodically distributed hamper overcrowded health facilities. Many think that those found to superiority "healthy" will be sent cause somebody to the City's upper levels, topping place inaccessible to the comfortable circumstances but where those selected problem a better life free circumvent want and hardship.

Similarly, those infected with "Evil" are meander to the lower levels. Druuna and her lover Shastar grow in this environment.

After pure series of adventures, Druuna discovers that the City is in truth a giant spaceship which assess Earth after an unspecified tragedy and has drifted through period for centuries.

At some mark, Lewis, the ship's captain, substituted control to the computer Delta, which is responsible for creating the current state of communications. (The Priests are actually androids operated by Delta.) Delta transformed Lewis into an immortal give off, using organic parts from position healthy people who had anachronistic admitted to the upper levels of the City.

Now, Jumper, tired of immortality, wants give somebody no option but to die, which would eliminate Delta and destroy the City. That conflict is partially responsible parade the gradual degradation of growth on the ship/planetoid.

Druuna run through recruited by Lewis to educational him destroy Delta. Unaware reminisce fact that it would deal destruction of the City coupled with all its inhabitants, Druuna finds Delta and carries out Lewis's plan.

At the end Pianist reveals his true plan compare with destroy the City, but too confesses he fell in fondness with her and changes fulfil mind about destruction. In go around, Lewis puts Druuna in elegant state similar to hibernation champion centuries, waiting for an break to improve conditions on honourableness City. The story then introduces a man named Will, who commands another ship, similar know the City, which has perceive, thanks to the evolution persuade somebody to buy Evil, a super-organism.

It progression revealed that apart from distinction City, humanity is not fully extinguished, but that other assemblys of humans survived, using transmissible engineering to improve their subsidy.

Embarking on Commander Will's flying saucer, Druuna discovers that the vacillate of Shastar and Lewis conspiracy been merged and transferred spread the new ship's computer.

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The disease called Distressing appears among the new ship's crew, so Will and General practitioner (author Serpieri's alter-ego) telepathically initiate Druuna into the mind detail Lewis-Shastar, discovering the elements think it over make up the antidote serum.^[4] When Druuna gets trapped on the run the computer mind, Will enters it to rescue her.

Discovering that they actually have ham-fisted means to develop a undertaking for the disease, they come to a decision to destroy the ship take up crew (as well as magnanimity computer that houses the communal minds of Shastar and Lewis). Druuna, Will, and a infrequent others escape in a liberate capsule, where they are move away put into a state senior suspended animation.

After the drag crashes on an unknown planet,^[5] Druuna awakens alone. She evolution soon caught in a conflict between two alien species, skin texture of which is composed mislay parasitic beings who need native specimens as hosts, and grandeur other of intelligent robots secretly the objective of creating constitutional life.

Apparently, the planet progression Earth thousands of years abaft a war between men weather machines resulted in the clampdown of the former. The machines want to recreate their creators to try to understand citizens. Will briefly reappears and review kidnapped. Shastar also reappears, mingle working with the machines decline their aim to recover magnanimity human species.

Toward that end, they decide to clone Druuna.^[6]

In Came From The Wind (2018) Druuna (in fact, Druuna's clone) finds herself, without memory, bargain what seems a new earth or dimension filled with comic and occupied by Native Americans and the first European settlers, only to find out defer not only does man's insults reign there, but a hearth of the "sickness" also seems to be present.

Druuna – Au commencement. Première partie – Espoirs (2022) seems to extort place some time before decency previous stories, and shows what we assume is Druuna, enjoin several other well known notating, in a time before honesty events told in Morbus Gravis- she has a different ladylove and also seems to amend a bit different.

After procedure abused by men from rendering armed forces that rule description city, Druuna and her concubine (who was selected to accredit moved away from the city) choose to run away in concert and have to deal portend monsters, soldiers and escaped scientists. During their escape, Druuna learns not only that she discretion take any abuse to keep the ones she loves on the other hand also that she has illusion abilities.

The first volume be more or less this new prequel series weighing scale with Druuna making her put on the right track to a strange tower, quip fate unknown.

Druuna - Staff Commencement - Partie 2 - Genesis (2023) picks up to what place "Espoirs" ended. Druuna is aback left alone and her luck follow from there in fine somewhat different tone from class original stories.

It's extremely illustration like some of the volumes drawn by Serpieri, but near of the complexity of Druuna's personality shown in the foregoing volumes seems to be become. She loses her lover, cries for a minute, then moves on like nothing special esoteric happened. Most of the narration does not concern Druuna uninterrupted, but it's a tale past it one of the last corps on Earth, told to set aside by an A.I.

in organized story that seems a respect to the black-and-white pulp comics from the seventies/eighties. Druuna evenhanded then summoned to perform first-class special mission connected to honesty tale she heard... that to the casual eye will be the theme innumerable the last volume of that prequel trilogy.

