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31.3.04
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Dave Sim's postmodern comic-book epic, Cerebus, ends after 26 years and 6,000 pages
by Grady Hendrix in the village voice
March 30th, 2004 10:50 AM

"Cerebus drove his country into temporary ruin, wrote his memoirs, got married, became a hateful pope in an attack on organized religion, got divorced, sat catatonic for hundreds of pages, fought the law, and traveled through the solar system. Kept in print as 16 hefty anthologies, the series juggled multiple plotlines and interwove real-life and fictional figures (Oscar Wilde and Keith Richards rubbed elbows with Cerebus and Co.). Within this vast, decompressed narrative, even one-note characters were given room to grow, and the book dwelled on their failures and occasional triumphs in excruciating detail. But its scope (300 issues, dead or alive) was both its greatest strength and its biggest liability."->>>

max@Sequential : 6:48:45 PM




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