Twenty years ago my wife asked me how Cerebus died. I told her he fell out of bed and broke his neck. Twenty years later she still wonders why I spend so much time with a dead aardvark. It's been a minute, hasn't it?
The life flashing before his eyes sequence gets me every time. When Jaime Hernandez did something similar (without the death) for Maggie and Ray a few years later the TCJ types lost their minds about how awesome that was. A few people had the nerve to point out in comments sections how Sim did that before him, and were promptly told to go away, beat it, and scram. The Hernandez sequence is lovely, too, and undiminished by not being first (for all I know, that's been done in comics before C300 and probably in cinema any number of times prior) but it was one of those times where beating up on Dave's work for no good reason really was on display.
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Twenty years ago my wife asked me how Cerebus died. I told her he fell out of bed and broke his neck. Twenty years later she still wonders why I spend so much time with a dead aardvark. It's been a minute, hasn't it?
The life flashing before his eyes sequence gets me every time. When Jaime Hernandez did something similar (without the death) for Maggie and Ray a few years later the TCJ types lost their minds about how awesome that was. A few people had the nerve to point out in comments sections how Sim did that before him, and were promptly told to go away, beat it, and scram. The Hernandez sequence is lovely, too, and undiminished by not being first (for all I know, that's been done in comics before C300 and probably in cinema any number of times prior) but it was one of those times where beating up on Dave's work for no good reason really was on display.
Did Dave redraw all the flashback panels, or did he photocopy them?
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