Somehow for me it’s the exclamation point
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you’re totally right
And actually the frame? It feels like an editor’s note
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I’m gonna edit it out when I get home to see if I like it more please don’t tell the artist
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I like it but I also want that became flesh panel to be doing some fallout shelter/allout helter watchmen shit.
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it’s obviously been winding down for a while now, but it’s just been announced that my hero academia ends in 5 chapters! seems pretty sudden
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everybody laugh after me
CEREBUS DISCOURSE IS COMING
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Good grief, is it time for me to dive in?
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This was the last comic I read and it made me sad that the only time it ever came up here was somebody not liking it. Neil Gaiman’s blurb, the bit about somebody “willing to reveal too much and go too deep”, was exactly my experience of reading it. The first image of the comic is a full-page of a pair of hands illustrating in a small panel with ‘choked’ framing and a huge field of negative space around it, before transitioning on the following page to the first scene of the story, and from then on the only way for me to interpret it was Barry Windsor-Smith in direct dialogue with the reader, telling them about his pain. It was hard to take, especially the kind of deliverance offered to the characters in the ending, which Windsor-Smith knows is impossible in real-life but he had the yearning to supply in his story. The sense at its conclusion was that this was somebody working themselves out of hell; no wonder he saw it through over the course of 35 years.
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yes and message me every single thought about it that you have that you dont post here it’ll motivate me to speed up (im on issue 58 rn)
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I tried reading Cerberus but it was a random later compilation, maybe if I start at the beginning…
Me “huh when does the misogyny start … Ohh”
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Man that’s like 17 comics per dollar, if only half are horribly misogynistic that’s still a good deal…
I will definitely vouch for Cerebus up through Church and State 1, basically the first three volumes of the phone book sized editions. The first 20 issues or so are kind of basic high fantasy but with a cartoon aardvark instead of a knight or Conan type character. Amusing enough in itself. But the second volume, High Society, sees the book and the character start to develop instead something a bit more interesting with Things to Say and such. This kind of peaks with the third volume and during Church and State 2 turns into Dave Sim using his book and it’s letters page to publicly figure out his opinions on feminism or whatever but the artwork also gets really great by then (I think Gerhard was doing his backgrounds by then).
I don’t know, Dave Sim is a polarizing figure but I think he’s basically a good guy. Like he’s not a lost cause I don’t think. The first three volumes are worth checking out if you’ve never read them. I’ve probably posted this opinion a few times already so might as well post it again. If you ever find yourself a scan or a copy of Sim’s Cerebus’ Guide to Self Publishing there’s a lot of a really great advice and stuff in there too.
JUST READ IT AND STOP WHEN YOU DONT WANNA ANYMORE ill vouch for all of it baby! except form and void is kinda boring
Dave Sim cannot help it so he puts ALL of himself into the comic, it’s basically a biography after a while. and if you spend enough time with any person they become intersting. so spend 6000 pages with dave sim
and eventually gerhards backgrounds too which are 
melmoth is worth it alone
and if you don’t wanna pay all the issues are on archive which is where I’ve been re reading it
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Melmoth is the most bizarre thing in all of comics. For those unaware, Dave Sim puts in caricatures of various celebrities in as characters sort of like how Looney Tunes will have someone that’s a riff on somebody from whenever Chuck Jones was from. Like there’s the Rolling Stones and Groucho Marx, and plenty of others.
And Melmoth is Oscar Wilde, and Dave Sim turns in a 300+page story about Oscar Wilde returning to society after his imprisonment for sodomy and finding his health failing as the people he called friends before shunning him for being a convict. As a side story in the middle of a long running series.
It is absolutely beautiful and serves as sort of a midpoint.
I don’t really endorse his Cerebus Guide to Self Publishing though because it’s horribly dated, a whole lot of advice about getting your work ready to go to print from a world before photoshop.
Jaka’s Story is really good too, and a great example of using the form as a medium. A lot of his tricks probably seem old hat aftere years of reading manga but he did some real neat things, and he did not come across as misogynist in person when I saw him signing comics in a shop ages ago.
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i love jakas story, thats usually my gateway comic to get the girlies into cerebus
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Don’t forgot to seek out Spawn #10 and TMNT #8.
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