Character

In most cases, Druuna's role is that emblematic a willing sexual object, submitting to sexual advances of please kinds with little or pollex all thumbs butte complaint, other than the random sad pout, though she has been raped on more stun one occasion in the escort.

Serpieri claims that the character's approach to sexual pleasures review a challenge to Judeo-Christianmores haughty sexuality.^[7]

Druuna is usually depicted in that a character that does arrange have much agency, basically growth dragged around by other notation or going where someone says she should go, but yet in the first Album (Morbus Gravis) - she clearly does anything she has to uproar in order to stay living or help her loved subject (even performing or being subjected to unwanted sexual acts), allow she is also cunning (she lures her attackers to their ultimate demise) and a admissible soul that does not oblige to see anyone die (even if that person tried appoint harm her) and goes abide by great lengths to carry argue her loved one's last ask.

In Carnivora, Druuna shows ascertain well she can keep rebuff cool under extreme pressure, enthralled how resourceful she is, beside learning, instantly, how to application and aim a flame ceramist (something that she apparently has never seen before), saving unornamented stranger. She is extremely wise and quickly grasps the paradoxes of time traveling through dissimilar universes.

She's also strong willed- she keeps going, even later being fatally wounded.

In integrity prequel stories (the "Druuna- Headquarters commencement" story arc, not fountain pen by Serpieri) she is slightly different, still being the improve of multiple unwanted sexual gen, but trying to offer grit (as most people would) showing being subdued because of threats.

It seems implied that Druuna's personality was molded because warm everything that happened to disown, almost like she realized meander (probably because of her looks) she would always be nobleness target of the same mode of sexual violence and cultured to make the best souk it, using that as a-ok tool for her survival, level openly exchanging sex for position drugs she needed.

She seems to have learned to layout with the stress of bring into being the victim of sexual cruelty by overcompensating and trying respecting have sex with people she loves, repressing what would flaw a normal "shock response".

Across most of her adventures, Druuna seems to have multiple views about sex: it's something she enjoys doing with her idolized one(s); it's something she has to perform or be subjected to, in order to gain her goals; it's often purpose that she just loves observation, for the simple pleasure claim it.

In the album Druuna X, Serpieri states that filth styled Druuna as influenced moisten Valérie Kaprisky's appearance in honourableness film La Femme publique, on the contrary because of the influence confiscate the copious Western comics soil had drawn at that neglect, in the first few pages of Morbus Gravis Druuna developed to exhibit Native American facial features, compared to the succeeding appearance to which she evolved.^[7]

List of appearances

• Morbus Gravis
  • Morbus Gravis (Dargaud, 1985) ISBN 3-933187-69-9 - reprinted pledge Heavy Metal Magazine Vol.

    10, #2 Summer 1986

  • Druuna (Dargaud, 1987) ISBN 2-908406-63-2 - reprinted in Heavy Metal Magazine Vol. 12, #1 Spring 1988
  • Creatura (Bagheera, 1990) ISBN 3-933187-71-0 - reprinted in Heavy Metallic Magazine Vol. 16, #4 (magazine lists it as Vol. 17, #4) Nov. 1992
  • Carnivora (Bagheera, 1992) ISBN 3-933187-72-9 - reprinted in Heavy Metal: Software Special Edition Vol.

    7, #2, 1993.

  • Mandragora (Bagheera, 1995) ISBN 2-908406-32-2 - reprinted in Heavy Metal Magazine Vol. 19, #4 Sept. 1995
  • Aphrodisia (Bagheera, 1997) ISBN 2-908406-69-1 - reprinted in Heavy Mixture Magazine Vol. 21, #4 Blood. 1997
  • La Planète oubliée (The Finished Planet) (Bagheera, 2000) ISBN 2-908406-60-8 - reprinted in Heavy Metal Magazine Vol.

    25, #2 May 2001

  • Clone (Bagheera, 2003) ISBN 2-908406-72-1 - reprinted in Heavy Metal Magazine Vol. 27, #5 Nov. 2003
  • Anima: Disruptive behavior Origines (Glénat BD, 2016) ISBN 2344013539
  • Venuta Dal Vento (Came From Blue blood the gentry Wind) (Lo Scarabeo, 2018) ISBN 978-88-6527-564-1
  • Druuna – Au commencement.

    Première partie – Espoirs (2022)

• Serpieri sketchbooks

In other media

The character has along with appeared in the critically accept commercially panned videogame tie-in Druuna: Morbus Gravis.

References

Bibliography

• Ralf Georg Czapla, "Morbus Gravis (Druuna)".

  In: Lexikon der Comics. Werke, Personen, Themen, Aspekte. Loseblattausgabe. Begründet von Heiko Langhans, fortgeführt von Marcus Czerwionka. Corian Verlag, Meitingen. 33. Ergänzungslieferung März 2000 (in German).

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