Enjoy Djinn, Vol. 1 Penned By Jean Dufaux In PDF

now , let's embark on a journey together, . . Bronze doors swing open, a woman's voice beckons you in song,
Everything is but a mirage, Jean Dufaux author's noteDjinn is all nudity, sex and female power, If this is your thing you will love it if it's not then you're going to hate it and likely not get through much more than a few pages.
I want to mention this is a translation from a French publication, This is volume was in two parts, Part One was originally titled La Favorite, part two LesClochettes, The Favourite and TheBells, respectively, These are descriptive titles, I wish they'd been used in the translation, Djinn tells what the authors call a threeway love story, It's not a simple triangle, it has higher stakes than that, The whole story is told in echoes, Kim Nelson is our presentday protagonist, She has some of her grandmothers, Jade's power, and is living the echoes of her grandfather's first wife's, Lady Nelson, The two settings areand contemporary Turkey, With theplot points revolving around WWI and Turkey's alliance with Germany, Dufaux's author's note provides the relevant historical framing, It is worth noting that is a harem the women, the slaves are the ones with power, They can get what they want by manipulating their master, by action, by words, But the stakes are high leading to the rather distressing death if a child ordered by Jade, she is ruthless, and believe it or not it is an almost logical action on the moment proving just how good the writing is.
The writing is good its hard to make this sort of plot work well, some points lead to predictability but this works, Lady Nelson and Kim are different enough to lose that sense of repetition, And while Jade and Lady Nelson are pan/bi respectively Kim is closer to het, She has a lover but it feels like he's not a focus, well not at this point, I have volumesampfrom the library, I will read those, This isn't my usual thing, But I'm glad I read it

It seems to me that you have only ever been handled by men, That's just not right. Only a woman can truly satisfy another woman, Jade

A representative gif:
TBH the only reason I'm giving thisis the artwork,

I like trying out translated works from other countries, so I picked this one up because it looked like an interesting setting Turkey at the end of the Ottoman Empire that I don't read a lot about.
Also djinn are a fascinating part of mythology so I wanted to see where this would take it, I really wanted to like it,

Now this purports to be erotica, but honestly it's not at all erotic and feels more and more forced the further we get into the volume.
While it seems to be claiming that it's reclaiming sex as a tool for women, Jade is nothing but a manipulative pimp in her timeline, and her granddaughter Kim is coerced forced to pleasurerandom dudes for the just the mere possibility of finding out more info about her grandmother in the other timeline.
Where's the power in any of that, And certainly not what I would term erotic, it's just gratuitous sex for the sake of sex,

In addition to that all of that, it didn't escape my notice that most of the time there's anything violent towards Kim and somewhat other women, it's notably the hairier men with darker skin tones rather than the men with European features who are portrayed if not gentlemanly, as more restrained or refined.


Anyway, though I have the next two volumes and it undoubtedly wouldn't take long to read, I don't think what I've read so far makes me curious enough to finish, nor do I think the conclusion would make hate reading it worth it.
And I can see that one of the later volumes involves them being in Africa, so given what I read here, I don't even want to know what colonialism bullshit they'll have in that volume.
I will be unhauling these, Interesting premise
Jade is stunning
Malek is godamn precious gift
the art style was great Kim Nelson has heard the legend of Jade, a powerful djinn, a spirit with the ability to seduce any human heartbut Kim isnt interested in legends.
Shes just looking for her grandmother,  

Fifty years ago, Jade served the Black Sultan as part of the Imperial Harem, but Jade was no ordinary harem girlshe was the sultans favorite.
Rumored to be a djinn from the Ottoman Empire, she had the power to manipulate mens hearts, subtly alter their convictions, and even affect the course of an entire war.
The legends also say that Jade, and Jade alone, knew where the Black Sultan hid his treasure, . . a treasure that no one has ever managed to unearth,

Now, fifty years later, Kim Nelson is reliving the life of her ancestor Jade in modern Istanbul, hoping to find answers that have been lost to history.
It will be a long journey, a journey that will change her life forever, I'm game to try all kinds of graphic novels from Europe, and picked this one up simply because it looked like it was set at the tail end of the Ottoman Empire and the art looked solid.
It combines the first two of the original Frenchlanguage books in the series La Favorite and LesClochettes, and is really just the first part of a longer story, so don't try this without realizing this book doesn't wrap anything up.


