Borgia

From 2005 to 2009, Heavy Metal published a three-issue comic series titled Borgia, a lurid, adult-oriented historical drama that plunges into the corruption, ambition, and scandal of Renaissance Italy's most infamous papal family. The series is most associated with the legendary French artist Milo Manara, whose lush, sensual, and meticulously detailed artwork brings the Borgias' world of intrigue and depravity to vivid life. Though brief in its run, Borgia stands as a stylish, unflinching graphic novel that captures the era's ruthless politics and personal excesses, offering a visually opulent entry into the publisher's catalog of boundary-pushing comics.