Jacula N. 273: Beniamino Il Meccanico (Benjamin The Mechanic)
Jacula and Carlo Verdier are vampires who cannot fly. Therefore they have to use ropes and grappling hooks to get into the rooms of sleeping girls.
It's well worth the trouble, though.
But sometimes they have to escape in a hurry, and it's a big pain in the ass, especially if your hands slip...
...or if the girl's dad is shooting at you.
That's why Jacula and Carlo make Benjamin The Mechanic their slave, and command him to build a flying device. That should surely make both entering and escaping much easier.
Good old Benjamin promptly builds a heli-pack. Quite impressive, considering that this story takes place in the Victorian times. Jacula's first test flight doesn't go too well...
...but soon the vampires figure out how to control the packs and get back into business.
The girl they bit earlier is already waiting for them, and her parents are no longer a problem, because she has tested her new fangs on them. They watch impassively as their daughter's virginity and blood are taken before them. The End.
This week I completed reading the final hundred stories of Jacula (issues 227-327), and yet I don't think I'll write any more reviews about them. The covers were gorgeous and the stories had plenty of good details, but the horror elements were surprisingly weak: in fact, they were often non-existing, replaced by repetitive sexcapades (a typical plotline: Jacula seduces an underage girl, Carlo rapes her, somehow she dies, the end). For the lovers of cruel but softcore vampire sex, Jacula's final adventures are a good choice: the mileage of horror lovers may vary.
That said, I'm definitely going to check out the earlier stories of Jacula. I really like the character, though I could live without that Carlo Verdier dude.
6 comments:
Where did you get all these stories? Is there a compilation, or did you hit the auction sites?
I've been hitting the auction sites for the past six years and made some good contacts. As far as I know, there are no compilations.
I see you're a regular at that famous auction site (the italian one)...
Let's hope they don't charge you too much for fumetti books... :)
Dario,
these days I rarely pay more than 2 euros for any fumetto, unless I find something I absolutely must have. But yeah, eBay can get pretty expensive: I don't even want to think how much I paid for my complete set of Storie Viola.
Man... Storie Viola... they used to throw them in the garbage bin...
I know a few of those sellers, if you'd know how much they pay for them adult fumetti... you'd burst laughing! They used to reject them 'til few years ago.
Things changed in the late 1990's, due also to the internet rage, I guess.
Try to stick to 2 € price as hard as you can, still a bargain...
Finally, if you achieve to put togheter full, complete series, rest assured that their value can only rise in the future!
Dario,
I have no illusions; some sellers probably pay almost nothing for their fumetti. But I'm not doing this for money, I'm doing it out of love. I have no intention of ever selling my collection, so in the end it doesn't really matter, how much it's worth in euros.
And while people are saying things like "the street price of fumetti erotici is 50 cents in Italy", one of my friends visited Milano a few years ago, and couldn't find anything at so low prices. Maybe I should recruit Italians via Groovy Age to find that cheap stuff for me, or something ;)
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