has a complicated legal history. In the United States, early Epic Comics editions were shrink-wrapped and labeled for adults only. In the United Kingdom, Creatura was banned from several comic shops in the 1990s under the Obscene Publications Act. In Italy, there were obscenity trials, though Serpieri was ultimately acquitted because the court ruled the work had "artistic merit."
In later volumes, the line between reality and hallucination blurs. Druuna meets druuna
The result was . Named after a mysterious, dreamlike figure, the character first appeared in Morbus Gravis (1985). Serpieri envisioned a planet where a mysterious plague has destroyed civilization. The survivors live in oppressive, bio-mechanical cities or in squalid tribal conditions. Druuna is not a warrior or a detective; she is an everywoman—vulnerable, sensual, and often caught between the brutality of men and the horror of mutations. has a complicated legal history