The Book of Malachi, Chapter 1

Hi, Everybody!

Today being the 25th anniversary of 9/11/2001 (11/9/2001 if you're a day/month/year kinda guy), Dave had Rolly send me:

photos of the Kitchener Fallen Firefighters 911 Memorial. Dave will be going there tomorrow morning for 9/11 to reflect on what happened that day. If you could post these tomorrow or Saturday that would be great.

If you happen to be in the area today, LEAVE DAVE THE HELL ALONE! He's going there for quiet reflection, not to sign your old comics and draw an Elrod bunny. Geez, show some decorum for once in your life...

Anyway, like it says on the Logo:

That little bit on the bottom there...

It's Friday, so that means:

Dave's Weekly Update:

Problems viewing this video? Watch directly on YouTube...

Kickstarters:
Ben Dunn has a video game

Ben Dunn has a Cerebus crossover comic

Dave has Cerebus in Hell? and CAN14 (coming soon)

Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters' latest Comicverse book, as Steve himself says:

For Cerebus readers, "Cerberus," our 3-headed, 31st century version of Cerebus, returns and figures prominently in one of our stories; we also have the 2 "Sparkybus" micro-prints that Matt Dow masterminded and Dave Sim signed, plus 3 different variants of "Tails of Sparkybus" that Dave drew stuff for and signed on a tipped-in plate. These are very limited editions and quantities of some are running low, so this could be the last chance to get them.

So get 'em while they're HOT!

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Dave's CONTINUING the Please PAY For Dave Sim format, if YOU want more '82 Tour Book discussion, go HERE, and pay for "Dave Sim 82 Tour Book". But if YOU'd rather hear more stereotypical Please Hold (*shudder*) "content", go HERE and pay for "Please Hold For Dave Sim". I should be working on the latest edition of Please Hold and then MORE 82 Tour stuff, but  instead I'm doing this...

Okay, back to "bizness as usual" I took a vacation, so extended round-up!

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A Moment of Cerebus runs Saturday through Friday. 

The past Week in AMOC:

• Saturday: You're gonna be "jelly" since jam don't shake like that...
• Sunday: Church & State...
• Monday: The Monday Report, and the transcript to Please Hold For Dave Sim 5/2024.
• Tuesday: Things are continuing getting weirder with Jen and The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe posts...
• Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. Follow along on Instagram. And https://www.ebay.com/itm/236664955396 (Somebody was looking for the Vardalorian...) and speaking of CiH?: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/can13-nhs-cih/dave-sims-can14-ninja-high-school-cerebus-cerebus-in-hell
• Thursday: Margaret has also posted ALL of Albatross One. (If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here.) And all of The Last Notebook. Now she's gonna burn through all of Notebook #21. So sit back and get ready for pages and pages and pages of walls of handwritten text... This week, HEY YOU CAN'T POST THAT! THIS IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY BLO...okay, I didn't buy that either. A vagina. She posted a vagina. Oh, it's supposed to be something else, but I knows a vagina when I sees one...
• Friday: Dave's weekly update as posted by Brian (a-thank you!) since I  was on vacation.
• Saturday: I knew I wasn't gonna wanna leave the boat...
• Sunday: Crazy sale post saves the day because I was NOT gonna get around to posting...
• Monday: Dave sends so much stuff, and I don't wanna LIVE in the editing suite, so sometimes I just post a week and a half's worth of stuff all at once. This gig can be a hassle some days...
• Tuesday: Things are continuing getting weirder with Jen and The Strange Death of Alex Raymond GoFundMe posts...
• Wednesday: MORE Weekly Cerebus in Hell? Strips. Follow along on Instagram. And https://www.ebay.com/itm/236664955396 (Somebody was looking for the Vardalorian...) and speaking of CiH?: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/can13-nhs-cih/dave-sims-can14-ninja-high-school-cerebus-cerebus-in-hell
• Thursday: Margaret has also posted ALL of Albatross One. (If you click that link, you can see all the pages of the notebook, OR, you can get a PHYSICAL copy here.) And all of The Last Notebook. Now she's gonna burn through all of Notebook #21. So sit back and get ready for pages and pages and pages of walls of handwritten text... This week, walls and walls of text Return!
• Friday: that's this post. You're reading the Friday post right now. This is STILL like that bit in Spaceballs. (I link to LAST WEEK'S Update in these things. Have been for longer than I care to think about...)

Okay, so that was the last two weeks on AMOC.

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I've decided that the FULL Rigamarole is only running on Fridays now...

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I'm planning on going to the Milwaukee stop. (I'm sure the jerks I live with will do their damnedest to stop me. Jerks.) Greg&Fake'll probably have the new Flaming Carrot crossover issue(s) with them, so bring money...

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I have lots and lots of Cerebus crap in the ol' AMOC Prize Box(es). Someday soon, I'll have to have a virtual yard sale... (More details in September.)

