Casanova, Vol. 1: Luxuria

by Matt Fraction (Writer), Gabriel Ba (Illustrator)

Series: Casanova (1)

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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 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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stewartfritz | Apr 4, 2013 |

I only give this any stars at all because of Gabriel Ba's always interesting artwork. Some of the worst dialogue out of anything I've read recently. (

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randoymwords | Dec 3, 2012 |

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 good, making up for everything it lacks in coherence with a surfeit of boldness - there is nothing passive about Casanova. (

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dr_zirk | Aug 31, 2009 |

Like a wonderful daydream about time travel, secret identities, beautiful people and gun fights. Check out the first issue for free here: http://www.imagecomics.com/onlinecomics.php (

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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 and “retroviral data payloads.”

added by Shortride | editThe New York Times, Douglas Wolk (Jun 8, 2011)

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.

added by lampbane | editComics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson (Aug 10, 2007)

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Casanova #1 by Matt Fraction

Casanova #2 by Matt Fraction

Casanova Luxuria #3 by Matt Fraction

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Casanova Quinn, son of the director of E.M.P.I.R.E., an international task force that ruthlessly maintains law and order across the planet, betrays his father, fights a floating head, and steals a god.