Barbarella Volume 2 is a 10 issue comic book series published by Dynamite Entertainment from July 2021 to June 2022.
Barbarella is a young woman who travels from planet to planet and has numerous adventures, often involving sex. The aliens she meets often seduce her, and she also experiments with a "machine excessive" or "orgasmatron".
Jean-Claude Forest created the character of Barbarella for serialization in the French V Magazine in spring 1962, and in 1964 Éric Losfeld published these strips as a stand-alone book titled Barbarella. The book caused a scandal and became known as the first "adult" (erotic) comic book, though American pornographic comic books known as "Tijuana bibles" had long predated it. For her creator, the character embodied the modern, emancipated woman in the era of sexual liberation, and as a result, this literary work has come to be associated with the mid-20th century sexual revolution. The comic would stop publishing in 1978.
Barbarella was relaunched as an ongoing series by the American publisher Dynamite Entertainment in December 2017.The creative team was as writer Mike Carey and Kenan Yarar as artists. The comic would be supervisor by Jean-Marc Lofficier who worked with the originally creator.
Another relaunch was announced in May 2021 by writer Sarah Hoyt and artist Madibek Musabekov. It ran for 10 issues from July 2021 to June 2022.
After the announcement of a remake movie, Dynamite announced in November 2022 it would relaunch the comic again with Sarah Hoyt returning as writer and the artist will be Riccardo Bogani. The comic will be called Barbarella: The Center Cannot Hold.