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The Help Out Bill Messner-Loebs Go Fund Me, or buy Rodney Schroeter's book with proceeds going to Bill. OR(!) you could buy Bill's book with the Dave backcover. I have discovered links:
Wanderland (Paperback)
Wanderland (Hardcover for the guys who get "hard" for hardcovers...)
Wanderland (Paperback but slightly more expensive...I dunno why...)
The site offers UK shipping, so PRESUMEABLY it's printed and shipped there(?).
And Journey Complete:
Hardcover
Paperback
And if you wanna see how the book looks in Real Time...
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Larry Shell could use a hand to keep his house.
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Dave also wanted me to post this:

Lots of little words, click for bigger.

http://www.dougcomicworld.com/

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The AMOC TeePublic Shoppe

Up to 35% off September 15th-20th and the 30th-October 4th.*

*Sale dates are not final and therefore subject to change.

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You can get all 16 volumes of Cerebus, many of them Remastered (but probably NOT Guys) for $99 CANADIAN at CerebusDownloads.com (More if you want the Remastered Cerebus Guide to Self-Publishing...) On sale all the damn time, like for $49 on September 28th, October 27th, November 14th, and December 19th. And for $25 on October 12th, November 30th, and December 26th (Happy Boxing Day!) all from 10AM to 2PM Eastern time. I'm telling you now, because I always forget to give the $49 sale a boost. (And honestly, I think it being a big secret is kinda pointless if you're trying to make some monies...)
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My friends at the Waverly Press, are moving their office, and to lighten the loads, they're temporarily cutting prices on their remaining Cerebus inventory on their eBay store starting this weekend. They're gonna be gradually listing more things in the coming days and any orders placed next week will receive new ‘82 Tour promo cards. They may go ahead and offer the remaining prototypes of the big book and comic versions next week. MAYBE. So if you're interested, maybe stalk their eBay page like a crazy person...

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Heritage has: 

• Nothing. There's a Beavers strip in the pipeline, but that's about it...

And ComicLink (remember ComicLink? Seiler brought us ComicLink. R.I.P Jeff.) has:

And a list of ALL the issues they got.

Thanks to Steve for sending the link. 

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Oliver' Simonsen's Cerebus movie: The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical, and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark it's currently available on "Plex", "Xumo", "Vimeo On Demand", "Tubi". If you're in Brazil..., "Mometu", "Nuclear Home Video". I think I got a message that one of these isn't valid anymore, but I lost it...

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Next Time: If I get back to work, 

Notebook 21: The Reader, the story, and Viktor

MARGARET LISS:

A few years ago I scanned all of Dave Sim's notebooks. He had filled 36 notebooks during the years he created the monthly Cerebus series, covering issues #20 to 300, plus the other side items -- like the Epic stories, posters and prints, convention speeches etc. A total of 3,281 notebook pages detailing his creative process. I never really got the time to study the notebooks when I had them. Just did a quick look, scanned them in and sent them back to Dave as soon as possible. So this regular column is a chance for me to look through those scans and highlight some of the more interesting pages.

We’re continuing our look at Dave Sim’s 21st notebook used during the creation of Cerebus #164 to 187. We’ll be looking at this notebook, which there were 260 out of 300 pages scanned, until we’ve seen every single page of it. Well, the pages scanned. If you want to see all of the notebook #21 posts to date, just use the Notebook 21 tag. 

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After a couple of weeks of sketches from Dave’s notebook we are back to the “walls of text”. This is the notebook for Reads, so “walls of text” tracks. In the page below, the reader, the story, and Viktor Davis were all “getting closer”. 

Notebook #21, page #237

The above text shows up in Cerebus #183 page 14 (page 180 in Reads). Well, it mostly shows up on that page. I didn’t check it word for word, but most of it shows up there. Though the ‘what happens next’ is a phrase I don’t see on the finished pages. The next page of the notebook has the reader saying “Viktor?” Which does show up on page 181 of Reads. About two thirds of the way down the page, Dave crossed out ‘Yes and no’ and replaced it with ‘No and yes’. However, on page 181 of Reads it is back to ‘Yes and no.’

Notebook #21, page #238

Reading page 181 of Reads and the above notebook page, Dave wrote a bunch of stuff on this notebook page that he left out of the finished book. Though most of it did make it into Reads.

The next page of the notebook continues this preliminary writing for Cerebus #183. About halfway down the page noticed the ‘You’re all in here” is crossed out and replaced with:

‘Yes No the seats are empty. Yes you’re all in there now.’

There was a pause.

‘We’re all in here now.’

That was left out and the ‘You’re all in there, now’ was the final text.

Notebook #21, page #239

And yes, this text for Cerebus #183 continues on the next page of the notebook.

Notebook #21, page #240

The bit about the cover of Cerebus #181 made the final page – Reads page 182 if you’re curious – but around it was darkness as the cover faded into the distance, not the cover of Cerebus #182. Down the bottom of the notebook page a familiar accent is seen saying:

‘What. . ah say. . .what was that. Who’s there? Somebody ah say somebody put on the night light’. This joke has gone too far. . .(cursed the boundary that is). Ahm a story like’

Well, it looks like it continues onto page 241. And yes, Elrod does “appear” in the text of Cerebus #183.

