Imaginez que cette fois le vieux Gepetto s’appelerait Galipetto, que ce sacré pervers deciderait de fabriquer une poupée en bois qu’il nommerait Pinocchia ! Imaginez un peu maintenant vers quelles aventures nous emmenerait cette magnifique créature ! À la recherche de son « père », elle va découvrir un drole de monde manipulateur et surtout obsédé par son corp qui change tellement dès qu’elle dit un mensonge…
Look at me, reading another retelling of Pinocchio that is absolutely horrible and should have never been written (I'm looking at you Η αληθινή ιστορία του Πινόκιο )
The plot is quite simple. In this one, Gepetto is an unmarried toymaker who is advised by his magic mirror (that's from Snow White you idiots) to create the perfect woman from wood, so that he can relieve his sexual frustration. Now, one could say that he could solve his problem through masturbating, but then we wouldn't have this mess of a book, and god forbid we go on without this garbage existing.
So he creates the titual Pinocchia, has sex with her and then falls asleep. When he wakes up in the morning, the doll has somehow come to life. She calls him her father, which leads to the police arresting him on incest charges and sending him to prison.
From then on, anything bad that you can imagine, happens to Pinocchia (as if coming alive after her so called father has sex with her wasn't enough). She is taken advantage of by dozens if not hunderds of strangers, she gets trafficked, robbed of the little money she has, her life is threatened on multiple occasions, and through all these, her innocence is never corrupted. Which in this book, translates to: never standing up for herself, always putting herself in danger's way to save those who have abused her, being obedient and always sexually available. God, the only time she stands up for herself, near the end of the book, to the pair that is essentially her pimps, that action is so groundbreaking, that she is rewarded with turning into a human!
I don't understand how people find this sexy. In fact, it made my vagina dryer than the sand and generally angered me to no end!
How is a naive woman, with no agency whatsoever, being exploited by literally every person that she meets, abused, trafficked and harassed, sexy? Well, if you hate women, it certainly is. To which I say "fuck off".
And not only that. Not only is this disgusting in that way. It's also so so badly written! The dialogue is cringy, the pacing is awful, characters' motivations and feelings will change throughout each page with no explanation. It feels as if it was written by a teen with no writing experience, that is into comics and has just discovered porn.
Plus, near the end of the book, the narrator/writer, makes a joke about the feminist movement. Specifically, he says that feminists nowadays would be very angry, but "thankfully" the movement didn't exist back when the story of Pinocchia takes place. Ugh, why don't you just admit that you hate women and don't see them as anything else other than sex objects?
The only good thing, was the art. That was what drew me to this. It's very similar to the style of Milo Manara (another artist famous for his great erotic art, his writing/storytelling isn't much better than this.) I'd love to read an art book by these men. No words. Just pretty pictures. Storytelling, dialogue, character development etc, isn't what they're good at.
By the way, if you're wondering what's getting bigger when Pinocchia lies: it's her boobs.
If you made it this far, congratulations! 'Til next time, take care :) :) :)
Hermosa adaptación en clave erótica. Tal vez la única versión que realmente necesitamos. Ni la versión de Del Toro ni la de Roberto Beningni ni menos la de Disney lograron este tan bello homenaje. Terminé con ganas de llorar, pero debe ser porque es domingo y mañana hay que ir a trabajar.
Like Milo Manara's "Gullivera" (female Gulliver) and Eric Maltaite's "Robinsonia" (female Robinson Crusoe; a rather good book), Pinocchia is an erotic tale based on an earlier story (in case Pinocchio, the wooden boy).
Galipetto is an old man living alone in the deep woods when he is inspired to make a wooden female. Luckily for him, Galipetto is a first-class carpenter that makes his living carving toys. Using a tree that collapsed into his shack, Galipetto creates a wooden woman. After he is finished, he takes the little wooden woman for a test drive, and unknown to him, this causes the woman to come alive. Galipetto learns about this amazing transformation when Pinocchia, nude but for shoes and an apron, brings Galipetto breakfast and asks if he is her papa.
Some local police stop by and ask if anything is damaged after the storm, and they find a nearly nude woman rushing from the back room, and hugging her "papa." The police take them to jail.
While in jail, Pinocchia, nude but for a mutating coat (one minute a green coat, the next a green dress), ends up going down on one of the men there in jail. As the police do not have anything on Pinocchia, they release her, but keep Galipetto in jail. So, the barely clothed woman wanders down the street and is picked up by a man in a car.
The man takes her to a party, where a woman helps Pinocchia change clothes (and who ends up fondling Pinocchia). While the women are otherwise occupied, two men peer into the room, and eventually lead Pinocchia away from the party and, at the first opportunity, prostitute her. The rascals run off with Pinocchia's pay, and without leaving her any money to pay the hotel bill. While Pinocchia begins to "pay" for the room with her mouth, the hotel owner's wife runs in and spanks Pinocchia with a wooden object. Pinocchia flees the hotel.
In the meantime, Galipetto is released and he wanders along in his night clothes, attempting to return home. Along the way he ends up at the same house Pinocchia wandered up to and entered after she fled the angry wife. While his creation is screwing around with a man up on the second floor, Galipetto is offered the position of gardener. The gardener was just fired and thrown off the premises for sleeping with the maid.
Running away from an attempted forced and unwanted bath, Galipetto runs across his Pinocchia, who has reverted to wooden status. Galipetto "revives" her, is caught . . . and the tail continues its twists and turns for another 25 pages (and in those 25 pages? visit to a circus, underwater brothel on a submarine . . .).
In the Pinocchio story, there was a certain punishment rendered upon him when he lied (his nose grew). Well, in this case, when Pinocchia lies, her breasts grow (and she doesn't lie, apparently, until after page 35; though, at one point she purposely lies to save herself in the water, and ends up with massive breasts).
Overall, a very good little graphic novel, with great artwork and a good pace. The book includes a small amount of bondage, a small amount of whipping, and a certain amount of public nudity . . .The kind of book that leads one to want to read more by these authors, but unfortunately, I haven't found anything else by them.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
L'ho trovato per caso in Archivio e l'ho letto. Ogni tanto voglio farmi del male da solo.
Il povero Geppetto, spinto da uno specchio un po' maligno, costruisce una donna di legno - à la bambola gonfiabile - per soddisfare i suoi bisogni sessuali. Solo che lei diventa umana e qualcuno la sente urlare «Papa, papà!», così arrivano i gendarmi e arrestano Geppetto per aver avuto rapporti sessuali con la "figlia".
Lei rimane sola e arrivano il signor Volpe e il signor Gato che la vendono in giro. E lei continua ad aprire le gambe per tutti. Tipico sogno maschile di una donna poco sveglia ma sempre disposta ad avere rapporti sessuali. E tutti si approfittano di Pinocchia.
Si è innamorata di un Lorenzo. Finisce nella pancia della balena - che è un bordello di lusso per miliardari americani - e scopre che il seno, già prosperoso, cresce quando dice bugie. E solo quando qualcuno la picchia ridiventa normale.
A book in the tradition of Manara... A wooden doll becomes an innocent young woman, just to be used by evil men, while trying to find her father and the love of her live. A modern and sexy adaptation of Collodi's masterpiece.