December 8-18 and December 25-29.
MARGARET LISS:
We have only seen pages from Dave Sim’s 26th notebook seven times, less than once per year since I’ve been doing this column. This notebook only had 58 pages scanned and 37 blank pages out of the 100 pages marked on the cover. The rest of the pages were missing. That and many of the pages are walls of text are probably why we haven’t seen too much from it. The notebook covers Cerebus #224 through 230. The last time we saw pages from it was in May of 2022 in Dave Talking with Cerebus from Cerebus #229.
https://momentofcerebus.blogspot.com/2022/05/dave-talking-with-cerebus-from-cerebus.html
So I figured I showed you some of those pages which are as I like to call them ‘walls of text’. Though this is a bit different than what is in the rest of the notebook. This appears to be a response to a letter Dave received, and Dave’s response starts on the last page of the notebook and goes backwards:
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| Notebook #26, page 94 |
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| Notebook #26, page 93 |
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| Notebook #26, page 92 |
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| Notebook #26, page 91 |
And then just the top bit from page 90:
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| Notebook #26, page 90 |
Does anyone know if this was published in Aardvark Comment as I don’t think it became a Note from the President?
As for the content of Dave's response, I leave that to you to read and feel / think about.
The A.I. image generator spat out some two panel sequences for me, featuring Aardvarks and Kinda-Sorta Dore looking figures. I put in a two panel sequence from Cerebus In Hell? to use as the seed image. This is what was generated. As far as I can tell there aren't any real words here, or even letters.
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Quick update this week as I am about to hop on a plane to London, which Dave oddly thinks AMOCers would find interesting. Not the hopping on the plane bit. Lots of people do that. But the why I'll be in England and Wales. My sense is no one really cares about what I'm doing, unless it relates to SDOAR, Dave Sim, and/or Cerebus.
But since Dave thought it might not be a horrible idea, here's our exchange on the topic...
Just the Facts, Ma'am
CEREBUS TP VOL 02 HIGH SOCIETY REMASTERED ED NEW PTG 1179
CEREBUS TP VOL 03 CHURCH & STATE I REMASTERED ED 1518
CEREBUS TP VOL 04 CHURCH & STATE II REMASTERED ED 169
CEREBUS TP VOL 05 JAKAS STORY REMASTERED ED 180
CEREBUS TP VOL 06 MELMOTH 15
CEREBUS TP VOL 08 WOMEN 108
CEREBUS TP VOL 09 READS 1668
CEREBUS TP VOL 10 MINDS REMASTERED ED 1543
CEREBUS TP VOL 12 RICKS STORY 92
CEREBUS TP VOL 13 GOING HOME REMASTERED ED 1542
CEREBUS TP VOL 14 FORM & VOID REMASTERED ED 12
CEREBUS TP VOL 15 LATTER DAYS 8
CEREBUS TP VOL 16 THE LAST DAY NEW PTG 12AV TEAM UP CEREBUS & WOMAN THING ONE SHOT 30
CIH PRESENTS AARDVARKIAN SPLENDOUR ONE SHOT 38
CIH PRESENTS AARDVARKIAN SPLENDOUR ONE SHOT SGN ED 6
CIH PRESENTS AVERSIONS ONE SHOT 35
CIH PRESENTS FLAILING AT LOVE ONE SHOT 39
CIH PRESENTS HELL BOT ONE SHOT 4
CIH PRESENTS HELL BOT ONE SHOT SGN ED 4
CIH PRESENTS NEW VARKS ONE SHOT 68
CIH PRESENTS SHE-AVERSIONS ONE SHOT 50
CIH PRESENTS SHE-AVERSIONS ONE SHOT SGN ED 2
CIH PRESENTS SPORE BATVARK ONE SHOT 63
CIH PRESENTS SPORE BATVARK ONE SHOT SGN ED 8
CIH PRESENTS WAR IN HELL ONE SHOT 21
CIH PRESENTS WAR IN HELL ONE SHOT SGN ED 3
CIH PRESENTS WILD PIGS ONE SHOT SGN ED 4
DAVE SIM COLLECTED LETTERS VOL 02 28
SILVER CEREBUS ONE SHOT 2
SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL TP VOL 03 12
SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL TP VOL 04 9
SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL TP VOL 05 22
SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL TP VOL 09 16
SWORDS OF CEREBUS IN HELL TP VOL 10 6
December 4-18 and December 25-29.
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| This one is Hobbs'. |
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| This one is Eddie Khanna's. |
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| God Damn it Jen! Don't show 'em that picture!!! |
December 1-18 and December 25-29.
Covering Cerebus #213 through 241 with only 96 pages scanned in, Dave Sim’s 25th notebook used in the making of Cerebus was last scene here at AMoC in February of 2022 in Rick’s Arm Healed.
On page 29 there is a sketch of Rick playing five bar gate. Though he is wearing a sweater that looks a lot like the sweater Bear was wearing when he played against Cerebus. And while Rick does show up at the end of Guys, he doesn’t play Five Bar Gate against Cerebus.
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| Notebook #25, page 29 |
The next wo pages have issue numbers along the top of them. The page on the left below shows page 30 of the notebook and has #217 along the top of it.
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| Notebook #25, page 30 (left) & 31 (right) |
The dialogue seems like a first draft of the dialogue that appears on page 10 of Cerebus #217 (page 358 in Guys). From the notebook, all Cerebus talking to himself about Joanne:
Where is she? She’s always here just after sundown
Well what did Cerebus expect from a tavern tramp
Cerebus should marry her
Cerebus never should’ve had anything to do with her
“where’ve you been” that’s what Cerebus is going to ask
Oh, aye and be just like Fred
Cerebus should tell her to get lost
Cerebus should stay here
Cerebus should go
(getting her glass of white wine)
Where is she?
Instead of that, we get Cerebus thinking worse and worse things about what could’ve happened to Joanne and Cerebus pouring her glass of wine back into the bottle.
On page 30 that along the top is labeled ‘end 218’ we get more Joanne and Cerebus dialogue. This dialogue doesn’t appear in the finished comic either:
Joanne: My Dad. I guess he was one of your biggest followers. Said you brought the church back from the brink. I feel sorry for him. I mean everything he believed in. I guess my mother told him I was sleeping with you. Now he just. . .drinks. . .all day. Calls us names. Terrible names. He just doesn’t understand. That things are different now.
Then under the sketch the rest of the dialogue:
Joanne: What a DAY! I went to the Star Child with my girl friend
Cerebus thinking: Tavern tramp
Joanne: And we met this old boyfriend of mine, Viktor.
Cerebus thinking: She slept with him. She and her girlfriend. Tramps! They’re tramps
The finished dialogue that the above appears based off starts on page 12 of Cerebus #217. The sketch in the middle of the page reminds me of Jaka walking through one of the villages to the clothing hut while Cerebus follows behind her. It may say 219 beside it, but the only thing it could be from that issue is part of the dream sequence. Perhaps from the wedding scene when Cerebus is beside Joanne in her wedding dress and everyone is looking at them and cheering.
It's the last Wednesday of the month... time to rush to your LCS and pick up your copy of Spore Batvark #380 Guest Starring Michael R.! Available in signed and Unsigned!
Michael R. sent in these pictures of himself with Spore Batvark #380. HOW did he manage to get to two different stores in two different states for the release of Spore Batvark #380? Industry secrets!
Next Time: A.I. Generated CIH? panels?