CEREBUS IN HELL? WEEKLY STRIP #58

TRADING FOR BEATRICE 2 OF 16 

next: Margaret

Choose-Your-Own-"Jen"venture, Chapter the third (for true-lys), or glamorpuss part #31

Hi, Everybody!

Choose Your Own "Jen"venture: Chapter the first, Chapter the second, and now, with ONE damn vote...

Chapter the third:

"There HAS to be some way out of here," you say to yourself out loud.

As you search Jen's room (you're not ready to admit that it's YOUR room now...), you think  you might be able to fit in the ventilation ducts, but they're thirty feet above the floor, and the rickety furniture laying about the place doesn't look like it could hold your weight even before you you tried stacking it...

Thinking about the greatest escapes in cinematic history, you remember Tim Robbins crawling through five football fields of foulness the like of which what Morgan Freeman couldn't even imagine to freedom. Looking at the wooden box toilet, you think that maybe you could do the same. 

As you lift the plank lid, a smell like if eighty thousands farts married to the excrement of the damned had a child raised in the dankest pit of the oldest garbage heap in the universe hits your nostrils. You shine your flashlight down the potty, and the pipe looks dirty, small, and noxious.

"Maybe I can dig a tunnel out like Charles Bronson in The Great Escape..." you think as you start looking for a spoon.

Searching the cell (still not admitting that this is your home now,) you find a small drawer in the side of the small table next to the lone chair. It seems to be locked, as you can't get it open.

On the small shelf  above the table is a well-read copy of The Joker's Jokebook from 1989, the third collection of Walt Kelly's Pogo, and a small notebook filled with densely packed scribbling. It must be something Jen wrote during her stay here.

Heading back to the sleeping area (you tell yourself you're not gonna be sleeping there,) you check the small bedside cabinet with a drawer and a door. The drawer has a small scroll, and a little book written in Chinese. When you open the door, you see a shelf with some worn rags that may have been a towel and washcloths at some point (probably before Nixon opened up China...), on a shelf. Below that is another shelf that is empty.

No damn spoon. "I guess Bronson isn't an option anymore" you say to yourself.

As you stop to look around one more time, you hear a distant voice softly singing. The words are just quiet enough that you can't tell if it's English or not.

If you want to see if shouting for help does anything, comment "Panic".

If you'd rather re-search everything and see if Jen left a clue on how she escaped, comment "Reassesment".

Whichever gets the most votes by 4pm(CST) next Tuesday determines the next chapter...

Uh...okay then. You heard the mysterious voice. You (the audience) gets to decide where this goes from here... 

Anyway, Big Board: 

• 136 pages released so far as mocked up and/or drawn by Dave Sim through 7 March 2022
• $22,115.00 raised to date from 428 donations
• $175 away from unlocking page 137.
• If you have not donated, a $5+ donation gets you access to all 135 pages and all future unlocked pages. Donate once or set up monthly donations here https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023
• If you have donated, why not donate again! All money goes to Dave Sim to continue his work on The Strange Death of Alex Raymond.

SDOAR GoFundMe -->> https://www.gofundme.com/f/sdoar-2023

"Yeah yeah yeah, who won this thing?"

An UNREADABLE copy of glamourpuss #10!

Dunno. I gotta check with Jen....

 This, then:

Kickstarters:
Ben Dunn has a video game

Ben Dunn has a Cerebus crossover comic

Dave has Cerebus in Hell? and CAN14 (coming soon)

And the new one:

Friend to the Blog, Steve Peters' latest Comicverse book, as Steve himself says:

For Cerebus readers, "Cerberus," our 3-headed, 31st century version of Cerebus, returns and figures prominently in one of our stories; we also have the 2 "Sparkybus" micro-prints that Matt Dow masterminded and Dave Sim signed, plus 3 different variants of "Tails of Sparkybus" that Dave drew stuff for and signed on a tipped-in plate. These are very limited editions and quantities of some are running low, so this could be the last chance to get them.

So get 'em while they're HOT!

Cleaning out the cobwebs...

Hi, Everybody!

As we do:

Mondays! 

I had somebody ask about some of the earlier Monday Reports. I actually have a PDF of all of them. If you're interested in a copy, lemme know at momentofcerebus@gmail.com...

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Dave has had loads and loads of stuff sent to me, including hours of audio.., so I'ma clear that out:

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And:

Speaking of the Santos Sisters, Greg & Fake are going on tour:

I'll be at the Milwaukee stop on the 26th (unless I get forced to do something else...)

Anyway, Dave also sent:

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And:

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More on this when I get to THAT audio in the pile...

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Quote 

"Hi Matt,

Dave thought these comic strips were funny. He wanted to share this with everyone, you can post these on the website.

Later,
Rolly"

And:

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Okay, that's like a week's worth of Moments.

Now to listen to Dave for a week...

Next Time: Choose Your Own "Jen"venture...