It’s been just over a year since Druuna: Speranze, the first part of an all new Druuna series, was released. On April 26, 2023, Lo Scarabeo announced that the second volume in the series, Genesis, would be coming soon. Cannavò is at the helm writing this time around, with Iula and Roi providing the art. Lo Scarabeo released this preview page and a brief tease of what to expect after the first volume’s cliffhanger ending:
“In the white tower, which appeared at the end of the previous album, Druuna comes face to face with her past. The mysterious man who resides there knows the past of our protagonist, the origin of the events narrated by Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri in Morbus Gravis. With GENESIS we go back three centuries in time.”
The synopsis goes on to describe that just before the launch of The Citizen (the spacecraft from Morbus Gravis), earth was on the verge of total collapse, with the human population succumbing to pollution, war, and disease. One of the survivors of this event, Demetra, shares a connection with Druuna, though exactly how remains a mystery.
There is no release date or pre-order page for Druuna: Genesis as of this post, but Lo Scarabeo should have details up before long. What did you think of Schreiner and Eon’s work in Speranze? Are you excited for the new creative team in Genesis? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Via Lo Scarabeo
I came into possession of a French scan of this comic book, if you want to do a review/summary of it like you do with the other Druuna comics, I’m ready to send it to you, just let me know.
Otherwise, I want to tell you that the your DRUUNA reviews are simply phenomenal and inspiring !! Even though I’ve read my entire DRUUNA collection countless times and studied each drawing individually, it is a completely new experience to read them alongside yours reviews, and I’m very grateful for that.. I love how you penetrated deeply and philosophically into the heart of the story itself, paying attention to all the small details. Although the common opinion of “fans” worldwide is that DRUUNA is masterfully drawn but story is “totally stupid, confusing and uninteresting”, this just shows how unimaginative these “fans” are and don’t know how to think outside the box. I think both you and I understand that in all of his works Serpieri leaves us room to draw our own conclusions and to create some parts of the story in our own imagination, which is a characteristic of all great creators.
Btw. Are you planning to do a reviews of the other DRUUNA albums (Mandragora, Aphrodisia, The Forgotten Planet, Clone, Come from the Wind and eventually Anima)?? Personally, I think it would be sooooo wonderful if you could finish the whole story.
Thank you very much for your feedback! I completely agree that the Druuna series has more to it than the erotic angle alone. It’s important that we keep talking about it so that it gets the mainstream recognition it deserves.
As for the rest of the books, I am working on a larger scale project right now. I will hopefully have something to share later this year.