The Complete Iron Devil Hardcover – October 16, 2007

Way beyond. The wonderful drawing is all the same - buxom beauties with full lips, wild hair, and scanty wardrobe. The story displays some of the humor that pervade Ghita and Lann, but not nearly as much of it. Adult frolicking appears in plenty. In fact, Thorne decided to write a hardcore story, and succeeded. Physical encounters cover the entire range, from wild merriment, through bizarre imaginings, to perverse violence in a few places. In addition to the profuse couplings (and triplings, and more), another sign shows that Thorne succeeded in writing a hardcore story - the plot barely exists. The narrative just barely connects the many insertions of knob A into slot B.Not surprisingly, the Iron Devil stories caused an uproar among people who beleived that all comics are for kids. That uproar took the form of a police raid, weapons ready, on the quiet comic shop carrying Thorne's adult comics. Despite most charges being dropped and others reduced to misdemeanors, the store ended up closing its doors. Of course, this inspired Thorne to vicious parody of the event, which appears at the end of this book.The artwork is classic Thorne, who long since broke free of the Comics Code and never stopped running. The drawing is as good as any he's done, and physcality is more intense than in his previous stories, but I found the scripting and humor weaker. If you like Thorne's earlier bawdy comics, you might like this - or might not.-- wiredweird, who almost didn't round up to four stars

Profane, imaginative, and art by a genius.

Warning: this is an adults ony, very (very!) explicit graphic novel. I will repeat just so no one buys this without knowing: this contains hardcore sex scenes that even adults might find a little too explicit. That said, this is what Frank Thorne is all about: sexy, warrior type women fighting against some sort of demon monsters. Whether it's Red Sonja or Ghita, they are all voluptuous pin-up women that look good! In this case Frank has gone x-rated and produced what is his no-holds barred masterpiece. His artwork has never looked better and the story is inspired. The only negative is that the story takes an odd and out-of-place twist in the last chapter because Thorne was at that point under fire from censorship books to have this book banned! So he addresses that full-on taking the story into an unexpected and not entirely successful finish. But otherwise, the first 3/4 of the book is top-notch Thorne and for that, and for fighting the censors, this gets five stars.