More about the genitals of comic book characters than you really wanted to think about. (No pictures. Well, yes there are pictures, but not of THAT!)

Hi, Everybody!

The Jaka's Story remaster has a Starcode! APR191258 First month orders will be signed and numbered! Cue Your Friend and Mine, Sean Robinson:

This is just a reminder that you have until April 25th to order the SIGNED, REMASTERED, SELF-DRIVING JAKA'S STORY from your local comic shop!

Regarding that "signed and numbered" bit-- I've discussed it with Dave, and there's a slight change compared to how it was discussed before. Dave will be signing the ENTIRE print run of the book. If stores order X copies, and Diamond orders Y copies over the initial order of X, Dave will be signing X + Y copies total. But the catch is, we have no idea how many copies Diamond will "pad" the order by. So! If you want a signed and numbered copy, you still should proceed with GREAT HASTE to your comic shop and order a copy! But if you're a gambler, and you want to take a chance on it... you might be able to still pick up a signed copy from Diamond shortly after the street date for the book.

Secondly, we would love to have your help in selecting the image (or images) to use for the Jaka's Story bookplate! We'll be printing these on Avery labels. They're 3.5" x 5", and they will be signed by Dave and machine-numbered. Do you have a favorite image from the book, something that's somehow representative and also an attractive stand-alone image? Do you have a design concept? Well, we'd love to hear from you! Leave a message in the comments, or email us at cerebusarthunt at gmail.com. And I'll send the winner who selects the final image a special prize in the mail.

Thirdly (and lastly)—as I've been going over the book with a fine-toothed comb, I've been mulling over what to do about three of the five Jaka's Story pages sourced from newsprint instead of original art. And I've decided to give a shot to re-toning these three pages, that is, digitally removing the Cerebus tone and creating new tone to replace it.

Are you adept at Photoshop, and have a bit of time in the upcoming week? Would you like to "adopt" one of these three pages for your own? Would you liked to be thanked in the back of Jaka's Story? if the answer is "yes" to all three of these questions, please write to me as soon as possible at cerebusarthunt at gmail dot com!

Thanks for your eyeballs and your time, everyone! I hope you enjoy the book. It won't be long now...

Best,

Sean

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There's a special AMOC auction for the cover of Green Dante/Green Virgil. (Currently winning with $1277.00 US Dollars is: 高伯乐 (Gao BoLe)) Cue Dave Sim:

13 April 19 

Hi Gao! 

Thanks for your extremely generous bid for the GREEN DANTE GREEN VIRGIL cover. Your "original art sense" must have been tingling, because I had just started in on the cover art again after resting the right wrist for the better part of two weeks. 

What I'm trying now is alternating drawing/inking periods without the wrist brace with (mostly) left-handed typing periods between prayer times. The wrist is still "pulling" in a counter-clockwise direction toward the pain spot, but I'm learning to register (without focusing on it) the extent of the "pull" and to compensate for it within the finite parameters -- a couple of hours -- of the drawing/ inking period. 

The auction now includes 

BLUE-PENCIL ROUGH 

- CEREBUS the Twitter Junkie

FINISHED PENCIL TRACING PAPER TRANSFER IMAGES (all 8.5 x 11) 

- AV CEREBUS IN HELL? COMICS parody of the 1970 DC SUPERMAN NATIONAL COMICS corner logo

(traced at 400% enlargement)

- GREEN DANTE figure from Gustave Dore

- GREEN VIRGIL figure from Gustave Dore

- CEREBUS logo figure

- CEREBUS the Twitter Junkie 

- GREEN DANTE GREEN VIRGIL parody logo

JUST ADDED

- 5 signed and/or signed-and-personalized bagged and boarded copies of GREEN DANTE/GREEN VIRGIL when it's published

- Your name on the inside front cover as COVER ART SPONSOR

- Finished ink lettered AV CEREBUS IN HELL? COMICS parody of the 1970 DC SUPERMAN NATIONAL COMICS corner logo (traced at 400% enlargement) 8.5 x 11 inches

YOUR CALL AS CURRENT AUCTION "TOP DOG": 

Since GREEN DANTE GREEN VIRGIL was originally Benjamin Hobbs idea (as GREEN POET GREEN AARDVARK), you get to decide i) how much of your current bid goes to Benjamin and whether that should be ii) a flat rate or iii) a percentage if you have the winning bid (with great power comes great responsibility) 

I was originally going to just paste in a photocopy of the CEREBUS logo figure and then decided that it would be a good test of my "cornering" ability with the 102 pen nib. If I couldn't do ALL the tiny sharp turns at that size (between 2 and 3 inches) that would limit the kind of inking I would be able to do on SDOAR. David Birdsong could just dub in a digital version. It's not the BEST Cerebus I ever inked at that size, but it's probably good enough to use for the finished cover. I'll know when I see a printed prototype. 

You can watch me pencil and ink te logo CEREBUS (God willing) on the April 19 Weekly Update.

Matt Dow, John Christian and Dion Turner, as previous "top dog" bidders will all be getting personalized copies of GREEN DANTE GREEN VIRGIL when it comes out. [Don't worry Seiler, I'm faxing Dave to remind him you were second top dog. -Matt (AM I forgetting anybody else?]

More to come! 

Dave 

The remastered Volume 1 is available digitally for $9.99.

Greg Hyland is Kickstartering the second volume of the Monster Atlas, and if he gets another hundred and twenty-nine bucks CAD ($97 USD), it'll have Gerhard art like the first volume. It'll look a little something like this._______________________________________________________________________

So during the last Please Hold For Dave Sim, Dave mentioned that the one question he's never been asked is (and I'm paraphrasing here:) "Were Cirin and Suenteus Po also hermaphrodites?" And then he went on to "answer" the question (just watch the video.)

Anyway, while Dave was talking about it, I was thinking about it, and I'm not quite sure it's a much of a possibility as Dave made it sound.

Two things came to mind: First, the explanation from Minds of "What exactly ARE these damn things?" [Note to Seiler, I hope you got Dave to change the period into a question mark in the restored version...-Matt]

Click to see the glory!

Click and see the sweet sweet detail...

Skipping ahead a bit:

Told ya I'd post it again...

That forth panel lends itself to the idea that Serna/Cirin has different "bits" than Cerebus.

Also, if Cerebus is the form of the ideal Aardvark, and his "bits" are neither strictly male or female, then "flawed manifestations" of his "bits" would be either more female or male then his "bits"are. (That's, I say that's logic son...)

I would venture that excepting the "kitchen knife incident", Cerebus could have mated successfully with either Serna/Cirin (ya know, the Aardvark one..) OR Po and produced a pure Aardvark offspring. (Remember, She-Shep only had three toes, and had Aardvarkian powers...)

Plus, there's Po's bit from Reads:

Which reflects the point from Mothers & Daughters (someplace Dave said that all four volumes of Mothers & Daughters make the same points over and over,) about the Male Intellect (Po) and the Female Emotion (Cirin), with Cerebus straddling the two (um...Male Emotion/Female Intellect?).

Okay, time to go, join me next time for:

Next Time: The Genesis Question part 49, then on Monday: The other thing that I thought of when Dave mentioned his characters "bits" (don't worry, no pictures of them... well, maybe...)