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Posted - 30/06/2017 : 09:33:13
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Birdland
Creators: Gilbert Hernandez Format: 94 pages, black and white Publisher: Eros Comix Categories: Sci-Fi, XXX/Erotica
It’s not often that a work of erotic fiction leaves me scratching my… head. But then, Birdland is hardly a typical piece of porn. It’s a solo project by Gilbert “Beto” Hernandez, co-creator (con sus hermanos) of the classic indie series Love and Rockets. I’ve read very little L&R (don’t worry, I will), but I know that one of the hallmarks of the series was the characters. Birdland has a rather remarkable cast as well. Bang Bang, Inez, and La Valda are professional strippers who (remarkably) have differing body shapes, personalities, etc. Fritzi is a psychologist with a lisp… and mysterious heart-shaped pendant. Simon is obsessed with Fritzi, who is married to Simon’s gorgeous brother Mark, who is lusted after by Petra, Fritzi’s sister and receptionist. And that’s not even mentioning the aliens.
One thing all of these characters have in common is sex. Lots of sex. You can’t go more than a page or two without coming across two (or more) of them stroking, sucking, fucking, or otherwise stimulating each other in graphic detail. This isn’t teasing, softcore stuff… I’m talking “money shots” left, right, and across the room. Much of the sex would probably fall into the “kinky” category as well, involving body parts and combinations of people not mentioned in most sex ed classes.
This collection of the original Eros series is said to include five pages of new material, but I’m not sure whether they were added at the end, inserted various places in the book, or what. All 94 pages are sequentially numbered. I tried figuring it out from the number of pages between logical “breaks” in the story, but eventually gave up. {shrug}
As the story progresses, it gets progressively unusual. Fritzi turns out to have a rather unorthodox method of treating her clients, and her sister Petra learns what the mysterious pendant can do… and does it. Little bug-eyed aliens step into the spotlight and turn the world of the central characters the rest of the way upside-down. There are choices to be made, with uncertain implications.
Toward the end, things get thoroughly surreal. Except for the final page, the last two dozen pages don’t contain any dialog whatsoever. They do, however, have rather odd sound effects (cynognathus, cuarenta, gilgamesh) that have more of a dream-like relationship to the setting than to the sex acts they’re associated with. Time, space, identity, gender, and reality itself all seem to be in flux and subject to change without notice. I can’t help wondering if Beto, after a bit of a delay between the third and last issues, decided to finish if off by seeing how much he could fuck with the readers’ minds.
If you’re just looking for a stroke book, Birdland may not be the best choice. That’s not to say that it doesn’t have plenty of hot sex scenes; it does. But as the story requires more and more thought to figure out what’s going on and what it means, you have to make a choice between trying to follow it, or just give up and look at the pictures. It’s a tough choice to make. But it’s also a fun and interesting read (and not so deep and thought-provoking as to change your life forever), so I’m certainly not trying to steer anyone away from it. Just know what you’re getting into: a rather strange and erotic tale.
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Posted - 01/08/2017 : 22:55:15
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Bang Bang 2
by Jordi Bernet & Carlos Trillo
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Posted - 02/08/2017 : 23:24:35
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Most people living in english-speaking countries probably know Cybersix from the animated saturday-morning-cartoon created by a Japanese/Canadian production studio. Ironically, the original comics, by Carlos Meglia and Carlos Trillo, have never been officially translated into English. Possibly for fear that they’d be mistaken for something that could, if you squint, register as ‘child-friendly’, despite the prominent cleavage. For you see, this is not a child-freindly comic. This comic has drugs, violence, and blatant sexualization of female characters. This shit is pulp galore, and among it’s further sins are cross-dressing, Nazis, and a tiny casanova ingeniously titled 'Big Bang’.
Our heroine is a genetic clone, created by a Nazi professor who keeps trying to eradicate her after she escapes. She takes the identity of a male car-crash victim who resembled her, and eventually gets a job as a high school teacher. At night, she dons a black leather suit in order to suck 'sustainence’ from lesser clones, and battle the evil forces of her creator.
While it is set in and drawn around 1999-1992, the environments and overall style are more reminiscent of the first half of the twentieth century: Old churches, Art Noveau-housing, and an expy of Betty Boop sets combines with the entirely black and white colour scheme to form a very atmospheric film-noir feeling. The art is brilliant: Just look at how the author plays with perspective and shadows!
The stories themselves are interesting to say the least. Most of them take up around half or a third of the book, each being self-contained and episodic in nature. They’re chock-full of aforementioned pulp tropes, while at the same time being neither predictable nor boring, although the series could do with some larger plotline. The characters really steal the show, in particular 10-year-old Nazi Jose Von Richter, a villain that teeters on a fine line between 'terrifying’ and 'hilarious’, often crossing over into the latter.
The books themselves are not available in english, but there is an ongoing translation project, and the books themselves are available in Spanish, Italian, or French.
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Posted - 05/09/2017 : 18:19:08
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Alfonso Azpiri, Heavy Metal Artist, 1947-2017
Lorna, the best-known creation of Spanish artist Alfonso Azpiri, who has died at the age of 70.
We are saddened by the news that Alfonso Azpiri, frequent Heavy Metal contributor in the 1990s and early 2000s, died of cancer in Villalba, Spain, on Friday August 18. (His death has been covered in Spanish-speaking press, but we don’t have a link to an English-language obituary.)
Azpiri’s most famous creation was Lorna, a sexually insatiable space adventurer (often compared to Barbarella), accompanied on her travels around the galaxy by a pair of artoo-threepio-ish robots named ADL and Arnold. Azpiri will also be remembered for Mot, a more family-friendly series about a boy who has adventures with his huge monster companion.
Alfonso Azpiri
Azpiri’s earliest published work was done for Italian horror titles in the ’70s, but he expanded into fantasy and science fiction, with erotic themes a constant across all his work. He made his Heavy Metal debut in the July 1984 issue with a story called “Daymares/Nightdreams.” In all, his work appeared in over 30 issues of Heavy Metal; on three occasions, major chunks of issues were given over to Lorna stories (September 1998, March 2002, and March 2006). Heavy Metal also published hardcover English-language versions of his Lorna stories, as well as sketchbooks and portfolios. As with more than a few Heavy Metal artists, Azpiri saw some of his more explicit work published in Penthouse Comix, notably the recurring strip Bethlehem Steele.
Azpiri’s creations found their way into other media as well: Mot was made into a cartoon series that ran for 26 episodes, and both Mot and Lorna were translated into video games. Azpiri was also frequently hired by video game companies to create box cover art.
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Posted - 14/09/2017 : 12:55:53
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BORIS VALLEJO - The Chronicles of Counter / Earth Tarnsman of Gor (1977/9)
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Posted - 15/09/2017 : 08:41:06
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tutta, slao sam ti PM ali ne prolazi, javlja mi problem sa mail adresom.... |
„And I know what I want….When the timing is right…Then I'll take what is mine…I am the clansman“ "...gdje god da te život nosi, uvijek moraš znati 'ko si..." |
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