After Morbus Gravis (1985) and Delta (1987), Serpieri published Druuna: Creatura in 1990. In those years, the comic Zone 84 still existed, and it was in those pages that this story appeared translated into Spanish. However, unlike the time when Morbus Gravis appeared, by 1990 Zona 84 was doing everything they could just to stay afloat, and in only 2 years the publisher would end up succumbing to the Spanish editorial crisis. As a consequence, in Lima it was always extremely difficult to find copies of 1984 and the first era of Zona 84, however, the last 30 or 40 issues arrived to the Peruvian capital in large quantities and at low prices. For that reason, my reading of Morbus Gravis had been fragmented since I only had access to a few loose chapters, but with Creatura I did read all chapters.
In any case, in recent years, the publishing house Lo Scarabeo has had the great idea of editing all Druuna stories in luxurious hardcover volumes. The edition is quite good, except for the occasional page that seems scanned from Zona 84 instead of having been reproduced from the original, although there is a notable neglect in the translation of the texts and, above all, in proofreading (a problem that never happened when Zona 84 was still around). Despite these minor problems, it has been a great pleasure for me to sit down and read or reread the Druuna saga. I reread Creatura when I was in Lima in August 2019, so as you can see it took me a while to finish this post.
Will |
Will & Druuna |
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Hace ya 5 años tomé la decisión de darle un espacio a los cómics europeos, en parte porque echaba de menos las historias que leía, hace tanto tiempo, en las páginas de desaparecidos títulos antológicos como Zona 84, Cimoc, Totem y Creepy, y en parte, cómo no, por desmentir la noción de que en este blog sólo se habla de cómics estadounidenses. Así que hace 4 años, en el 2016, reseñé por fin Morbus Gravis, la primera saga de Druuna, del genial maestro italiano, Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri.
Doc |
No escape |
The lost city / la ciudad perdida |
Druuna's fate / el destino de Druuna |