| Click! | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Edizioni Nuova Frontiera NBM Publishing |
| Publication date | 1983–2002 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Milo Manara |
| Artist(s) | Milo Manara |
Click! is a series of erotic Italian comic books written and illustrated by comic book creator Milo Manara. It was first published in 1983 as Il gioco in the Italian Playmen and as Déclic in L'Écho des savanes in France.[1] Three sequels have followed, in 1991, 1994 and 2001. It is sometimes referred to as Click: A Woman Under the Influence.
Publication history
editThe story was serialised in Totem Comic in Italy. In 1992, the first two volumes were translated into English and published in collected editions by NBM Publishing.
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Synopsis
editBook 1
editThe attractive but passionless Claudia Cristiani is married to the wealthy, elderly Aleardo. She is the frequent subject of advances from her husband's repulsive friend Doctor Fez. The latter tires of Claudia rebuffing him, and steals a revolutionary new micro-transistor from Swiss inventor Doctor Kranz, which is intended to be implanted in the brain of males to counter impotence. Fez kidnaps Claudia, and allows her to be found after a couple of days. On recovering Claudia heads into town to do some shopping with her friend Jeanne, unaware Fez is watching. Having implanted the transistor in Claudia's brain he activates the remote, causing her to masturbate in a department store dressing room to Jeanne's shock. Claudia is ashamed and unaware of why she started acting in such a depraved fashion. Later at a party Fez tells her what he's done, using the implant to embarrass her in front of a priest and a servant in order to make his point. He steps up his campaign, leading to Claudia having sex with a stranger in front of her husband at a cinema. Aleardo takes her to see Kranz, who tells them of Fez's theft of the device. While Aleardo and his detective friend Kurt search for the remote Claudia sets off in secret to an island resort. However, she still experiences outbursts of wanton behaviour, so instead Aleardo and Kranz plot a trap at the Alpen Hotel in the Alps. Claudia puts on an explicit show at a count's daughter's 18th birthday party - ending up with a diamond inside her anus in the process - when Fez loses the remote and runs naked around the ski resort until two of the count's men have sex with her in a stable. The count and his daughter attempt to retrieve the diamond until Aleardo and then Fez arrive. They run into a third friend who shows them a newspaper article revealing that Kranz's invention has been exposed as a fraud, leading to an infuriated Aleardo realising his wife's desires were her own. The resulting scuffle over the diamond collapses a chalet. Some time later Aleardo is a dishevelled mess, divorced from Claudia. She sits alone, playing with herself and hoping whoever has the box turns it up.
Book 2
editThanks to the connections of her uncle, a senator, Cristina has become a television host on an environmental magazine show, and receives a call from a man called Mr. Faust who claims he has found the remote. He begins tormenting her, forcing her to strip in the men's toilet at the studio. After a scuffle, he uses the device to make Cristina beg for anal stimulation before relenting and making her bicycle home bottomless. Faust is working for Aleardo, while word of Cristina's behaviour reaches her uncle, who whips her at a gathering. However, with Faust nearby with the remote Cristina finds the punishment arousing. Faust only narrowly escapes the home. Cristina is lately briefly lost when reporting from onboard environmental activist vessel Rainbow Frigate. When she is recovered Faust's lover, a worker at the studio called Honey, recovers a videocassette showing Christina's debauched behaviour on the life raft. Faust then uses the remote to make Cristina masturbate live on television. She flees to the studio roof and meets Faust, who gives her the remote. She throws it away and begs him to anally penetrate her with his hand.
Adaptations
editIl gioco was the basis for the 1985 French film, Le déclic.
- https://geeksofdoom.com/2012/06/19/comic-review-manara-erotica-volume-1
- https://comicsalliance.com/the-honesty-of-exploitation-sex-in-the-art-of-milo-manara-sex/
- http://theslingsandarrows.com/click-2/
- https://theslingsandarrows.com/click-3/
- https://yellingaboutcomics.com/click-review-not-everything-old-classic/
References
edit- ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. "Milo Manara".
External links
edit- Il gioco/Click (in Italian and English)
- Le déclic at IMDb