The story toggles back and forth between the present day and, as Englishwoman Kim Nelson is in Istanbul, seeking out the mysterious past of her grandmother "Jade.
" Her grandmother was a favored member of the fictional Sultan's harem who seduced the wife of a British diplomat in order to learn of British strategy.
Kim has a tenuous thread to follow in the hunt for her grandmother's history, one which quickly takes her to some dark corners, All of this is kind of standard thriller fare, but there's an erotic overlay to it all that seemed fairly illconsidered to me,  

The story seems to want to present sex as a powerful tool wielded by women, but the Jade character's actions over the course of the book are those of a pimp and not made any more palatable just because she's female.
She sexually manipulates the diplomat's wife and requires her to satisfy a thirtymember array of sexual partners in order to please her, Similarly, in the contemporary timeline, Kim has to service thirty guerilla fighters in order to simply meet someone she thinks might have information about her grandmother.
Along the way, there is a lot of nudity and sex, which seems like more of the point of the whole thing,  

It's also worth noting that Kim rapidly picks up a hunky cleanshaven local lover with very European features, but whenever she is sexually menaced or assaulted, the men are darker, hairier, largernosed stereotypes.
The whole thing reeks of a very stale and more than a little offensive Orientalist mindset, and while the art is quite good, it can only reflect the script.
Recommended for fans of explicit graphic novels, but I don't think I'll bother picking up the rest of the story, I mean it had boobs. Plot seems terrible. Remember the really unfortunate racism and colonialism you found in the early volumes of TinTin Okay, take that, now add a lot of softcore pornography and nonsensical dialogue that pretends to be about something important.
That's what this is. The art and writing is just compelling enough that I want to know how the story ends, But the eroticism seems more and more forced as the story goes on, Seems like the author should have decided whether to write erotica OR mystery, not an erotic mystery/thriller Pretty good

I have just started reading graphic novels and I decided to try this one out.
I wasn't quite sure as ov what to expect, but I ended up enjoying it, I hope I will be able to find numbertranslated into english, Ill never forget the first time during a comics exhibition I saw an absolutely captivating illustration by Spanish artist Ana Miralles of a tattooed woman I would find out was a character named Jade.
From the French comic series Djinn with writer Jean Dufaux, beginning at the turn of the millennium Djinn would run through three arcs foryears, eventually also

translated to English by Noel Hynd.
Set in two timelines winding like great rivers towards the ocean, travelling across Turkey, Africa and India the series is thrilling, mysterious, sensuous and violent.
As Englishwoman Kim Nelson seeks to uncover the past of her grandmother Jade an amoral enigmatic figure, Sultans favorite in the last years of the Ottoman Empire spoken of as a djinn who also seems the key to an immense treasure.
Fashioning itself into the vast and rich lore surrounding the djinn including queer sexuality and with awareness toward orientalism, colonisation and sexual politics Dufaux and Miralles have created a breathtaking and truly iconic comic to be savoured.
The attentive, lush art of Miralles is such that can draw one in and is best experienced in print, A palpable texture to panels and even simple objects included in scenes similar to still life paintings found in museums, Though one can pour over the details digitally, Alas the English language publisher Insight Comics only released roughly a third of the series into the African Cycle ending with The Black Pearl in print the rest available digital only by Europe Comics and in three newer cycle collections with extras.
Part of why, even though the original is something I can read, because I like consulting translated editions when available it has taken me so long to get to the end of the English edition to review it.
But if you can, experience Djinn for yourself,


content notes: colonisation, death, child death, murder, violence, sexual content, sexual violence, infidelity and suicide Read it but I didnt finish it.
Its pretty terrible. Story is kind of meh but the art style is cool, Everypages there is a naked woman or someone is having sex and that's interesting I guess, Jean Dufaux is a Belgian comic book writer, Beginning his professional career as a journalist for Ciné presse, Dufaux started writing comic books in thes, Perhaps his most well known, and certainly his most long running, series is Jessica Blandy, Jean Dufaux is a Belgian comic book writer, Beginning his professional career as a journalist for "Ciné presse", Dufaux started writing comic books in thes, Perhaps his most well known, and certainly his most long running, series is Jessica Blandy, sitelink.