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27.3.04
An indepth critique of Cerebus #300
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Andrew Rilstone gives a long page-by-page critique of issue 300 here...

Cerebus is now old and decrepit, holed up in a palatial compound and almost unable to rise from his bed. ('Why does Cerebus feel the urge to say 'Rosebud' '?) Cirin, the female aardvark, is still alive, and has used genetic engineering to clone a baby from Cerebus' son, Shepreth. The baby is half-human and half-lion, and will in the future be worshipped by a race called Egyptians. (I am slightly confused by the fact that we now have many references to real-world races and religions: Jews; Moslems, Egyptians. 150 issues ago, when Dave was incorporating Oscar Wilde's last days into his narrative, he carefully changed words like 'Catholic' in Oscar's biography for terms which had a meaning in the Cerebus imagined-universe, such as 'Orthodox Tarimite.' My assumption is that when Cerebus met 'Dave' in a previous volume, Dave made alterations to his world. This is one of many things that may make more sense on a re-reading) Cerebus, of course, regards this creature, his grandson, as an abomination. At the end of # 299 he picked up a sword and announced his intention to kill them both.


max@Sequential : 8:43:18 PM




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