THE COMPLETE CREPAX: THE TIME EATER & OTHER STORIES - GUIDO CREPAX

I picked this up because it was large and beautiful and at the library. European comics is not a world I’m particularly at home in. I’ve read some tin-tin and I like Moebius and I’m semi-familiar with Heavy Metal. Crepax is somewhat like all of this but much sleazier. His busty women are robots or aliens or intergalactic pirates but they always scantily clad and horny. There’s lots of crazy bestiality stuff, and I mean really groundbreaking combos like woman and spider or aye-aye or praying mantis. There’s lots of really cool “overhead” splash panels that are disorienting and really dream-world it up. The best stuff looks wispy and baroque like Kevin O’Neil, towards the back have of the tome the lines get darker and heavier, to their detriment. The stories might suffer from being translated or maybe they never made a lot of sense but it can be hard to follow who is who and what’s going on and who’s a secret robot. Never mind all that, she’s about to use a spider of BDSM-purposes. 8 nude women making love to strange things.