an SF setting: Druuna?
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Standing-Stone
Banded Mongoose
Sounds interesting. When I did websearch for this I realised it was something i had seen advertised in 'Heavy Metal' magazine many times before as this....
http://users.tkk.fi/~rauta/scifi/druuna/druuna1.jpg
Looks interesting. I like the post appocalytic scenarios. The dark furture, heros, heriones and mutants.
I wish had the presence of mind to ask for it back those days.
There was a PC game based on Druuna a few years ago. Not that I knew about it back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-FcVOUD-0A&mode=related&search=
Have you played this game youself?
I might be interested in the RPG if it was made.
Do you know enough about this?
http://users.tkk.fi/~rauta/scifi/druuna/druuna1.jpg
Looks interesting. I like the post appocalytic scenarios. The dark furture, heros, heriones and mutants.
I wish had the presence of mind to ask for it back those days.
There was a PC game based on Druuna a few years ago. Not that I knew about it back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-FcVOUD-0A&mode=related&search=
Have you played this game youself?
I might be interested in the RPG if it was made.
Do you know enough about this?
The King
Cosmic Mongoose
It is as hot (if not more) as Conan and yes the setting is a post-apocalyptic future with a virus provoking massive mutation.
The PC game was very interesting because it brought much knowledge of this setting.
Books and video game are stilla available though: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-2236744-9141701?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=druuna&Go.x=9&Go.y=12
The PC game was very interesting because it brought much knowledge of this setting.
Books and video game are stilla available though: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/102-2236744-9141701?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=druuna&Go.x=9&Go.y=12
Standing-Stone
Banded Mongoose
From what I read of press release of the video game. It was originally meant to be a CG movie. Somebody said it wouldn't sell so welll, and so it was chopped up into I don't how many cut scenes intersperced with wehat ever little control yopu would be given the the lead character Druuna.
From what I read about the female lead Druuna. She is meant to be every red blooded males dream. I guess and perhaps a source of contempt for femeinists the world over.
You know what I mean, nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.
From what I read about the female lead Druuna. She is meant to be every red blooded males dream. I guess and perhaps a source of contempt for femeinists the world over.
You know what I mean, nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more.
Etepete
Mongoose
As if...
Druuna is very interesting as a study in the authors sexual neurosises...
I'm being unfair - some of the SF plots are really good.
I can't believe I actually read these comics. Well, that's what you get for picking up Heavy Metal: slightly (or grossly) disturbing comics... very 90's
Druuna is very interesting as a study in the authors sexual neurosises...
I'm being unfair - some of the SF plots are really good.
I can't believe I actually read these comics. Well, that's what you get for picking up Heavy Metal: slightly (or grossly) disturbing comics... very 90's
hassanisabbah
Mongoose
The King said:
Er I own
most of the Drunna Graphic novels. I don't remember R E Howards tendency to explict anal sex however, with a smattering of bondage, rape, submission etc.... Drunna of the game, very different that the material published trust me....
The King
Cosmic Mongoose
Yes of course, Druuna is an adult setting which tends on pornography. But behind this there is much of a Morcockian feeling, especially with the chaotic feature of the "Evil". But let us be fair, isn't sex linked to the decadence of civilization? Moreover this society becomes decadent because of the virus.
Anyway I think Druuna is more a representation of the nightmare type where you can't evade your foes whereever you go.
As to hassanisabbah thought's about Howard: You should read on the REHUPA site what kind of books Howard did read: in his library there were some items about spanking and what we would now call bondage. Don't forget he lived in the '20's and that imagination (as well as censorship and ethic code has know much development since then). In many of his stories, women are often scantily clad and in one story there is even a Stygian witch who binds and floggs a (naked) slave girl. Yes I think Howard would have been much farther if censorship of the time would allow.
As an example, if you know the book "Emmanuelle" (which gave its name to some films), it was written in 1959 and it was a long time before its release would be authorized.
Then if you know Hawkmoon (or Corum), you already know that there is much gratuitous violence in these stories. However I didn't suggest Druuna as a setting of sexual depravity but because it features an interesting postapocalyptic setting.
Anyway I think Druuna is more a representation of the nightmare type where you can't evade your foes whereever you go.
As to hassanisabbah thought's about Howard: You should read on the REHUPA site what kind of books Howard did read: in his library there were some items about spanking and what we would now call bondage. Don't forget he lived in the '20's and that imagination (as well as censorship and ethic code has know much development since then). In many of his stories, women are often scantily clad and in one story there is even a Stygian witch who binds and floggs a (naked) slave girl. Yes I think Howard would have been much farther if censorship of the time would allow.
As an example, if you know the book "Emmanuelle" (which gave its name to some films), it was written in 1959 and it was a long time before its release would be authorized.
Then if you know Hawkmoon (or Corum), you already know that there is much gratuitous violence in these stories. However I didn't suggest Druuna as a setting of sexual depravity but because it features an interesting postapocalyptic setting.
