COMPLETE CREPAX HC VOL 10 SURREAL STORIES (MR) (02 Sep Release)

These erotic comics stories¸ spanning 1968–1991¸ chronicle the surreal adventures of Bianca. Introduced in the aptly named “An Expansive Story¸” the first two-thirds of this volume¸ Bianca appears to be trapped in (or haunted by?) a gothic boarding school¸ whose administrators and pupils have untoward and sinister designs. Bianca will bounce back and forth between this school and dreamscape after dreamscape—she becomes a plant¸ talks to fish while diving under the sea¸ is served up on a silver platter¸ thrown out with the garbage¸ witnesses a double homicide¸ and much more—unfazed as she contorts into ever-more-absurd scenarios. Then¸ Bianca faces the trials and tribulations of Gulliver before she hands the baton to Valentina¸ Crepax’s most famous heroine. Who¸ feeling introspective¸ “speaks” to both Bianca and Crepax before modeling in a spectacular¸ full-color “fashion dream.”