Description
Meet Casanova Quinn: prodigal son of a law-and-order family hell-bent onkeeping the world safe and sound, now blackmailed into betraying his father andthe international law enforcement organization he controls. LUXURIA collectsthe first volu
Subjects
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2007-05-23 (collection)
2006-06-21 – 2007-02-14 (issues)
Physical description
29 cm
Publication
New York, N.Y. : Icon, c2011.
ISBN
9780785148623
Local notes
The first "Casanova" collection comprising 7 issues and the bonus story "I Thnk I Almost Loved Him" that takes place simultaneously. As every arc of Casanova, it is named after one of the Latin names for the Seven Deadly Sins, this one Luxuria (Lust).
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LibraryThing member dr_zirk
This first collected volume of Ba and Fraction's Casanova is truly great stuff, and delivers a pure blast of comics fun that is packaged with considerable wit and charm. If Gabriel Ba's three-color artwork is stunning (and it is), then Matt Fraction's convoluted, contradictory story is almost as
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good, making up for everything it lacks in coherence with a surfeit of boldness - there is nothing passive about Casanova. Show Less
LibraryThing member stewartfritz
What what what did I just read? Dimension-hopping sci-fi robot monster super-spy retro-cool sexy sexiness fun times? Stuff blows up real good and zowie powie! there's fists flyin' and bullets and B-movie giant robots and mutants and time traveling and more robots and supervillains and the whole lot
...until it gets pretty tiresome near the end. Just like some sort of hollywood summer blockbuster, the wheels sorta fall off the contraption and then it's going through the motions until the end. But man, what a crazy ride getting there.
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of it. Doesn't really make a lick of sense and WHO CARES because it's got the cool-o-meter pegged at 11, baby. BLAMMO!!...until it gets pretty tiresome near the end. Just like some sort of hollywood summer blockbuster, the wheels sorta fall off the contraption and then it's going through the motions until the end. But man, what a crazy ride getting there.
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LibraryThing member wethewatched
I really enjoy Matt Fraction, but the guy can be pretty out there sometimes. Casanova is pretty out there. Like, clearly, Fraction had a complete blast writing this. It comes out on every page. And Gabriel Ba must have had a blast drawing it.
It's kind of a spy satire, but not like Austin Powers...
The reason I'm not giving this more than three stars is I found it hard to connect to any of the characters. I just like to see a little more emotional resonance in a story, you know? My favorite thing by Fraction--the excellent Hawkeye series--has that in spades. But with Casanova, we get the fun and somewhat loopy Fraction but not so much the heart.
It's kind of a spy satire, but not like Austin Powers...
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it's stream of conscious and, to be frank, batshit crazy. There's a lot of creativity here on display and a lot of fun characters.The reason I'm not giving this more than three stars is I found it hard to connect to any of the characters. I just like to see a little more emotional resonance in a story, you know? My favorite thing by Fraction--the excellent Hawkeye series--has that in spades. But with Casanova, we get the fun and somewhat loopy Fraction but not so much the heart.
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LibraryThing member mrgan
Not my thing. Another comic with nice art and a frenetic, trying-so-hard, saying-nothing story. I stopped caring halfway through.
Media reviews
Originally serialized in 2006 and 2007, when it was printed in two-tone black and green, “Luxuria” has been expanded and recolored for its new edition — fleshing out a love-story subplot that makes it clearer that a heart is beating inside the book’s skeleton of clones, alternate timelines
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and “retroviral data payloads.” Show Less
The themes are basic, even obvious: family relations (especially the father/son conflict), sex, drugs, pain, pleasure, death. For escapist adventure, it’s awfully thought-provoking. It’s both about and provides altered consciousness.