tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post6027579298916800525..comments2024-03-28T21:17:45.398-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: The Great 2019 AMOC Re-Read Part, the fourthA Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-72024420762086138372019-02-05T20:36:55.392-06:002019-02-05T20:36:55.392-06:00Mm. Tony, I think it was around the same time, alt...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.<br /><br />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.Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-59869522350769428532019-02-02T10:26:59.706-06:002019-02-02T10:26:59.706-06:00Yep; makes one wonder just how much of the mythos ...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?Tony Dunlopnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-33802178295490348952019-02-02T03:11:52.758-06:002019-02-02T03:11:52.758-06:00On p. 160, we get the second indication that there...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.<br /><br />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.Michael Grabowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-6802383074795535292019-02-02T01:43:15.279-06:002019-02-02T01:43:15.279-06:00"Might for might! Right for right!! FIGHT, FI..."Might for might! Right for right!! FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!!"<br /><br />Wasn't that something you used to chant at me 10 years ago, Matt?<br /><br />It scared me, back then, and still kinda weirds me out. But, hey, "each to his own fetish", I say.Jeffnoreply@blogger.com