My guess is 1-105 were damaged in binding. The book was late due to something with binding.Sim was having none of that, but that's a "Not NOW, I'ma tired" post for later...
Hi Todd! Fortunately the Triptych will be wider than it is tall, so you might have room for some or all of this on the page. LOL. Dave
Dave Sim Cerebus No.54/55/56 cover art recreation triptych (Aardvark-Vanaheim 1983) Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Wolverroach. "I had collaborated with Joe Rubinstein on the 'The Morning After' back-up story in Swords of Cerebus Vol.2 and had noted that Joe used a highly polished but more conventional Marvel brush inking technique on the story rather than his Neal Adams-style inks I knew from his collaboration with John Byrne on Captain America. So, this was 'none of my business' unspoken questioning of artistic choices. Frank Miller had obviously been doing his best Neal Adams riffs pencilling the covers for the Wolverine mini-series (1982), so why hadn't Joe used Adams-style inks on those covers? You know, like this?" That is, "pen-heavy" rather than "brush heavy"? i.e. I was "doing" Neal in the pencils, but then inventing a cross-hatch heavy pen and simplified brush style on my parody covers. No way to ask Joe that without being rude and I literally never saw Joe at another convention after that (to this day). It's worth noting, I think, that this was three years before The Dark Knight Returns where Frank made the artistic choice to go with Klaus Jansen who opted for a very "pen dominant" look.
It certainly pushed the boundaries of what constituted a parody: Marvel's Core-of-the-Franchise Intellectual Property and the only difference was the little antennae balls on the points of his mask. Which was part of what I was making fun of since the Wolverine mask was really a "riff" on Batman's bat-ears. How do you do Batman without actually doing Batman? Also it was just Wolverroach on the three covers, "riffing" on three of the four Wolverine covers. It's parody, but it's also, arguably, actionable misappropriation. Jim Shooter had a word with me before a convention panel. "If you ever decide to do that again, call me first." Which I said I would do, but knew I wouldn't since I knew he would just say "No". Which I assume was him covering his own bases with the Marvel Legal Department. If I did do it again, he could then let Legal "Loose the hounds" and I'd have only myself to blame. I never did it again mostly because the occasion never came up again. Leaving open the question: how many solo covers is too many solo covers, legally? Which has never been tested in the subsequent forty years. Happy Birthday, Wolverroach!
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