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Ghita of Alizarr #1
Ghita of Alizarr
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108 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
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Frank Thorne
136 books8 followersFrank Thorne was an American comic book artist-writer, best known for his fantasy-erotic works.
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December 2, 2024
Erotica with world-building is like porn with a plot. There's just way too much info dumping Thorne wants us to read all in service of a very lewd story.
Really fantastic artwork which makes the story and cringey sex stuff all the more disappointing. Thorne needed a writer or editor to help tame his indulgences.
Really fantastic artwork which makes the story and cringey sex stuff all the more disappointing. Thorne needed a writer or editor to help tame his indulgences.
June 20, 2021
I'll honestly never understand the need of people making pornography (because this is not erotic, this is 1000% pornography) and especially of the tiresome, trite male-oriented genre to put some kind of plot or dialogue outside women and/or men moaning. Why you do it? just take a lot of shots or draw a lot of pictures of people having sex and don't bother the viewer with unnecessary words which completely clutter the enjoyment of what you're doing. In this case is even worst because this guy here had clearly pretentions of writing a book instead of a comic, and the whole thing is barely readable, with blocks of text that would make Alan Moore green of envy. And the dialogues are cringeworthy to say the least, amounting to nothing more than stupid babble meant as a diversion between ridicolous phallic innuendos and showing of boobs. Oh, and thanks for the COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY (because there's clearly no point in it, unless it is to prove the "manliness" of the guy committing the act, word taken directly from the comic) rape scene on the first ten pages, that was pure gold. If you want boobs, asses and gore without any pretention of a coherent story or dialogue whatsoever, check out Morrigan by Lorenzo Bartoli and Saverio Tenuta or Melting Pot by Kevin Eastman and Simon Bisley and you'll better served. A complete, total piece of shit not even saved by its art.
July 21, 2019
3.5 stars.
Red Sonja eat your heart out! Ghita of Alizarr is a fantastic sword and sorcery comic that revels in the sex and violence that is only touched on in similar works.
The only place this loses points is in how incredibly wordy it is, which sometimes slows its pace to a crawl. There are expository boxes absolutely everywhere, with many of them just explaining what you can see for yourself on the page.
Red Sonja eat your heart out! Ghita of Alizarr is a fantastic sword and sorcery comic that revels in the sex and violence that is only touched on in similar works.
The only place this loses points is in how incredibly wordy it is, which sometimes slows its pace to a crawl. There are expository boxes absolutely everywhere, with many of them just explaining what you can see for yourself on the page.
October 29, 2024
It's undeniable Frank Thorne's impact on the character of Red Sonja, with his designs for the character serving as pervasive for decades to follow. But since that was a Marvel Comics publication, Thorne was restricted to keeping things relatively clean. Ghita of Alizarr granted Thorne the ability to go all out, and thus was born a sword and sorcery series that revels in the sex and violence to an extent that no other Robert E. Howard adaptation could ever hope to reach. First published in Warren's magazine 1984 #7, Ghita is the even raunchier reincarnation of Red Sonja, a scantily clad femme fatale who wields her sexuality as easily as she does her sword.
The favored companion of King Khalia, Ghita eventually becomes a violent swordwoman who tackles invading hordes of trolls to win back the realm of Alizarr. The transformation is perverse, requiring Ghita to engage in sex with the spirit of the long dead Khan-Dagon, whose legendary blade imbibes her with mystical powers. It's all rather lurid and profane with minimal delicacy, and thus one can mostly walk away from this feeling indifferent towards Thorne's abilities as a storyteller. As an artist however, he is undeniably talented, and the designs of the world of Alizarr remain just as engaging as his work in the Hyborian Age. Ghita of Alizarr isn't all that great of a read, but Thorne's illustrative prowess may be all you really need to get into this.
The favored companion of King Khalia, Ghita eventually becomes a violent swordwoman who tackles invading hordes of trolls to win back the realm of Alizarr. The transformation is perverse, requiring Ghita to engage in sex with the spirit of the long dead Khan-Dagon, whose legendary blade imbibes her with mystical powers. It's all rather lurid and profane with minimal delicacy, and thus one can mostly walk away from this feeling indifferent towards Thorne's abilities as a storyteller. As an artist however, he is undeniably talented, and the designs of the world of Alizarr remain just as engaging as his work in the Hyborian Age. Ghita of Alizarr isn't all that great of a read, but Thorne's illustrative prowess may be all you really need to get into this.
February 22, 2013
yeah, yeah, yeah... bring on the "you're a dirty old man" remarks.
The fact remains that these two volumes collecting most, but not all, of Frank Thorne's stories of Ghita are actually pretty nice.
Sure, it's basically an X_Rated verson of the Red Sonja comics. But seeing as Thorne had also given us some pretty nice Red Sonja, I guess we owe him thanks for giving the fan-boys this more grown-up, and let's face it, realistic, version of what a sword and sorcery epic ought to be.
As I mentioned before, this does collect most of the Ghitta material, but I do remember a couple of story lines from the originals that weren't in these. Makes me wonder why they were left out... were they maybe a little bit TOO contreversial?
Still, the teenager in me is grateful to have these as they do tend to stir, heh, up a few memories.
The fact remains that these two volumes collecting most, but not all, of Frank Thorne's stories of Ghita are actually pretty nice.
Sure, it's basically an X_Rated verson of the Red Sonja comics. But seeing as Thorne had also given us some pretty nice Red Sonja, I guess we owe him thanks for giving the fan-boys this more grown-up, and let's face it, realistic, version of what a sword and sorcery epic ought to be.
As I mentioned before, this does collect most of the Ghitta material, but I do remember a couple of story lines from the originals that weren't in these. Makes me wonder why they were left out... were they maybe a little bit TOO contreversial?
Still, the teenager in me is grateful to have these as they do tend to stir, heh, up a few memories.
January 17, 2021
Your mileage may vary. Thorne writes his own "she devil with a sword," free of comics code or Marvel censors. Weird, raunchy, twisted and sexy. Not even remotely something that could be published now due to its utter political/social incorrectness, but a hell of a lot of fun. 80s sword and sorcery comics classic.
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