Heavy Metal: Soft Ware – The Continuing Adventures of Druuna – 1992
One of the stranger and more visually spectacular corners of the Heavy Metal universe: Soft Ware, featuring the continuing adventures of Druuna, the iconic science-fiction heroine created by Italian artist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri.
Published in 1992, this oversized Heavy Metal special combines the European adult-comics sensibility that made the magazine famous with an extraordinary wraparound painted cover: Druuna sprawled across a biomechanical industrial landscape populated by bizarre miniature creatures, machinery and assorted things that clearly should not be crawling around unsupervised.
The artwork continues uninterrupted onto the back cover, making the complete wraparound image a major part of the appeal.
Title: Heavy Metal: Soft Ware
Feature: The Continuing Adventures of Druuna
Creator: Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri
Year: 1992
Cover Price: $3.95 US / $4.50 Canada
UPC: 070989383403
Format: Oversized illustrated magazine / graphic album
Genre: Adult Science Fiction / Fantasy / European Comics
Druuna became one of the defining characters of European adult science-fiction comics, and Serpieri's extraordinarily detailed combination of human anatomy, machinery, ruined technology and surreal biological forms is immediately recognizable here.
This copy shows normal vintage handling and storage wear. The scans are intentionally large and unforgiving—please use them as the primary condition description. The wraparound artwork remains highly presentable, with strong color and considerable fine detail.
An excellent crossover piece for collectors of Heavy Metal, Druuna, Serpieri, European comics, adult science fiction, fantasy illustration and 1990s magazine-format graphic novels.
Bagged, boarded, protected between stiffeners.
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