tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post5220040888140392908..comments2024-03-28T21:17:45.398-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: Weekly Update #26: Meeting Alain RobergeA Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-26291405506806723792014-04-23T10:10:29.268-05:002014-04-23T10:10:29.268-05:00We're just about ready to test print......stan...We're just about ready to test print......stand by. <br /><br />Dean (Lebonfon Printing)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-58254513410237058892014-04-17T06:23:56.638-05:002014-04-17T06:23:56.638-05:00I'm gonna have to second Chris W's idea. M...I'm gonna have to second Chris W's idea. Maybe this would be the neo-Swords of Cerebus- four issues in one new cover (per IDW tradition, have a bunch of freaking variant covers by random artists), with some bridging commentary to give the issues context. Sort of a 'greatest hits' thing. <br /><br />Hell, I'd pick them up, if only to have something I can hand to a friend when I'm recommending Cerebus that isn't a hard-to-replace phonebook (also something they're more likely to read than a massive phonebook). Or so I can have a taste of one of the phonebooks I'm missing.<br /><br />Thinkin' this is a great idea, honestly. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-83402154958697270902014-04-16T13:00:34.691-05:002014-04-16T13:00:34.691-05:00"If you're going through Hell, keep going..."If you're going through Hell, keep going."Sandeep Atwalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09573022107868770512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-62434083350380234792014-04-15T21:19:29.800-05:002014-04-15T21:19:29.800-05:00Forgive my saying so, but regarding the KISS princ...Forgive my saying so, but regarding the KISS principle, it seems to me that extensively pre-planning for the printing and reproduction of all 6000 pages in advance is the opposite of KISS, and in many ways, is the opposite of the spirit under which those 6000 pages were created in the first place.<br /><br />I realize that bringing the Cerebus books back into print is a monumental undertaking, and it's obviously important to start with the first (and best-selling) of the books. It's not like we can just push "Minds" back into print and start building from that.<br /><br />I still maintain that a good 'starter' book for "Cerebus" would be to select pieces from the entire era to create a new phone book. My advice - which I've said before - would be to pick it on the basis of key issues (#1, #300, "This Aardvark, This Shepherd, etc.) and humor.<br /><br />Put together as many of the Elrod/Marx Brothers/Three Stooges/Woody Allen/etc. bits as you can, take them completely out of context, add only the minimal narrative bridging - "After a bad experience that ended his term as Pope, Cerebus moved in with Jaka, the 'love of his life,' her husband Rick, and tavern owner Pud Withers. They also had a neighbor, a fat writer named Oscar. One day, while Oscar was painting in the street..."<br /><br />I remain convinced that this would be the most appealing form of introducing the "Cerebus" epic, while demonstrating Dave and Ger's ever-expanding artistic chops, and creating a work that makes as much sense as, say, a Marx Brothers movie, a Three Stooges short, a Warner Brothers cartoon or a Woody Allen monologue.<br /><br />From the standpoint of figuring out how to bring the books back into print, it would also have the advantage of covering many-if-not-most of the problems that different eras of "Cerebus" would present in doing the whole series. The Konigsberg/Wise Fellow sequences were radically different from the mostly-black funny pages of "High Society," after all.ChrisWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18322950015727553689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-81621786653446841932014-04-14T18:31:40.586-05:002014-04-14T18:31:40.586-05:00So good to see, too, Dave, that after all of his i...So good to see, too, Dave, that after all of his initial, apparent intractability, Monsieur Roberge turned out to be a guy interested in trying to do the right thing after all. Bon fortune in the coming days and weeks.Jeff Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543690118315946039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-40283531168138751582014-04-14T09:37:43.517-05:002014-04-14T09:37:43.517-05:00After all the knee-jerk reactions (me included) an...After all the knee-jerk reactions (me included) and every idea under the sun thrown out for consideration there is finally some progress. I do believe CEREBUS and HIGH SOCIETY will see the light of day all dressed up in their shinny new clothes. Thanks Dave for taking the time to make sure the job is done to your exacting standards. God willing, we'll get the books this year.Birdsonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829558355806670311noreply@blogger.com