If you read the last two balloons carefully, you can see a massive translation discrepancy. In the penultimate panel, they mention Aphrodite. In the last panel, Druuna reacts to the name, but the name she repeats is Aphrodisia, not Aphrodite. (Wikipedia tells me that Aphrodisia is the name of an ancient Greek festival in celebration of Aphrodite.) This is critical because the name of the story is Aphrodisia, which means that the name of the entire story rests on an uncertain translation, which is fascinating.

In one of the major scenes of the story, Druuna wakes up in the ocean surf, which is a clear reference to Aphrodite, who was born in the sea foam. Druuna’s sexual adventures (which are really the whole point of the series) would tend to lend credence to the idea of her being an Aphrodite figure.

Ordinarily, reading the text in a story like this is akin to eating pudding with a fork, but sometimes it actually provides real insight.

(Heavy Metal issue #170, September 1997 – Page 114 Aphrodisia by Serpieri)