Death in the colosseum

[mrosa]

Alejandro Jodorowsky and Milo Manara's Borgia is a violent series about Pope Alexander VI's reign of crime and lust. It's a story full of political back-stabbing, violence and sex. The ingredientes for a great comic book. Here's one of my favourite sequences:

















It should be said that Manara is one of the greatest comic book artists of our times. Although he has a preference for porn, he can draw anything he wants - the level of detail in his pencils is always astonishing.

Comments

[valismedsen]

Awesome.

Is this in trade? I always wanted to have it.

[mrosa]

Yes, Heavy Metal published English hardcovers of the first two volumes, the pages here being from the second one. But there are four volumes in total.

[valismedsen]

Thanks!

[darkknightjrk]

Thanks for the info. :D

[mrstatham]

The details of the Borgias and their lives always make me laugh, it's that ridiculous and crazy. It reaches the point where you don't really object to how the family's employed in the Assassin's Creed games, because Rodrigo Borgia might as well have been a supervillain.

[espanolbot]

Still amuses me that the other big family from the time, the Medicis, are directly related to Christopher Lee. Though he's also a direct descendant of Charlemange as well, so he's kind of connected to a lot of European folk.

[q99]

That tends to happen, nobles intermarrying and all.

[espanolbot]

Not may people related to royalty write metal albums about their ancestors though...

Not that I'm complaining, it's just another part of what makes Christopher Lee awesome.

[full_metal_ox]

Not to mention that we're talking about the guy who was able to tell Peter Jackson what somebody getting stabbed in the back really ought to sound like. (Evidently Lee actually has shed the blood of a Saxon man...)

[lascoden]

He was part of some super secret espionage team during WWII.

[full_metal_ox]

One that also included Ian Fleming--with the interesting consequence that James Bond's creator met Scaramanga years before Man With the Golden Gun.

[darkblade]

That is of course assuming Christopher Lee really is who he says he is and isn't some form of magical immortal and has been palling around with Alan Moore since shortly after the discovery of fire.

[kamino_neko]

...

Christopher Lee wrote a metal album?

*looks it up*

...

Two of them.

I...must acquire.

[mrstatham]

Yeah, but we all know that's because he's Christopher Lee. He's basically made of awesome.

[icon_uk]

That is some gorgeous art!

[mrosa]

It's Manara, what did you expect?

(Besides tits?)

[salinea]

asses?

[shadur]

Man, you draw one measly couple hundred porn volumes and everyone assumes that's all you ever do...

[wizardru]

Well, that spectators sizable endowments certainly screamed 'Manara' to me. :)

[salinea]

No, no.

Asses!

[shadur]

Haw.

[shadowpsykie]

oh.... i don't think i want to know what that book is about....

[salinea]

Probably for the best.

[pallas_athena]

It's an adaptation of Apuleius's The Golden Ass.

[mrosa]

asses?

Surely you're confusing him with Paolo Serpieri, creator of Druuna and the one and only Ass Master of comics.

[salinea]

I was not familiar with this guy. Clearly I have to do some research. For science.

[shadowpsykie]

For science.

mmhmm :D

[salinea]

^_^

[silverzeo]

And thus proves why the Pope should be a rabbit...

[yvonmukluk]

You fool! That might well put the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch under the control of the beast of Caerbannog!

NOONE WOULD BE SPARED!

[shadowpsykie]

.... i love you.... :D

[richardak]

Not many people know this, but Popes Leporidus I, Leporidus II, Leporidus IV, and Leporidus VI were, in fact, all rabbits. Leporidus III was actually a hare; Leporidus V was the only human in the bunch. Additionally, Cardinal Amami Lagomorpha almost certainly would have become the fifth rabbit pope in 1878, but died while the conclave was still in session, leading to the election of Leo XIII.

[crinos]

Not gonna lie, do not envy the guy who had to clean up all that rabbit poop.

[darkblade]

The fact that the death of a man with a rabbit's name lead to a man with a lion's name becoming Pope cannot be a coincidence.

[espanolbot]

Wow, and people wonder why Dante and a lot of semi-contemporary English literature mocked the Church so much.

[arilou_skiff]

Except that Dante lived almost two hundred years before Alexander VI.

[espanolbot]

How corrupt they could get, I mean.

[endis_ni]

It should be said that Manara is one of the greatest comic book artists of our times. Although he has a preference for porn, he can draw anything he wants - the level of detail in his pencils is always astonishing.

It's true! His erotic tarot deck has this the delicacy and precision of linework that's well worth the look.

[shadowpsykie]

I have the sudden urge to continue playing Assassin's creed Brotherhood....

[mrstatham]

Do it! The payoff to Cesare declaring that he cannot die at the hands of man is hilarious.

[leoboiko]

Oh how I wish Manara drew more porn than the straight variety.

[pallas_athena]

Manara is an excellent artist, but I still haven't quite forgiven him for that X-Men mini which had Storm, Rogue and I forget who else all suffering from terminal sexface.

[darkblade]

At least it was well drawn sexface, as opposed to Land's badly traced sex faces.

[pallas_athena]

It's true. There is nothing sexy whatsoever about Land's sexfaces.

[kraesil]

I shall now spend the rest of the day ogling at the art.

Of course, I immediately thought of this:

[capt_satellite]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCZjw2FXPE