Not sure how to start writing about this graphic novel. I’ll start by quoting Mr. Keanu Reeves “Wow”. I just recently finish the second read and I think I got it this time. The first book is what is believed a series of seven, as in the seven capital sins, and thus Luxuria (Lust) being the first one.
The main character is Casanova Quinn, a very good thief, that is a superlative of James Bond in mostly every aspect, except in the confidence when it comes to dominate a given situation, that is only just before the end. Casanova happens to be the son of Cornelius Quinn, the head of a government organization called E.M.P.I.R.E. which is pretty much the Orwellian Big Brother stereotype. Zephyr is Casanova sister and it is introduced as E.M.P.I.R.E.’s best agent.
As one can imagine there are some interesting family tensions in the plot as Casanova is breaking every rule the dad wants to impose. This is mostly conveyed in the first couple of pages of the first issue, so I haven’t spoiled anything for you.
There are of course the bad guys. Mainly the bad guy is Xeno Newman which main power is the ability to move people in and out of time and space, in a sorta string theory thingy. There is also Seichelle industries, and its main guy Seichelle himself, who has an unique ability to construct robots, and sexy ones I may add.
Without entering in details about the plot itself let me give you a couple of things that happen in the story:
- Casanova explodes the head of a three-women-brain-robot-combination in a staring-without-blinking contest
- Casanova kills a version of his sister (in a timeline), whom in revenge fucks him in a yet another timeline
- There is an island where the “air” is actually infused with an afrodisiac substance that makes everybody really horny - some form of Tijuana place where everybody is aroused, horny and ready to fuck everywhere. Oh and I forgot to mention that there are sex robots being offered for pleasure
- A guy gets his brain blown out for disagreeing with the host in regards to the Beatles genius - ala DeNiro in the Untouchables
- There is another island where supposedly the natives are so violent that the rest of the world has agreed to leave them alone, and yet it is learnt aferwards that the so-called natives are really a group of people that have discovered the very path to evolution and are able to move across time and space at will.
- There is a giant robot war machine hidden in the sea, because nobody told the Chinesse that the third world war was over and they were able to go back to life
- There is a trio of killers - much ala Charlies Angels that are super porn models
and many many more details to a quite complicated story line.
The story is from Matt Fraction and art by Gabriel Ba. The publisher is Image comics and it came out a couple of months ago.
Here is a podcast with Matt Fraction about the comic.
