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There's a Indiegogo live for the birthday card if you missed the Kickstarter and want one.Speaking of Volume 1,
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The remastered Volume 1, digitally for $9.99.
The GREAT a Moment of Cerebus 2019 Re-Read
Continuing with my thoughts on Cerebus "Year Two" (issues 7-12) (I know, I know, TECHNICALLY, "Year Two" includes issue 13...)
One of the things I notice, is Cerebus' sword. In issue 7, he looses it. To wit:
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| No sword. |
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| Note: it's NOT toned when the Conniptin is holding it. But it is when Cerebus grabs it. |
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| You don't see it, but it is mentioned as being under the gold in the boat. |
And then there's the Roach. When he first shows up in issue 11, he looks like this:
And then in issue 12, he looks like this:
I'm assuming that issue 12 is the one where Dave used the Duo-Tone board, and that's why it looks like crap. (The first flaw I've found in the otherwise beautiful restored 17th printing.)
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| Yep, this page again... |
And in issue 9, he looses his army:
And issue 10 finds him back to living "his hand-to-mouth existence". And then 11 and 12 introduce the wall of gold.
All of which leads to a pretty good bit of foreshadowing at the end of 12 where Cerebus thinks about something that doesn't happen for 202 issues:
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| Issue 12 |
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| Issue 214 |
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| Wait for it... |
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| From Rick's Story |
And then foreshadows in the second panel:
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| From Guys |
Okay, join me next time for Cerebus going monthly.
Next Time: Hobbs, and the NEW 2019 Cerebus in Hell? checklist?
4 comments:
"Might for might! Right for right!! FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!!"
Wasn't that something you used to chant at me 10 years ago, Matt?
It scared me, back then, and still kinda weirds me out. But, hey, "each to his own fetish", I say.
On p. 160, we get the second indication that there's something different about the nature of Cerebus's soul, or whether he has one, when the spider in the pit "probes, seeking a soul... for its very world hinges on the figure it holds," and then drops Cerebus and falls away, "spiraling into oblivion." Dave has said that Cerebus is a magnifier for magic (iirc) but here and with the demon sphere/succubus, his very being seems to weaken certain demonic forces.
Then there's the second time an aardvark is suggested as an ancient deity/demigod/idol followed by a tribe/cult when Mit selects his disguise.
Yep; makes one wonder just how much of the mythos we se hinted at in C&S, then more fully revealed in "Mothers and Daughters," Dave already had worked out at this early stage. This was pre-acid freakout, no?
Mm. Tony, I think it was around the same time, although, of course, he wasn't producing the book while in the hospital. But, 18 months from December, 1977, makes it July of '79. I think that he had his bad reaction to the acid earlier that year, but I could be wrong.
Personally, I think he knew what he was doing and where he wanted to go with it from nearly day one. I learned a long time ago to take nearly everything that Dave says publicly with a huge grain of salt. The guy's a PR master.
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