by Milo Manara
Publisher : Heavy
Metal (November 1, 2015)
Hardcover, 65
pages
This is the work
of Milo Manara, the famous Italian artist. Or should I say infamous, because
those in the know, those who have read Heavy
Metal magazine for a while will know that when Manara creates a new work,
he doesn’t half-ass it on the nudity or sex. His work, I think, would be
comparable to the modern day Tijuana Bible - aka comic book pornography -
except Manara always wraps a story around it. Whether it’s for good or ill,
that’s up to you. When I was younger it turned me on, was my first glimpse of
raw sexuality without inhibitions. Nowadays it amuses me more than anything.
It
begins with a young man with political aspirations and his attractive trophy
wife leaving a dull party and engaging in some sexual play in his car on the
way home. He's soon called to the carpet by a loan shark he's borrowed from,
and the thug demands that the young woman deliver something her husband might
need to the loan shark's house. The loan shark then decrees that until the
young man's debt is paid, that his wife will be anally raped by one of the shark's
goons on a daily basis. The rest of the comic is about this happening, and the
woman recounting these experiences to the mentor of the young man, an older
"senator" who hosts her on his yacht, to which she eventually flees
to escape the goon after apparently at least several weeks of daily encounters.
There is then the requisite twist at the end of the tale.
This
book is purely for those who don’t blush at the erotic. The plot has as much
believably as your standard porno film. Everything is arranged to get the
clothes off the girl and a cock ready for penetration. Even those who are
critical of Manara’s text cannot find fault with his art work. It is beautiful,
light, and sublime. It is as if he is able to capture the emotions of the world
and allow them to alight onto paper. He is simply a master of the craft.
For more readings, try books by Rex Hurst.
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