Dave’s eleventh Cerebus notebook, covering Cerebus #96 through 102, was featured in last week’s Bits from Cerebus #101 and #103. It is one of my favorite notebooks to look at as it has lots of thumbnails, sketches, and juicy bits.
For example, on page 27 there is an issue box number for Cerebus #97 and the unused title “Better Tortures and Worse Pleasures”.
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| Notebook #11, page 27 |
There is some dialogue from which I do not know:
“Like we didn’t wear thirty-five dollars sold a lot of $15 suits”
And
“Delicious parrot speaks five languages. Why didn’t he say something”
And
“If you’re sure he suspects, he undoubtedly knows.”
There is a sketch of what appears to be Weisshaupt on his death bed, though we don’t actually see him past issue #76 except as heads in the tower in Cerebus #103 and 104.
We see Cerebus with his Most Holy hat yelling “Shut her up!” and the soldier with his sword raised. Then a sketch of a scene we never saw: the soldier holding Astoria by the head, about to kill her shut her up.
Down at the bottom of the page, there is an issue box number for Cerebus #98 with the used title The Trial and some items for that issue.
2 comments:
The “delicious parrot” is from an old joke: A guy buys a parrot to keep his elderly mother company because she lives alone. The clerk at the pet store tells him the parrot speaks five languages. He buys the parrot, gives it to his mom, and then calls her a week later to ask how she likes the parrot. “It was delicious,” she says. He says, “You ate it?!? That parrot spoke five languages!” His mom replies “Well, why didn’t he say something?” Those Cerebus issues were kind of heavy, so I’m not surprised that Dave couldn’t find room for the parrot joke there.
Thanks for the explanation for the delicious parrot. I had not heard that joke before.
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